Business and Life Coaching,
…Don’t react! When you are attacked, it’s easy to react. When we are verbally attacked, we react because it triggered something in us. It’s our natural instinct to defend ourselves. Imagine if someone were throwing a punch at you. What is your first instinct? To throw up your arms in defense. At that point you’re …
Sometimes in life we wish we could have a do-over or push the rewind button. Other times we want to hit the delete key in our mind. People like analogies and visuals. So, here’s a new one for you – push the pause button. A client of mine recently told me that she’s noticing her …
A Strategy to Motivate People I know a person, let’s call her Lady A, that is, well, there’s no real nice way to say this…lazy. She’s never had much responsibility in her life, mostly because she’s not a parent and never really had a job. That’s fine if some people choose not to do either …
We often talk about the monkey mind or busy brain. It’s when your thoughts repeat themselves, go round and round in a loop or just many thoughts nonstop. I can’t stress enough how important it is to pay attention to what you’re thinking about! What do you say to yourself all day? What do you …
In part one we discussed how common it is to have regrets, why we have them and what we do with them. Now let’s focus on the positive – how to let them go because regrets are like an albatross. They weigh us down. Letting Go One of the best ways to deal with regrets …
Show me someone who has no regrets. Those people are pretty hard to find if they even exist! Even my mom, who was the most even keeled person I knew had some regrets. I don’t think she let them get the better of her, but she did voice them on occasion. Some of my other …
…on the other side. We all know that quote. It stems from dissatisfaction with some aspect of our life. We aren’t happy with something in our current situation so we think we will obtain happiness by having what our neighbors have or replacing our partner or getting a new job. We compare our perceived miserable …
Nothing means anything unless we assign it meaning. That seems obvious. Let me explain. Letting Go or Holding On A friend of mine is dealing with the passing of a loved one. She keeps kicking herself that she didn’t take more possessions when she had the chance. The fact is there are no more things …
If you’re like most people, when something bad is happening you don’t see it. Like, for example, your partner is cheating. You may sense it, you may think it, but you can’t admit it to yourself. So, you don’t. A cheating partner is a common scenario. I get many readings on that topic. Someone may …
Whether you’re in some sort of crisis, grieving or even recovering from a major argument, the only way out of it is to get through it. To stuff our emotions, to compartmentalize or to put them in a box on the shelf to deal with it later always catches up with us somehow. Oftentimes …