Enjoy the top three lessons I learned from ICF’s International Coaching Week, and then… please share your own!
Fun Fact: this video is a great example of lesson #3, because I got it right in the first take! (coaches are SO easy to talk to!)
Stress and Overwhelm
Unfiltered Reflections: A Rollercoaster of Thoughts and Insights
Working through all the feelings, I recorded this to capture some of the lessons I’m learning. Please forgive the meandering (my state of mind is not as incisive as usual) and the less-than stellar quality of the video… but I promise there are some important nuggets in here.
Making Peace with Time (low-tech, no cost)
I’ll admit it: I have a troubled relationship with time.
I’m always searching for the perfect way to schedule my calendar. The perfect scheduling tool. The perfect reminder system.
This year I made three simple changes that cost me nothing and make a big difference in how I feel every single day.
- For as long as I can remember, I have hung a one-year dry-erase laminated calendar on the wall that I face while sitting at my desk. Time was literally looming over me. I was facing off with it every single day. So I moved 2024’s calendar behind my office door and filled the space I face with the things that are most important to me: family, pets and inspiration.
- Another long-time practice that I changed is I stopped wearing my Apple watch. Even though I have all the notifications turned off, it was a distraction. I could check the weather, my exercise rings… so many ways to waste a little bit of time here and there. I’ve swapped out the techy nagging device for a watch my Dad gave me one Christmas. It’s sentimental and low tech. Doesn’t even have the date on it.
- With this last one, I may be veering into the neighborhood of TMI, but an idea from my fab time management coach Lisa Crilley Mallis of Impactive Strategies, I go to the downstairs bathroom instead of the one right next to my office. A mini-break from my day.
I’ll wrap up with this thought: when you have a busy life and business, making huge sweeping changes is hard. And then maintaining them? Almost impossible.So while these 3 changes might seem too small to actually make a different, the power behind them is that they are sustainable.
How to Ditch the Pressure of “Now or Never”
At the end of the year, all I hear about is closing the year strong and creating a mind-blowing plan for 2024.
It is so much pressure, and I was starting to crack from the stress of it all. Here’s a 90 second tip where I share what I did to release the pressure fast!
Staying Energized through the Tough Times
Lots of changes are happening. I heavily invested in my business this year. A friend is having surgery. I feel brittle and teary.
I don’t usually send out the really raw stuff until I’ve resolved it into a tidy little story with a moral that we can all learn from.
Today, not so much.
I did have an insight though. It’s not resolving my crankiness, but it did give me some clarity that you might also find helpful.
Did I just make it into a tidy story with a moral again? (at least it got me to smile… 😊)
Enjoy the video, and if you’d be willing to give feedback, here is a link to the longer video.
I Was Over-giving And Under-grateful (ugh)
To be completely transparent, I haven’t been super-positive lately. Yesterday I finally uncovered the internal thought patterns and the external habits that were creating a self-fulfilling prophecy of scarcity.