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Listening Made Simple Part I: Listening to Ourselves
Listening is a first step in a much longer and more complex healing process. This blog is part one of a two part blog series on listening, designed to make learning to listen simple.
Listening Made Simple Part II: 3 Skills for Listening to Others
We start by listening to our own stories, so that we can set them aside more easily in order to consider other "sides of the beach ball."
Mastering the Art of Giving and Receiving Feedback
Some feedback is easy to give. Then there's feedback we resist. This blog explores the art of giving and receiving feedback.
Self-Coaching Activity: 6 Ways to Mine for Values
Values can be a fuzzy subject, so let's take a moment to break them down in a way that can improve self-awareness, decision-making, and relationships with others.
Self-Coaching Activity: Inventory Your Personal Needs
When we understand the needs behind our judgments, we can get to the core of what's important to us and work to resolve the need in question, rather than the surface conflict.
Self-Coaching Activity: Put Your Oxygen Mask on First (Energy Renewal and Self-Care)
There's a reason flight attendants say, "Put your oxygen mask on first before assisting others." We can't help others if we can't breathe.
Self-Coaching Activity: Creating a Personal Decision-Model
Making personal and intentional decisions means saying no to the wrong things, so that you can say yes to the right things.
Self-Coaching Activity: Contracting with Yourself
A personal contract is operating agreements that we make with ourselves to remind us of who we are and how we work best in times of conflict, challenge and stress.
Self-Coaching Activity: Crafting a Personal Mission Statement
A mission statement is a reminder of what is of core importance to you. Crafting a mission statement is about choosing consciously to take a perspective in life.
Self-Coaching Activity: I Am My Future Self, Right Now (Personal Visioning and Goal Setting)
A personal vision needs to have a kind of power over you, so that when you look at it or see it, it takes hold, you feel as though you are drawing it towards you.
Self Coaching Activity: Designing the Journey (Personal Road Map)
Most people who start coaching want to jump into designing the future right away; however, the road map is not the beginning of the journey.
Self-Coaching Activity: Self-Affirmations and Setting Boundaries with Others
When we become clearer about how we make decisions, a new need surfaces. The need to say no and set boundaries when something doesn't align with our model.
Starting a Bullet Journal: How to Task Mindfully
his blog will give you starting place tips; show you how to set up a daily log; and offer the ways I have customized my own journal for my needs.
Self-Coaching Activity: A Dance Between Chaos and Order
Chaos and order are different states of being. We often feel safest in a state of order, but our world - especially right now - is neither predictable nor stable.
Self-Coaching Activity: Drawing Balance in Work and Life
Many of us are feeling the need to create balance in this time of chaos. In times like these, we have an opportunity to self-journey. One way is to use visual templates alongside journaling.