Become that Person with the Awesome Habit
What is a fulfilling, satisfying, on-the-edge-of-who-you-are, habit that you want to build? Let me walk you through how to establish your habit, using a coach approach of reflective questions based on the advice of Atomic Habits by James Clear.
Handle the Set Back
Have you had a setback recently? How did you handle it? Here’s my story.
Should Shift Can
When you need a nudge from obligation and toward opportunity, get a dose of should-shift-can. It's a process by which you reframe your perspective until it morphs into desire or want. In this post, I show you how to do it.
How to Deal with the Overwhelm
What can you do when there's too much to do? I have two primary approaches to dealing with overwhelm that you’ll also find useful.
Before, During, After: How to Maximize a Coaching Session
In this journal, I provide practical advice for you to make the most of your coaching sessions. You’ll learn how to prepare before the session, be fully present during the session, and reflect on the session afterward. You’ll get tips on setting goals, creating a conducive environment, taking notes, and implementing action items. I also highlight the value of reflection and personalization to enhance the coaching experience and achieve desired outcomes.
What happens in a coaching session
If you're curious about what goes on behind the Zoom Screen of a coaching call, you are certainly welcome to watch any one of hundreds of coaching conversations on YouTube. Or you can read my explanation in this post. (I recommend this post — it’s more efficient, and besides, who wants to listen to someone else’s story when you could improve your own???)
We are Water: Ebb and Flow
Inspired by a riff from Seth Godin’s book This is Strategy about using small channels to guide a river, I explore how this concept can be applied to our daily lives and habits. By finding and leveraging the natural flows and patterns in our routines, we can achieve our goals with less resistance and more ease.
The Scientist Mindset
Whenever you start something new—job, activity, habit, life phase, etc—you enter a place of learning. In that place, you don't know everything. Don’t feel bad or embarrassed by that! Instead, embrace that feeling of not knowing. Lean into it, accept it, own it, wear it.You’ll acquire the mindset of a learner which will fuel your ability to develop and grow.
Blogs and Bots
I value quality writing, and I value you. I aim to provide useful information and insights written to the best of my ability. Apparently, I’m doing it wrong.
Use Future Hindsight to Deal with Today
We exist in messy, complex circumstances. It's only in hindsight that we can make sense of anything. Don’t stress about the stress. Here's a trick to help you benefit from the future's hindsight today.
Get to your Goal
What do you want? Coaching questions can help you get clear on the goal ahead and how to get there. These are some questions you can ask yourself to help you move forward.
Journey to Journal
I've been on a quest to establish a journalling habit for a couple of years now. For anyone else who is struggling to start a new habit, I thought it might be interesting to read about how mine is going. So here are excerpts related to establishing my habit (and its struggles), when I journal about journalling. If you stick to the end, you’ll also learn what my takeaways are that you can apply to your own habit-creation journey.
One Little Step
Find the small step towards action.
A September Start
What is the thing you want to add to or subtract from your life and you just haven't found the right time to do it?