Usually when we use the word ‘stress’ we’re referring to so-called ‘bad’ stress or DIStress. But did you know there is a name for good stress? Eustress, pronounced YOU-stress, is a term coined by endocrinologist Hans Selye who studied the impact of stress on the mind and body. Eu comes from the Greek meaning well or good and suggests that there is indeed such a thing as healthy stress.
So, What Is Eustress and Why is it Important?
Well, without eustress we are not equipped to deal with excitement and/or challenge in our lives.
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This reflective journaling exercise will put you in touch with what you want and need and give you a sense of replenishment, stress release and authentic well-being.
Simply follow the simple steps below for your Reflective Journaling Exercise experience: Book a ½ hour into your schedule. Call it “Time for Self-Reflection” (book this activity in and it is more likely to happen). Prepare for this self-care/self-reflection date by deciding where you will take it (at home, during a break at work, at a café, on a bench in a park…) and get your supplies ready. You will need your Read More…
It’s wonderful when we can learn powerful lessons from movies. The experience can be so visceral that we feel tremendously impacted. So, there are two wonderful documentaries out there that I highly recommend you rent.
“What? What is this? I’m reading this to be a better coach. Not to build my DVD collection.”
Bear with me. The first movie is “Children Will Listen” where 100 students from Inner City schools all converged to perform a production of Stephen Sondheim’s “Into the Woods”. The other movie is “Yellow Brick Road,” which follows a production of “The Wizard of Oz” with a Read More…
As a culture, we do have a tendency to focus on the negative. That’s why I liked this timely article by Master Coach Steve Mitten. I found myself thinking not only on the question Steve asks at the end, but “What would be MY 7 Beautiful Virtues?”. Well see what you think of Steve’s virtues – and why not comment on this article with YOUR 7 Beautiful Virtues below?
Over the Easter Holiday, my local newspaper ran an article on the “7 Deadly Sins”. This term attributed to Charles Dickens refers to the biblical sins of Pride, Envy, Anger, Read More…
Coaching Tools and 7 Other Life Vision Exercise Ideas!
I get a lot of questions from coaches who want to help their clients with life planning or life visioning. Often people – and their coaches – are looking for a catch-all tool, workbook, visualisation or some other technique to help their clients.
The thing is, there are endless life vision exercises and ways to come up with a life plan. Maybe that’s why we sometimes feel overwhelmed and need help.
First, let’s get clear about why people might want a life vision:
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Often when our clients say “I don’t know”, they really do know – they’re just unwilling to acknowledge or face the answer. If it was was easy to say aloud they would have done so. There can be many reasons for the “I don’t know”, but if we trust our instincts and explore gently – we may just be rewarded with an Aha moment!
There are any number of reasons for that, “I don’t know” – but most of them are probably a fear of the consequences of stating that answer aloud. Maybe it means they will need to acknowledge Read More…
How often have you seen the prospect of a high powered job, brand new Porsche or designer pair of shoes gets your client more excited than the thought of quality time with a child or friends? Because their heart beats faster – they mistake this desire for their heart’s deep inner needs. But as we coaches know, desires and our heart’s true needs are very different – and when our clients get this personal ‘Aha moment’ it can be literally life-changing for them. Well, here’s one more way the Wheel of Life Template can help!
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Whether you’re a coach, counselor, therapist or social worker, affirmative writing is a great exercise to offer your clients who are making changes and attempting to bridge the gap from where they are to where they want to be. And it’s also a great journaling exercise for your own self-care and visioning.
Affirmative writing is where we write to bridge the gap between our current reality and our desired outcome, whether it’s events, goals, feelings, situations or something else. We write as if these things are already so – including our feeling state. Tip: Feelings are the magnet when it Read More…
This article follows on from 7 Career Coaching Tools and Ideas For Clients Who Have Absolutely No Idea What They Want!
So, here are 7 MORE Career Coaching Tools and Ideas for the client who wants a new career – but has absolutely no idea where to start! ‘Future’ Self Exercises and Inquiries Part 3. (Parts 1 and 2 can be found here) A final idea is to ask them to write out what a day in their ideal work day would look like. The more detail they go into the better – you can ask them to use their Read More…
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