Clients frequently ask for help in coping with stress. Most people can identify the source of their tension (e.g. parenting, relationships, the economy, money, job, health, COVID, etc.), but often CANNOT CAN use to help you handle anything bothering you.
Stress comes from focusing our energy on thi...
I struggle with managing stress. It's a fight to keep my stress under control. The good news is that I can win this fight, and so can you. I frequently help clients learn to manage stress at both work and home. Here's one of the tools I teach.
Step 1: Identify a Spark
I'm amazed at how after a fir...
I've learned over the years that the way out of anxiety and depression always starts with becoming aware that you're struggling with your attitude. Once you're aware you are stuck, then you can then make changes. You won't try to fix something you don't acknowledge is broken.
Below are some thought...
Anxiety and depression focus on what can go wrong. It zeroes in on the worst outcome coming true and bad things happening again. Hope focuses on what can go right, and the opportunity in every circumstance.
Here are some anxious thoughts I've had, and heard, recently. Any seem familiar?
- "I don't ...
You will make some bad decisions in life and that's OK. You'll trust untrustworthy people. You'll take the wrong job. An investment of time and money will go south.
Will you follow up bad choices by learning and taking a better path?
In How to Make the Good Decisions (Part 1) I gave you 7 tools th...
Something special happens when you live with balance. Life becomes more enjoyable and more exciting. You're more productive. Things start snapping into place.
I've posted the first two steps to establishing life balance in Part 1 and Part 2. If you read these posts, you know it's not perfection. Yo...
Unrealistic expectations cause stress, depression, anxiety, addiction, relationship problems, and much more. Realistic and healthy expectations lead to balance. Below is the 2nd step. Read about the 1st Step in 5 Steps to Establishing Life Balance (Part 1).
Step 2: Define Your "7" in Each Area
Est...
The life wheel is a tool that has helped me and many clients. It divides your life into categories. You're either moving towards or away from balance. This tool can bring awareness to which direction your headed.
Step 1: Decide Your Legacy
Choose the type of person you want to become in each life ...
If you read How to Change Negative Core Beliefs (Part 1), you looked at 20 common limiting mindsets and 5 questions to help replace them. Below are real examples of ways people have replaced destructive core beliefs with empowering ones.
"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably t...
In How to Be Grateful When Life is Hard (Part 1), you learned how what you focus on the most impacts you. It's hard work to live with gratitude, but there is no other way to be emotionally healthy.
"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out." ~ John Wooden
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In 12 Life Balance Tips (Part 1) I gave you six activities that can help get your life on track. Here's six more tips. Take some action with these tips because application leads to transformation happens. There's a lot at stake.
6 Additional Life Balance Activities
1. Some is Better Than None
Jus...
