Self-Management
Time to Power-Up Your Priorities?
Recently I have been talking about priorities a bit as I have also been focusing and paying attention to my own. Priorities have been a big adventure for me and although I still struggle a bit with expressing my needs, I am a lot further along than when I started when I didn’t know that I had them and had…
Kaizen – Adding The Benefits of Continuous Improvements in Life
It is coming up to the end of the quarter and during this time I reflect on the past quarter, discover where I am in each area of my life and start to decide where my focus is going to go in the Next Quarter. I have been doing this practice for about 10 years…
What is the Difference Between a Goal and a System?
Recently I started Lead from Within One thing that comes up when I am coaching clients, is the difference between a goal and a task. So, in this post I wanted to share Let’s get started! What is a Goal? The definitions of goals I discovered were – Generally goals follow the SMART acronym –…
Capacity and Capabilities – What Is the Difference?
When I am working with clients, one thing we often focus on is capacity and building capabilities. So today on the journal, I wanted to share more about capacity and capability and the difference between the two. Let’s get started. What is Capacity? Whilst looking up definitions of capacity, this is what I discovered – After…
Priorities – The Difference Between Urgent and Important Tasks
Dwight D. Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States and the following quote has been linked to him – “What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.” This quote led to the Eisenhower Decision Matrix. This week I had a situation where it helped me further clarify the difference between urgent and…
Time to Rethink Rest?
As someone who has experienced burnout, I definitely know the importance of rest and recovery. However, I am wondering why we don’t talk about it much? As a professional athlete, rest and recovery was definitely part of my plan. However, when I moved in to the space of working as a teacher and then facilitator and coach,…
Threat or Challenge? It Depends on How You See It
As the year draws to a close, I have been reflecting. Part of my process is looking at the challenges I experienced this year. However, this year I went in to a deeper place this year for the participants decided to untangle the differences between threats and challenges. Yes they both can impact our overall wholistic well-being,…
Three Mental Patterns that Could Be Holding You Back
Today I wanted to share with you about three mental or mindset patterns that could be holding you back in life. So let’s get started… What Are Mental Patterns? A mental patterns is a thought construct that is held within your subconscious mind that is not in alignment with your authentic or genuine Self. And…
Do You Need a Self-Management System?
So today I thought I would share some questions that may help you decide if you need a wholistic self-management system. The reason being a lot of people ask me to coach them is to manage their stress and linked to that is overwhelm. Having a self-management system can help with both of those things. Three Types of People……