Silent Conflict
A single distinguishing characteristic of silent conflict is an engagement of words with no sound.
Hats Off to the Skills We Learn From Sport
Coaching Tip # 61
There is only the pledge you fulfill each day to challenge your best from the day before. And when you challenge yourself each day, you come to accept that some days, weeks, or months are better than others.
Mental Health Matters
Coaching Tip # 60
It starts with the adults in the room. We need to show it is safe to talk about our whole well-being not just our physical well-being.
Development
Coaching Tip # 59
We know that you matter to others. Your schedule says so: it is full of commitments that you have made to others. I want you to stop and say out loud: I matter, too!
Pivot Power
Coaching Tip # 58
When something interrupts your progress on a directional goal, whether it is in your control or not, a champion understands that pivoting their strategies to cope with the new circumstances is necessary.
"YET" is a Powerful 3 Letter Word
Coaching Tip # 57
We must believe in the possibility of “yet”. If we do not, the grit required to keep trying will wilt under successive stumbles or a significant failure.
Hurdles and Turtles
Coaching Tip # 56
Turtles know how to offer the right kind of support at the right time in the right moment of need. The turtle knows the “we” is more important than the “me”.
Living With Your Emotions
Coaching Tip #55
The feelings we have in the moment of struggle are completely normal. It is the space after the emotion where you can turn a mistake or failure into a future success.
Bounce Back Techniques
Coaching Tip #54
While 2020 is over, the challenges of your life are not. The bounce back tools you used to cope can prep you for the tests ahead of you.
Goals and Slip ups (and Get Ups)
Coaching Tip #53
At every opportunity we can choose whether to attack or approach, to accuse or to understand. And this absolutely applies to our talk inside our head.
Think Process
Coaching Tip # 52
While each pursuit has a desired end result, I would argue that it is the process of our experiences that extraordinary results are grounded in. That is where we find joy.
Coping With A Gap Year
Coaching Tip # 51
Traditions are important – they are the customs or beliefs that are passed down from generation to generation. They are markers of time and patterns in our lives. Our life stories are built around them. Like everything else in 2020, they will be different this year.
Procrastination
Coaching Tip # 50
Focus on becoming aware of the word “I”. What you say to yourself matters!
Dreams or To Do Lists
Dream goals are a big deal. To help with this process I answer 6 questions. The more clarity I have the more prepared I will be to develop an action plan.
The Dark Side of Control
Yes, we need to work on the thing we can control in our own lives, but this can quickly morph into an impulse to control things in other people’s lives.
Your Unique Process
This week’s coaching tip asks you some important questions to determine the elements that make up your process. Let’s make it real; let’s focus on helping you understand and consciously control your process.
Moving Hope to Reality
Hope requires action. And although hope is a necessary component of dreams, a vision does not become an actuality without measurable focused actions.
Control the Controllable
There are 6 key words in this question. To truly control the controllable we need to break down the intent behind these specific words.
Whining On The Yacht
Yes, things are different. Yes, there are challenges. And yes, we all want to go back to the way it was. But the reality is the pandemic has changed us and going backwards is never the answer.
The Power of Our Thoughts
Our thoughts can be an incredibly powerful and positive force behind our actions. Understanding this can be a difference maker.