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Winning Amid Covid-19

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winning amid covid-19The global pandemic has shifted the way the world works. With isolation, quarantine, testing, and more, people have had to adjust their mindset this past year majorly. A lack of socialization and implementation of social distancing has left a lot of people feeling lackluster and demotivated. Many are finding it hard to stay positive.

If you relate to feeling this way, don’t worry because you’re not alone. A collective traumatic experience is challenging, and you can’t expect yourself to react to it positively. Even the most positive ones among us might have had trouble sticking to their cheery attitude.

Before we talk about how to win during Covid-19, I want to give you a little teaser about life coaching. Life coaching can be ultra-beneficial if you want to shift your perspective to a more positive one. It also benefits you in several other ways. You can achieve self-awareness, self-fulfillment and be on your way to real introspection.

I’d love to introduce you to all of these fantastic concepts, so feel free to book your first discovery session with me today! We will get to know each other, talk about your current motivations and concerns, and develop a plan to help you win at life!

The Importance of Perspective

Now, let’s discuss the importance of your perspective. It’s essential to know that what happens to you isn’t nearly as important as how you react to it. If you have a defeatist attitude, you will react to occurrences in negative ways. On the other hand, a winning attitude will help you deal with difficult times more positively. You’ll be able to reap benefits that others can’t see.

If you feel like you have a pessimistic perspective towards life, don’t be worried. I admit it’s not easy to realign perspectives, but it’s also not an out-of-reach process. All you need is determination and motivation to make the shift happen.

Think about it like this. There was a concert you were hoping to catch this year. You’d bought the tickets in advance, read up on them, and were looking forward to it. Then, there was a second wave of Covid-19, and the event got canceled. Your city went into lockdown.

There are two ways to react to this situation, and only one of them will make you feel better. A person with a negative perspective would feel defeated and down. They would internalize this experience and feel like they’re unlucky or that nothing good will happen again. They would also be upset about the monetary investment they made.

Meanwhile, someone with a positive perspective would recognize the hidden luck in the situation. If the concert had still happened despite the virus, many people might have become affected by Covid-19. It would have been a disease hotspot, and the whole community might have been affected. What’s more, the positive person would find a way to enjoy another activity while being in quarantine. They would catch a live session by the singer in question and weigh the opportunity cost of missing the concert versus contracting the virus.

I hope it’s a little clearer now.

How to Create a Positive Mindset

Now that you know why perspective is critical, you’re ready to learn how to achieve a positive one. If you’ve felt low or upset for a while, it might be tough to retrain your brain into positive thinking overnight. Don’t expect sudden changes from yourself, and you won’t be disappointed.

The main trick is simple: force yourself to convert any negative thoughts you have into positive ones. The best way to do this is to wear an elastic band around your wrist. Every time you get a negative thought, give the band a tweak. It will snap back against your skin, sending a sharp sensation along your arm. Then, convert your thought into a positive one. Once you get into the habit of doing this, your brain will learn how to do it on its own!

A good example is this: let’s say you want to spend some time outside, but it has started to rain. You find yourself feeling glum and don’t want to do anything anymore. Snap your band and replace this thought with a cheerful one. For example, a rainy day means you can hang out with family inside and play board games. Or you can sort out your closet as you’ve meant to.

Once you learn how to replace each negative thought with a positive one, you’ll find that your perspective shifts independently.

Work with a Life Coach

And here’s the best way to win during a challenging time like Covid-19: work with a professional life coach! A life coach is a trained expert who creates a customized plan that you can use to achieve whichever personal goals are essential to you. A life coach will make seemingly complex issues like fixing your self-esteem feel like manageable and treatable concerns.

There are so many benefits of working with a life coach. Let’s look at some of these:

  • You will find clarity on the goals and objectives you want to achieve both for the short and long terms.
  • You will receive a customized roadmap from someone who takes the time to learn about your struggles and limitations. Once you start following the roadmap, you will find yourself achieving smaller goals that feed into your larger ones.
  • You will be able to realign and shift your perspective from a negative to a positive, accepting one.
  • This will allow you to take complete advantage of any opportunities that come your way. You will also find yourself open to different opportunities that you might not have noticed before
  • You will have a trained professional by your side who will make you feel like you are essential and will take your concerns and issues seriously.

Schedule Your Free Discover Session Today!

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♦ Is COVID-19 Making You Anxious?
♦ Benefits of Working With Life Coach During COVID
♦ Accountability & Working With A Professional Life Coach
♦ What to Expect: When Working With A Professional Life Coach
♦ Secret Reasons Why Professional Coaches Are NOT Calling You Back

Who Works with a Professional Life Coach?

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Who Works with a Professional Life Coach?

I want to talk to you today about life coaching and the numerous benefits you can reap when you sign up with a life coach. You may be familiar with the term because you’ve probably heard your favorite celebrities talking about the practice! I’m here to tell you more about life coaching and how it’s helped a wide range of people, from world leaders to celebrities alike.

What is Life Coaching?

Before we talk about who can work with a professional life coach, let’s discuss what a life coach is. A professional life coach is a licensed expert who will essentially help you take charge of your life.

Not to say that you don’t have control over your own life. The art of life coaching allows you to view your internal motivations, desires, and goals. Your life coach asks you specific questions to get critical insights into what you want to get out of life. They then sit down with you and draft a customized plan to help you achieve the goals you want in a timeframe that works for you.

It’s super simple: you get to discuss whatever you’re struggling with, and an expert draws up a plan to help you do better in life.

If you’d like more information about life coaching or are ready to kickstart your journey, sign up for your first free discovery session today! I’ll guide you through the process, ask you some questions, and I guarantee you’ll love it.

Famous People and what they have to say about Life Coaching

When you think of celebrities, you might picture a famous, self-assured person who doesn’t let anything get in their path to success. This isn’t true because celebrities are just like ordinary people because they fear anxiety and sometimes lack motivation. They also need to reach out to someone who can help them achieve their goals.

Many prominent celebrities have worked with life coaches and remain grateful to them till this very day. Let’s look at some of the famous names who attribute their success to life coaches.

#1: Oprah Winfrey

Oprah has made a name for herself with her award-winning talk show, her books, and her philosophy of life. She’s a well-known name internationally, and there’s barely anyone who doesn’t know her or her work.

Oprah gives credit for some of her success to her renowned life coach, Martha Beck. She’s been very vocal about how life coaching has helped her stay afloat through all these years. Not only that, but she advises her fans and followers to start working with experienced life coaches. Oprah views life coaching as one of the best ways to succeed in life.

Here’s what Martha Beck has to say about positive thinking, “Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.”

#2: Leonard DiCaprio

Leo DiCaprio has been in the industry for a long time. He’s given heart-warming performances that have made millions of people all over the world fall in love with him. Despite his hard work and constant efforts, it took a long time for him to win an award that he wanted.

He attributes some of his success and mental peace to his life coach, Tony Robbins. Robbins helped him hone his skills and focus on his strengths to lead the life that he wanted to. By getting Leo to focus solely on the positive aspects of his personality. Robbins ensured that he would get to the top.

Leo equates his life coach to a friend who knows him. He said, “I get a friend to travel with me – I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It’s hard to be alone.”

Robbins has been the person who’s known Leo through all of his ups and downs and proves that life coaching is a powerful practice that works.

#3: Serena Williams

Leonardo DiCaprio isn’t the only celebrity that Tony Robbins has helped. He’s been pivotal in giving a much-needed boost to Serena Williams’ life and goals. Robbins has helped Williams enhance her performance on the court by urging her to focus on her strengths instead of her weaknesses.

Williams often talks about how life coaching helped her come out of a very dark place. There was a time when she got severely injured and couldn’t train properly. Robbins coached her through this dismal period in her life and made her well enough to win a Grand Slam later on.

With Robbins’ teachings, Serena Williams learned how to convert her failures to successes.

#4: Britney Spears

If you know anything about Britney Spears, you’ll know that she’s had to overcome an extraordinary number of struggles and setbacks. She lost her way for a while when she was forced to raise her children by herself and was always hounded by the press and paparazzi. She lost her self-esteem, confidence, and self-worth.

However, she was able to bounce back from all of that with her life coach’s help, whose name she keeps hidden. This anonymous life coach helped her regain her sense of self, and she was able to get back on stage and rebuild her professional and public image.

Her life coach helped restore the thing she needed the most: self-belief. Spears seems to have overcome her struggles quite successfully with life coaching.

The Bottomline

As you’ve read, famous people need help too. Life coaching is simply a way to identify your unique struggle and then plan to overcome it. There’s no shame in reaching out to a licensed expert who is willing to help. In fact, not reaching out can often do more damage, and I urge you to keep that in mind.

Sign up for your first free discovery session with me, and we’ll start working towards a healthier, more wholesome, and brighter future for you today!

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♦ Benefits of Working With Life Coach During COVID
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♦ What to Expect: When Working With A Professional Life Coach
♦ Secret Reasons Why Professional Coaches Are NOT Calling You Back
♦ Build a Happy Life: 5 Great Benefits of Working with a Life Coach

What is a Discovery Session?

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Are you ready to embark on a journey of self-discovery? Want to take the next step to create a better sense of well-being? You’re in the right place.

I want to talk to you today about how you can reframe your mindset, boost your self-esteem, and work your way towards self-fulfillment. It might sound too good to be accurate, but if you stick with me, I’ll help you understand how easy it can kickstart your journey.

Let’s Talk Self-Fulfilment

So, why do we talk so much about self-fulfillment? What exactly is it that we’re trying to attain? When people talk about reaching a high level of personal growth, they’re talking about emotional evolution. It’s deemed highly desirable to attain a positive mindset, react rather than attack, and shift your perspective to make life better.

Self-fulfillment is simply the culmination of all of these factors. The path to complete self-growth is not easy, but it’s not complicated either. As with any problem, there is an available solution, and there are tools you can use to achieve it.

I’m going to tell you about some of these tools now.

Your Free Discovery Session with a Life Coach

If you’re confused about what a life coach does and how they can help you, keep reading. A life coach is a trained professional who can teach you to retrain your brain, shift your perspective, and work on any other goals you may have.

Think of a life coach like a sports coach. A good sports coach studies the field, his team, the opponents, and then puts all these things together to create a strategy that will help you win the game. Any good coach must be an expert in their work line because they can’t help you if they don’t have prior experience.

The sports metaphor is a good one and applies to how I approach life coaching. The first thing I like to do is to urge my clients to book a free discovery session with me. During this session, we have an initial call where I introduce myself, talk about what I do, and then ask my client to tell me what they’re thinking of or going through.

Of course, one call or session isn’t nearly enough to understand my client’s unique struggles, but it’s a good start. I ask questions, prompt them to reply, and challenge them to rethink their beliefs to attain their goals.

The free discovery session is a jumping-off point to a beautiful relationship where I design customized plans for my clients, depending on what it is they’re looking for.

How Can a Life Coach Help?

Now, let’s talk about how life coaching can positively impact your life. When you sign up with a life coach, you should be clear about what you want to get out of the sessions. This applies to almost everything in life. You don’t need to have a crystal-clear idea of where you’re trying to get to because this will be unraveled during sessions, but you must have some understanding of what you’re struggling with.

Think of a life coach like a friend who will challenge your beliefs and introduce you to new perspectives about life. They will also give you powerful insights while encouraging you to achieve your goals.

Life coaching is different from therapy, and this is important to keep in mind. A therapist addresses your past traumas and tries to work with you to overcome them for your current state of mind.

On the other hand, a life coach asks you relevant questions about your current situation in life and provides you with a plan for the future. If you implement this plan, with your coach’s help, of course, you will find yourself with new possibilities and opportunities. A life coach’s plan for you will help you with your future, and they will be there every step of the way.

Here are some of the unique benefits you will get when you sign up with a life coach:

  • In-depth insights: you will receive powerful insights that will challenge you to rethink how you perceive things around you. These insights can range from overarching ideas to the nitty-gritty that may be ignored in daily life.
  • A new perspective: you will learn how to retrain your brain and shift your perspective away from negative thinking to positive affirmations and beliefs. We must learn how to take things as they come instead of being volatile and reacting to every setback or obstacle. A positive mindset will only help you on your way to overall growth.
  • Improved self-esteem: life coaching will allow you to take space and focus on your inner world. There will be things you don’t like about yourself, but you can work on these with your coach and change the game. Once you start achieving your goals, you will start to realize how strong you are and capable of. This will automatically result in better self-esteem as you continue to realize your self-worth.
  • The ability to embrace change: change can be a scary thing for many people. This is understandable as human beings are creatures of habit, and normal fluctuations can feel catastrophic if you’re not prepared. Working with a life coach will help you embrace and accept change as a part of daily life.
  • Open to life: once you start focusing on your well-being and self-growth, you will find yourself becoming more open to life and everything it has to offer. I will work with you and help you break out of any beliefs or ideas that limit you. You will feel freer, more positive, and on the lookout for new opportunities. This will allow you to live your life the way you want and not just get through it one day at a time.

Schedule Your Free Discover Session Today!

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♦ Am I Uncoachable?!
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♦ What to Expect: When Working With A Professional Life Coach
♦ Build a Happy Life: 5 Great Benefits of Working with a Life Coach

Is Covid-19 Making You Anxious?

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is covid making you anxiousIf you’ve been feeling anxious about Covid-19, you’re not alone. The novel coronavirus has managed to bring the world to a screeching halt in more ways than one. There are too many far-reaching ramifications that cannot be ignored, and mental health is not an exception.

The onslaught of this global pandemic has shaken up people’s mental health in various ways. Some have it worse than others. However, the common thread that connects all of us is the ongoing anxiety of actually contracting the possibly fatal virus. You might have heard of a close friend or relative who’s had it. Or you could’ve seen the increasingly dismal news reports that make it seem like everyone has been affected.

I repeat: if this situation is making you anxious, you are not alone.

How Covid-19 Induced Anxiety Can Impact Your Life

There are a lot of ways in which this specific anxiety can make you feel crippled. You might always worry about your health, your financial situation, and your family, among other things. This is perfectly natural and you shouldn’t give yourself a hard time about it. Anxiety festers itself through thoughts, which are intangible and therefore, frightening.

Susie Pettit is a North Virginian Life Coach who asserts that anxious thoughts feel real and can inhibit our life more than their trigger, i.e., Covid-19.

She says, “thoughts are everything. There’s nothing more important than how we think about the things in our life…Like ‘it’s the coronavirus that’s making me nervous!’ No, it’s your thoughts that are making your nervous.”

It’s obvious then that Covid-19 induces anxiety which in turn can negatively impact our lives and our progress. It can be pretty tough to tame anxious thoughts, mainly because they can make you feel like you won’t be able to get anything done. So, how do you make your way to a solution during this global pandemic?

The solution: start working with your life coach. I offer Discovery Sessions where I lay out all the services that a Life Coach provides so you can feel at ease about signing up with us. Once you sign up with us, you will be able to make some sense of the madness of this global situation and put an end to your constant anxiety. Before I talk about how this happens, however, let’s discuss what it is that a life coach does.

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What Does a Life Coach Do?

The first thing to understand about life coaching is that it’s not therapy. It may be similar in the sense that you will talk to a professional. However, where therapy is based on insights, past events, and has formal education and licensure in mental health, life coaching looks at your current situation and focuses on the future and has a different set of educational requirements.

When you sign up with a professional life coach, they’ll help you make your way to the future that you want. Professional life coaches have a ton of experience, both personal and professional, and they use it to identify their clients’ goals as the first step. Then they create a customized plan that tracks progress and enables clients to achieve those goals.

Think of a life coach as you would of any other coach. My job is to work with you to come up with a detailed strategy on how to accomplish different tasks. This doesn’t mean that I won’t focus on how you’re feeling. I’ll take your feelings and thoughts into careful deliberation. How you think is essential in that it forms the backbone of the strategies that will work best for you. If you want to work towards a mentally balanced life, you should sign up for your first Discovery Session and see where it takes you!

How a Life Coach Can Help with Covid-19 Anxiety

#1: They will help you to accept your situation

Jason Bernic is an Executive Life Coach who guides his clients through Covid-19 specific anxiety. He encourages his clients to understand and gradually accept the new normal. The world has become a place where precautions are necessary. According to Bernic, this new world order “requires us to adapt and construct a new normal – a new structure and routine…your foundation affects your mindset.”

Just like Bernic, I’ll help you come to terms with the changing world, and they will then help you find your place in it. New situations can only frighten you until you learn to adapt to them.

#2: They will help you find the silver lining

Like most situations, this one also has a light at the end of the tunnel. A professional life coach will sit down with you and gently remind you to focus on this light. They’ll reiterate the positives waiting for you on the other side of Covid. And they’ll make you remember the goals you thought you couldn’t work on because of the pandemic.

It’s possible to still accomplish the goals you wanted before Covid hit. However, your strategy might need a little tweaking. I’ll work with you to establish a new plan of action.

#3: They will remind you of what you can control

Often when we feel anxious, it’s because our minds make us feel like we’re helpless. Anxious thoughts can cause people to spiral because they feel like they have no control over their lives. This is a scary place to be in.

Once you sign up with an experienced life coach, they’ll remind you of two important facts:

  • One that the global pandemic, like some other things are out of your control
  • Two, that there are still lots of things that are in your control

As your life coach, I’ll encourage you to start focusing your energy on the events or things you can control instead of the ones you can’t. This will help if you always feel overwhelmed by the pandemic. Or if you find yourself thinking negatively about everything.

So, please take the next step and sign up with us today to learn how to retrain your brain into focusing on the positive aspects of any situation and be successful in taming anxiety in the face of Covid-19. It will take some work work, but it will be worth it!

Schedule Your Free Discovery Session Today!

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Benefits of Working With Life Coach During COVID

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working with a life coach during covidAre you struggling with direction?  Struggling to make progress?  Or  facing major changes during COVID?  If you’re looking for someone who can guide and help you during this time, then working with a life coach during COVID will provide you with the necessary support!

Every success story in the world usually involves support.  Many successful people have a permanent life coach in their lives to have that continual support. A life coach helps them find the right direction and allows them to make quick progress. So it would be best if you do what other successful people do, and take this time to start working with a life coach for your future success…especially in these tricky times of COVID.

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Likewise, many people are wondering about the benefits of having a life coach in life. So here we are discussing shortly before going into detail. In simple, the life coach can help you to find the job that you love, like a marketing strategist who can help you to grow your business at the desired level with the right marketing techniques.

Some of the other benefits given below:

Benefit #1: A life coach can help with career and relationship development

Careers and relationships are an essential part of everyone’s life. But most people are struggling with them as COVID affects them.  In this case, a life coach should be your first choice to have in your life, as they help you see past the anxiety and focus on the possibilities.

Moreover, everyone’s success is related their view of following their path.  In terms of career, a life coach, with their vast experiences and professional study can, help you find that path quickly.  After this, the topic of relationships usually comes up.  All of us want to establish good relationships with our friends, family, colleagues, and partners. But we sometimes fail to understand each other.

Especially during the pandemic, when many are struggling with we are struggling with financial problems or other anxieties, this can affect our relationships badly. In this case, a life coach is essential to have as they can help a client navigate these murky times and help them develop in ways to that their relationships continue to blossom.

Benefit #2: A life coach can help you to maintain good mental health

Now that we’re several months into the pandemic, chronic stress is common, as job loss, isolation, and many other sociopolitical factors are shaping everyone’s daily life. All these happenings can impact a person’s mental health.  If suicide has crossed your mind, get help immediately by contacting the National Suicide Prevention Hotline (1-800-273-8255).

If you’re just feeling down and your emotions are ebbing and flowing more than usual, then working with a life coach will definitely help! Simply put, life coaches are the people who can help you to come out of this time, as they are professional and have a lot of knowledge about asking the right questions and working with clients to shift their perspective. They can work with you to allow you to come up with the best solutions for your personality and unique situation.

Moreover, mental health plays a vital role in everyone’s life, so we shouldn’t ignore it and take it seriously.  Did you know that every sports team, whatever the sport is, has a unique life coach who helps them deal with their daily stress?  Yes, it’s true!

Benefit #3: A life coach can help you to control your emotions

A life coach can help you control your emotions as they play an essential part in our lives. Just imagine you’re  in your office and know that you’ll get the call that you’re being promoted today. How will you feel? Some may be excited.  Some may be nervous.  Some may be full of self-doubt and totally overwhelmed.  So at that stage, it is imperative to keep your emotions under control.

Likewise,  you can make mistakes in this nervousness and anxiety. So in this regard, we can say that a life coach is necessary to work with as we have observed that all the most successful people are very calm and relaxed and handle themselves with grace, regardless of the situation .

Have you ever wondered what helps them be so calm & controlled?  The answer is working with an skilled and experience “guru” of some type.  In many cases, working with a professional life coach. Matters such as anxiety, feeling overwhelmed, and insecurity are conquered by consistently working with a professional life coach.

Benefit #4: Say goodbye to negativity with an experienced life coach

Negativity develops in someone’s mind due to many factors like:

  • failures,
  • unconscious behaviors, and
  • emotional reactions around dealing with other people, just to name a few.

And the person starts thinking. Differently, he takes the thing as they do not look.

When these thoughts and feelings invade the mind, it can be hard to find your way to positive self-talk.  Working with a life coach will help you to recognize some of these patterns, and worn out emotional records that you keep replaying in your head.  They will help you see the time is now to change the channel, story and what’s being said in your head asap!  Nothing can change until you have the awareness that something needs to change.

Benefit #5: Become more aware of your unconscious feelings with your life coach

In society, people are often judged on looks alone.  This can leave many aspects of a person lurking in the dark and not being known or addressed.  This can often breed feelings of Imposter Syndrome. What then should someone do if they can look the part, but they don’t feel they are the part? Even the most successful business men and women sometimes struggling with these feelings.

Working with a professional life coach, especially during the uncertainty of COVID, can have undeniable benefits around such addressing these feelings.  Learning to become more aware of all parts of yourself will definitely happen.  Moreover, they are always available to help you in any circumstances that you may face going through life.

At this point, the conclusion is clear.  You should hire a life coach now for your own benefits and self-satisfaction, especially when we need someone to talk on a serious issue that we can’t discuss with anyone else.

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Other blog posts of interests:

♦ How Are You Finding Your Bliss?
♦ Accountability & Working With A Professional Life Coach
♦ What to Expect: When Working With A Professional Life Coach
♦ Secret Reasons Why Professional Coaches Are NOT Calling You Back
♦ Build a Happy Life: 5 Great Benefits of Working with a Life Coach