The 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.
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Other blog posts of interest:
♦ 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
Are 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!
I’ve worked with a lot of clients who say that one of their goals is to achieve work-life balance because they read an article in such and such publication. Yes, they want more time with their family. Yes, they want to work less crazy hours. Yes, they want to have more control over their schedules. However, in our coaching sessions, it quickly becomes apparent that these clients don’t really want work-life balance.
In those glowy wonderful articles, I just mentioned I often see very long lists around the benefits of work-life balance. Those lists haunt my dreams! Clients who want to find a life coach often contact me with these same lists and rattle off want they want me to do for them.
For example, a client who seems to take a lot of sick time may have a lot going on at home. This means they never have a chance to decompress from the stress at work. They go from one stressful environment (home) to another (work) and they are mentally and emotionally drained. The way they attempt to manage their situation is to limit their exposure to work stress by taking sick days and just staying in bed on those days.
“Achieving work-life balance” is a zen pipe dream I believe all of those articles I mentioned earlier promise readers. When a client decides to hire a life coach, they quickly realize that same thing. If all of the moving parts in a client’s life were in sync and their only issues were around the demands from their job, they’d probably find another job.
To put it simply, employers want the most bang for their buck so to speak. Every employer’s goal is to get as much use and work out of employees as possible at the lowest possible cost. No business thinks any differently. That’s just capitalism. To be fair, there are some employers who are far better than others at offering more harmonious, peaceful and collaborative environments for employees to work in. This means the need for work-life balance is seemingly taken into consideration when an employer offers certain health & wellness or alternative work programs.
Please understand, work-life balance as a concept is not negative. However what I’ve found to be true as a professional life coach is that clients put all of their attention on “fixing” the wrong things. What I mean by that is that a client will focus on how to make changes about the time they spend at work and just stop there. They won’t take the plunge to reflect upon their lives as a whole and possibly see that their commitments outside of work may be a major factor in their tiredness, lack of engagement, etc. at work.
Break-ups are tough and often they really disrupt your life. Whether you were planning ‘happily ever after’ with your former sweetie or not, getting used to that other person not being around can be hard. I often work with clients who are at the crossroads of letting go and clinging to what once was. This blog post focuses on some of the same steps I focus on during coaching sessions to help clients achieve success after a break-up.
No matter the type of relationship you had, the beginning of rebuilding yourself after a breakup begins with clearing out the clutter. Physical reminders of the other person can be constant torture. Give yourself 4 to 6 weeks to get through this phase.
This second step should be happening simultaneously with the first. While you are donating those clothes that your ex left, you should also be taking time to reflect on the relationship.
Taking care of yourself needs to be a priority. If you haven’t been engaged in routines and rituals that boost, balance, and rejuvenate you, then now is the time to start. Don’t let the term “self-care” scare you. It doesn’t have to be complex.
You’ve cleared the clutter. You’ve reflected on your last relationship. You’ve created doable and fun self-care rituals for yourself. What next? Not it’s time for you to get back in the dating game! You’re at a good space mentally and emotionally and it’s time to find a great partner. The way you decide to get back into dating is up to you. Online, mobile, in person, blind dates, hookups through friends, etc .
