Whether your goals are to boost your career, improve your wellbeing, enjoy better relationships, create new habits or crush bad ones, or even deepen your spiritual life, getting a handle on your self-talk is crucial.
One way to combat the “always, never, perfect, and impossible” negative self-talk is to substitute them by using eight specific words. We call them the eight magic words.
In this episode, we discuss the power of self-talk with one of the Be Your Own Best Coach alumni, Mark Hiemenz.
Mark helps individuals, teams, and organizations be their best through self-awareness and relationship-building education, resources, and tools to move them clearly forward with shared goals and objectives, clear communications, and a unified path toward success.
Self-leadership and being your own best coach clearly is all about the self. But if you want to be the very best you can be, you need people who also have your back in more ways than just the technical or tactical.
Which is why we designed Be Your Own Best Coach as a group coaching program and created the SPRINGS approach.
Paralyzed by procrastination or self-doubt? You may have experienced at least one of these common physical symptoms: nausea, stomach ache, tight neck, cramping shoulders, back pain, and headache. And you may have struggled through sleepless nights, tossing and turning.
All that anguish and pain is driven by your automatic, instinctual response to whatever stressors or challenges you’re experiencing.
The solution is self-leadership, the ability to:
Recognize and manage the factors driving her thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
Foster relationships with others built on trust, respect, honesty, and productive collaboration
Arrange her environment and use tools and props to support new ways of thinking and acting
Procrastination makes you the victim of a kind of thinking called a cognitive bias. Cognitive biases are the brain’s attempt to simplify how it processes information. Biases work as rules of thumb to help people make sense of the world and come to reasonable, workable decisions quickly. Self-leadership skills are the key to overcoming cognitive biases.
We are officially launching cohort 4 of Be Your Own Best Coach, our flagship online course on how to start each day with a feeling of excitement and end with a sense of achievement and satisfaction, get things done on time at a pace that is right for you, and transform relationships from bad to good with even the most difficult people.
The “joke” reveals the absurdity of thinking that these unique and distinctly different scenarios could be met with a single plan. The truth is, human behavior is a lot more complex than that. It’s influenced by a highly complex set of changing conditions and factors.
It starts with effective self-leadership: being responsible, accountable, and disciplined; plus, managing your inner world of emotions and your emotional reactions.
Questions? Email us at listening@beyourownbestcoach.com
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