Stress Management

How can one person appear calm and confident in a situation and another feel afraid or anxious?

Sky diving may be an exhilarating experience or terrifying. Using a computer may induce the kind of fear we associate with holding a spider.

For some, it is simply the act of saying no.

One of the secrets to coping in life is learning to live with constant change; building resilience in the face of challenges that are stressful to us.

Often we do not share our own unique challenges as we are concerned what others will think; therefore we can remain stuck and unable to be effective in many areas of life.

Operating from our least effective self, we often:

• Hold the underdog position – I’m not good enough / important enough / worthy enough
• Catastrophise, magnify or overestimate a situation
• Personalise a situation – take responsibility even if it has nothing to do with you
• Only focus on the negative
• Only focus on your weaknesses
• Make stuff up or mind read a situation when you have no idea
• Live by unwritten fixed rules – I should / I ought / I have to / I can’t
• Exercise poor spending / eating habits
• and much more…

The coaching process will assist you in challenging ineffective thoughts and beliefs. Imagine having the choice to move on from the kind of thinking that is costing you in life?

‘Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees’
– Marriot