Insights from coaching - finding ease Catrin MacDonnell

There are so many benefits to spending time asking yourself who you are. What you want, what you like, what's important. You can then start choosing who you want to be. You can grow in confidence, find ease with decision making, stop people pleasing. This podcast suggests questions to work through (which are also on my website https://www.catrinmacdonnell.co.uk/who-am-i-and-why-does-it-matter/

Even the most outwardly confident, self assured people tell me they lack in confidence. It can really make everything seem like such hard work and often means you hold yourself back from finding ease and success. Here are some tips for finding the confidence you need.

Coaching conversations often highlight how our beliefs, that can be held over many years, often shape our behaviours and attitudes negatively. Challenges these beliefs can be a game changer in life and work.

Asking yourself “what do I want” and putting a plan together to make it happen can bring purpose, clarity and confidence. Work through this simple model to create a plan to achieve what you want. You’ll find decision making is easier, you’ll be clearer about what’s important. Spend some time planning and make it happen.

It’s normal and inevitable that sometimes people wind you up, irritate, anger you even but it’s important to not let them impact you and spoil your day ( or week! ). It’s useful to explore the emotional hooks to gain insight into why you’re reacting like this and find ways of lessening the impact.

What can you do to reduce misunderstandings and conflict with others? Keep talking! Avoiding that person and not wanting to hear about their issue just makes things worse. Here are some pointers on how to build trust and reduce misunderstandings.