Changing Habits - Changing Lives

I cover three things which we think will lead us to success. And sometimes we thing just one of these will do and we will have abundance rain down on us.

You know it isn't true!

In this episode I take a quick run through on 'Luck', 'Talent', and 'Hard Work'. I'm sure you have guessed what I'm going to say, but listen in to this short episode to re-align you thoughts and put in the effort where it it can do you good across all three.

Following on from the early episode on a meditation approach this one looks at a breathing exercise. I have found this exercise worked for me when I needed to take a moment to calm my mind from rising stress, anxiety, and panic attacks.

It's an exercice you can do whenever and wherever. Doesn't take too long and is handy to know.

Let me know if it worked for you.

Look after yourself, your body and your mind!

With so much going on in the world, stress levels have risen for many of us, and they seem to keep rising. Trying to find some calm within ourselves is also being tested.

You will hear meditation is helpful. It certain does help as I found over the years. There are may approaches to meditating. This is my approach which I learned from a few people over the years.

It helped me understand the purpose of meditation and then a practice which worked for me. I hope this is useful for you.

I cover thoughts and breath focus as part of my meditation.

Imposter Syndrome. Hits many of us. Causes stress and uncertainty when you start to believe your success was a mistake. Julie Greaves works with clients and regularly helps people overcome their personal imposter syndrome.

Step by step uncovering the background to the syndrome and then moving forward to recognise the reality, facts, and skills you truly have and why you absolutley deserve the success and accolade you are experiencing.

As always, hope you find this helpful. Please subscribe and help out a podcaster determined to bring you more insights in making you and your life the way you want it!

Each week we hear about companies are shutting down or making people redundant. Jane Ferre joins me and shares her tips and advice as a career and development coach but also someone who was made redundant twice in one year.

Add Jane's 20+ years work in HR and Development with international businesses and she really knows what it's like to be at sharp end of a redundancy.

We cover the 'grieving process' to looking after your health and well being through a redundancy.

What have we missed? Let me know and we can cover in another episode.

Experienced coach, speaker, and marketer, Jill McCulloch joins me on this episode. We discuss some of the challenges in our current world - life and work - and how it affects our mindsets, creates limiting beliefs, and a very current topic, mental resilience (or fitness as Jill puts it).

We also cover 'Postive Intelligence' and learning about our gremlins or saboteurs which get stuck in our thoughts and in our way when we are looking to make changes.

There are more details on my website about the resources Jill mentions in this episode.

https://comentra.com/podcast-2

Video maker and confidence coach Elsewine Rietveld dishes out some great advice to get you started in making videos for you business, social media, marketing, or just for you.

Like many things, getting started is the first big hurdle. You may well have a bunch of thoughts running around in your head giving you all the excuses why you shouldn't create a video content.

Listen to Elsewine's tips and you can start the small steps and get it done. Plus, there's a whole bunch of tips on how to look your audience 'in the eye', lighting, backgound, and even some words on content for your video.

You can connect with Elsewine on LinkedIn, Facebook, her website (elsewine.com) and join her 10 day video training to really boost your video creations.

We think getting up in the morning is a problem. And it is. But we think the problem is with the morning, with the alarm/snooze button. Snoozing and hitting the snooze button has now developed into a habit. The more we repeat it the more it becomes a habits and the stronger the habit becomes.

We get to the point where we barely come out of our slumber to hit the snooze button.

So here's a few things you can do to create the habit of getting you up and heading into your day. The solution isn't just the morning habit!

Short Sunday episode and one habit you can start to build immediately. You always hear about planning your day but what about reviewing and learning from your day. Learning about you and how you work (or didn't work!)

Listen to the 4 questions to ask yourself and start to make the next day even more productive!

Have a great day, great week, great life!

I am with Karin Hurt, CEO of We Grow Leaders, who helps leaders achieve breakthrough results, build courageous cultures, and support their people all without losing their soul!

It's a tough time right now. Companies are trying to navigate their way back to sustainable business. But it's also a time to figure how how to make changes to their company culture so they support not only their customers but also the people who make the company work each and every day - the employees.

We touch on several areas from toxic cultures which stifle engagement across the company to examples of leaders who are really taking a different approach and engaging with all their staff to build a new company.

If you want more help with building a courageous culture then get in touch with Karin Hurt on LinkedIn.