Connected Coaching

The pressure from every angle can feel like we a being squeezed at the moment. Speaking to friends it is evident that many of us are being squeezed not just for our finances, but for our time, our emotions and our attention.

A friend of mine recently was talking about the pressure to support and care for elderly parents, to provide financial, practical and emotional support for adult children, to deliver a high level of performance at work with less and less resources, and from each other as a couple to spend quality time with each other. My experiences are not exactly the same as yours might not be, but I definitely resonate with the sentiment of it, as you may well do.

These pressures however are normal and are an expected aspect of grown up life, up until recently we would soak up these pressures and carry on. We probably would not experience them all at once, and if we did we would accept that we may have short term pain and it would eventually pass.

That was when our bandwidth was set to default, the problem is all our default factory settings do not cut it in the batshit crazy world we are currently experiencing. This increasingly volatile, and uncertain world has had a profound effect on us all and has successfully managed to narrow our bandwidth but almost permanently putting us in a continual threat state. Therefore most things we encounter become a threat to our well-being, so we respond to them accordingly.

We are less tolerant of each other, we are more emotional than usual, we want to hide away from the world more, we start to lack energy, get indigestion, our sleep is disturbed, and everything becomes a burden. When I am feeling this way I find it really hard to see anything positive. I become a self-fulfilling prophecy, I start looking for evidence to confirm and justify my belligerence with the world.

This is when I know it is time to redress the balance and deliberately make an effort to look for what makes me happy. It is vital to counteract the confirmation bias with some critical thinking, to look for an alternative view of the world you are currently seeing. The world is incredibly challenging, but there is still plenty to be grateful for, that brings us joy. The reason it is vital is to complete our stress cycle to get our threat state to stand down so we can physically recover ready for the next real threat, and reduce all those unpleasant symptoms described above.

Recently I have found a number of activities have helped me see beyond a world of pain an misery, one is writing my blog and talking about how I feel, one is spending time with fellow coaches and supervisors that are willing to listen to me, without judgement and solutions, to allow me to sort through all my emotions and discard those emotions that were not serving me and keep those that served me well, and most importantly facilitating coaching both individually and in groups. All of these things bring me joy, make me feel socially safe and therefore completing my stress cycle.

The world is still batshit crazy, but my bandwidth has been restored for now. It will narrow again, that is a certainty, the key is not to late it narrow too much. Keep looking for moments of joy, and find someone to talk things through with. If you work in an uncertain complex industry then consider working with a coach to help you park and make sense of those emotions swirling in your head, to help you have clarity on what really needs your attention.

The past few months have been the most difficult in my life so far. I have never felt emotional pain like this. I have not tried to push it away I have sat with it and accepted it. It is worth it, it is worth it for the 51 years of unconditional love I had from you Mum.

I have cried and I mean proper snot bubble crying nearly every day since she died. This is not weakness or soppiness, this is resilience in action. I will not bury my pain deep inside, I will sit and cry when the sadness of realising I will no longer hold her hand and give her a big bear hug, because those moments were so special and deserve my sadness. Every moment in her presence or talking to her over the phone were priceless and I am so grateful we had that relationship. She helped form the man I am today and I will be forever grateful.

This is what being resilient means, it means experiencing and understanding the pain you are experiencing, and using it to make changes to your life for the better. I am not sure yet what changes I need to make to my life, I am still sitting with the pain, I still feel it intensely everyday. I do have a feeling that my values are shifting, courage is important to me, but I am not sure usefulness is still as high as it once was, but I will have to wait and see, as I think now, I would suggest duty and integrity are right up their after spending time caring for Mum. I had to do it, because it was my duty in fact I might describe it as devotion. I am so devoted to her that I had no choice but to be with her and care for her with my family, but that came with immense personal pain, more than I ever knew I could cope with. As I write this I am noticing that my values are still shifting and have yet to settle in their new order. I am sure though that devotion, duty, integrity and courage will be there.

At the moment the last few weeks of Mum’s life are still fresh in my mind and are still raw. I feel so grateful for my relationship with Mum, but at the moment those last couple of weeks are so painful that I find it hard to be grateful for that time. I know that as time passes I will be so grateful to be able to repay the care and attention she showed me for 51 years.

I love you and miss you Mum, and thank you so much for everything.

I teach Clinical Supervision, practice as a supervisor for Nurses and AHPs ,as well as coaching, I also provide coaching supervision for our internal coaches. I have also started the ILM 7 cert in coaching supervision.

Recently I have been thinking about the challenges faced by leaders not just the NHS but across all industries, and how much of a burden this places on the individual managers. Maybe leaders need a space to sort through the stresses they collect.

So why don’t we offer a form of leadership supervision that isn’t coaching but provides the space to explore all aspects of their leadership, including how they see themselves, their staff, their stakeholders, the different relationships, the work they do, the environment they work in, and the context within which they work. Now Exec coaching might cover this but what about the leaders in organisations?

Rather than coaching it feels more like the clinical supervision and coaching supervision I practice. We expect so much from our leaders that if we do not provide some space where they can make sense of their work and not carry their stress from one day to the next, we are just going to see more and more good leaders burning out.

The work leaders undertake is more and more challenging and these challenges come from all angles. I see messages and emails from leaders in my organisation come through late at night and early in the morning as the need to complete tasks becomes overwhelming. I am certain this happens right across the board not just in the NHS. This to me highlights that there is a need for leaders to take part in some sort of restorative, reflective conversations with a supervisor that does not hold a line management responsibility over them (ideally is external to the team). The supervisor will help the leader reflect on every aspect of their role helping them decide what needs to be kept and attended to and what can be let go of. Helping them make sense of their experience and manage their stress more appropriately.

If you are interested in discussing how this leadership supervision might work for you please get in touch.

Whether you want to give up smoking, cut back on drinking or lose weight, focusing on giving something up or denying yourself something you are attached to is unlikely to end in success.

If we set ourselves goals on moving away from something, such as smoking, or drinking too much, or reducing our weight, then invariably the strength of our desire to complete the goal diminishes the further we move away from our starting point. As our drive to complete the goal diminishes old habits start to creep back, we will sneak the odd cigarette on a night out, have a cheeky glass of wine on a Friday night, or have a favourite chocolate bar on the way home from work.

All these minor discretions in another context would be perfectly acceptable if that was part of your plan. But most of us don’t plan it that way, we decide we are going to give up and then stop doing it. This works fine at first and we feel proud of ourselves. “We can do this”… we say to ourselves, we feel empowered. Because we are not sure what our criteria of success is, we can if we are not careful convince ourselves that we are nearer to achieving our goal than we are, and we begin to lose focus, and that’s when our old well formed habits sneak in, and push our new slightly awkward and partially formed habits out of the way. This is most likely to happen when we are stressed and tired, and in need of some comfort. We will reach for those habits we rely on to give us solace and comfort, like a cigarette, glass of wine or a chocolate bar. In the short term they give us a hit of endorphins and we feel comforted. At this point we convince ourselves all is good, we have proved we can do it, and we go back to denying ourselves until the next stress point. Eventually we resign ourselves to failure and go back to our old habits. Some of us tell ourselves that it is just to hard to give up at the moment, I will try again when I am feeling stronger, and some of us tell ourselves that we can give up anytime, we just choose not too. Both are just stories we use to cover up that feel like failures, and are unable to give up.

You are not a failure

You are not a failure, you are just looking at it from the wrong angle. What is important to do before you tackle anything in your life that you want to change, is to be clear about the destination where you want to end up. Rather than concentrating on giving something up, instead you are concentrating on creating a future version of yourself.

To create a realistic future version of yourself that is not fanciful and unrealistic it is important to be very clear on what values you hold. What you value in life, what is important to you. Then examine your life now through the lens of your values. What parts of your life live up to your values, and which parts of your life don’t. Now you can start to build a picture of how you want to live your life that lives up to your values. It is vital to spend a lot of time creating a picture (by writing down how you want to live your life and what that looks like) of your future life. Once you have this vision of your future you can start creating goals to achieve that vision. I say goals because there will be more than one thing that is required to create this change.

Your overall vision is the stretch goal as it will help you stretch and grow, and the smaller goals are your performance goals. These performance goals are based on the parts of your life that do not live up to your values.

For instance my core values are usefulness and courage. I set myself a stretch goal of living a healthy life. The vision I have is being an active and supportive Grandparent. I set this stretch goal about 6 years ago, when my boys were teenagers. I want to continue to be useful as I get older, and being there for my children as they grow older and someday start their own families. So I have this image of me playing in the park with my grandchildren. To be that fun loving Grandad I will have to be healthy. I cannot guarantee that but I can increase my chances. So my first performance goal was to become a non-smoker. I set myself a start date and prepared for that day, by buying nicotine replacement gum. The day came and I threw away the cigarettes I had, and started using the gum. The cravings were challenging even with the gum, I found myself picturing my vision of the future every time I had a craving. I set myself a criteria of success, success for me was when I no longer craved a cigarette. Once the craving stopped I could call myself a non-smoker. I never gave up smoking, I chose to be a non-smoker. I then set myself a goal of running the Great North Run, and then running the Hull 10k and the Great Manchester Run, all achieved. My next goal and one that has been ongoing as it requires more work for me is losing weight. The stretch goal is still on target I am still moving towards living a healthy lifestyle and continuing being useful as I get older.

Be clear what your values are

To help you identify what your values are, ask yourself the following questions.

• What motivates me?
• What is important to me?
• What moves me into action?
• What can I not imagine being without?
• What gives me a sense of identity?
• What do I use to influence others?

Look at your life through the lens of your values?

Once you have 2 or 3 clear values, think of three occasions when you have lived up to your values. What were you doing? Why were you doing it? How did people close to you react? How did it make you feel? Then think of three occasions when you have not lived up to your values and then answer the same questions. This will give you a map of what you do in your life that is based on your values and what you do that does not live up to your values. You can use this map to create a vision of your preferred future and what you need to do to achieve this.

Create you stretch and performance goals

From your map of your value based life, create your stretch goal, which is your vision of your future life. You can put a time on it. For instance in a year’s time I want to be fit enough to be regularly running marathons. Once you have a stretch goal you can then indentify the performance goals to achieve this based on aspects of your lifestyle that do no live up to your values. By the 15th November 2022 I will be eating a low carbohydrate, nutritionally valuable diet at every meal 7 days a week. It is important to each of your performance goals are SMART (specific, measured, achievable, relevant, and timely) it is helpful to write it down in a SMT format like above and then give yourself a scale on how achievable this goal is and and how important it is in relation to your stretch goal. Do this for every performance goal you identify. It is important to remember that your life is complex and ever changing, so be prepared to add more goals, or remove and revise goals.

Once you are satisfied with the goals you have set it is now time to prioritise which goal you are going to start with.

Time to plan and take action

Now it is time to create your action plan.

• What can you possibly do to achieve this goal?
• What could you possibly need?
• Who could possibly help you?
• What barriers and pitfalls could you possibly encounter?
• What possible risks could this create?
• How could you possibly overcome barriers and pitfalls, and reduce the risks?
• What are the possible implications of achieving this goal?
• What assumptions are you making about achieving this goal?
• If you were stood with the world expert in achieving goals like this, what advice would they give?
• What is the first action you will take?
• When will you do this?
• Who is the most important person to help you?
• When are you going to ask them for their support?
• How will you ask them?
• What is the next thing, and then the next thing and so on?
• When will you check your progress?
• What will you measure?
• How will you know when you have achieved your goal?
• How will you celebrate your success?

Repeat this process for every performance goal. Prepare to be flexible and stop and start as your circumstances change or when things don’t work. Most importantly don’t do it alone. Get some support.

If this has inspired you to make a change, and you want to know more or even work with me to achieve your success please message me via the platform your are reading this on or email matt@mattycoach71.com

On 28th August 2022 my Mum died. Since that day I have felt traumatised, lost, alone, loved, grateful, angry, frustrated, sad, distraught, hopeful, most importantly uncertain. The time between her death and her funeral on 20th September feels unsettling and uncertain. I am mourning the loss of the life I had with my mum in the world and adjusting to my new life with my mum as just a memory.

I returned home a few days after her passing, after being away from my home for nearly a month, helping care for her with my sister, I was desperate to be home to surround myself with familiar sights, sounds and smells. Since I have been home however it does not feel familiar. I find myself waking in the night transported back to my mums house, and sometimes I wake not sure where I am at all. What once was comforting seems somehow distant.

I understand that this is just a period of adjustment, so to this end after a few days I arranged to access support through work. Talking about the strong emotions I was feeling to someone who is not feeling it themselves certainly helped. Hearing my words helped me make sense of what was happening. As I was speaking to my listener a metaphor came in to my head which made perfect sense, a metaphor I read in a Brene Brown book. “Talking about what troubles you, is like shining a light on the monster in your childhood bedroom and seeing it is just your dressing gown hanging on the back of your bedroom door.” It certainly felt like that, after speaking to her on Wednesday I slept much more soundly that night.

The next day Queen Elizabeth died, it was as if the rug had been pulled out underneath me. I did not expect the Queen’s passing to have such a profound effect on me. I never had a strong connection to the monarchy, I quite enjoyed the spectacle of royal occasions, but otherwise I was quite indifferent to the comings and goings of the royal family. However as a lot of commentators on the TV and in the papers have said the Queen has been an ever present in our lives. I have known nothing else other than being British and having a Queen as our head of state. Her image and title is ever present. During a time when I was going through upheaval and uncertainty, losing another ever present knocked me sideways. Now all of us felt disoriented. It seems irrational but I feel unsafe, a little lost trying to grasp on to another anchor, something to give me certainty again. I crave familiarity, but nothing feels familiar at the moment.

I was thinking about this last night in the shower. The need to see patterns in our life, to create stories about the world around us and how we fit into that world are so strong. That is why King Charles’ address to the Nation was important to reassure and provide certainty that life will carry on. Also the delicate balance between coverage of the ceremonies and traditions of state and broadcast of normal TV and radio consumption is important to create endings and familiar patterns of life are vital for people to feel socially safe and complete their stress cycle. From my perspective I have looked for a constant in my life that I can anchor myself to, and it is nothing new, it is something I have been practising for a few years now. I am not always successful at attaching myself to it, when busy looking for something to grab onto.

My anchor is me and what I value, as I reflect on the last few weeks of my mum’s life, I know I lived up to my values of courage and usefulness, and I found I could live up to them because of the love I feel for my Mum and my children. Those 3 weeks with my Mum were the most difficult weeks of my life, but the most important 3 weeks in my life. As I reflect back on those moments of tenderness with my Mum show me what my constant is, where my anchor is. My anchor is love. I show my love by being useful, through warmth and kindness. Sometimes being useful in this way requires courage to continue, but when I dig deep into that courage I strengthen the one certainty in my life.

Thank you Mum for everything! I love you to the moon and back.

Apart from Women’s Football and Commonwealth Games there is very little in our world in the moment that feels positive. The news is dominated by the cost of living crisis, war in Ukraine, climate change and child murder. When I go to work the extreme pressures on the NHS are evident, everything is much, much harder, the world seems such a terrible place. If I don’t check on myself it is very easy to go down the helpless out of control rabbit hole. We are all experiencing this, it can feel like there is no respite from bad news. Well we can find respite from all this negative input. There is a way to view the world as it truly is, which is a mixture of beauty, wonder, challenges, difficulties, love, hate. laughter and sadness. Our world is wonderful and terrible, and it is not helpful only choosing to see one aspect. It is also not helpful pushing against all the issues in the world we have no control over. There is an awful lot in our lives we can control and our energy is better spent managing them rather than attempting to problem solve our way out of situations we have no control over. Over the years I have quoted Dianne Coutu’s research into resilient organisations, I do this because it is simple and makes sense. These 3 simple steps you can take to take control of your life are based on this work. If you take these 3 simple steps you will feel more in control in these volatile and uncertain times.

Step 1: Be Realistic

The world is not set up for our convenience. Life will not always go to plan, we will experience failure, loss, illness, resistance, etc. We need to be prepared for this as well as success, happiness, love and support. It is important to have contingency plans for overcoming setbacks, and not relying on blind optimism. As well as having plans for when things go wrong, it is also important to consider you may need to change how you do things in response to events, and sometimes stopping doing certain things altogether. Knowing when to give up and cut your losses is just as important as persevering with a task. Experiencing so called negative emotions is just as vital to our lives as experiencing those so called positive emotions. A better way to look and emotions and situations we face is to frame them as helpful or unhelpful. Negative emotions and situations are not necessarily unhelpful. Ask yourself if this experience will serve you well in the future, will it help you develop and grow or will it hinder your progress.

If you are unsurprised by setbacks you will be better able to respond to them in a helpful way.

Step 2: Have a purpose

Be clear on your reason why. As Simon Sinek says, do not just concentrate on what you do, but be clear on why you do it. I find a good starting point is understanding what you value in your life, and then how you want to lead your life in relation to your values. You can do this as a family and as an individual. There are a few exercises available online to to identify your values, I also offer one to one or group coaching either face to face or online to help you discover what you value. I found defining my mission statement really helpful identifying what I value, and what my purpose is. I also offer this as a service too. If you want to know more, get in touch via my contact page.

A sense of purpose provides an anchor to prevent you drifting away from your values, when life gets challenging. It helps you make choices in your life that are fulfilling, wholehearted and meaningful.

Step 3: Be creative

Work with what you have in front of you, rather than wating for the ideal resources or circumstances to improve. We never have all we need, and if we spend our lives chasing our dream life with an abundance of resources we will never take the action to live our lives now. Creativity ensures we take action now, we stop dreaming and start living. If you don’t have the tool you think you need to complete a task, what could you possibly repurpose to fulfil the need. No doubt we have all used a butter knife as a screwdriver to change an amp in a plug, or used a chair as a stepladder to change a lightbulb. There are times when we just need to get the job done. Instead of sitting back and saying we cannot do something because we do not have all we need, we take control look around us for possible solutions to achieving the task without using the absent resources. This is an opportunity to take those thoughts and statements that hinder our progress and turn them into helpful questions that help us explore possibilities that will help our progress. Instead of saying…”we cannot do this because we don’t have the money”… we can ask…”how could we possibly get this done without spending any money?” We can then start to explore all the possibilities using the resources we have around us.

Being creative is all about taking control over what we are able to control, and even discovering that we can take control over a lot more than we first thought.

To start to take control of our lives effectively it is important to take all 3 steps. These 3 steps create an agile, purposeful and creative action oriented mindset. If you want to work with me creating this mindset for yourself and your family please get in touch with me either via the contact page on this website, messaging me via social media or via my email matt@mattycoach71.com

1. Connect to Your Story

Listen to and understand what you are telling yourself and what you are feeling. Recognise where they come from. Let them inform you, not define you.

2. Connect With What You Value

Identify your most important values. What motivates you? What moves you into action? What you cannot imagine being without? What do you use to influence others?

3. Connect to The Present

Spend a moment everyday practicing just noticing what is happening around you. Hold your thoughts and emotions lightly, let them pass without attaching yourself to them.

4. Connect to What Helps and Disconnect From What is Unhelpful

Use your thoughts and emotions as data, that can either help or hinder your journey. Choose the data that will serve you well, but don’t hold on to any of it too tightly.

5. Connect With Your Future

Make changes based on what you value using your thoughts and emotions as data to help you plan your future actions. Challenge yourself.

The title sums up how I feel at the moment. I have been consumed with helping teams write their mission statements, preparing for and delivering on our leadership programmes, talking about coaching, teaching some coaching skills and approaches, and actually coaching people.

The past month has been full on, so full on and consuming I had to look at my diary to remind myself what I had done, as I was so busy doing it took a while to recall it. I went to see Foals on Monday, it was a lovely few hours of escapism, their music is familiar, and enlivening it was just what I needed.

Work is busy as you would expect, the NHS is working at full stretch and has been for 2 years without a moment of respite. To be fair we working at full tilt before the pandemic, since then all parts of the NHS have found another gear they didn’t know existed. Everyone is working so hard and working harder and being challenged more than they ever could imagine. When I talk to teams and leaders I am astounded at how they manage to keep going, but they do. Each day they come to work though is just that little bit harder. Each day their energy is decreased. There is only so long you can work at full stretch before it becomes too much.

The problem is as everyone who works in the NHS and no doubt in other high pressure sectors and organisations, raging against the machine and being angry about our circumstances takes up more energy and adds to burn out. I here… “it’s got to be done, so lets just get on with it…” so often, people just don’t have the time or mental energy to think about anything else other than what they are doing. The problem with this is that so many of us get fixed onto the task and achieving that task is the only thing that is important. The task must be achieved at all costs, even if that is to the detriment of the bigger goal or the people connected to the task. Many of us in the heat of the moment in the endeavour to achieve forget why we are doing it. If your reason why is for the people in your community to be healthy, and be cared for when they are not, but the actions you take to achieve the tasks required, such as completing procedures within a time frame, or seeing so many people in a day, causes your workforce to become ill, or patients are discharged inappropriately. Then the tasks have become more important than your reason why. This ends up in moral bankruptcy, and damages the organisations, the people that work in them and those that receive services from them.

There might not be a light at the end of tunnel, it probably is someone bringing more work, there is not a lot we can do about that. What we can do though is remind ourselves why we do what we do, and ensure the tasks that we undertake to achieve our why don’t actually undermine it. That is why I have been working with teams helping them discover and record their mission statement, so they can remind themselves when the work is overwhelming they can remind themselves of their reason why and not get fixated on their tasks. It does not take long to identify and if used regularly can make a massive difference to how they work.

Work and life are really hard at the moment, no matter what you do. Focus on what you can control, make decisions, and changes that are aligned to your reason why. Most weeks I read my mission statement out loud to myself to remind me why I do what I do, and if what I am doing works against it, I make adjustments accordingly.

If you are interested in discovering you mission statement, drop me an email or message me via social media.

Most days we follow a routine and mindlessly complete tasks without really paying attention to them. This ability to mindlessly carry out tasks we do everyday is essential, it frees up our conscious minds to carry out other tasks like engaging in conversation, reviewing past activitities, planning future activities, or listening to information.

However we are now bombarded with information and the desire to review and plan is so strong that if we do not check ourselves we can spend all of our time either in the past ruminating and reviewing events, or in the future planning and problem solving events we predict may happen. In moderation these activities are very useful, the problem is they can prevent to action that is helpful for us. Sometimes it stops us from taking any action.

Spending at least 5 minutes a day on a mindful activity, will help us connect with our present, and allow us let our thoughts and emotions pass through, without judgement. When we do this frequently enough, we can then deploy this activity when we feel overwhelmed by our thoughts and emotions, to allow us to make sense of what is happening to us, and help us plan actions that fit our values and don’t just attempt to make us feel better and supress painful thoughts and emotions.

Now we don’t have to spend 5 minutes meditating a day to achieve this, we can use some of the mindless automatic activities that we carry out during the day to connect with our present. Below are a few examples of activities that can be used and how.

In the shower

When we have a shower we generally don’t do anything else other than wash ourselves, and overthink about what happened during our day or what is about to happen in the day ahead, depending on when you are having it. So it is a perfect time to be present.

Start by noticing the sound of the water coming out of the shower head, then hitting your body, and the surface of the shower cubicle or curtain. Then notice the sensation of the water hitting your body. Notice the temperature of the water against your body. Look at the patterns the water is making on surfaces and the steam rising from the water. Every time your mind drifts to thoughts other than what you are currently experiencing, bring yourself back to the sensations you are feeling. Do this for the duration of the shower.

Making and drinking a hot drink

I think I make a hot drink about 5 times a day, nearly everytime I do, I do it without thinking. I drink the tea or coffee without really paying attention to it too. This is an opportunity for a few moments to wrest yourself away from your thoughts and just simply put yourself in the moment.

Listen to the kettle coming to the boil, and then clicking off. Listen to the sound of the water pouring out into the cup. watch the water flow from the kettle in to the cup and mixing with the contents of the cup and changing colour. Smell the aroma of the drink, and see the steam rising from the cup. Feel the weight and temperature of the cup as you carry it back to your chair. Notice the sensation of the cup touching your lips and as the hot liquid enters your mouth. Notice the taste of the drink on your tongue, and the warming sensation as you swallow. All the time pausing as another thought enters your mind, and then go back to noticing the sensations in the present.

Checking your mobile

In moments of absent mindedness most of us pick up our phones and start scrolling, some how it feels comforting. But what is we used this activity to be mindful and connect with our present.

When you pick up your phone notice the weight of it in your hand. Notice the texture of the surface of your phone as it sits in your hand. As you activate notice the click of the button and the screen lighting up. Notice the sensation as you scroll up and down and across on the screen. Notice the gentle vibration as you click on various functions. Again each time your mind wanders bring it back to the sensations in the moment.

If you think about your daily routine, you may have more activities where you can be mindful, such as driving your car, doing exercise, and cooking to name but a few. It is important to continue to do these activities as we would normally do. Regreting, worrying and planning are normal and essential parts of our life, but we have to find balance and bring in some mindful practice, to ensure we are able to deploy this activity when things get all too much and we have to bring ourselves into the moment.

Try it for 5-10 minutes everyday, and before you know it, you will be able to do it when you need it the most.

To discuss how mindfulness combined with connecting to your values and stories can help you fulfil your potential, send me a message and we can arrange a free initial call.