3 Good Things to Move Forward When You’re At A Crossroads
Living your values, identifying your strengths and working with your emotions are essential tools for successfully navigating change and transition. These 3 Good Things are the path to find your best way forward when you’re at a crossroads.
They are the foundation of my coaching philosophy and what I rely on when I’m experiencing a chapter of change and transition in my own life.
Here’s why:
- Clarity: When you’re clear about your core values, you can use them as a compass to guide your decisions, ensuring that the path you choose aligns with what matters to you.
- Boost Confidence & Resilience: Identifying your strengths and natural talents allows you to leverage your unique abilities and build on them during periods of change, boosting your confidence and resilience.
- Stability: Working with emotions provides the stability needed to navigate the inevitable ups and downs of transitions, helping you stay focused, adaptable and at ease within yourself.
Here’s how they’ll show up in our coaching partnership…
Set Your Inner Compass: Values + Purpose + Priorities
Your core values lead the way on your path through life.
They influence every facet of your life, shaping the impact you aim to make and the environments you thrive in.
Moving Forward
Your work begins by connecting with your inner self to define your values, priorities and purpose
This will set a solid foundation for decisions that move you forward.
Why It Matters
This will help you navigate change thoughtfully and strategically. When you understand what matters most to you, you have something solid to come back to when decisions are complicated, priorities compete or the way forward isn’t obvious.
Your values also help you recognize what you want more of, what no longer fits and where you may have been making choices that work on paper but don’t work particularly well for you.
To begin, you’ll receive a Values Workbook before our first session.
Play to Your Strengths & Natural Talents
Gain a deeper appreciation of your natural patterns of excellence and unique gifts.
Work is where you can be challenged to do your best work, but not to the point of overwhelm and exhaustion.
Even if you’ve built your career on particular skills and abilities, it’s helpful to assess whether you are truly leveraging your unique strengths and gifts in a way that’s fulfilling and the right amount of challenge to grow.
In the Flow
Knowing and using your strengths and natural qualities gives you more to draw on in every part of your life and work. You’ll have more energy, flow, satisfaction and creativity, while finding new opportunities to grow and contribute in ways that feel natural to you.
There’s something genuinely life-enhancing about recognizing what you do well, understanding why it matters and making more intentional use of it.
Focus on Strengths, Not Weaknesses
We’ll acknowledge your “weaknesses” (aka areas of lesser strength), but spend more time developing your strengths identified in your CliftonStrengths assessment for career focused development, as well as personalized tools and resources for other areas of development.
Connect Your Heart & Mind for Greater Well-being
Show up in a way that allows you, and those around you, to thrive.
Your ability to work with the intricacies of your emotions is vital for your well-being.
Working With Your Emotions
This part of our coaching partnership focuses on managing stress and change, cultivating meaningful relationships, building resilience, handling conflicts, defining boundaries, and adopting habits that nurture your peace of mind.
It empowers you to understand yourself better and optimally respond to everyday situations, making use of your unique traits.
Emotional Well-being At Work
For leadership focused development, we’ll pay particular attention to how you understand and work with your own emotions and respond to the emotions of others, especially when the stakes are high, relationships are complicated or people are looking to you for direction.
We’ll use resources related to emotional agility to work on specific issues that are getting in the way of how you want to lead, work and relate to others.
Your values, strengths and emotional well-being all have something to tell you about the way forward. Together, they help you understand what matters to you, what you have to draw on and what you want more of in your life and work.
I’ll support you to make decisions that align with what you tell me matters to you most, that feel good in your heart (and your head) and maintain your lifestyle.
