Feeling Scattered Or Frazzled? Use This Simple Plan To Get Control Of Your Week Now!
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n previous articles we explored the benefits of life coaching, including improved mood, more healthful thought processes, better relationships, and the true fulfillment of goals. I frequently get questions asking how life coaching works. To help answer, I’ve created the following brief “DIY” coaching session for you to try on your own. It addresses a very common problem, which is a general feeling of being scattered, frazzled, and spread too thin. I wish you much success, so enjoy, and let me know how it works for you!
Clarify With the fast pace of the world, it is easy to
feel scattered, which makes it difficult to keep a big picture perspective. My clients often felt so busy attending to life’s little everyday emergen- cies that they didn’t have time to concentrate on what’s really important to them in the long term. That’s why the first step in life coaching is to Clarify. To Clarify for yourself, you first need to get
can pull it off right now; just write the ideal scenario. Have fun with it! 4. What is one thing that if you did it
every day would make you feel happier and more grounded?
Organize The next step is to Organize the ideas
quiet
inside. I suggest taking a brisk walk to clear your mind, and then finding a quite space in which to write. If you can carve this out at home, fine. If not, go to a quiet café or a bench in the park. When you feel quiet and calm, begin writing. Be brief and succinct, covering the important points of each item below.
1. What parts of your day and your life do
you enjoy most? Why? Do you have time to do them now with your schedule as it stands? 2. What parts of your life are causing you the most discomfort or distress? Why? 3. What is one goal that you really want to achieve? It’s OK if you don’t know how you
you’ve just Clarified into categories and then create a schedule that allows you to really change things!
To do this I suggest you make two simple
worksheet templates on attractive construc- tion paper, using a pencil. If you have trouble with the layout, contact me and I will send you some.
On one sheet, divide the page into 6
boxes. This is your ‘Brain Dump’ list. In each box, you are going to write a heading represen- tative of a category of responsibilities that you invest time and energy into. Include categories for your answers to the questions above, plus all your other responsibilities.
As an example, I’ll use “Susan” (a client
who gave me permission to use her work- sheets). The headings of her category boxes are:
#1: Motherhood, Relationship, Household #2: Graduate School #3: Part time job #4: Managing Finances/Bills #5: Caring for elderly parent #6: Exercise/Self
Care Go ahead and make your categories now.
Take 15 minutes to do a “Brain Dump”, writing all the To Do items that have been taking up space in your head under each appropriate category. When you’ve written all you can think of, stop — and appreciate for a minute what you just did. What was a scattered jumble of individual items in your head, or written on various post-its and notebooks, is now all contained right here on this sheet. It’s all listed neatly, and in just a handful of categories,
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