The Coach's Notes
The Coach's Notes is a personal development podcast where I share tips, ideas, knowledge, and experiences relevant to mindset and mastery and continuous improvement of self. The Coach's Notes is part of my Training and Development network.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 16 minutes
- Episodes
- 63
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2023
One old ritual and one new ritual
The next time something triggers you emotionally, do this...
I love it when you can dip back to the ancient Greeks and pull out a bit of wisdom. Speaking on emotional intelligence (of course they didn't call that back then) Aristotle had this to say about ange…
The existential landscape and the paradox of significance and emptiness
"The paradox of feeling that matters of extreme importance are occurring, whilst at the same time nothing seems to matter, is a part of the atmosphere of existential themes. Within the desert, we can…
What I'm most grateful for about being human
I spent some time out in nature reflecting on the gift of being human. It's easy to take our existence for granted. We wake up in the morning, do some stuff, then call it a day. We wake up the next d…
What patterns do you need to break?
I explore this question on the Coach's Notes today:
What do you need to unlearn or what patterns do you need to break in order to manifest the future you really want?
It's from Patricia Adson's book, …
The Egg of Being
Today's Coach's Notes is going to be a bit of a mind-bender, which often happens when you talk about spiritual growth, Self-development, consciousness, and things of that nature.
I've been getting the…
How does fear shape your limits?
Fear shapes our limits
I've read somewhere that we are born with only two fears...the fear of falling and the fear of loud noises. All other fears are learned.
And what that means to me is, if you can …
Just a thought about imperfection
Today is one of those days where my mood is as gray as the sky outside. Watching the rainfall, my mind drifts from thought to thought without rhyme or reason. I settle on the thought of imperfection …
Do you have a plan B?
I like this idea of having no plan B.
I often tell the story of Gen. Grant and the siege of Vicksburg.
Vicksburg was a strategic city on the Mississippi River during the Civil War. He who commanded Vi…
Are you a certainty junkie?
How do you tell the difference between the voice of reason and the voice of excuse?
So you know how when you have this big dream that you want to accomplish. In your heart, you want it so bad. You wan…
What do you do when you don't know what to do?
Do you know, even with a map, you can still get lost.
Even after 20 years in the game, I still have moments of doubt and feel the cold hand of despair squeezing my heart.
Fortunately, I'm prepared for…
The Social Clock Is Ticking...Are You on Track?
The sociologist Bernice Neugarten pointed out that members of society hold expectations of what people should have accomplished by certain points in their lives and if you meet these checkpoints, the…
Make a True Decision and Get On With It!
I'll spare you the new year, new me talk. This is about crafting a clear vision of what you want in 2021 and then committing to yourself to make it happen regardless of any obstacles you might face. …
The Coach's Notes 30
When in do-mode, I find it hard to make time to sit and reflect. My body gets agitated. My mind rebels and acts like a toddler, easily distracted, wandering off to chase the next shiny object. The be…
HOW TO BOOST YOUR RESILIENCE IN THE FACE OF UNCERTAINTY
In this episode of the Coach's Notes, I share 4 key questions to ask yourself when faced with uncertainty.
Stress and the Overextended Persona
In this episode, Clay and Nicola talk about the Overextended Persona in the Lumina Spark Model and how the persona relates to stress. You can watch the video version here.
Leading a Team in a Pandemic World
In this episode of the Coach's Notes, I get together with a couple of my friends, Jennifer Brown and Lynsey Weir, who are also leadership coaches, to talk about what they have been finding out in the…
Soothing Soul
The world is on fire and that's causing a lot of stress and anxiety. In today's Coach's Notes, I share an idea with you to help you relieve your stress and anxiety. As always, please pass this on to …
Resilience and Dealing with Uncertainty
In this episode, I catch with Coach Andy Chandler to talk about what it takes to be resilient and deal with uncertainty in a time of crisis.
Take what's useful, disregard the rest
For all my friends in the UK, welcome to Lockdown 2020, week number 6. I hope you had a fabulous weekend and managed to get some sun (in your back garden of course!).
This week has started off qui…