Spotlight on Coaching: Discovery helps create clarity
Step 1 & 2: Reflect and Plan
Discover new insights for heart, mind, and spirit.
Reflect, plan, and act in a continuous cycle to understand yourself, navigate your life journey confidently, and influence your path forward.
Tools you can use for reflection:
Journaling with or without journaling questions
Talking with an accountability partner
Doing different assessments that speak to you – I can give you some starting points!
Tools for planning:
Creating a one-page plan with goals
Creating a project charter
Creating a SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-Bound) plan for the next week or two
Tools for action:
Schedule time to work on action items
Break the work up into smaller time frames - 15 minutes, 30 minutes, or one hour
Use skills from other areas of your life
Gain insight into your motivations, connect them with a routine in your life, reward yourself, and establish a positive emotional memory.
To keep and build momentum, use a check-in process
These tools foster intentionality, reflection, and prioritization, helping us navigate the interplay of the various aspects of our lives . Gratitude, reflection, and acceptance can help us realize when our expectations, rather than our actions, lead to dissatisfaction.
At times, we may have ideas but lack clear pathways, resulting in under-focus and stagnation. In such cases, taking a the first few steps forward, even without a clearly defined pathway, helps us move forward.
The reflection-planning-action cycle propels us forward by building on our current situations. A one-hour reflection and planning session every two weeks, a key ingredient of the six-month coaching program, is highly beneficial. These sessions usually include the three aspects of the cycle and occasionally focus on something more specific to facilitate progress.
If you’re going through a transition or want to create a transition, let’s connect!
Join one or more of my free webinars
Email me at Marcia.Bertschi@gmail.com to set up a free consultation
Or simply sit down and give yourself space to understand what’s going on for you …
