Episodes 141-150

 Episode 150 is here!  Another #truthseekers milestone.  To celebrate, we coaches discuss perhaps our most powerful tool in our toolbox:  our FOCUS.  You can’t be grateful and mad… you can’t be 2 things at once.  So what does that say about how powerful our attention is?  It’s been said that our limitations can be summed into 2 things.  Either:   1. Weakness of attention or 2. Poverty of imagination  So how can we work on our focus (aka our attention)?  Tune in to hear the discussion! 

 Change with the change, or create your own change.  Do you achieve so that you may live comfortably?  Is there a point in time you’re trying to get to?  A certain monetary goal you’ve set for yourself?  A certain place where you feel you can rest once you arrive?  What happens when you arrive?  What next?  We explore this concept on this week’s episode! 

 When I feel my best, what actually am I doing?!  You could make the argument that every emotion is always present, always accessible.  One minute you could feel bliss, and the next moment extreme frustration.  So what makes us feel specific emotions in a given moment?                                                                   Perhaps we feel the emotions that we practice the most!  It’s the old adage, what you focus on is what you get.  So which ones are you practicing feeling?  Are you preparing the correct ways for the emotions you want to feel?  Today’s conversation is for those seeking a new perspective when analyzing their emotions.  Enjoy – 

 When things don’t seem to go your way, what do you do?  Is there such a thing as toxic positivity?  Do you pretend that things are ok?  We felt it was important to reflect on these questions.  These are the crucial moments that make or break how people deal with “non-ideal” circumstances in their lives.  And let’s not forget about Coach Nick’s 3 Levels of Energy and the role they play when we think about our days:  1. Rest 2. Reflection 3. Execution  Everything starts with being honest with oneself.  This episode explores how to do that.  Feel free to leave a comment to share your own methods of self-reflection! 

 We are getting closer to another #truthseekers milestone… episode #150!   I am reminded of a passage from Prentice Mulford’s “Thoughts are Things”, originally published in 1889.  "If but 2 people were to meet at regular intervals and talk of health, strength and vigor of body and mind, at the same time opening their minds to receive of the Supreme the best idea as to the ways and meanings for securing these blessings, they would attract to them a thought current of such idea.    If these 2 people or more kept up these conversations on these subjects at a regular time and place, and found pleasure in such communings, and they were not forced or stilted; if they could carry them on without controversy, and enter into them without preconceived idea, and not allow any shade of tattle or tale-bearing, or censure of others to drift into their talk, they would be astonished at the year's end at the beneficial results to mind and body.    Because in so doing and coming together with a silent demand of the Supreme to get the best idea, they would attract to them a current of life-giving force." 

 Is it work/life BALANCE or is it work/life INTEGRATION?  Might the secret to happiness be hiding work in your play, and vice versa?  You might think you are limited in your ability to tap into this principal.  If that feels like you, we invite you to watch this episode.  Enjoy! 

We can think of living our lives in 3 different pillars.

At any given time, we are living primarily in 1 of these 3 pillars – execution (results), rest (recovery), reflection (improvements) – and whatever our experience is at a current moment is setting up the next pillar we will inevitably enter into.

We are always seeking equilibrium.  Too much in 1 pillar and we naturally seek another.

Remember, as we discuss in this week’s episode, the more focused and precise you are, the biggest impact you can have.

So let’s think about how that can be made possible with the frame of execution, rest, and reflection.

 We wander into and out of feeling great.  What are some secrets to feeling great?    How simple can we make it?   Where does fun come into play in our daily lives?  Check out this week’s Coach’s Corner as we reduce it to the ridiculous! 

 What even is the shadow?!  We’ll get into that in our conversation, but first, who is Will Sparks?   Will is a Professor and Chair of Leadership in the McColl School of Business at Queens University at Charlotte, NC.  He has taught there 22 years and his background and degrees are in Organizational Psychology.   Will has been involved extensively in shadow work, heavily influenced by the famous Carl Jung, and attributes a lot of his approach in leader/team/organizational development and executive coaching to accounting for, and appreciating, the power of the shadow.  You can find more about Will at the following locations:  Professional Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-s...  Business Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/company/1803...  Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/william.spar...  Business Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/drwillsparks  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wsparkssc/  Business Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr_will_spa...  Twitter: https://twitter.com/drwillsparks 

 The power of learning!   As a Talent Development Consultant, ERIKA WEED works with organizations to find efficiencies that make their talent happier and more successful.   As an Executive Leadership Coach, ERIKA supports my clients in their work to learn about themselves. As a facilitator, I support groups as they learn about how to function together.   And as a doctoral candidate, ERIKA is working to better understand the truth about leadership, effectiveness, and achieving goals.   Her goal is to create a more inclusive model of leadership, in order to better understand the most effective leadership characteristics in the context of real organizations, as well as how to more fully integrate healthy work and life styles.