See beauty

When clients come to me, they’re often feeling low, stuck and disheartened. They want positive change and they’re struggling to make it happen.

We work together to get clear on where they want to go. We design a multi-faceted plan to build hope and to focus their striving efforts. And we identify resources [both internal and external] that they can leverage as part of that strategy.

It often surprises people when I then speak about the importance of building in joy and beauty. [But what has joy and beauty got to do with developing my career/creating a business/forging networks/etc? Answer: everything].

We know that positive emotion can enhance creative thinking, which of course, is essential when designing a new approach to life and career. It also delivers an invaluable sense of perspective – bringing us out of our bubble and reminding us that we’re part of something much bigger, more expansive.

Now, friends. I’m talking here about beauty in a very broad sense: clouds shifting, music playing, hands holding, coffee pouring, words describing, kindness lifting, weather changing, smiles breaking, art uplifting, tears falling. I’m talking life, in action.

Some ideas to help you see more beauty:

• Put your phone away on the tram and just look out the window
• Kneel down and really listen to your kids
• Start an instagram account just for capturing beauty [you don’t have to share it with anyone else]
• Carry a small notebook and a pencil for ideas/words/pictures that make your brain happy
• Head into the kids’ section of the bookshop for a little while, pick up a picture book or two
• Sit in the window of a cafe and watch the world go by
• Make eye contact as you walk
• Sit on a park bench for a while, do nothing
• Have a plant beside your bed
• Look up

Evidence-based coaching that is goal-oriented and helps you achieve big things is terrific. Evidence-based coaching that gets you where you want to go and also: reconnects you with life?

Even better.

Tags: life-coaching, Melbourne