Are you an agriculture professional who wants to find more fun in your career and life? This podcast will show you how as we combined the ideas of life coaching with the world of agriculture!
What are you good at? What do you wish you were good at?Do you do things that you are not good at? It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking that you have to be good at everything. You might avoid things you are not good at. You might not take the time to become good at things you could be good at with practice. Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
What is your engagement score? So often in corporate culture, we are given engagement scores based on a set of questions to determine how things are going in our jobs. Today I want you to consider your life. How engaged are you in your life? Are you all in and putting in discretionary effort? Are you interacting in life in a way that you want to? Website:www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
How often do you hear about toxic work environments? Toxic work environments are simply workplaces where bad behavior is normal. Hence, it is easy to fall into these patterns without consciously choosing to create the environment you want to work in. Take a moment to consider how to build a healthy work environment. Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
Sometimes we hear really good ideas but they seem too much to implement sustainably in our lives. But do you think you could practice that idea just for today? Shortening the time period allows us to try things out and see if they improve our lives. What would you like to try, just for today?Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
What is your first response when things get difficult? Do you first want to run away? Do you first want to lean in? Do you first want to see if there is an easy solution? We all respond to difficult things in different ways. Often if we tend to run away we need help to learn to work through the difficulty so it isn't prolonged. Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
Sometimes change is really easy. We simply adjust to the new circumstances and let the old patterns go. Other times change is very hard, the rewiring of our brains to a new situation takes longer and is more difficult than we expected. To help our brains make these adjustments we sometimes need to slow down a little and find stillness. That stillness gives us time. Try to find a little time for stillness this week. Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
What are your expectations of yourself or others? How do those expectations affect your relationships? If we could drop a few expectations and fill that space with appreciation how would that change your life?Maybe give it a try this week.Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
Human incarnation. Have you ever really thought about being grateful for human incarnation? Grateful you are a human right now. Grateful you get to be alive. Grateful you get to have the experiences that humans have right now. Find a little time this week to be grateful you are a human, right here, right now. Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
Gratitude has power to change our futures. Now can we be grateful for the future that we will have ahead of time. Take some time this week to be grateful for the things, experiences, and lifestyle that you don't have yet. Being grateful always brings more things to be grateful for into our lives. Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
We are surrounded by humans. In our homes, our work places, our recreation centers and just walking down the street. Who in your life are you grateful for? Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
Who are you? What are all the little things that makeup who you are? How do you feel about all those little things? Can you find gratitude for who you are? Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
What lessons have you learned? Lessons come with good experiences. Lessons come with bad experiences. We are always learning. What lessons are you grateful for? Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
What are you grateful for? So often it is the little things but have you ever considered being thankful for the things that didn't happen or didn't work out? Sometimes when all the dust has settled and we look back this is easy. We can see that one thing didn't work out but it put us in the perfect position to welcome something even better into our lives. But can you find gratitude in the moment - when you still don't have the thing you really wanted or things are not quite resolved? This is your challenge this week - can you find some gratitude for things that didn't happen or didn't work out? Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
Focusing this week on the things that have happened in our lives and finding the energy of gratitude for them can allow us to enhance the good in our lives and recognize some ways our challenges have allowed for shifts or learning. What things have happened in your life that you are grateful for? Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
At the end of the year, I often like to revisit the topic of gratitude. Gratitude is an energy we can use to shift things, add to things, or help us enjoy things more. Though it's easy to say to ourselves that we should be grateful, I don't think gratitude needs to be a "should" in our lives. All emotions that we feel have a place to exist in our lives and gratitude is something we can practice when we are in any situation. We can feel sadness and have things we are genuinely grateful for too. Practice with me this week by simply acknowledging things that you are grateful for that you have. Website:www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
How often do we take things that are not ours? Usually, we are pretty good at not taking other people's things but sometimes we can struggle not to take on others' opinions, emotions, and emotional work. Where could you be taking things that are not yours? Website:www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
How we grow and manage our employees affects their well-being and the well-being of our business. This week we discuss paying employees more than we have to and not dragging our feet about taking care of things that need to be addressed. These two things combined with the ideas from the last two episodes will help you manage employees better. Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
How do we best grow in a position? One way is through adjusting to the feedback we receive from managers, coworkers, and clients. How can we give more feedback to our employees? How do we get good at giving feedback? It's often quite simple - we practice and we give feedback regularly. Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
How do you grow and manage employees? We all need the help of good people in our companies. We need to be able to tell people what tasks are important and then share our expectations for how those tasks are done. These two simple things help employees perform better and help our business have the things done that are important. Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
Any tool that we can utilize to make better decisions is worth considering. This week we discuss: the accountable person, addressing the disease not the symptoms, making decisions close to the action, and using prayer or stillness. Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
What can we do to help ourselves make better decisions? One decision often impacts other decisions so if we can get in the habit of identifying the catalysts decision and making that decision we can start the process of getting results from the decisions that we make. Using tools like looking at the holistic problem or a SWOT analysis we can gain perspective and reduce the risks of larger decisions. Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
What are things we can do to make better decisions or have better outcomes from our decisions? A few things to try this week are to make decisions with confidence, make timely decisions, and to communicate your decisions well. Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
Have you ever visited an old cathedral and been in awe of the building, who built it, and how they did it? Many individuals who dreamed up cathedrals or worked on their construction never saw them finished or enjoyed them. Why do you think they kept working on them? Part of the reason is cathedral thinking which is simply the thinking behind long-term projects we work on to benefit future generations. How could cathedral thinking help you? Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
What wants your attention? How do you know that it needs attention? How does it respond when you give the attention needed? We can't give attention to everything but our lives can be so much better when we give attention to the things that are needed. Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
Are you open to others' comments? So often we will say that we are open to comments and we will request feedback but then our behavior makes it so emotionally expensive to others that they are unwilling to share. Taking the time to consider the emotional cost of our reactions can help us create communication climates where communication is open. Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
What are limiting beliefs? When we take the time to become aware of the way we view the world and how it feels to view the world in that way we will uncover our limiting beliefs. The thoughts that cause us to feel constriction will often be the beliefs that are limiting our lives. Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
The S-curve of learning is one thing that we can use to help us understand disruption. When we decide to disrupt a typical pattern, we jump on to a new S-curve, and if we stick with it, we will go through each stage of inexperience, engagement, and mastery. What S-curve do you want to be on? Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
How often do you look at the things that are not working in your life? How often do you attempt to transform them into something that is working? How often do you evaluate that transformation attempt? This is the work of a friction audit, finding the things that are not working and figuring out ways to change them into something that is working. Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
Have you ever accomplished a big goal and then felt so let down afterward? How did you feel about setting goals in the future? It's easy to focus all of our energy on one goal; we often need to do that to accomplish big things. But what can we do so we still feel motivated afterward? One option is to write our goals as master narratives or lifestyle visions and see what we can accomplish from that perspective. Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
Consistency really matters - it creates really good or really bad results but either way, it creates results. What do you want to be more consistent with this week? Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
Empathy. Understanding how someone else feels. Believing that they feel that way. Respecting their experience might be different from ours. Learning empathy is an incredible skill. It expands our understanding of experience and helps build trust. Where can you be more empathetic this week? Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
How do you build trust? What are the things that contribute to more trusting relationships? One of the main elements of trust is transparency. When things are clear, easy to see, and unambiguous it is easier to have trust in them. How can we be more transparent to build more trusting relationships? Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
Where do you have empty space in your life? Is there empty time in your calendar? Is there any empty drawer in your kitchen? Is there an empty shelf in your garage? We often have the tendency to fill space but could we find a way to value empty space? Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
We all see others react differently to situations. These reactions on often fueled by what each person is thinking or saying to themselves about each situation. Think about how you react to situations. What are the things that you need to hear to be able to respond to that situation? Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
What can we do when we find ourselves drawn toward suboptimal choices? Following some research on pigeons, we might consider choosing to do harder things, spend time outside, be more active, and eat natural food to help us be less drawn to ward these behaviors. Let's give it a try! Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
Feedback. Do you get it? Do you want it? Do you give it? How is it received? We can all improve how we give and receive feedback. Doing a little work on ourselves before and after we receive tough feedback can help us bounce back and adjust as needed to make the most of that feedback. Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
It's so easy to look back at who we were in the past and be critical or unkind but we have the option to write a story where we are kind to our past selves and they are kind to us. The same is true when we think of who we will be in the future. Think about having a conversation with your future self. What do you think they would say to you? Would it be words of criticism or encouragement? Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
We will often have experiences when we dream up big things and others tell us we cannot accomplish them. It's a big reason many of us never try to accomplish them. We sometimes even tell others that they cannot accomplish their dreams. Maybe it's fear, maybe it is a lack of capacity, and maybe it is true knowledge but what ever the reason I think we need to consider the things we have been told we cannot do. And maybe we need to start taking steps to accomplish those things. Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
Have you ever made a positive change in your life and it felt like your whole world fell apart? This is what positive disintegration feels like. We make changes that are positive but it takes a while for our brains and lives to catch up. And in that lag time, it feels horrible. Our brains need time to adjust to knew knowledge that we receive. Time to let those old mental patters break down and time for new mental patterns to build around the new knowledge. When you are going through changes or learning new things give yourself time for this process. Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
What is play? What is work? What is play work? There are so many things that we do at work, for a break, for down time, for distraction, or to just feel busy. But when we do those things we are not always accomplishing the things that need to be completed. These play work tasks still exhaust us and they still take time but they don't accomplish the things that we need to get done. When we can switch in to play to provide an energetic boost and result work to get things done, magic can happen. Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
Feeling like we belong at work is so important. It allows us to get more done and to be happier. Finding ways to feel like we belong can be a struggle in some workplaces. If we can take the time to consider the stories we tell ourselves about our work, coworkers, and the company we work for, we can choose stories that create actions that allow us to build belonging. Another important aspect is to be social at work. If we can find time to connect with others we will often find that we have so much in common. Practice seeking out more belonging at work this week. Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
It's fun to watch people work who feel their job is a calling. They seem to be able to go the extra mile effortlessly. If we want to be happier at work maybe we can learn a thing or two from them. What are the things you love doing at work? Is there a way for you to be able to do more of those things? The experiments that we run based on the answer to these questions are how we can all craft our jobs into callings. Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
Self-compassion is characterized by 3 parts - mindfulness, common humanity, and kindness. Can we notice our experiences and our feelings and then be willing to be in that experience or feeling? Can we see that mistakes, failure, and imperfection are part of the human experience? Can we be kind to ourselves? Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
What is your definition of productivity? Is it filled with tasks, minimum inputs and maximum outputs, busyness, and often rushed? Or do you feel like productivity is defined by calmness, completion, planning, and support? How we define productivity can affect how we feel at work. Rethinking productivity allows us to create the workplace we want. Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
We all want to be happy at work but sometimes work can be a struggle. We know that we will experience some negative emotion at work and we should. How will use that negative emotion? In this episode we explore the practice of RAIN for helping ourselves use negative emotions better. Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
Have you ever tried to run new software on a really old computer? Can you imagine running software that you use today on the computer that you used in junior high? For new software to run well, we have to upgrade our hardware. The same works for our life. If we think about hardware as the systems in our lives - our time management system, our planning system, or our mindset. If we take on new tasks or new opportunities and haven't upgraded our hardware sometimes things will not run well. What do you need to upgrade today? Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
So often the way we think has built an invisible fence around the life that we have - keeping the things in that support that same way of being and keeping things out that would change it. Sometimes we have the right invisible fences in place and sometimes we need to change out our invisible fences. Take some time to discover the way your invisible fences are keeping you stuck and training new invisible fences to have the life you want.
Sand - it's simple and yet doesn't grow plants well. Dirt - it's complex and supports so much growth. Situations in our lives can be like sand or they can be like dirt. We often wish for simple straight forward situations but they don't support growth the way a complicated situation can. How can you find a little more acceptance for the growth promoting situations in your life? Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
What are ways we could live into our bucket lists more? We often will only put big things on our bucket lists but consider the idea of creating a little things bucket list. A list of your favorite moments that you would love to live over and over a again and then taking the time to create opportunity to do so. Our bucket lists can also limit our dreams to only the things on the list so leaving some empty space can create opportunity for the magic that we haven't been able to dream up yet. Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
It's interesting to see how different animals interact with the world around them and then see what wisdom we can apply to ourselves. I had an opportunity to attend a horse wisdom group therapy session and this episode is just a few of my observations and lessons learned. Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
Why do you do things the way you do them? Is it because it's just always been done that way? Sometimes it's good for us to question the things that we do and the way that we do them. I was recently inspired by some dairy farmers who were running their farms differently than what would be considered the industry norm. What things do you need to do differently? Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com
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