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Don’t Be Afraid of Starting a Life Coaching Business. It’s An Amazing Experience!

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Life Coaching, Private Practice Advice.

Have you toyed with the idea of becoming a life coach, but starting a life coaching business sounds too hard? Follow my journey, it’s one step at a time.“There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long-range risks of comfortable inaction.” ~ John F. Kennedy

A few years ago, I made a decision that has changed my life and given me so many unexpected benefits. I’ve always been fascinated with the positivity and forward-thinking stance of Life Coaching. So, in 2013, I decided that starting a life coaching business was right for me! I changed my branding, read books and took online courses to get up to speed with this growing field and to feel more confident and competent.

At times, I would feel discouraged and my own inner critic would creep in with statements like: “You were doing just fine, why did you have to go and change things?” Well, that was just fear of the unknown. And no, I wasn’t doing fine, I wasn’t fulfilled anymore. I was just afraid of making the change. 

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Agile Learning — Fuel Your Growth and Self-Leadership

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Self-Leadership Skills.

Agile learning enables you to quickly pick out what’s important, so you can apply and remember it, in a way that helps you thrive in any situation.What does learning mean to you? Over time, I’ve seen that learning means different things to different people. There are those who memorize just enough to get by and then they promptly forget what they’ve “learned”… Other people dive into a subject and get so bogged down in the details they can’t figure out how to use the information. However, those of us who are committed to self-leadership, have learned the secret of agile learning. 

What if I could walk you through a way of learning that enables you to quickly pick out what’s important, so you can apply and remember it, in a way that will benefit you for your whole life?

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How to Set Mindful Intentions — Make Your Goals Successful and Achievable

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Life Skills, Mindfulness, Self-Leadership Skills.

Setting goals isn’t as effective as learning how to set mindful intentions that help you tune into your innate superpowers for guaranteed success!We all know that every year people set goals, yet relatively few of them actually make significant changes in their lives. Why is that? I’ll let you in on a secret…when you’re setting goals you’re not fully engaging your power. Learning how to set mindful intentions instead allows you to tune into your innate superpower! And here are the reasons why I say that…

Goal setting is often based on a negative premise…”I’m not skinny enough,” “I’m not rich enough,” or “I’m not organized enough”. Do you see how each of these thoughts tells you that you’re “not enough”? How could something that says you’re a failure result in anything good? It just can’t.

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Need More Emotional Resilience? Try These 7 Proven Ways to More Psychological Flexibility!

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Emotional Intelligence, Self-Leadership Skills.

Developing emotional resilience teaches you how to welcome and benefit from painful emotions and here are seven ways to more emotional resilience. “Be flexible but stick to your principles.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Have you ever made a decision that’s out of harmony with your values? It makes you feel terrible, doesn’t it? Yet even when we hold to our values, our emotions may leave us with mixed feelings that can be quite unpleasant. You’d think that if your decisions honor your values they’d always leave you with happy, good feelings, right? Why don’t they? And how can developing more emotional resilience help you cope?

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Never Enough Time? How to Master Time and Feel in Control!

Written by Maria Connolly. Posted in Mindfulness, Self-Leadership Skills.

If you feel there’s never enough time and you’re pulled in a million different directions, alter your relationship with time and regain control.“Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!” ~ Anthony Robbins

“There’s never enough time…” This may be what we say when we know we need to do something and we really don’t want to make the time for it. It may be losing weight, learning a new skill, or visiting with a loved one. At this point, your relationship with time may not be the real issue. It may be that a part of you is struggling with another part of you. 

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