This episode is a follow-up to last week’s episode on improving your relationships. Everyone struggles with relationships at times, be they romantic, familial, friendship, or work. If you’re not happy with a relationship but you don’t want to leave it, what can you do?
In this episode, you’ll learn about another relationship concept: manuals. Listen in to learn what they are, how they can cause problems, and what you can do to prevent problems.
Everyone struggles with challenging relationships at times, be they romantic, familial, friend, or work. If you’re not happy with a relationship but you don’t want to leave it, what can you do? In this episode, you’ll learn three concepts that can help you shift your perspective and improve any kind of relationship – even if the other person doesn’t change. You’ll also hear an important additional suggestion and caveat about improving relationships.
Cognitive flexibility has a big impact on your emotional health and wellness. It directly impacts your creativity, resilience, and quality of life; and the more cognitively flexible you are, the better able you are to respond to changes in your environment. If you want to be more cognitively flexible, what can you do? Listen in to learn how using The Model can help you increase cognitive flexibility and to hear ideas, examples, and questions that will help you stretch your thinking and challenge unhelpful beliefs.
In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, I’m dedicating this episode of the podcast to a coaching tool known as The Model. This tool helped me improve my mental health and learn to better manage my brain. Can it do the same for you? Listen in to learn the relationship between your thoughts and your results and how The Model can help with any problem or goal.
Most people struggle with difficult coworkers at some point in their career. What can you do when the conflict or tension undermines your ability to do your job or negatively impacts your mental state? Listen in to hear mindset ideas that can help you reframe your thinking about your coworkers and a five-step process to resolve a conflict.
Everyone experiences challenges in life. Some of these challenges are of our own choosing and some are not. Regardless of the source, what can we do to make these easier to handle?
In this episode you’ll learn a strategy I call “choosing your hard.” This strategy can help you reframe how you think about challenges so they’re easier to handle and you’re better able to persevere through them. Listen in to hear how to apply the strategy and how it can help you increase your capacity to make decisions, get things done, accomplish goals, and get through difficult situations.