Vision coach and author, Caterina Kostoula, discusses the importance of developing a vision, overcoming mental blocks, nurturing creativity, and leading a fulfilling life. She shares personal struggles, advice for those under pressure, and her desire to impact the world positively.
Developing a vision is crucial for a fulfilling life, encompassing aspirations and a guiding system.
Addressing mental blockers and separating personal worth from work are essential for unleashing creativity and impactful living.
Deep dives
Developing a Vision: Navigating Life's Potential
Vision coach Katarina Costula discusses developing a vision as a navigational system that guides towards a fulfilling life. Vision encompasses more than future images and includes the system that leads to actualizing aspirations.
Differentiating Vision and Strategy
Katarina encourages separating vision from strategy to focus on 'what' you desire over 'how' to achieve it. Emphasizing appreciation for current positives and tuning into inner callings are vital initial steps before diving into strategic planning.
Overcoming Mental Blockers in Creation
Addressing mental blockers like fear, ego, limiting beliefs, and attachment to outdated visions is crucial for unleashing creativity. By removing these barriers, individuals can tap into their innate creativity and innovative capacities.
Balancing Inner Validation and External Feedback
Katarina advocates for separating personal worth from work and embracing feedback as input for improvement without tying it to self-esteem. Encouraging the pursuit of creativity and improvement, she emphasizes the fulfillment of creating meaningful impact over seeking validation.
Are you able to execute the vision you have for your life?
For many creating a vision is hard enough, to then take action to get closer to it can seem near impossible. But if you knew how to develop your vision from the inside out you would see that it is indeed possible.
In this episode I am joined by Caterina Kostoula, a vision coach and author. She shares what it takes to develop your vision and how to move towards it. She also shares her own obstacles she has had to overcome to achieve the vision she has for herself.
We also delve into how to nurture your sense of purpose, your grounding, your inner voice to help guide you. Far from being woo woo, this is essential if you want to lead a great life, including work, and leave a positive impact in the world around you.
“Vision is the navigational system that guides you through a fulfilling life” – Caterina Kostoula
You'll hear about:
· Caterina’s definition of vision · Knowing where to start · Getting rid of mental blocks · Life working in harmony · Internal vs external validation · Caterina’s advice for those feeling under pressure · What does Caterina struggle with? · What impact doe Caterina want to have on the world? · What does Caterina’s best day look like?
About Caterina Kostoula:
Caterina is the founder of The Leaderpath®. She is an executive coach and was previously a Global Business Leader at Google, who is now a client themselves. She also coaches leaders from Amazon, INSEAD, Vodafone, and many startups around the world.
Caterina now heads The Leaderpath®, along with a handpicked team of Leaderpath coaches, providing executive one-to-one coaching, team coaching, live programs, and courses helping business leaders choose their own path to success.
She holds an INSEAD MBA and an Executive Coaching MSc from Hult Ashridge Business School. She is accredited as a Senior Practitioner by the European Mentoring and Coaching Council.