#152: Coach Yourself to Goal Success with Two Questions
Aug 8, 2022
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Blake Stratton, a skilled coach and motivational speaker, joins the conversation to share insights on self-coaching and achieving personal goals. He introduces two pivotal questions that can transform your goal-setting process. The discussion highlights the importance of reflection, emphasizing how understanding past successes and failures can inform your future. Additionally, the trio offers practical tips for tackling new skills, like learning a musical instrument, making the journey engaging and manageable. Tune in for transformative strategies!
Self-coaching involves reflecting on past experiences by critically analyzing what worked and what didn't, fostering personal accountability for future goals.
Incorporating proactive planning with reflection helps individuals identify necessary changes and adapt strategies to achieve long-term success.
Deep dives
Introduction to the Full Focus Wellness Planner
The Full Focus Wellness Planner is designed to enhance self-care and overall well-being while maintaining essential planning features. Users can not only track traditional goals like daily and weekly priorities, but also monitor aspects of their health, including sleep, nutrition, movement, and hydration. This planner incorporates unique tools such as a self-care planner, heart check, and vision sketch to facilitate a comprehensive approach to wellness. The community feedback has been overwhelmingly positive, indicating its effectiveness in helping users prioritize their health alongside their productivity.
Coaching Yourself for Success
In exploring the concept of self-coaching, two fundamental questions assist individuals in reflecting on their past experiences—what worked and what didn't. These questions encourage objective analysis of past actions, promoting learning and growth while reducing emotional reactions that can cloud judgment. By stepping back to assess what has been effective or ineffective, individuals can harness insights that guide future actions rather than repeating the same mistakes. Implementing this method fosters personal accountability and empowers listeners to take charge of their progress towards achieving goals.
Applying Reflection to Future Growth
The process of reflection is complemented by the second question, which focuses on what one will continue to do and what needs to change moving forward. This structured approach encourages individuals to not only review past actions but also effectively plan for improvement in future endeavors. For example, identifying areas where traditional systems may no longer be sufficient can lead to the establishment of new project management strategies that align with evolving needs. By integrating reflection and proactive planning, individuals are better equipped to set themselves up for long-term success.
Blake stops by to talk with Verbs and Courtney about how two simple questions can help you reach your goals.
Coaching is so valuable because it allows you to get an outside perspective on what's happening in your life. While having a coach is always a good idea, what if you could coach yourself? What if you could set aside the emotions that keep us from accomplishing our goals? The questions that Courtney, Verbs, and Blake discuss this week are simple (and they're only a start), but if you commit just a little time to thinking deeply about them, then you'll get back on track to success.
Also, the crew tackles a question from the community about how to develop a new musical skill.
To watch this episode online, visit https://youtu.be/M70cLKoE0zY.
In this episode, you will:
Learn how the Weekly Preview fits into your new self-coaching mindset
Explore the role that emotions play in keeping us from properly reflecting
Learn how to harness experience for future success
Hear about why pink cups are superior to any other colored cup (according to some)