#1.45.Q&A Work:Life Balance – the great divide!
06/02/20 • 25 min
Today, let’s unpack two big questions for our happiness and success - The great Work:Life Divide: what is the debate really about? AND Work:Life Balance: does it even exist & do we want it?
In considering the Work:Life distinction, we look into current Workers’ Rights, including hours of work, flexi-time, Menopause policies and #TheRightToDisconnect. We draw some further insights from the Happiness Parenting Gap study and what we’re experiencing now through the Covid-19 pandemic as we all learn to #WorkFromHome.
By exploring these blurring boundaries and spillage as we chase high engagement productivity levels, we ask ourselves if Stanford University’s Ideal Worker archetype is even useful to us, especially in light of learnings from Jon Kabat-Zinn’s ground-breaking Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Programme.
Then, we dive into Work:Life Balance – does it even exist & do we want it? We look at balance in light of our mother’s kitchen scales & smooth-running Wheels of Life and how such useful coaching concepts can become instruments of our own torture!
We get to decide now if we really want to continue to buy into the Superwoman Complex or if there’s a better role model for you now in Midlife – especially with so many great woman leading the world today.
In our self-coaching we can ask ourselves more about what we want in our Midlife, how do we want to live inside, inside our heads and hearts, how do we want to show up in the world, how do we want to lead?
Perhaps we might want instead your own version of Artisanal Unbalance or something hilariously outrageous as poet Jenny Joseph describes in “Warning”?
"May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!"
All free Coaching Tools - https://happiness-matters.coach/free/
Subscribe to Julia's blog
Learn more at http://www.happiness-matters.coach or start coaching with us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/HappinessMattersCoach/
Today, let’s unpack two big questions for our happiness and success - The great Work:Life Divide: what is the debate really about? AND Work:Life Balance: does it even exist & do we want it?
In considering the Work:Life distinction, we look into current Workers’ Rights, including hours of work, flexi-time, Menopause policies and #TheRightToDisconnect. We draw some further insights from the Happiness Parenting Gap study and what we’re experiencing now through the Covid-19 pandemic as we all learn to #WorkFromHome.
By exploring these blurring boundaries and spillage as we chase high engagement productivity levels, we ask ourselves if Stanford University’s Ideal Worker archetype is even useful to us, especially in light of learnings from Jon Kabat-Zinn’s ground-breaking Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Programme.
Then, we dive into Work:Life Balance – does it even exist & do we want it? We look at balance in light of our mother’s kitchen scales & smooth-running Wheels of Life and how such useful coaching concepts can become instruments of our own torture!
We get to decide now if we really want to continue to buy into the Superwoman Complex or if there’s a better role model for you now in Midlife – especially with so many great woman leading the world today.
In our self-coaching we can ask ourselves more about what we want in our Midlife, how do we want to live inside, inside our heads and hearts, how do we want to show up in the world, how do we want to lead?
Perhaps we might want instead your own version of Artisanal Unbalance or something hilariously outrageous as poet Jenny Joseph describes in “Warning”?
"May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!"
All free Coaching Tools - https://happiness-matters.coach/free/
Subscribe to Julia's blog
Learn more at http://www.happiness-matters.coach or start coaching with us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/HappinessMattersCoach/
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#1.44.Q&A: Meditation tips, Habit hacks & EQ shame
Join coach Julia Seal to find out answers to your questions on Emotional Immaturity, Meditation and Habit Hacks.
Firstly, we look at coaching our EQ and examine some of your questions on Emotional Immaturity. I explain why having pockets of being an Emotional Child is so normal and nothing to be ashamed of, even if you’re a successful professional woman!
We revisit what’s actually going on in our brains when we’re being an emotional child > Reacting like a petulant brat rather than Responding intentionally and purposefully, like an Emotional Adult. We also take a look at Emotional Responsibility and what that might mean for you. Then, consider why self-criticism completely halts your growth and development and download the tools to move beyond self-judgment and your Inner Critic.
Then, we talk about how to easily start a Meditation or Sitting/Breathing Practice, using Julia’s easy-to-use free coaching tools.
Then, Julia shares some ideas from her own life and her clients on how to remind yourself to coach yourself every day, how to make new habit formation easy. There are 5 hacks to set up a reminder system and get organised – on Paperclip Day (yes, really!) as well as ideas on how to use Intentional Reminders: Red Flags and Positive Intentions.
And lastly, a reminder what it means to “experiment on yourself” with all these coaching tools and tips!
"May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!"
All free Coaching Tools - https://happiness-matters.coach/free/
Subscribe to Julia's blog
Learn more at http://www.happiness-matters.coach or start coaching with us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/HappinessMattersCoach/
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#1.46 - Is your past sabotaging your happiness & success?
We take a deep dive into one of our biggest influences on our current Happiness and our future Success – our Past!
How is your PAST influencing your Happiness & Success in Midlife? Are you using it FOR you or AGAINST you? Are you going through your day with regret, bitterness, sadness about things that have happened to you – do you find yourself wishing things were different or that you “should have done...”?
You might well be sabotaging your own Happiness and Success right now – and your Future, without you even realising it!
Julia revisits our Coaching Tool – the Snakes & Ladders Gameboard to helps you to uncover how your past thinking is affecting your future. We use it to uncover all kinds of things that might be holding us back – our beliefs about happiness and success, all the thoughts we have about our life and how well we’ve lived our lives as well as those inner belief system about ourselves!
Explore 3 unusual ways to think about your Past that might help you unlock some immediate Happiness right now – we use Divorce and Retrenchment in Midlife to illustrate this perspective, along with musicians Led Zeppelin, LL Cool J, Alicia Keys, Lady Gaga & Bruce Springsteen!
Then, we apply 3 coaching tips to turn your Past into a powerful tool for your future – 3 steps to take to unlock your Happiness and Success, to put your past behind you and to setup your Past to fuel your Future.
"May you be Happy, May you be Free - there is no better time to coach together!"
All free Coaching Tools - https://happiness-matters.coach/free/
Subscribe to Julia's blog
Learn more at http://www.happiness-matters.coach or start coaching with us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/HappinessMattersCoach/
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