Mindset for Life

In today's podcast, gain insight about the complexity of emotions, how to identify and feel your emotions, and how to use emotions in decision-making. Many of us believe that emotions make things less clear. It’s this idea that facts speak for themselves, but emotions are much more subjective. In fact, when we feel difficult emotions about a relationship, a situation, or a decision to be made, it’...

This week, on the Mindset for Life Podcast, we look at how you can reach your goals by confronting three things that keep you from goal success. Have you ever considered making New Year’s resolutions? Have you set goals at the beginning of each year? If you want to make a change in your life, big or small, the new year seems a clean way to do it. The calendar changes, and it seems that we have a f...

If you've ever felt that you're defending yourself, pushing, and resisting things that come your way, it's time to think about a mindset to create. In today's podcast, you'll learn about how we actually create much or our experience.

In today's podcast, we'll look at a fun fall activity: the Linder Farms Corn Maze., a great metaphor for navigating life and managing difficult relationships.  

We are all excellent storytellers. We have the power within us to interpret, explain, analyze, and clarify things that happen in our lives. This power can be used to strengthen us and open possibilities. Our storytelling can connect us to other people. Or, we can use storytelling to justify, excuse, diminish, and victimize. It's amazing to consider our own storytelling abilities and what they brin...

In today's Mindset for Life Podcast, we'll explore how to wake up happy. You can wake up happier and motivated, wake up energized, and wake up and feel positive about the day. Do you ever wake up feeling bad? Perhaps you have inflammation in your face or body? Or you feel disgruntled, and it stays with you throughout the day? If you have these experiences, chances are that you would like to feel b...

#47: A Self-Coaching MindsetWelcome to the Mind Set For Life podcast. This is Bethanie your coach from DrBCoach.com. Coaching with power, purpose, and practical tools to help you show up with confidence. Welcome to the podcast. Thank you for joining me today. I'm very excited to talk to you about a self coaching mindset. Last week, we talked about a coaching mindset. Some of the key points I broug...

If you have ever faced a big challenge, you're already aware; it is critical to know how to get clarity. How It Feels to Have a Big Challenge It hurts to face a big challenge and have no idea how to resolve it. It's painful, frustrating, and raw. If you're facing a big challenge you have never faced before, there's this conversation that might go on in your mind. On the one hand, you might think t...

  This is episode 43, Storytelling About the Past. Have you ever told a story about the past? Or, maybe someone in your family told it about you? And in that story, you did something silly, or odd, or embarrassing? When that story is told, it's just another reminder of our weakness or frailty. Or, maybe about our mistakes. And the brain, which likes to draw conclusions quickly to save its energy,...

  Today’s podcast is about simplifying. Have you heard of “minimalism?” It’s the idea that we don’t really need everything we have in our lives. It could be material possessions. Or activities. Events we plan to attend.

Have a Mindset to Advocate for yourself, or in other Words,  “Toot Your Own Horn” Have you ever wondered how to advocate for your best traits, or "toot your own horn?" Sharing what you're good at takes a courageous, confident mindset. I’ve coached a lot of individuals from all walks of life and career areas who wanted more confidence. That isn’t what they said when they asked to be coached. But it...

When we take time to reflect, we create innovative solutions. We attack urgent tasks more aligned to our values and purpose. And, we balance fast, spontaneous thinking with slow, deliberate thoughts. In today's podcast, you'll learn why reflection is a good thing. What Happens When We Don't Take Time to Reflect? And, when we don't take time to reflect, it has a big impact. We slow down. We're less...

Did you know that self-awareness is a mindset? Seeing ourselves, including our strengths, traits, weaknesses, and other attributes, can be a lens through which we see ourselves more clearly. Clarity comes from increased self-awareness. Self-awareness can save us both time and energy when we use it to determine our direction, next steps, and understand our daily work. In today's podcast, I share fi...

Forgiveness is an elusive topic, and yet possible with a "mindset to forgive." Mindset is one's mental disposition. Our automatic thoughts. Forgiveness is a character strength. If you take a moment to visit the VIA Character Strengths Survey, you will learn how strong of a trait this is in your life. If it’s not a strength for you or for me, it can be developed. In his book “Forgiving What you’ll...

In today's podcast, I'm excited to discuss how to overcome negativity in life, relationships, and business. Sure, it might seem a bit unusual that I'm excited about negativity, and I agree this is a strange polarity. I'm excited because negativity is everywhere. We experience it within ourselves, with family members, with colleagues, with those we teach or manage, and with bosses. Although not eve...

The world we're living in begs us to have resilience. Consider the sculptor who chipped away at a rough block of stone, intentionally revealing the majestic elephant within. He claimed the elephant was there all along. And his job was just to remove anything that was not elephant. Just like a rough sculptor's stone, you have strengths within that are already part of you. Some have appeared through...

Let's look at what I learned about navigating uncertainty from marching band. You might not know this, but I was a music educator for 20 years, and I directed marching bands during 13 of those years. Marching band is a complex activity that serves as an excellent metaphor for navigating uncertainty. Times we're living in now are more uncertain than ever. Yet the future is always uncertain, no matt...

In today's podcast, we'll consider how you can use your strengths to cope with uncertainty. There are many kinds of strengths you might explore as you consider your own traits and capabilities. The VIA Character Strengths Survey is a science-backed tool. It focuses on positive psychology through character strengths and virtues. When you visit the link provided here, you gain access to this free to...

This week, I'll discuss being an exceptional manager. These ideas are inspired by Conscious Business and The Outward Mindset.

Personal growth and development can take time. In many ways, it's like planting seeds and waiting for the grass to grow. Patience leads to this growth.