The Mindful Rancher

What are the effects of optimism? The list is long—from mental health benefits to physical health benefits, the effects of optimism can be far-reaching for both the optimist and those who come in contact with them. How could you be more optimistic? Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com

Have you ever watched an athlete who had a bad day and couldn't seem to make a shot? And then see them turn it around and it seems like they couldn't miss? On hard days or in hard season sometimes we need to play to the point. Have a short sightedness that allows us to approach every new play with a clean slate. One way to help us do this is to release thoughts that do not serve us. What a...

What are you good at? What do you wish you were good at? Do you do things that you are not good at? It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking that you have to be good at everything. You might avoid things you are not good at. You might not take the time to become good at things you could be good at with practice. Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com

What is your engagement score? So often in corporate culture, we are given engagement scores based on a set of questions to determine how things are going in our jobs. Today I want you to consider your life. How engaged are you in your life? Are you all in and putting in discretionary effort? Are you interacting in life in a way that you want to? Website:www.christinawilliamscoaching.com

How often do you hear about toxic work environments? Toxic work environments are simply workplaces where bad behavior is normal. Hence, it is easy to fall into these patterns without consciously choosing to create the environment you want to work in. Take a moment to consider how to build a healthy work environment. Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com

Sometimes we hear really good ideas but they seem too much to implement sustainably in our lives. But do you think you could practice that idea just for today? Shortening the time period allows us to try things out and see if they improve our lives. What would you like to try, just for today? Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com

What is your first response when things get difficult? Do you first want to run away? Do you first want to lean in? Do you first want to see if there is an easy solution? We all respond to difficult things in different ways. Often if we tend to run away we need help to learn to work through the difficulty so it isn't prolonged. Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com

Sometimes change is really easy. We simply adjust to the new circumstances and let the old patterns go. Other times change is very hard, the rewiring of our brains to a new situation takes longer and is more difficult than we expected. To help our brains make these adjustments we sometimes need to slow down a little and find stillness. That stillness gives us time. Try to find a little time for st...

What are your expectations of yourself or others? How do those expectations affect your relationships? If we could drop a few expectations and fill that space with appreciation how would that change your life? Maybe give it a try this week. Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com

Human incarnation. Have you ever really thought about being grateful for human incarnation? Grateful you are a human right now. Grateful you get to be alive. Grateful you get to have the experiences that humans have right now. Find a little time this week to be grateful you are a human, right here, right now. Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com

Gratitude has power to change our futures. Now can we be grateful for the future that we will have ahead of time. Take some time this week to be grateful for the things, experiences, and lifestyle that you don't have yet. Being grateful always brings more things to be grateful for into our lives. Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com

We are surrounded by humans. In our homes, our work places, our recreation centers and just walking down the street. Who in your life are you grateful for? Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com

Who are you? What are all the little things that makeup who you are? How do you feel about all those little things? Can you find gratitude for who you are? Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com

What lessons have you learned? Lessons come with good experiences. Lessons come with bad experiences. We are always learning. What lessons are you grateful for? Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com

What are you grateful for? So often it is the little things but have you ever considered being thankful for the things that didn't happen or didn't work out? Sometimes when all the dust has settled and we look back this is easy. We can see that one thing didn't work out but it put us in the perfect position to welcome something even better into our lives. But can you find gratitude in the moment -...

Focusing this week on the things that have happened in our lives and finding the energy of gratitude for them can allow us to enhance the good in our lives and recognize some ways our challenges have allowed for shifts or learning. What things have happened in your life that you are grateful for? Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com

At the end of the year, I often like to revisit the topic of gratitude. Gratitude is an energy we can use to shift things, add to things, or help us enjoy things more. Though it's easy to say to ourselves that we should be grateful, I don't think gratitude needs to be a "should" in our lives. All emotions that we feel have a place to exist in our lives and gratitude is something we can practice wh...

How often do we take things that are not ours? Usually, we are pretty good at not taking other people's things but sometimes we can struggle not to take on others' opinions, emotions, and emotional work. Where could you be taking things that are not yours? Website:www.christinawilliamscoaching.com

How we grow and manage our employees affects their well-being and the well-being of our business. This week we discuss paying employees more than we have to and not dragging our feet about taking care of things that need to be addressed. These two things combined with the ideas from the last two episodes will help you manage employees better. Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com

How do we best grow in a position? One way is through adjusting to the feedback we receive from managers, coworkers, and clients. How can we give more feedback to our employees? How do we get good at giving feedback? It's often quite simple - we practice and we give feedback regularly. Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com

How do you grow and manage employees? We all need the help of good people in our companies. We need to be able to tell people what tasks are important and then share our expectations for how those tasks are done. These two simple things help employees perform better and help our business have the things done that are important. Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com

Any tool that we can utilize to make better decisions is worth considering. This week we discuss: the accountable person, addressing the disease not the symptoms, making decisions close to the action, and using prayer or stillness. Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com

What can we do to help ourselves make better decisions? One decision often impacts other decisions so if we can get in the habit of identifying the catalysts decision and making that decision we can start the process of getting results from the decisions that we make. Using tools like looking at the holistic problem or a SWOT analysis we can gain perspective and reduce the risks of larger decision...

What are things we can do to make better decisions or have better outcomes from our decisions? A few things to try this week are to make decisions with confidence, make timely decisions, and to communicate your decisions well. Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com

Have you ever visited an old cathedral and been in awe of the building, who built it, and how they did it? Many individuals who dreamed up cathedrals or worked on their construction never saw them finished or enjoyed them. Why do you think they kept working on them? Part of the reason is cathedral thinking which is simply the thinking behind long-term projects we work on to benefit future generati...