The Mindful Rancher

What are ways we could live into our bucket lists more? We often will only put big things on our bucket lists but consider the idea of creating a little things bucket list. A list of your favorite moments that you would love to live over and over a again and then taking the time to create opportunity to do so. Our bucket lists can also limit our dreams to only the things on the list so leaving som...

It's interesting to see how different animals interact with the world around them and then see what wisdom we can apply to ourselves. I had an opportunity to attend a horse wisdom group therapy session and this episode is just a few of my observations and lessons learned. Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com

Why do you do things the way you do them? Is it because it's just always been done that way? Sometimes it's good for us to question the things that we do and the way that we do them. I was recently inspired by some dairy farmers who were running their farms differently than what would be considered the industry norm. What things do you need to do differently? Website: www.christinawilliams...

What would improve if you did less, excluded something, or got rid of something? We are often so focused on addition - having more, doing more, or being included in more that we forget that sometimes more isn't better. Less is. How could we practice subtraction to improve our lives? Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com

What are your values? What are the values of the company? How do you live those values? How do you not live into those values? When we can provide concrete examples of how we live our values and how we do not live the values we want to. It can help us to not only say we have certain values but to actually practice them. Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com

How can we build stress reducing and releasing practices into our every day life? Simple things like delegating tasks, going for a walk, or simply standing when you do a task, can help us have a little less stress. What do you want to try to reduce stress today? Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com

What happens when a kid doesn't have the emotional skills to face a challenging experience? They will often react negatively - screaming, yelling, or crying. What happens when an adult doesn't have the emotional skills to face a challenging experience? They react. Developing emotional skills is the key. First, we see that we react in situations in ways that we don't want to. Then we st...

We do 100's of things a day, but what are the things that make it easy to feel good? Do we feel good after a night out with friends? Do we feel good after going for a run? Do we feel good when we hit snooze and can sleep in a little? Do we feel good when we are running late? It is easy to get caught doing things that pass the time or distract us but what would our lives be like if we did more...

What happens after you take the action you want to take as you create a habit? You may not think that what happens after matters but it does. When we take action and are punished for it, we are not likely to do it again. When we take action and we are rewarded for it, we are much more likely to do it again. If you want to create a new habit, make sure you create a reward. Website: www.christinawil...

So often we are just not aware of the things we are thinking or the things we are doing. But once we become aware then we have the choice to change it. One simple practice to increase awareness is to write down a page of thoughts every day. This gives us perspective on the things we are thinking and ultimately allows us to choose to keep that pattern of thinking or to change it. What will you choo...

What can help us create balance? Sometimes choosing to have less or do less can be the boundaries we need to bring control and balance back into our lives. Though many of our workplaces are quite resistant to boundaries there still may be ways to set limits that help us have the life we truly want. Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com

What do you do when you just can't seem to stick with your goals consistently? What can we do when things just seem too big to actually do them? One trick is to make them smaller and just do the small thing. When we lower our expectations, when we lower the time commitment, when we simply lower the bar we can get the success that fuels motivation for consistent action. Where do you need to jus...

What do you do when you send a message and no one responds? What do you make that mean about yourself and the other person? It is easy to think that not responding caries a lot of meaning but it is also possible to think that it doesn't carry a lot of meaning - it just means they didn't respond. What meaning do you think you want to give to someone's lack of response? Website: www.chri...

We all recycle thoughts. Our grandparents thought it, our parents think it, and now so do we. This recycling often makes our thinking quite stable. It is efficient for our brains and creates the same results over and over again. But what we miss sometimes is that our thinking is also plastic. It can change with new information or it can change because we choose to change it. How would you like to...

Reflecting back on situations of the past can help us decide if we want to create similar things in the future or if we want to respond differently in the future. Sometimes we can use reflection as a way to shame our past selves some how believing that we should have handled the situation differently but that is seldom useful as we cannot change the past. But consider reflection from the perspecti...

Some failure is blameworthy some failure is praiseworthy and some it is a little hard to tell which it is. But how we interpret failure will affect how we act toward ourselves and others when they fail. In this episode, we explore the spectrum of the causes of failure and our tendency to see failure as blameworthy. Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com

Do we set big goals or do we set little ones? We know goals help us accomplish more but sometimes we need to adjust how we set goals to have the greatest impact and the most success. What kind of goals do you want to set this year or maybe just this week. Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com

At the end of the year it's fun to look back on all the things you have accomplished - this year, the past few years, and maybe even an over view of your life. This year as you think back on your accomplishments think about what a younger version of you would think about these things. We all have accomplished things that our younger self couldn't have even dreamed of. Let's be in awe o...

What if you believed that there was nothing wrong with you? Nothing wrong with where you are at? Nothing wrong with where you have been in the past? We often think that we have to believe that there is something wrong to make a change. But what if we could believe that there was nothing wrong and still make changes? Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com

As you looked for blind spots after last week's episode or thought about people at their best, did you sometimes struggle to find a moment to share? That might be because our brains are a bit biased toward the negative. But one concept that I love is that weaknesses are sometimes strengths overused. So in the negative moment or the weakness that you identified can you see the strength that was...

When we drive we have blind spots and as we navigate our lives we will have blind spots. Most of us think we only have blind spots when it comes to our weaknesses but sometimes we are even blind to our strengths. Listen as we explore three exercises where others help us to see our strengths, we help others see their strengths or we explore the thoughts that create the most fun and have us perform...

What roles have you taken on? What roles have some of your different parts taken on? Have we got the right person or the right part in the right role? The roles that are assigned to us and the roles that we assign to ourselves or our parts sometimes are just not the right fit. Getting a good fit with the roles that you have or that your parts have can make all the difference. Website: www.christin...

We all have parts. Parts of us that get angry. Parts of us that are happy-go-lucky. Parts of us that are sad. Parts of us that are lonely. Some parts of ourselves we love and we believe that they are good. Other parts we might dislike or be ashamed of and believe that they are bad. What would happen if we listened to, embraced, and loved all the parts of ourselves? Website:www.christinawilliamscoa...

What are you practicing? I like to think of practicing as the things that I am doing over and over again whether I fail or succeed at them. It's interesting to see what we practice and then choose to practice the things that help us develop into the person we want to be. Website: www.christinawilliamscoaching.com

How many decisions do you make in a day? If you feel like taking on an exhausting project you can count but if not you can believe me, it is a lot. Each task we do, we make a decision to do it. As a result of the number of decisions that we have to make we can fall into decision fatigue. So what can you do. The simple practice of making decisions ahead of time can help reduce the decisions and ope...