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“It keeps me awake at night” is something I hear a lot during coaching conversations. No matter how calm and collected the person might seem, they will have nights of worry that make them feel exhausted and stressed the next day. With more and more information bombarding us about the importance of sleep, we are all becoming increasingly anxious about missed sleep. Here are some suggestions for reducing the worry as well as an opportunity to realise you’re not alone - it’s a very common challenge and there are things you can do to increase ease your relaxation and peace of mind. For more insights into coaching topics, visit my website and sign up to my newsletter. Or email me [email protected]

Trust is the invisible ingredient that can make or break relationships. Without trust, teams are less collaborative, there is little psychological safety, people are less likely to be open and relationships can be superficial. Listen if you’d like some simple tips on how to build trust by considering your own default and considering whether you can listen more, be more open and accountable. In my work as a leadership coach, I am privileged to hear the Innermost thoughts and sights and challenges of many amazing people and the topic of trust comes up frequently You can find this transcript on my website. .

There are so many benefits to spending time asking yourself who you are. What you want, what you like, what's important. You can then start choosing who you want to be. You can grow in confidence, find ease with decision making, stop people pleasing. This podcast suggests questions to work through (which are also on my website https://www.catrinmacdonnell.co.uk/who-am-i-and-why-does-it-matter/

Even the most outwardly confident, self assured people tell me they lack in confidence. It can really make everything seem like such hard work and often means you hold yourself back from finding ease and success. Here are some tips for finding the confidence you need.

Coaching conversations often highlight how our beliefs, that can be held over many years, often shape our behaviours and attitudes negatively. Challenges these beliefs can be a game changer in life and work.

Asking yourself “what do I want” and putting a plan together to make it happen can bring purpose, clarity and confidence. Work through this simple model to create a plan to achieve what you want. You’ll find decision making is easier, you’ll be clearer about what’s important. Spend some time planning and make it happen.

It’s normal and inevitable that sometimes people wind you up, irritate, anger you even but it’s important to not let them impact you and spoil your day ( or week! ). It’s useful to explore the emotional hooks to gain insight into why you’re reacting like this and find ways of lessening the impact.

What can you do to reduce misunderstandings and conflict with others? Keep talking! Avoiding that person and not wanting to hear about their issue just makes things worse. Here are some pointers on how to build trust and reduce misunderstandings.

Inertia, lack of energy, frustration or boredom can affect us all. It’s that feeling that you’re not reaching your potential, that there’s nothing to look forward to. The good news is that you can choose to change this. As a coach I work with so many people feeling like this and they always find a way to change and find their motivation. If you’d like to read this, check my website or email me with questions [email protected].

Most of us have to work with others be it as a colleague, manager or employer and we all want to make it work as smoothly as we can. As a coach, I hear so often about the frustrations that people experience working with others. There are so often misunderstandings that make work less enjoyable. You might be a manager or a business owner who wants to get the most out of your team but struggle with communication, with creating a good team dynamic. These 9 tips will give you some insights into how best to manage others.

Do you feel you’re not achieving your full potential? Do you feel stuck in a rut and know what you need to do to get out, but just never do it? You’re sabotaging your own success and you feel you’ll regret this in the future. I’ve worked with so many talented people who felt exactly like this. Through coaching, they worked through what to do and found ways of becoming unstuck - whether in business or in a large organisation, they changed their behaviour and finally started feeling motivated and excited about their achievements. Remember to follow for future podcast and email me [email protected] to discuss how coaching can help you.

So many people I work with experience Impostor Syndrome - no matter how outwardly successful. It can make work really stressful with the need to constantly question yourself and feel you’re not doing a good enough job. You might feel you should really give up and do something easier or less challenging. The good news is that it’s possible to change this with some effort - and working with a coach can help. If you’d like to read this, visit my website www.catrinmacdonnell.co.uk or email me [email protected] and don’t forget to subscribe!

You might really want to achieve something, feel you’re not reaching your full potential and get frustrated that something is holding you back. It could be that you have limiting beliefs that make you think you’re not good enough, don’t deserve a place at that table. It’s so important to challenge these beliefs as that is just what they are - beliefs and not facts. Listen to hear more about what they are and how to change them to more constructive beliefs that enable you to move forward. To work with me email [email protected] or visit www.catrinmacdonnell.co.uk

Have you noticed what your internal script is saying? We all have one, but some can be really unhelpful - destructive even and hold us back from achieving all sorts of things, making life and work more stressful and overwhelming. In this podcast, I step through how you can start changing the script with coaching techniques. Get in touch if you’d like to work with me. [email protected]

Having clear goals for business or career is essential if you want to be sure to achieve what you want. As a coach and mentor I work with people who want to make changes and being clear on what they want is the first step. Then you can put a plan together with milestones and timings to make sure you get there. This is all on https://www.catrinmacdonnell.co.uk/goal-setting-for-business-or-career/