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How to Declutter Your Mind
By Stephanie J. Marshall, Toronto-based Master Alignment Coach The Cluttered Mind A cluttered mind is like a cluttered home, except it's filled with too many disorganized thoughts instead of stuff. Like in a cluttered home, in a cluttered mind, it's harder to find...
Honest Talk About Coaching
By Stephanie J. Marshall, Toronto-based Master Alignment Coach The Blunt Talk I've been holding back because I don't want to scare you away from coaching, but I don't think it's been serving either one of us. I've been scared that if I'm too blunt with you up-front...
How to Find Your Spark in Midlife
Lost Your Spark When you feel like you've lost your spark it sucks. You don't feel like yourself, it's harder to get excited about things, and the worst part is that doing the things that might help you get your spark back often just feels like more work. The good...
The 10 Best Benefits of Group Life Coaching
The 10 Top Benefits of Group Life Coaching Women join the group life coaching program to feel inspired, and energized, get clarity, build confidence and get in control of their lives. To feel grounded and aligned with who they are and how they want to live. They want...
The September Reset
By Stephanie J. Marshall, Toronto-based Master Alignment Coach That September Reset Feeling Hands up if you chase that fresh start, September back to school feeling every fall!! September is the real new year, and the back to school high comes from the feeling that...
I Made a Mistake and I Feel Horrible
By Toronto Life & Mindset Alignment Coach Stephanie J. Marshall Why Do I Feel So Bad After a Mistake? Shit happens. Maybe you missed a detail, said what you shouldn't have, or forgot something. Your intent wasn't malicious, but now you're up at 3 a.m. and your...
Coaching for Transformation
If Coaching Was a Rom-Com Makeover When I hear the word "transformation" I picture the "ugly-girl" to "pretty-girl" makeover montage in a high school rom-com. But that's not what we're doing over in Kickstartology Coaching when I talk about transformation. At...
Looking for Clarity
Clarity Feels Safe Pay special attention if you feel like you can't move forward because you need to do more research or you haven't made a plan yet. Clarity makes us feel safe but in the quest for clarity, there comes a point where the pursuit itself becomes a...
Looking For Inspiration
The Catalyst Inspiration is energizing and a catalyst for change but you can't just "find" it if you look hard enough. If you're looking for inspiration you're doing it wrong. It's not hiding in Costa Rica, or in your closet under the pile of clothes you've been...
How To Build Your Confidence
By Stephanie J. Marshall, Toronto-based Master Alignment Coach Why Do You Want to Build Confidence? I've had so many women tell me that they need to build confidence because it's preventing them from achieving their goals or living life to the fullest, but when I ask...
Work-Life Balance Coaching
By Stephanie J. Marshall, Toronto-based Master Alignment Coach The Benefits of Work-Life Balance Coaching Are you feeling overwhelmed? Juggling between work and personal life can be exhausting, and it can be challenging to find the balance that leads to happiness and...
Motivated at Work?
Do you know how many women waste years trying to convince themselves to be motivated before they finally admit to themselves that they are over it and open themselves up to something that does light them up? If you were to believe everything you read on LinkedIn you...
Building Self Discipline with the 3:33 Alarm
Why the 3:33 Alarm Helps Build Self-Discipline The 3:33 Alarm is a coaching tool to help you build self-discipline. It's useful because self-discipline is one of those things that's simple in theory but in practice, you need to go deep and learn to change your way of...
Getting Off an Emotional Roller Coaster
Craving Stability and Novelty We're built to crave the feeling of safety and comfort that we get from familiarity and certainty, and we especially crave it when it feels out of reach. But also, if we have too much of this familiarity and certainty for too long we get...
Coaching for Self-Judgement
By Stephanie J. Marshall, Toronto-based Master Alignment Coach Is Being Hard on Yourself Working? Self-judgment is #3 on our list of the top 10 ways that intelligent women get in their own way. You might think that you have to be hard on yourself because you know you...
Keeping the Peace at the Expense of your own Inner-Peace
Keeping the Peace for People Pleasers and Conflict Avoiders People pleasing is one of the top 10 ways that women self-sabotage. If you prioritize "keeping the peace" make sure you've considered your own inner peace. If you're holding back on account of "keeping the...
How to Try Harder
The Myth of "Trying Hard" Do you believe that if you just tried hard enough you would have everything under control? "Trying harder" is so ingrained in our movies and tv shows as the solution to everything. And it messes with us because it's total bullshit. It's not...
The First Law of Alignment
What Would be Different? Do you know what you want or just what you don't want? One of the questions that I ask every single person who books a coaching exploration call is this: "If we worked together and things went perfectly, how would your life be different in six...
The Cost of Feeling in Control
The Feeling we Crave It feels so good but... Feeling in control isn't the same as being in control. One of my clients is going through some shit right now. She told me that she was trying to not think about it and just focusing on work because if she thought about it...
Setting Boundaries at Work
If You Don't Have Boundaries at Work... A frequently seen scenario: Tell me if this is familiar: You're done for the day and looking forward to your evening when you get a work email from a college that has some questions they want to be answered ASAP. The questions...