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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 Toronto Life & Mindset Alignment Coach Stephanie J. Marshall 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...
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...
Why Mindset is Useful: The Top 100 Things
Why Mindset is Important Your mindset is made up of all of your thoughts about the world, how it works, and what's possible, as well as your thoughts about yourself. It dictates how you see yourself and how you see the world. 100 Things You Can Do with Mindset...
Stop Spinning Thoughts with Mindset Work
The Power of Mindset Work: Rewiring Your Mind for Success Consider this: many people have frozen pork chops in their freezers without spiraling into drama. It's not the pork chops themselves that create the turmoil; it's our thoughts and perspectives about them....
Why Motivation is Easier When Planning than When Following Through
Motivation Can't be Planned and Scheduled The motivation you feel when you're planning often disappears when it's time for execution. Following through is harder but you can plan for that by taking it into account that you cannot schedule motivation. Should you be...
Mindset Matters | The Practical Side and the Aligned Mind
WTF is a Mindset Reset and Why is it Practical? We think between 60,000-80,000 thoughts a day, and most of our brain activity is done on autopilot. If we had to question all of our thoughts we would be unable to function. Can you imagine? Do I like dogs?... Every time...
Why Rational Arguments Don’t Always Work
The Danger of a Reasonable and Rational Argument ...And How to Overcome It Today I coached someone who told me that she is nervous because she has a big presentation coming up and she has put off practicing it all week. Let's call her "S". S keeps thinking that it...
Why You Keep Procrastinating
Why You're Procrastinating ...when you said that this time would be different Let’s discuss that thing that you know you have to do, and you will do, but you keep putting off. You can’t totally relax because you feel the stress of not doing it building, and you know...
Self-Trust: Why People Don’t Follow Through
Self-Trust: The Following Through Muscle Not following through comes from a lack of self-trust and it's one of the top ten ways that women self-sabotage. Has this type of self-gaslighting ever happened to you? It's Sunday night and you decide that this week you're...
Natalia Lobach: Kickstartology Client Spotlight
How deciding on "one small step" daily helped Natalia Lobach chart her course and set sail Natalia Lobach, an amateur pickle champion, mom, and all-around fun-loving person, came to Kickstartology after founding Charthouse Advisory Services — a consultancy that helps...
Coaching for Perfectionists and Perfectionism
Perfectionists and Perfectionism Perfectionism is one of the top ten ways that women get in their own way. You might not realize you're a perfectionist because you think you don't always do things perfectly or because your perfectionism applies to certain areas of...
Alignment Coaching for Weightloss
By Stephanie J. Marshall, Toronto-based Master Alignment Coach Why The Next 10 Pounds? Last May I decided I was sick of complaining about my jeans being tight and I used the Alignment Coaching tools to lose 10 pounds fairly easily over a few months. I've kept it off,...
Coaching is Experiential Learning
By Stephanie J. Marshall, Toronto-based Master Alignment Coach The Limits of Studying What if I decided right now that I was going to learn how to cook? Now if I began listening to all of the cooking podcasts, watching cooking shows, collecting recipes, and buying...