Positivity Mindset Hack takes your out of your fear zone and puts you in a place of excitement for what you could be creating in your life. It’s for women with a professional background that are looking to discover their next chapter after they’ve finished raising their kids.
Great for:
- Women who want to return to the workforce but have lost confidence in themselves.
- Women deciding to start a business but afraid of taking the next step.
- Women struggling with self-doubt about which direction they should take.
Transitional times can be challenging because they require us to step out of our comfort zone and face the fear of stepping into a new, unfamiliar stage of our lives.
Many women go through a difficult transition in mid-life, when they are at the end of raising their kids and are looking to discover the next chapter of themselves. Often these women used to be professionals and then decided to leave work to raise their children and become the CEO of their household 먹튀검증.
After years of raising her kids, this woman realizes that she would like to do “something” but has no idea what “something” is. She does know that she wants to make an impact in the world but doesn’t want to go back to a cubicle or the corner office working 60 hours a week for someone else. This woman doesn’t know what her possibilities are and is worried about making the wrong choice.
If you are a woman in midlife looking for a new direction, or just someone going through a transitional phase, this exercise will show you how your thoughts and beliefs can inspire you to take action or keep you in fear and doubt. This process will take the pressure off trying to be superficially “positive” by focusing on the “possibilities” instead. Exploring all the possible choices you have will give you an authentic positive energy so you can step into the next chapter of your life with clarity, confidence and optimism.
Steps
Step 1: Dreams and doubts
What would you like to do next with your life? For e.g. Do you want to start your own business, go back to university, apply for a new job or join a non-profit?
Write down everything you are thinking and believing about what you’d like to do and all the doubt and fear it’s bringing up.
Step 2: Deep breathing
Close your eyes. Take 10 DEEP breaths, slow and full inhales and full exhales. Open your eyes.
Step 3: Possibility brainstorming
Write down all the positive possibilities of what could happen. Let your imagination go wild and expand your possibilities without limiting yourself. Time, money and age in this exercise are irrelevant.
Step 4: The power of possibility
Look at your answers in Step 1 and notice how they make you feel.
Write down a few notes about your feelings of doubt and fear.
Look at your answers in Step 3 and notice how they make you feel. Write down a few notes about your feelings of possibility.
This step shows you exactly how the power of what you are thinking and believing is causing you to feel. How you feel will drive what you do.
Step 5: Inspired Action
Create a list of possible next steps to move you forward and start to take inspired action toward each step written.
Case Study
One of my clients (like the many that I’ve coached) put her profession on hold to be at home with her kids. As her children got older, she knew there was something beyond motherhood for her to do. She felt a deep calling to do something more with her life.
Through the discovery phase of coaching she realized she wanted to be her own boss. She wrote down all the fears that came up around the idea of starting her own business and noticed that her thoughts and feelings spiraled downward because she had a lot of "I don't know" doubts.
When she allowed herself to write from a “what if…” scenario, she got super excited about the possibilities of what could be. Noticing on paper the feeling she got from reading the limiting beliefs compared to the “what if” list of possibilities, she realized her negative thinking were just thoughts that held no truth.
Today she is the proud partner/owner of a physical and occupational therapy business. Everything she described from her possibility list is embodied in her new business, from the design and decor of the clinic to the services offered to the exact clientele. She uses this tool when her business is faced with challenges and is able to move forward without letting the mind drama of doubts and fears take over.
Tips for coaches
Hold space for your client to think and feel both negative and positive emotions. This is instrumental because it allows them to experience both types of emotion and then choose what they want to do going forward.
