3 Ways Coaching Helps You Manage Stress Better
Who isn’t stressed these days?
Stress comes in all shapes and sizes and comes from all sorts of weird places. It can also have a devastating impact on your health, your performance, and your relationships.
The term “mental fitness” refers to our ability to manage day to day stress and anxiety with a positive mindset rather than a negative one. A positive mindset can help you mitigate the impact of your stressors and allow you to live your life with more clarity and confidence. Further, working with a mental fitness coach can multiply that impact tenfold.
[In my best infomercial voice] But that’s not all! Here are three ways working with me can help you manage stress better…
Perspective. Coaching gives you perspective, plain and simple. I’ve never had a coaching session where I was not able to reframe something for my client thereby giving them a renewed outlook on whatever issue they brought to the session. Being able to evoke that awareness in a client is critical to the success of any coaching session. After just six weeks of mental fitness work, 90% of clients are able to use their emotional and mental energy more efficiently thereby increasing their ability to gain more perspective.
Accountability. You ever wonder how just saying something out loud just seems to make it permanent? Good coaches come alongside their clients to establish goals and generate action plans. And when you combine a strong mental fitness program with coaching, you get even longer lasting results. The reason most attempts at permanent change fail is that we only go as far as insight will take us. Having a Mental Fitness Coach takes it a step further to produce permanent and lasting results. Accountability gained through mental fitness takes your investment in your coach from a good investment to an invaluable one.
Decision Making. Working with a Mental Fitness Coach will undoubtedly improve your decision making. Working with a Mental Fitness Coach ensures you are making the right decisions in the right way. You’re no longer making decisions out of fear or anxiety but from a place of clarity and best of all, a place of confidence. After just six weeks of work, over 80% of clients report improved self-confidence and over 90% report being able to manage stress better. Imagine having the ability to make critical decisions in your life with more confidence and less stress? Imagine having enough confidence in your decisions to not second guess them?
So there you have it. Working to increase your mental fitness leads to having better perspective, gaining accountability, and better decision making.
And if you want to explore any of this, learn more about my powerful coaching framework here.
If you’re interested in starting your own mental fitness journey, sign up for the upcoming cohort. While you’re at it, check out my homepage for a free download on the 5 Lessons I’ve Learned from Coaching Young Adults.
