Work Thoughts Journalling

 Do you find yourself in your head a lot about work issues?

You may have heard that journaling works well for helping to process your feelings.

Journaling also works for work issues that go around in your head.

Venting your frustration in a note book could also stop you from behaving in a way that you later regret. An example would be sending a message or responding to an e mail.

Your journal or note pad can help you to reflect. As you write your brain moves your thoughts from your emotional mind into your intellectual mind. This helps to neutralise the emotion and you can think rationally. Now you can respond rather than react.

Happy work journaling! 

For help and support with all of your work related issues, please contact me through www.westofenglandcoachingandcounselling.co.uk

Work improvements through Coaching.

Last week I worked with a client who wanted to change her relationship with a senior colleague. My client shared that she recognised her tendency to prioritise others feelings over her own, linked with her 'inability' to say no. Sounds familiar perhaps? Sarah told me that she would often take on too much work because of her personality. We worked for ninety minutes on identifying and practising a number of resources that she had and changing her belief to my first priority is myself so that I feel good and so have ample means to help others as I choose. We called the resources her boundaries and skills. As she left the session she said that she felt stronger. Sarah e mailed me this morning to say that she had had a conversation with her colleague during which they looked quite shocked and embarrassed and at the end of which her colleague had said that she admired her response and that she would do as my client suggested and ask another to run project X.

Professional Challenges

Right now I invite you to spend a few minutes on your personal development in work.

The first question that I would like to you consider is what is dominating your thinking at the moment?

For example, it might be to organise your workload better or to address a work relationship issue. 

Whatever, your current challenge, how are you currently thinking about it?

Is this proving a helpful way to look at it?

If not what would be a more helpful thinking frame?

For example, "I just feel overwhelmed by my workload" could become "I will think of ways to improve my organisation of my time. For example, I will spend approximately a third of my day working on my backlog, a third dealing with the here and now and a third achieving something important though non-urgent".

I want to remind you that your thinking whether flawed or excellent, or somewhere in between, is driving your results.

I want you to think about that. Perhaps you could start each day getting your thinking into the right place, for example "whatever happens today I will calm myself down to stay in my thinking brain and then come up with an action plan".

Happy thinking!

For help and support with personal and professional challenges please get in touch via www.westofenglandcoachingandcounselling.co.uk

Executive Coaching & Mentoring

I  can help and support you with your goals in your current role and with your goals for your future.

My posts are often about the things that you can do for yourself.

Today's is about being curious about what work contentment or happiness is for you.

1. Consider then write down words that define happiness at work for you right now. Not in 5 years time.

This might comprise tasks that you enjoy doing, skills that you enjoy applying, how you like to work, who you like working with, where you like working, when you like working...

2. What is your work identity? For example, you may see yourself as a servant leader helping your customers in some way.

3. What is your work purpose? For example, to be the best 'x' you can be.

4. What factors do you perceive as outside of your control affecting your work happiness? For example, you may want to change roles but think that you would not be able to match your existing remuneration which, having done the maths, you need to support your existing lifestyle? You may decide to think about this some more. For example, would you change your lifestyle to be simpler if you had a chance at greater work happiness?

5. What other factors are negatively impacting your work happiness? For example, comparing yourself with others rather than getting more in touch with your own definition of work happiness.

So go, be bold, be strong. I am here for you if you need me by contacting pam@westofenglandcoachingandcounselling.co.uk