Mindset Coaching With Shannon
By the time we reach midlife, we’ve seen a lot in our careers and personal lives. Hopefully, we’ve experienced a lot of great stuff—sunsets, books, great art, the ocean, family, friends, good food, and gratifying work.
Inevitably, we’ve been through some pretty bad times too like lost love, lost friends, storms, illness, difficult bosses, financial stress, tension headaches, and so forth.
We experience the world outside us as well as a complex range of thoughts and emotions inside us. Is your inner world full of sunrises, majestic vistas, and brave adventures? Does your inner voice speak with calm clarity and reliable wisdom or does it engage in negative self-talk like:
- I’m never going to get this done.
- There’s no way I can do that.
- No one is going to help me with this.
- This is never going to get better.
- I’m no good at that.
- I never catch a break.
- This is too complex.
- I’ll never have the money to do that.
- Nothing ever goes right for me.
- No matter what I do, I won’t lose weight.
- I have no luck.
- I’m not creative.
- I can’t trust anyone.
- I’m better off being alone.
- I have zero patience.
- I have no idea what I’m doing.
Have you ever said any of these things to yourself or to someone else? If so, what you’ve said or thought to yourself can have a toxic effect on your mental state and your overall well-being.
You can benefit from mindset coaching with Shannon. She helps clients identify elements of a harmful or limiting mindset and partners with them to develop strategies for adopting a positive mindset that becomes the foundation for achieving goals.
Our Thoughts become Patterns
Negative self-talk often becomes a habit, a pattern that seems to be woven into the fabric of who we are. But it’s not healthy and it can stunt you from living your best life—and feeling good about yourself.
As a certified life coach, Shannon offers many different services to her clients. During mindset coaching sessions, Shannon helps clients figure out what aspects of their thinking may be putting up roadblocks for advancing toward their chosen destination.
Mindset coaching provides an extraordinary range of benefits that can enhance both your personal and professional life. You CAN rewire your brain to create new ways of thinking and to embrace new, healthier perspectives that propel you forward instead of holding you back.
What Is a Mindset Coach?
A mindset coach like Shannon helps people overcome internal obstacles preventing them from achieving their goals or making positive changes for a more enriching life.
We all have thought patterns and beliefs. It’s not uncommon for limiting beliefs and negative thought patterns to become entrenched in our minds like highways. We mentally travel these highways and find that we get nowhere because they seldom lead anywhere good.
Shannon understands that people have to create new mindset roads in their brains to replace the negative ones. It often takes time and practice to build new and better ‘scenic routes,’ but it’s well worth the effort because these are the mental highways and byways that can lead us to our personal versions of success.
What Are Your Goals?
Having the Right Mindset Helps You Achieve Them.
When we struggle with negative self-talk or simply feel overwhelmed with too many thoughts in our minds, we might find it difficult to set goals or to identify those goals that really matter. As a mindset coach, Shannon helps clients find out what really motivates them.
What motivates you? Is it money? Love? Professional ambition? Family?
Our motivations are important in shaping our mindset and cultivating our goals. With mindset coaching, you can determine where you want to be in six months, in a year, in five years. You can reach those goals with a mindset that is committed to achieving them—and committed to developing the plans needed for success.
Shannon doesn’t ‘tell’ people their goals; she uses various strategies, many based on neural rewiring techniques, to help people identify their own goals. Often, people acknowledge that they’re not on a path to realizing their aspirations. The next step in the process is putting a plan together to complete those goals.
What Are Your Roadblocks?
During mindset coaching sessions, Shannon helps people identify their mental roadblocks. Often, negative thought patterns reflect areas of focus for mindset coaching. Roadblocks develop when people:
- Are fearful and anxious: Their negative thoughts might be preoccupied with everything that could go wrong by taking a leap of faith. They see the challenges without focusing on the opportunities.
- Have low self-esteem: They may feel little self-worth or find little to celebrate about their talents and unique gifts. They may feel unworthy or lack the confidence needed to achieve their goals.
- Make wrong assumptions: Our experiences are our teachers, but they aren’t the only experiences. We can internalize our own anecdotal experience to the point that it limits us from other perspectives. Consequently, some people make assumptions about their roadblocks or the path ahead of them. (i.e. “Nobody ever hires women for those jobs.)
- Mental fatigue: Some people spin their wheels to no avail, and they become exhausted by the effort. They feel like their car is stuck in the mud, so they grind their wheels and push, but they go nowhere—often because they fail to try new techniques or call a mindset coach.
Fill Your Cup with Something Good
While working with clients to help them figure out what motivates them, Shannon also helps them zero in on what they really love to do. When our motivations pair up with the things we love to do, it’s often a win-win situation.
Suddenly, feeling motivated by money and achieving a certain salary become a labor of love when you’re doing work you actually enjoy. Supporting our family is a terrific motivation, but if our work feels like drudgery, we’re missing an important element of happiness.
When you’re able to fill your cup each day with something sweet—the thing or things you love to do, you can support your positive mindset and advance your goals. In fact, you might even elevate those goals into passions.
We each have different things we love to do. But, too often, we wind up doing things we don’t actually care for in order to make money. That sort of dynamic doesn’t nurture inner well-being.
How many managers are out there who don’t really like managing people? How many people are dreaming of monetizing their hobby or making a living outdoors rather than behind a desk?
It’s definitely important for people to view their dreams with a degree of realism, but without motivation and a plan, people can’t make the changes they need to wake up every day and do the things they love. Shannon can help with solutions for realistic planning, goal setting, and mindset transformation.
What Makes Shannon an Ideal Mindset Coach?
Shannon features a range of mindset solutions that are available in the form of services and packages. As a mindset coach, Shannon has the ability to quickly help clients identify their pain points, those mindset elements that are holding them back from making positive changes in their lives.
She’s uniquely flexible and able to adapt to her clients’ different perspectives and situations. In fact, she thrives in a dynamic environment and has realized her own goal to help others achieve a mindset transformation.
Shannon features services tailored to clients’ needs such as the following:
- One-on-one coaching sessions. Hours per session vary in accordance with different package options.
- Homework: Mindset rewiring takes practice that involves at-home or at-work activities and reading assignments.
- On-demand appointments as needed for in-between sessions.
- Email correspondence to promote accountability.
Clients can choose a package ideal for their needs. With weekly mindset coaching sessions, clients can get the regular assistance they need to forge new patterns of thinking—and living.
Change Happens in Increments
It’s only natural that when we want change, we want it now—and sometimes yesterday! It’s immensely positive to want to change your mindset and improve your goal acquisition with positive thinking. But just like an athlete wants to win a championship, we’ve got to develop our skills and practice thinking in a manner that is aligned with our goals.
The Japanese have a philosophy known as kaizen. It translates as “to change for the better” or “continuous improvement.” In essence, it’s a take on the old adage, “little drops fill the bucket.” We make small daily improvements to achieve great change.
Shannon inspires and motivates clients to make small weekly changes that help them rewire thought patterns to achieve a success-oriented mindset.
Instead of dwelling on the fact that we still felt scared to stand up at the conference and speak or spent an entire Monday catastrophizing about a situation at work or family, we look at our actions with accountability and make a plan to do better—through small changes.
We also celebrate how much better we dealt with our negative mindset on Tuesday and take note of the new strategies that enabled us to write a more forceful email to work with clients or to manage our time more effectively so we could finally fit in some exercise or dinner with a friend.
Contact Shannon and consult with her about changing your mindset for the better. With improvements to the way you think, you can make improvements everywhere in your life.