A sense of well-being is aided by knowing and understanding yourself. This includes understanding your psychological needs, how they might fluctuate over time and how they map to your values and behaviours. It is a big subject but I believe understanding why you feel as you do is a good tool for managing yourself. So her goes….
Trees are highly collaborative and nurture their young
Your ‘inner you’ or soul can feel constrained by your body in your earthly life. Yet nature’s music can relax, inspire and bring clarity of thought to you.
I believe your ‘inner you’ can travel on sound such as water and music. You can go beyond your body and re-experience the freedom you have in the Afterlife.
This is why humans respond so strongly to these sounds and find them relaxing and sleep inducing.
In sleep a part of you returns home for advice, guidance and inspiration on your life and its challenges.
Hope is a very strong emotion. Essential to survival, calmness in the face of calamity and a positive outlook on life.
Belief in a good outcome builds on hope.
It is hard to be a great chef when you have never experienced a fantastic meal, looked at a recipe or felt the ingredients. You can learn the techniques to be able to lead yourself and your teams.
Enabling change from the inside out: to do this you need to gain insight into your strengths, potential need to change certain habits, the values you hold and determine your goals.
7 steps to achieving success:
Know yourself – Identify what stage you are in your leadership and life. What you have learned so far? Have you acquired any bad habits? Discover what change is needed.Now bring your vision into reality
Alison Pooley-Wem – life coach, author and leadership consultant, MBCS CITP, former Business Transformation Director, IT Director, Programme Director who led major transformation programmes for corporate and multi-national organisations such as Amey PLC, Christies. News UK.
b is for retaining your balance through all of those challenges in life
Be kind to yourself, you are not a magician and we all try to do our best.
Be happy with yourself if you have made the choices you felt were right. If you find out there are better choices, change what you choose to do.
Need help to cope with life’s challenges? You may need some on-going practices to help you with life which develops your insight into yourself and your behaviours plus boost your personal calmness. Beyond being successful at work, these practices can help you to feel more alive, happy and healthy in your life. Do you need some help with achieving this?
You need a Soul Map!
For me, that realisation came in the early hours one night as, newly widowed and with children and a demanding job as a CIO, I confronted my anguish – and found not chaos and more pain but a space of calmness and route to strength and guidance.