Stress Management Pro Shifts Perspective – Here's How

By Coach Meg
Wellcoaches Corp.

To listen to a 40 minute recording of the coaching session and Charlotte's testimonial, click here:

Charlotte, an expert in the wellness field, was feeling stuck. Though experiencing success and joy in many areas of her life, she was struggling to find ways through the challenge of time management. More specifically, she was feeling blocked by some of the tasks about which she had been procrastinating. The task of organizing and bringing her yoga studio “into the 21st century” felt daunting and out of reach.

Taking on the To Do List
The belief that the “To Do” list was too hard was preventing her from experiencing the benefits that she knew would come from the accomplishment of them. So, instead of focusing on what was hard, we approached the challenge from a strengths-based perspective - and the possibilities expanded.

Problems to Puzzles
This approach reminded Charlotte that she had previous experience - and success - in shifting perspectives. She had once been challenged by a technology change and, instead of letting it get the best of her, had decided to approach it like a puzzle and make it was fun. "I dug in until I figured it out - because that’s what I do," she explained. Charlotte loves puzzles and turned the “problem” into a “puzzle.”

How She Sees It
In other words, when she was faced with uncertainty in meeting a task, Charlotte chose her attitude rather than letting it choose her. She reframed what she believed about the situation and chose a new lens through which to see it.

To Choose One's Way
Charlotte choice reminds me of powerful quote from the book, Man’s Search for Meaning. Victor Frankl, prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp reminds us that “Everything can be taken from man but…the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

Thanks, Charlotte, for the reminder that we have a choice about how we look at any given situation. Next week, I'll share a tool for doing just that..

To listen to a 40 minute recording of the coaching session and Charlotte's testimonial, click here:

Margaret Moore, also known as "Coach Meg," is CEO and founder of Wellcoaches Corp. in Wellesley, MA.