Alone, and yet not alone. Connected --or not? A Controlled Distance?
Are you feeling lonely? Maybe you need to get out of your virtual world and DO something with HUMANS again – face to face.
Or is your life more like this:
“I share, therefore I am”
In the midst of the “connected virtual world”, I am thinking about our relationships - and businesses, and how social media and gaming affects us.
Read MoreSpring is for new things, new growth and good news!
Are you doing new things? What is your plan for the spring and for the rest of the year?What are your goals – for now, for the spring and for the year?
First, I have updated my webpage (check it out: www.jehle-coaching.com ) and my Goggle Business Page (if you don’t have one, contact me, ASAP!). It’s time for an update and a lot has been happening with my business, both with possibilities for contact (COVID)-wise and what training I have been having and what I can offer.
Also, that weekend away reminded me of what is most important. I need to make time for solitude, reflection AND for creativity.
Read MoreCommunity is my “word” for 2022, and that – and the review of my calendar has made me realize it is time to get together with people again, especially people who make me happy.
That is just what I did this morning: coffee with an “old” friend. It did my soul good!
Last week – here in Switzerland – the COVID doors “opened up” even more to meeting people in person and I am very glad.
Why? – because it is healthy for us to have contact with other people, with a variety of people, people who give is hope and joy and energy.
Read MoreIt is almost February and perhaps you and I should take some time for a reflective check-up. It is important to regularly reflect upon our goals and check our progress to make changes and keep on your chosen course.
First you must ask yourself questions:
· What are my goals (yearly and quarterly) and where am I at regarding them right now? What changes need to be made to reach those goals, or do I need to re-work the goals?
· How am I doing with my work and personal relationships? Where do I need to change here?
· How am I doing with boundaries? Do I have enough time and energy to get my work done and have healthy relationships?
· What am I doing daily for me, for my health and well-being?
· How has my attitude been lately? Do I need an adjustment in attitude? How can that be best achieved?
Let’s look at a few of these topics for the next part of this blog, namely boundaries and “me time”.
Read MoreLeadership is caring
· Care for yourself first
· So you can care for “your people”
· And then care for the purpose of and for the organization/group
· With care-full character
What that means, in specific, is that you first need to care for yourself because if you don’t you might just burn out and not be able to care for anything anymore. Take good care of your body mind and spirit so you can, as a friend once said to me, “help the other person put on their oxygen mask.” Maybe you know the analogy: in an airplane the fight attendant says we should put on our oxygen masks first before helping other. This means we are connected to what we need to continue to care for others.
Read MoreTime management is key to getting the important things done.
We need to find ways to CARVE out time for the important things and for reflection and Rest for 2022.
Look at your calendar and make that “cut” and CARVE out the time.
Then when you are in your reflection day (or at least half-day per month), decide what is really important and CARVE out time for that one or two items for the next month.
Then reflect again at another pre-planned date. And keep those times holy.
Read MoreThe How of productivity without overwhelm:
How do I keep from feeling overwhelmed, even if the activities are mostly great?
I use a couple of coaching tools on myself. One is the Eisenhower Matrix and one is writing everything down with visualization - on the family calendar, on my electronic calendar, writing it in my to-do journal…
Read MoreWhat gives you joy?
Start-up and Entrepreneurial coaching gives me joy. Working with C-level leaders that bring jobs and help the local economy gives me much joy. I love to help the leaders and their companies succeed.
Read MoreMy wish for you is that you have MORE of what really counts in this season!
What’s happened for me and Jehle Coaching:
I have been working on my member care and debriefing skills for the past year as well as keeping up my coaching and supervision skills (including conflict resolution and team and group dynamics) with mostly online but also in-person courses.
Read MoreAs we move towards 2022, I am doing some reflection. It helps to bring about change.
I’m reflecting on my situation and accepting for it is, and then doing what I can about it.
Read MoreMerry Christmas from Jehle Coaching! With a time of personal reflection for you at the end.
2021 has been full and a profitable year for me and for Jehle Coaching.
I hope your year has also been profitable, as well.
Read MoreWe all know the saying: Hurt people HURT people.
But do you know that Healed people HEAL people?
I was told this second phrase last week in a training evening, and I believe it to be true- healed people heal people.
Read MoreWhat are you reading?
What are you learning?
I have a friend who regularly greets her friends with the question, “What are you reading?”
This is one of my favorite questions because it assumes that the person is a learner and a reader.
I think we should be both. So, the second question that goes with the first is “What are you learning?”
That really leads to pre-questions:
· Why are you reading these books?
· What books are next in line?
· What are your goals?
· What books and articles are you reading that lead you to your goals?
Read MoreIt’s a season where we think we should be grateful but what can we be grateful for?
There’s bad news all around starting with a continuing pandemic (now we have delta and omicron) and ending with wars and rumors of wars, famine, diseases (other than covid) and floods.
STOP, THINK, FEEL, REFLECT – and BE GRATEFUL.
Read MoreMost people think of stress as the enemy, but it isn’t.
You can even be stressed and have along life, as long as you see stress in certain ways.
Stress can be a friend and stress in itself it is never the real problem.
It’s what we think about the stress and how we deal with the stressors that is the issue. We all have stress every day.
Stress is ubiquitous and every day we need to complete the stress cycle (you have to do something – because “wellness is not a state of being, but a state of action”) to thrive.
Read MoreUse your strengths to work on your weaknesses
When you know your strengths, go in the opposite direction for growth. That means gently pushing towards your weaknesses, using your strengths as your basis, as your foundation.
For example, if you are big on doing things right all the time, allow yourself some slack but also keep doing (most things) right. OR- if you want to grow in your relationships and you are good at listening, try sharing and being more vulnerable for growth, at the same time, still asking good questions and practicing active listening.
Read MorePAST: Remember the past and be grateful, PRESENT: savor what we have in the present and FUTURE: anticipate the good things the future holds with hope.
Read MoreA slash is someone who has more than one career and usually at the same time, and who perhaps has made a second career out of a hobby or passion.
A slash can transition you from one stage in life to another or it can accompany your other career through most of your life.
Read MoreWe have had a ton of change
Some is easier than other kinds of change
When you are leaving home – for good
This blog repeats posting, especially in light of the Afghanistan (and possibly other upcoming) refugee situation.
I was in the USA and had had the opportunity of flying on a very special flight to Chicago.
Lessons learned
I can learn from this man; we all can.
He had already been able to overcome what seems insurmountable barriers, make important, if still very hard, decisions, and continue on his way to a new solution, a new place.
He had few illusions to the difficulties he would face ahead, but he believed that there was opportunity ahead and only death and destruction behind. He knew that his future was and still is in his hands and he had taken the responsibility seriously.
Read MoreI have just had a holiday. It’s been great, but at least for me, returning to the job can sometimes be difficult. Returning to work can be emotionally - and even physically difficult, especially if you have really had a mental break from your every-day schedule, as I have had. It can feel like you are a deep-sea diver coming to the surface again, facing a foreign world from where you have recently been. Resurfacing and getting back in the saddle, to mix some metaphors, are tough.
Start on a Wednesday, or even Thursday- or do a “fun” thing first
I restarted last Thursday.
Make your first work-week lighter by only working a few days, or perhaps schedule something “fun” first, such as a training day, or a team building day where you have no choice but to ignore your email list. This time I only focused on the deadlines
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