“Take Back Your Time”

In this first step, we’ll focus on coaching strategies and tools to help you leverage things you have control over, like how you speak to yourself, the power of the words you use, reframing your thoughts, and your own breath.

This first step will help you approach the rest of the program from a place of calm and control, empowered to problem-solve creative solutions to the things that challenge and frustrate you (like never having enough time to work out, get the laundry caught up, finish your correcting and always feeling like you should be doing more). 

You can’t help your students reach a goal if they don’t know what they’re supposed to be aiming for and the same is true for you. Step 2 is all about creating a vision - deciding how you want things in your life to be different, how you want to feel, and what you want your life to look like.

When you picture your life with long, leisurely weekends, doing fun hobbies and reconnecting with your favorite people, and saying buh-bye to the Sunday Scaries, you’ll feel more invested in doing the work required to make some changes in your life because you know that vision is worth the effort.

Having a vision is great, but without a plan and some practical steps to follow, you’re not going to get very far. Your vision may have included regular date nights, better sleep or more movement, and relaxing on Saturday morning with coffee and a book. But if you try to overhaul everything at once, you’ll likely get overwhelmed and discouraged.

In step 3, you’ll decide which area you’d like to start with. Then, I’ll help you design a goal that you’re inspired to work toward. Plus, we’ll also use coaching strategies to break your goal into smaller micro-goals that can be completed along the way more quickly, so you feel successful and motivated to keep going.

It’s time to get into the action phase, and work on the plan that we’ve co-created to bring you closer to your vision of making planning at school more effortless, making your home feel more like an oasis, having more white space in your schedule, or feeling like your life is fun and fulfilling.

You’ll practice the different coaching strategies you’ve learned to make consistent progress. However, sometimes life happens. And so this step is also about flexible problem-solving and practicing self-compassion, so even when things aren’t going exactly as you hoped, you’ll still feel proud of the progress you’re making.

This final step is different from the others, but it’s all about maintaining the momentum of your progress. Up to this point, we will have been meeting weekly because direct focus, consistency, and accountability is the best way to see results quickly and feel great about the changes you’re making.

In this step, you have 2 options:

1) Continue weekly meetings for the remaining 4 sessions, keeping things as-is

2) Discontinue weekly meetings and use the remaining 4 sessions at your discretion over the next 8 weeks (like gradual release).

Everyone is different and in this step, you’ll get the support and accountability you feel will be most helpful to you and your progress, in this last phase.