This week I share all the tips and resources I use to coach myself when I feel overwhelmed or if I need to take an important decision.

You can listen to the episode here.

Content

• Coaching is a thought-provoking and creative process done in a safe environment
• Self-coaching is about reproducing this process on your own
• First identify the goal of the self-coaching session, then define the success criteria: how will you know it is successful?
• Then ask yourself “what needs to happen?”
• Don’t stop at the first answer, keep digging with “what else?”
• At the end, decide actions you want to take
• Share what you discovered with people you trust

Some questions you can use to coach yourself

• What is important for you?
• What’s the purpose?
• What does it mean to you?
• What are you the most proud of?
• How do you feel about (XYZ)?
• What did you learn from (XYZ)?
• What could you do differently next time?
• What do you want to do about it?
• What are you going to do first?
• What do you want to achieve?
• How do you want to get there?
• What resources do you need? What else?
• Who can support you?
• What are your options?
• What is under your control? What is out of your control?
• What do you want to change?
• What would you try now if you knew you could not fail?
• What’s the worst that can happen, and how will you handle that?
• What’s the first step you need to take to reach your goal?
• What do you need in order to succeed?
• What is stopping you from doing (XYZ)?
• What does success look like?