Eclipse Life Coaching

If you want to build your resilience and reduce stress, do these things more often:

🔸 Be comfortable being uncomfortable

Accept that things will go wrong - because they will. See obstacles and set-backs as PART of the plan.

🔸 Practise mindfulness

Consciously focus on the present and the process. When you do this, you're not worrying about the future or dwelling on the past.

🔸 Respond rather than react

Slow down and nurture the rational part of your brain, rather than the emotional part. This allows you to make better decisions and exhibit better behaviours.

🔸 Do regular exercise

Schedule enjoyable exercise into your routine. Engaging in physical activity increases serotonin and dopamine, increasing mental wellbeing.

🔸 See things as a challenge, not a threat

When faced with a problem or difficulty, turn it into an opportunity to learn and to show off your skills. When you do this habitually, you start to look forward to more challenges.

There’ll never be a better time than right now to start working towards your dreams and ambitions, so what are you waiting for?

What Are You Waiting For? Start now. What are you waiting for? There will never be a perfect time to start towards your dreams. The perfect time is now.

Do you tend to ruminate?

Do you often have the same thoughts over and over?

Rumination generally leads you to a worse state of mind.

You're the creator of your own thoughts, so you have the power to dismiss any thought that may enter your head. You can choose not to pay attention to it.

As some thoughts don't lead you anywhere constructive, you can dismiss them as unimportant.

You are not ignoring your problems or living in denial, as you can't solve problems when you’re not in a healthy state of mind. The time to solve problems is not when you're ruminating, but when you’re in a good mood, when your thinking is rational.

You don’t need to carry worrying thoughts around all the time, and when you can learn to let go of them, you'll find yourself living more in the moment, and feeling a sense of 'lightness' and well-being.

This is 'mindfulness', and involves using all your senses (sight, smell, touch, hearing, taste) to savour what's around you right now.

You can't be "fully" mindful all the time, but the more of these moments you have, the happier you will be.