#80 Handle Difficult Conversations?

Stress and anxiety can be a constant challenge to deal with and often can feel like emotions you're fighting against. Tune in for some practical ways to better understand and reframe these emotions. 

The desire to be happy is what most people want, but often misunderstand how to achieve it - it can be mistaken as a destination or sometimes assuming because you don't feel happy, you're unhappy - tune in to hear about how you can better understand happiness and how to take control of yours. 

Listening is a skill that will take you far in life; whether that's relationships, friendships or your career. A lot of us believe we listen, but often it can be listening to respond rather than understanding. Or find ourselves jumping in too much.  Tune in for this episode on some tactical ways you can improve your listening to build a great understanding and connection with others. 

Never wake up by accident is what I heard from a podcast guest years ago and it really stuck with me. We have those mornings where we feel slow and it can often carry through to our day. I'm not talking about joining the 5am Club here, but there are some things to include at the start of your day to set yourself up right. Tune in to hear them!

We all have those conversations we put off having as we feel like they're going to be difficult. Whether it's work related or ones with friends or a partner - prolonging them creates anxiety and often leads to it coming out in an unconstructive way.  Tune in for some tips on how to approach these conversations and reduce the feeling of them being difficult. 

Life can feel like the most unexpected rollercoaster - moments of extreme highs and then other moments of lows that feel like you'll be stuck there forever. It can be frustrating and create anxious thoughts if we don't manage these effectively.  In this episode we discuss how you shift your mindset to look at those highs and lows to avoid that frustration and create a healthy way to look at life. 

You may look at your schedule for a day and either think you've got it all figured out, only for the plan to be ruined by unexpected issues. Or you are working reactively with no real plan in place. Either way there are tools to avoid either of these happening and in this episode we talk about how you can create a foolproof plan to achieve a productive and rewarding day. 

We can work so hard to achieving our goals in life, invest endless amounts of time and then when we achieve them, that feeling can disappear very quickly. It can leave us wondering where it went and instantly go chasing the next high.  In this episode, we discuss how to savor those moments more, how to avoid placing all of your joy in a destination and the future. 

Feedback can be something a lot of people dread receiving along with giving it to people. Feedback that isn't delivered effectively, will often cause a standoff, a defensive reaction and the feedback being ignored in the long run.  Tune in to hear some tactical ways to become more effective at delivering feedback using AEIOU and how it will change the way people respond to your feedback, whether that's a manager, team member, friend or partner. 

We can often be our worst enemy and biggest critic in our life and career. If it goes unchecked it can create unhealthy perfectionism, imposter syndrome and other challenges. In this episode you'll hear some tactical ways to become kinder to yourself, your own biggest fan, without compromising your work ethic and goals.