Feel Like This at This Time of Year?

5 Coaching Questions to help you discover new thinking to take back control of your Holidays and STOP THE MADNESS!

This is the time of year that starts to accelerate our to do lists and our stress hormones. Yes, we have good stress and distress! Good stress happens when we feel moderately challenged in some way and it lasts a only a short time and believe it or not it is not bad for us!

Bad stress (distress) happens when we feel or perceive that we have little or no control over our circumstances and for a lot of us this is how we feel at this time of year.

How Do You Stop the Madness from Robbing You of Your Holidays?

If I were coaching you to help you STOP THE MADNESS, I would ask you questions that would help you explore what is true now about you and your stress at this time of year, helping you to discover for yourself your goal of where you would like to be emotionally, physically and mentally so that you can be intentional to reducing your stress and taking back control of your holidays.

Here are 5 Coaching questions to get you started on your journey of discovery to new thinking to STOP THE MADNESS:

What needs to change about my thinking at this time of year to reduce my stress and take back control of my holidays?
What thoughts, attitudes, behaviors, habits, needs, wants, fears, or desires do I let control my actions in creating madness at this time of year?
What is one thing that I can work on that will point me in the direction I want to go?
What obstacles do I see that could potentially derail me from my goal of reducing my stress and taking back control of my holidays?
Who or what will help me to be accountable to reaching my goal to STOP THE MADNESS?

Taking Back Control of Your Holiday Season

These coaching questions are a jumping off point to helping you take back control of your holidays getting you to discover new thinking to STOP THE MADNESS at this time of year. Once you begin the thinking process, continue to ask yourself open ended questions that will create new avenues of thinking. Writing the questions down and answering them on paper has helped me.

Take time to really explore being honest with yourself one question at a time working on re-framing your old belief system and patterns of doing at this time of year with your end goal in mind.

Coaching empowers you to create awareness, narrow your focus, design an action plan and an accountability system to help you reach your goal.

Tis The Season

We can’t ignore the level of stress that this season of “no stopping at anytime” creates for us. Ignoring it creates a whole new season of distress!

But we can be intentional to defining the “reason for the season”. As a follower of Christ our reason for the holidays is to celebrate the birth of Jesus, who was God, coming to earth as a baby, the light of the world, to save us. Foretold by the prophet Isaiah:

“For unto us a child is born, to us a son is given;
And the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace” (Isaiah. 9:6)

Isaiah is announcing God’s surprising plan of grace and glory for all people.

Jesus is our great beacon of light and our only hope in this world of madness.

Creating awareness of our true reason for the season is what will get us to our goal to STOP THE MADNESS and take back control of our holiday season!

“May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope”. (Romans 15:13)

Feel Like This at This Time of Year?