December 2022 Edition
Kathy Pearce, CPC, PCC, CPQC, PQM
??Award Winning International Transformational Coach || Specializing in Leadership, Mindset & Personal Development Coaching || CPC || ICF PCC || CPQC || PQ Mastery || Microsoft Alum
Here I’ll be sharing my latest articles, personal growth tips, and inspirations directly with you as a member of the Kathy Pearce Coaching family. If you have topics, questions, specific items you’d like me to address, or insights that you feel you would like to also share with this group, please send them along. We are here to serve and support YOU??
Theme:?Completion and New Beginnings!
We’re approaching the end of 2022.?Are you ready for 2023??Is the world ready for you?
For me, I view these yearly markers as ways to celebrate different aspects of life – whether it’s seasons, holidays, birthdays, or other personally meaningful events.?We can become so stuck both in the mindless monotony of our day-to-day schedules and our usual behavioral patterns.?The year end presents an opportunity to mark an occasion, and it’s also an opportunity to use a ritual of celebration and gratitude to close out the year.
I use a leadership framework for this process and the year end is a nice reflection on the completion and celebration of how far I’ve come. My 2022 theme has been Intentional”.?This word reflects the path I chose to walk in 2022 - to be intentional about everything in my life - the way I think, the way I feel, and the way I act.?As I walk the many paths of my life, I?intentionally?choose health, happiness, possibility, connection, growth, fulfillment, abundance, creativity, spirituality, celebration and love.
While this year has allowed me to continue to build a sustainable business, far too often I’ve been too serious and too driven about hitting our growth and financial goals.?As I move into this next year, I want more magic, more joy, more ease, and a greater sense of flow in my life.?
“Simplify” captures that spirit and intention for me, so as I move into 2023 my personal intention is to?‘Simplify’.
Setting an intention makes it more likely that you’ll move in that direction for the year.?I’m happy to share that while it’s quite imperfect, and there are some days that are still packed, both my business and my personal life feel much more spacious with this intention to Simplify.?
?For 2023, I’ve also chosen to create a ‘Quest’ for myself, so I am extending my intention into my Quest to “Simplify my life so that I live my richest and fullest life every single day.”?
?As I go through my year end closing process, I consider projects, people, and community.?I think back on all the things I’ve done this year – both professionally and also at home.?
I’ll think about both the wins and the misses; the incomplete, lost, discarded dreams that never happened.?We always have both.?When I look at both, is there anything I want to do differently in 2023??Anything I’d like to remember to change up? I’ll reflect on and consider what it means, and how I will choose, to?Simplify?my life in the way I think, the way I feel, and the way I act.
What about you??I invite you to create your own year-end ritual by taking the time to introspect and reflect.?Elevate the ritual by sharing your process of these thoughts with someone else.?You could also write it down on paper and do a ceremonial ripping and burning of the paper.?Both the acts of sharing or the physicality of ripping and the changing state of the burn are small rituals that mark something important.
What's New?
“Kathy?has been recognized as one of the?Top Mindset Coaches by?Coach Foundation .”
I am honored and feel so much gratitude to learn that I have been selected as one of the Top Mindset Coaches 2022 from?CoachFoundation .?Thank you to all my remarkable Coach colleagues, the ICF and ICF Washington Chapter, and most of all my truly amazing clients.?It is truly an honor to walk this path with you.
Beginning in January, I am offering a new 12 Week Program:
Your 2023 Plan to Create Positive Change - Re-engineer your mindset with habits & goals for the new year!
Intentional change involves envisioning the ideal self (who you wish to?be?and what you want to?do?in your work and life); exploring your real self (the gaps you need to fill and the strengths that will help you do so); developing a learning agenda (a road map for turning aspirations into reality); and then experimenting and practicing (with new behaviors and roles).
During this 12-week program, you will:
? Building Blocks:
Kathy is uniquely talented in understanding people and creating a place for growth. She leads you to think about things in new ways and shares perspectives that facilitate introspection and new ideas. Always uplifting and cheerful, discussions with her go deep - to so many places where she applies her wisdom and broad experience. So many times, I have thought to myself 'Wow, I would not have thought about it that way, or thought about that at all. I am so glad we talked.' The secret to success is keeping people like Kathy around you, and I highly recommend you consider working with her.
- Jonathan Ermey, Senior Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
MINDSET COACHING TIPS:
What is a mindset coach anyway?
It could be said that all coaching is mindset coaching.?Coaching is about helping people to get from where they are now to where they want to be.??Coaching is about working with people to set and achieve their goals by:
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?a) Helping them to get clear about what they truly want
b) Reviewing where they are now and what they’ve tried so far
c) Coming up with and discussing options for action
d) Agreeing to a plan to make it happen
Where mindset coaching differs, is that in addition to the four steps above, a mindset coach works with clients to uncover the beliefs, blocks, behaviors, habits and patterns of thinking that prevent them from living the life or creating the business they desire.?Taking these insights into what makes their client tick, a Mindset Coach uses a range of reprogramming techniques to banish those blocks and replace them with ones that serve the client.?
By working with mindset in this way, the coach paves the way for faster results, greater transformation and lasting success.?A Mindset Coach also helps people build confidence about who they are, create healthy boundaries, and attract the love and respect they deserve.?They’re often experts in developing confidence, empowerment, and moving past limiting beliefs.
?What techniques might a Mindset Coach use??
?Along with leveraging coaching best practices, a Mindset Coach may also use specific techniques meant to more effectively shift a client’s mindset around a particular issue. For example, oftentimes a mindset coach will draw awareness towards cultivating a?growth mindset?rather than a fixed one.
This opens a client’s mind up to possibilities instead of seeing limited resources and abilities.?This type of coach may also help a client explore what is within their control with the idea that we can change what is in our control, even when that is solely how we see a situation.?A Mindset Coach helps you to get clarity on your purpose and values, and how to go about living your life base upon those.?
You see, happiness and success come from living in alignment with your deepest desires and dreams, not from what others tell you that you should do.?It's hard to get clarity on who you are, and what you value, when you are constantly surrounded by distractions and demands that are contradictory to what you really want.
?3 benefits of working with a Mindset Coach
?1) Build better habits
Making mindset moves is a great start but to get those mindsets to stick for clients, habits must be built. A good mindset coach will help clients build a plan on how to achieve this. I take my clients through a values exercise and leverage it to build a plan on how to stay true to those values through building stickable, daily habits.
2) Move outside your comfort zone
A Mindset Coach will encourage clients to step outside their comfort zone and challenge themselves for the sake of growth. We don’t grow from within our comfort zone so this is a pivotal shift Mindset Coaches will need to help their clients with.
?3) See roadblocks as obstacles to overcome
When you choose to see challenges as opportunities, a world of possibility opens up. This is another benefit of working with a coach focused on mindset work. As a client puts in the work to make this shift, they’ll become more successful as they seek out workarounds to their problems and build confidence in their abilities to find solutions.
What's Next?
Here at Kathy Pearce Coaching our mission is to inspire, empower, and influence a world where people are seeking to be their best self, love their life’s work, and respond to life’s challenges with a positive mindset.
In alignment with this mission, I am joining?ExecOnline ?to partner with them as a Leadership & Mindset Coach.?ExecOnline is an industry leading pioneer in the Online Leadership Development space.?I’m excited to be in partnership with them and will deliver 3-month Leadership coaching programs that drive personal growth and enhance organizational impact.
This year I am also offering a?Holiday Special.??Today you have the power to Give the Gift of Coaching to someone you love and care for – especially yourself.?
?This gift might change the course of their life.?Or offer them a life-changing experience.?What would it mean to you to offer them the?possibility?to become who they always wanted to be?
Give the Gift of Coaching
You may gift yourself, or someone else, one of the following and receive a?25% Discount:?
?This offer is valid only between November 18 – December 31, 2022.?
?All coaching sessions will start January 2023).
Ways to work with me for your growth, goals, and gratitude…?All you have to do is say YES!?
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