resilience

5 Steps To Becoming Solution Focussed

In this post, Coach and Trainer  Simon Pimenta explores the topic of  how we can shift from over-focussing on problems to being solution focussed. Some people tend to focus on and dwell on a problem, whilst others, having identified a problem, very quickly start to focus on considering solutions. One way of spotting when people are getting stuck on a problem,

How Often Do You Say “I Should……..”?

“I should do X- brush my teeth/go to church, visit my gran/eat my vegetables.” “I shouldn’t do Y- smoke/drink/eat cake/curse.” “I should know how to do this…” “I should be X (smarter, healthier, richer, slimmer.)” When we say “I should/shouldn’t……..” we can be creating stress.