{"id":6240,"date":"2023-03-22T02:10:27","date_gmt":"2023-03-22T06:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theexecutivehappinesscoach.com\/?p=6240"},"modified":"2024-01-11T14:28:53","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T19:28:53","slug":"act-happy-week-2023-day-3-self-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theexecutivehappinesscoach.com\/2023\/03\/act-happy-week-2023-day-3-self-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Act Happy Week 2023, Day 3: Self-Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The focus of Act Happy Week is to educate the public about purposeful actions you can take to create chemical shifts in your body and new neural pathways in your brain to support more frequent experiences of what we call Positive Emotions. When you \u201cAct Happy\u201d you train your mind\/body\/heart to find Happiness, Calm, and Resilience when you choose to visit them!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is Day 3 (445 words of content, Reading time ~1.78 minutes)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I. DAY 3: SELF-WORK<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s Your Why?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I begin a coaching engagement or any coaching session, I ask some form of this question: For the sake of what are we talking about <this>?<\/strong> This is not for me as much as it is for my client \u2013 for them to get in touch with their motivation for making XYZ a goal or for wanting to work on ABC in today\u2019s session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For some people, coaching is a tool to help them move toward a clearly defined future. But most people, in my experience, don\u2019t start with that clarity.<\/strong> They have a sense of wanting to be better in some way \u2013 more effective, more confident, more productive, for example. So that\u2019s where we begin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Along the way, we regularly return to underlying questions.<\/strong> Why<\/em> do you want to improve communications? What\u2019s underneath<\/em> this? What do you really want<\/em>? What does authentic<\/em> mean for you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The coaching journey supports people to ponder the deeper questions you see in the above picture, and we get into conversations about values, personal brand, life\/work dynamics, and yes, even Happiness!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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