Guidelines for This Toolbox

Practice: Start of Day

Outcome: When you practice at the start of your day, you have a chance to begin with resolve – to commit to staying aware and awake in the day.

You have an opportunity to remind yourself of your limited thinking and who you no longer want to show up as in your day.

Then you can bring to life and embody the thoughts, behaviours, and feelings of who you want to be.

This requires you to do some preparation beforehand to create the 3 levels of intention:

1. Image (the symbol represents your intention & emotion)
2. Intention (get clear on how you want to be e.g. patient, open-minded, being effective, authentically you etc)
3. Emotions (how do you want to feel? Joy, grateful, free, relief, empowered, unlimited, loving life)

MAKE THEM YOUR OWN: (Write these on paper. Get clear on it before you start your practice. bring the intention to mind when instructed to)

Time: 17 minutes

[Music: The Infinite by Barry Goldstein]

Practice: Pre-Session

Outcome: You are revolutionising your art of coaching by taking this action. Changing your state before a session to embody the thoughts, behaviours, and feelings of who you want to be for the athletes you work with is where true impact is created.

Become clear, calm and focused to receive and contribute authentically and openly for the greater good of the athletes you're about to lead.

Time: 5 minutes

[Music: Aether by Remko Arentz]

Practice: Pre-Meeting

Outcome: Judgements and assumptions of colleagues hold back many staff and the departments they work in. There is a pressure felt by many that they need to be the brightest in the room, underpinned by self-preservation due to insecurity of their role. Beliefs around low self-worth also contribute to this dynamic.

You are revolutionising your department by taking this action.

This practice will guide you to change your state before a meeting to become clear, calm and focused enabling you to receive and contribute authentically.

This will enhance trust - the fuel source for impact - allowing you to embody the thoughts, behaviours, and feelings of who you want to be for yourself, your colleagues and the greater good of all involved.

Leadership is a show, not a tell. 

Time: 5 minutes

[Music: Aether by Remko Arentz]

Practice: Detach From Work & Connect with Family

Outcome: This practice will enable you to detach from your working day, let it go and become who you want to be as a partner and parent.

Our high-performance culture teaches us to act primarily from survival emotions and powerful drives to keep accomplishing and to compete for success.

This drains the body’s vital resources by living only in survival – leaving very little energy for our hearts to open.

This leaves many coaches and practitioners holding back as a partner and a parent when they get home. 

By tuning in to elevated emotions such as love, joy, kindness, compassion, and gratitude, you can develop the courage to open your heart – and begin to lead with love in every area of your life. 

Time: 15 minutes

[Music: Soul by Remko Arentz]