Coaching Empowers You to Build Your Ideal Life
Coaching: A Collaborative Partnership Guided by Your Personal Values and Well-being Vision.
Values: The core guidelines for who you want to be. Well-being: A state of thriving across all areas of your life.
✓ Optimal physical, mental, and emotional health
✓ Loving relationships, community, belonging
✓ Sense of purpose, growth mindset, grit, resilience
✓ Mindfully present, self-aware, self-regulated, self-reflective
✓ Agency over your focus, time, and energy
✓ Growth, success, advancement in work or school
✓ Joy, fun, flow, play…appreciating the gift of life
Executive Function: How It All Gets Done
Having a clear vision isn’t enough. You need ACTION.
This is where executive function (EF) comes it. Think of it as your brain’s mission control team. There are lots of teams and sub-teams working together toward one big mission.
That mission: The well-being and success of future you.
EF is the set of cognitive skills that let present you take actions that benefit future you.
Executive function skills develop until about age 25. For people with ADHD and other conditions, this development can take even longer and could require explicit teaching, practice, reflection, and fine-tuning.
Under-developed EF skills can cause major quality of life issues with work, relationships, daily living, health, stress, and meeting potential. This can look like:
✓ Trouble regulating strong emotions, overwhelm, acting impulsively
✓ Challenges with self-care, exercise, sleep, nutrition, “adulting”
✓ Struggling with procrastination, prioritization, follow-through, completion
✓ Never having enough time, busy but unproductive, time-blindness
✓ Frequently late, rushing at the last minute, forgetting things, constant “fires”
✓ Languishing, feeling adrift, under-performing, underachieving
✓ Getting stuck, impaired problem-solving, rigid thinking, negative self-talk
The good news: You don’t have to suffer forever. Coaching can help you learn these skills.
Executive Function and Well-being
Well-being requires synergy between body, mind, and soul. Each part both supports and relies upon the others.
BODY
Your vehicle: Source of your physical energy
Sleep, exercise, nutrition, regulated nervous system, restorative rest, somatic wisdom, emotional awareness
MIND
Your driver: Source of your mental energy
Executive function, growth mindset, self-compassion, mindfulness, intentional action, self-regulation
SOUL
Your navigator: Source of spiritual energy
Core values, relationships, talents, sense of purpose, authentic self-expression, joy, play, flow
My Coaching Process
Phase 1: Who are you now?
Explore and identify your core values
Take inventory of your talents and hard-earned skills
Assess where you are in all of your life categories
Learn about your unique brain wiring
Phase 2: How do you want to expand?
Create a clear well-being vision
Set identity-based goals
Connect to the strengths and skills you already have
Design a map and timeline of major milestones
Phase 3: ACTION!
Design weekly action plans, backups, and accountability
Learn new skills and strategies, expand your toolkit
Experiment between sessions, learn by doing and reflecting
Use this knowledge to deepen and fine-tune your vision
Phase 4: Celebrate and integrate
Celebrate your wins and how far you've come
Integrate all of your newfound knowledge
Develop maintenance and accountability plans
Decide what comes next
How I See My Clients
WISE
You’re the expert of your life and experience. You’re always learning. You can figure this out.
STRONG
Your core self is whole and good. Growth is your natural state. You’re talented, capable, resilient.
CONNECTED
You have a place and purpose. You exist in relationship with other people. You have gifts to contribute.
I’d love to hear from you.
Schedule a free 30-minute introductory call with me today!
Questions? Email me at stefan@stefanoste.com.