Blog — Melody Woolford Coaching

Unpacking Your Feelings Gives You Choice and Power (Feelings Part III)

You’ve spent the last two weeks practicing noticing your feelings and allowing them. Now what?

You can just let them be because that is life. Nothing is wrong with you, it is part of the human experience. You can’t appreciate happiness if you don’t know what sadness is, and vice versa.

You can also get curious about them.

Explore all the reasons why you may be feeling the way you do.

A good place to start is with your thoughts. Your thoughts and beliefs about circumstances in your life often create your feelings.

Thought Management, Mental FitnessMelody WoolfordApril 5, 2022Feelings, Thoughts

Feelings Matter: Notice Them Without Judgement (Feelings Part I)

Feelings matter! They are the driving force behind why we do or don’t take action in our life.

How we feel can drive why we work so hard…procrastinate on projects…or avoid or go after our dreams.

So NOTICE them.

Mental Fitness, Thought ManagementMelody WoolfordMarch 22, 2022Feelings

How to Tame Your Drama Llama

You know those moments when something small happens and our brain decides to dramatize and catastrophize it? Like booking flights for the wrong dates? Or losing essential funding for your business? Here’s my go to way for dealing with it productively.

How to Be More Decisive

Swimming in confusion and indecision? You aren’t alone. Here are some ways to be more decisive and save time.

Unlock Your Full Potential: 6-Week Mental Fitness Program

Do you wish you had the ability to handle whatever challenges come your way with self-confidence, courage and grace? If you’d like to take your mental fitness to the next level, join my upcoming 6-Week Mental Fitness Program starting March 5th, 2022.

Mental Fitness, Personal Development, RelationshipsMelody WoolfordJanuary 26, 2022Mental fitness

Communication Struggles? Build a 10% Bridge

Struggling to communicate with a colleague or loved one?

Maybe you’re trying to reach an agreement about something and everything that comes out of their mouth just annoys the hell out of you.

Here’s one approach I’ve found helpful in these situations:

Breathe, get curious and find the 10% truth. Let me explain…

Create An Extraordinary Year (Part 1)

Does creating an extraordinary year both terrify and excite you? Me too. Are you ready to go after your dreams but a bunch of fears and doubts are holding you back? You aren’t alone. I’ve been there too and here’s how I overcame them. You can too!

Unlock Your Full Potential: 6-Week Mental Fitness Program

Do you wish you had the ability to handle whatever challenges come your way with self-confidence, courage and grace? If you’d like to take your mental fitness to the next level, join my upcoming 6-Week Mental Fitness program starting January 8th, 2022.

Gratitude Tune-Up: 30-Day Challenge

As concerns over the Omricron variant grow, I'm particularly grateful that my third annual 30-day gratitude tune-up starts on December 1st. 🤨😁 I started this challenge a few years ago and by the end of the challenge I felt a BIG change in attitude as I got more into the habit of scanning my day for things to be grateful for. I learned to see the glass half full versus half empty. So I made it an annual tradition during the month of December. It is a great way to bring in the new year.

Mental Fitness, Personal Development, Thought Management, Self-careMelody WoolfordNovember 29, 2021gratitude

Are You On To Your Judge?

Ever notice that voice in your head that says, “I need x to be happy and if I don’t get it I’ll be miserable.” I sure have. My brain loves to think “If I don’t live overseas, I’ll never be truly happy.” Or “If I don't ace this project, it's all over.” These thoughts create stress and spiral when left unchecked. That's your internal Judge and it loves to create extra stress for you.

Luckily, I’m on to my internal Judge these days.

Mental Fitness, Thought Management, Work ProductivityMelody WoolfordNovember 21, 2021Thoughts, Mental fitness

Be Stress Aware: 3 Things to Tune Into

Ever pause to notice what’s going on in your body when you’re stressed? We're usually so caught up in the circumstances of the moment we don’t stop to check in with ourselves and understand what might really be going on.

When you’re in survival mode it’s hard to think your way out of stress. Next time you experience stress, try tuning into your breath, thoughts and attention. Just observing and getting curious with yourself will relieve some stress.

Mental Fitness, Thought Management, Self-careMelody WoolfordNovember 9, 2021Stress, Stres Management, Thoughts

How to Let Go of Imposter Syndrome and Shine

Many start-up entrepreneurs face daily challenges to their self-confidence.

A frequent one is imposter syndrome (also known as imposter phenomenon or experience since it isn’t a mental disorder), generally defined as a psychological pattern in which an individual doubts their skills, talents, or accomplishments and has a persistent internalized fear of being exposed as a "fraud.”

As an entrepreneur we wear multiple hats a day, frequently charting new territories. This can be both exciting and nerve racking…

Talk To Yourself Like Someone You Love

Be your own best friend and watch yourself soar!

I ran a half marathon this past weekend in Newport, RI. When my body got tired the last few miles of the race, it was easy to beat myself up for not training even harder. I “knew” better. I could easily have spiraled into negativity and victimhood. Instead, I…

Mental Fitness, Self-care, Thought ManagementMelody WoolfordOctober 12, 2021Mental fitness, Thoughts

Stress Busting Tip

How often do you worry about something only to realize later that it wasn’t worth your time and energy? Take a few minutes to ponder this.

When I ask people this question, most people say the worry was rarely worth their time. With hindsight, we often recognize that worrying about these situations didn’t add any value and in many cases just made our responses to the situation less productive.

One trick I like to use when I feel worry creeping in is to ask myself the following questions:

Mental Fitness, Thought Management, Work ProductivityMelody WoolfordSeptember 21, 2021Mental fitness, Stress

Scaling the Mountains of Your Life with Success

The same goes for the “mountains” of life. I want to have the capacity to respond to life’s great challenges with a positive mindset rather than a negative one. I don’t want to huff and puff and be miserable along the way. I want to have the mental fitness to handle whatever I choose to take on with confidence and courage.

Go After Your Dreams NOW

What’s on your bucket list of things to do and experience that have been buried underneath all your “adult” responsibilities?

What’s standing in your way of going after them and achieving them?

Mental Fitness, Goal SettingMelody WoolfordAugust 19, 2021Mental fitness, Goal Setting

From Stress to Success: Mental Fitness is the X-Factor

Do you have a lot of stress and overwhelm in your life? Maybe endless to-do lists, difficult colleagues and family that drives you up the wall? Do you crave more calm, ease and fulfillment in your work and personal life?

I hear you and you aren’t alone. I’ve been there and have successfully transformed my life to regularly create more peace and happiness. You can too.

I’d like to invite you to join my next 8-week Mental Fitness group coaching program where you’ll dive into how to identify what's weighing you down and how to show up as your best self.

Accept or Convert to Increase Your Happiness

There are things every day that make you feel stressed or unhappy.

It could be a long to-do-list, a difficult spouse/boss/colleague/child, a traffic jam, a tight deadline, an annoying project, etc. Whatever it is, your inner Judge and Saboteurs keep your hands on the hot stove of negative emotions, making you feel stressed or unhappy about the world around you. Negative emotions are normal but sometimes they suck.

For today, I’d like to invite you to practice activating your inner Sage response by choosing one of two options when these occasions arise.

Transforming Challenges into Growth and Success

One of the biggest gifts the pandemic gave me over the past year was the opportunity to strengthen my mental fitness, i.e., my ability to respond to life’s challenges with a more positive than negative mindset.

There were so many things that didn’t go as planned, things I thought I needed to go a certain way in order to be happy. I was wrong. It turns out the right mindset goes a long way.

Mental Fitness, Productivity, Thought ManagementMelody WoolfordJune 15, 2021

Triggers Can Be Our Teachers

Do you have someone in your life that triggers and upsets you frequently? Someone that makes you want to scream, hiss or run away. Perhaps it’s a boss, colleague, parent, spouse or kid?

You love them, but damn, they get under your skin sometimes.

Next time you get triggered by one of them, ask yourself this question:

Thought Management, Mental FitnessMelody WoolfordMay 18, 2021Thoughts