Something as important as the balance personal we should start teaching in schools, but they considered that what is truly needed to function in life is the knowledge on mathematics, History or Literature. All materials are also important, course, but what about those skills that are essential to know properly handle us both with ourselves and with other people?
In general this type of education we acquire what we perceive our environment: Parents, Educators, mates etc ... and often, what you get from them is not the most suitable to become emotionally balanced. Therefore, In most cases, we have to make this personal learning and in adult life.
How can we find our personal balance and keep? The first step is through the self, one of the three fundamental pillars of Coaching. Only pay attention to how we react to what happens to us, the thoughts that generate certain circumstances and the language we use, we are growing and getting closer to our personal balance.
This self-awareness will also help us in our lives has integrated these other behaviors that contribute to our personal balance:
- Identify your mistakes, learn from them and correct.
- Do not be influenced by external valuations destructive about our personal or professional worth.
- Saying "no" as often as necessary without being pressed by the emotional blackmail from outside.
- Do not be swayed by the insults of those who need to assert the detriment of others.
- Demonstrate respect for the opinions of others even if they are contrary to their own.
- Trying to improve that which depends to 100% self. And do not pretend to be other people that change to fit our needs of.
- Identify own values and try to live according to them.
- Meet the challenges set by oneself.
- No others hold that things have not gone as we expected.
- No judge or others or to oneself.
- Do not complain about what happens without providing solutions.
Almost all of us are in constant search for that personal balance. We get success, happens to make a habit of it. Therefore only succeed with perseverance, choice and will.
Rosa Canamero
Managing partner – Execoach