How to boost your coaching clients' energy, mood and motivation
Today, we will talk about boosting your clients’ mental energy and helping them feel more motivated.
This is an issue because if they are juggling many hats and have many roles in their lives, their energy levels can drop very quickly everyday. If they are not careful, they will feel unmotivated even before the week has started.
For context, I’ll make it clear that we are exploring boosting mental and emotional energy in this blog post!
Why is this even important?
In general, it’s good to know what activities give us energy. So that we don’t mooch around and let the day pass by, without doing anything useful when we have deadlines or goals to meet.
This is ok if your clients plan for the day to be a day of relaxation. But if your clients plan for today to be a productive one, it is helpful to keep their mental energy up.
When they are energised mentally, they get many creative ideas, work gets done very fast, productivity goes through the roof, and they will feel accomplished, amongst other things.
What happens if we are not aware what gives us energy? Well, we will be working twice as hard to produce minimal output.
Bulldozing our low energy state, or forcing ourselves to work when our energy is very low, rarely gives us any good outcome. It’s better to boost our energy first before doing work because you will enjoy a bigger output within a short time frame.
Let’s dive in to 3 practical ways your clients can boost their energy and motivation.
Tip #1 : Create a personal list of ‘energising activities’ and refer to it on low-motivation days
The first thing your clients can do, is to make a list of activities which energise him or her. They can store this list in their phones, on a piece of paper, in a planner or in any form which is convenient for them.
How do we make a list of energising activities? Well, this is the time for them to be self-aware. Have them write a list of activities which make them feel ‘alive’.
Obviously, my list is going to be different from your list and everyone’s list is going to be a unique combination of tasks which fuel our personal energy.
What is draining your energy may be energising to your clients. And on different days, different activities fuel us. For example, I will feel energised if I meet my former colleagues for lunch today. But tomorrow, I may feel drained at the idea of meeting them. The trick is to have a list on hand to refer to, whenever we feel our frequencies or energy levels drop.
I will give examples of activities which usually boost people’s energy and frequency.
Common examples are: exercising, being in nature, exploring a new place or a new cafe, journaling their feelings, meditating and relaxing the mind, cooking, creating something with your hands, having a clear work-life boundary, being around positive friends - you get the idea.
The tip is to be honest with themselves. If watching 5 episodes of The Kadarshians relaxes their mind and body, write that down!
When they feel their energy levels or frequency start to drop, they can whip out their phones and scroll to find this list of energising activities, choose one of them and slowly raise their mental energy.
If your client has trouble connecting with themselves…
Then you’ll want to give them a copy of my free Self Exploration Tool. This coaching tool will help them rediscover their life values, and what gives them joy. If that’s something you need right now, then make sure you download this Self Exploration Tool while it’s still free!
Tip #2: Pinpoint specific activities which drain your clients’ energy
The second tip for your clients is to know what takes up their energy. Once we find out exactly what those activities are, we avoid them as much as we can.
To keep our energy levels high, we need a sweet combination of doing energising activities and avoiding activities which suck our energy.
Common examples of energy-draining activities are: spending time with negative people, doing meaningless tasks, reading negative news, gossiping about other people, being rigid with ourselves, having unrealistic expectations, doing things you don’t enjoy, or spending too much time online.
Again, everybody’s list is going to be different. But the point is, to know what activities drain our energy and avoid them as much as possible.
Tip #3: Taking care of their physical bodies for a positive mental state
The third thing your clients can do, is to take care of their physical body. This means, listening to what the body needs and honouring them.
If the body needs sleep desperately, honour it and go to sleep. If your body craves for introspective activity, take your journal out and journal your emotions. If the body wants to go out for a walk in the sun, do it. I think you get the idea.
When we recharge our bodies, we have the mental energy to make good decisions throughout the day. Many of us know that the mind and body are related. When your body is well-rested and nourished, it’s easier to get creative and we handle problems very well.
If you are someone who wants to teach self-care to your clients…
You can check out my 14-Day Self Care Challenge Workbook which you can sell to your clients or give away as a lead magnet.
There are 34 pages chockful of self-care challenges for your audience to kickstart their self-care journey.
That’s all for today.
I’ll see you in my next blog post!
Sincerely,
Shikah
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