Tax Time – Anxiety & Worry It seems that no matter where you go you will hear people talking about how stressed they are about getting their taxes ready. Have you ever thought about how amazing it would be if you could create a calm, tranquil state no matter what the stressors? It is interesting

Just received an email from one of my online coaching students.  We are on a break right now till April, so I’ll be posting the answers to questions for my students. Question: I have been using the “finger touch anchor” you taught us, it was working great for creating a calm state for a few

Continued from post #8 In our last lesson on getting free of self-doubt we paid attention to the thoughts that cause self-doubt or fear.  And then we answered 4 questions  about the thoughts. People are surprised at the information they collect when they “look” at the  many different elements that make up our thoughts.  You

Continued from post 7 Once you recognize that there are thoughts that create self-doubt you have  started the process of getting back in control of your emotions. When you pay attention you will get good at listening for the “voice” in the back of your mind. In order to take the negative charge out of

Continued from post 6: Take a moment to listen to the thoughts going through your mind. When an uncomfortable emotion seems to come out of the blue, there is always a trigger.  The following are just a small sample of thoughts that “take you down.”  ““You won’t do it good enough” “You don’t know enough”

This is the 6th post in getting free of self-doubt series. Continuation from last post: Here are some of the things you might hear as you take a moment to listen to the thoughts going through your mind.  They might sound something like this:   “You won’t do it good enough”,  “you don’t know enough” or

This is the 5th in the creating self-confidence series. So you might be wondering how can we change old beliefs from out childhood?  There are a number of steps to this process. Steps to change self-doubt to confidence: 1.  Notice the thoughts going through your mind. 2. Go back in your mind and think about

This is the 4th post in the getting free of self-doubt series. Let’s look at an example of how one of my clients began to change the problem of self-doubt.  I’ll call him James for this example.  James is the founder of a number of successful companies.  He came to the Anxiety Control Center for

This is the third post in the creating self-confidence series. Can you imagine how different it would be for you if you were fortunate enough to have someone there to point out the good parts of your efforts.  Someone to say that you’re OK even if things didn’t go as planed, or to look at

This is the second in the getting free of self-doubt and creating self confidence series. Think about the last time you began to doubt yourself.  What were you working on or tying to do? As you think back to that memory, pay attention to the thoughts going through your mind: right before the self-doubt surfaced.