Questions and Answers of Overwhelmed The Mindfulness Alternative

Ideas, suggestions, and encouragement for taking your next steps AppendixLO1
Lessons learned that can help you as you continue with your mindfulness alternative AppendixLO1
A different perspective on assessing what happens in your life AppendixLO1
What does community mean to you? How do you want to support and participate in your community?AppendixLO1
What does true success in the arena of work look like for you?AppendixLO1
What are the intangible, nonvisible outcomes at home that are most important to you?AppendixLO1
How your gifts can make a difference at home, at work, and in the community AppendixLO1
The true connection between actions and results AppendixLO1
Why outcomes are important but you shouldn’t become too attached to them AppendixLO1
Who’s a buddy that you’d like to invite to be your peer coaching partner in following through on your routines?AppendixLO1
What are the big rocks in your life that you definitely need to schedule first?AppendixLO1
What’s working for you and not working for you with your operating rhythm? What do you want to keep doing or do differently?AppendixLO1
How to get back on track when things run off the rails AppendixLO1
Why you should lighten up on yourself AppendixLO1
How to stay on track with your routines AppendixLO1
What could you do to take your routine of reflection to the next level?AppendixLO1
What routines do you currently have to create space for reflecting on your purpose and how you’re showing up against that purpose?AppendixLO1
What’s the purpose in your life that informs what you’re trying to do at home, at work, and in your community?AppendixLO1
Easy to do, likely to make a difference next step ideas for each method AppendixLO1
Five different methods for using the Killer App of the spiritual domain of routines AppendixLO1
The two big questions that spiritual routines help you answer AppendixLO1
What person or group—yourself, partner, kids, family, friends, colleagues—could use more of your time and attention? What would that look like in the coming month?AppendixLO1
What’s one routine in the relational domain that you’re not doing now that you think would make the biggest difference to you showing up at your best?AppendixLO1
What style of listening—transient, transactional, or transformational—do you practice most often? What’s the impact of that?AppendixLO1
Other relational routines that can make a difference for you and the people in your life.AppendixLO1
The Killer App of relational routines that will help you create more than you expected AppendixLO1
The impact of relationships on your health and your results AppendixLO1
Which time frame of mind—past, present or future—presents your biggest opportunity for more mindfulness?AppendixLO1
What kind of cues could remind you to breathe when the fight or flight response clutters your mind?AppendixLO1
What’s your take? Do you usually breathe from your chest or your belly?AppendixLO1
Other routines that can help you be more mentally present AppendixLO1
The Killer App of mental routines that will give you greater clarity and focus AppendixLO1
How to stop your fight or flight response AppendixLO1
What might get in the way of following through on that routine and how could you work around that?AppendixLO1
What kind of support or information do you need to get started? Who could help you with that?AppendixLO1
What’s the one routine in the physical domain that you’re not doing now that you think would make the biggest difference to your showing up at your best?AppendixLO1
How two other physical routines can strengthen your mindfulness alternative foundation AppendixLO1
The Killer App of physical routines that you can do almost anywhere at any time AppendixLO1
Why physical routines are the foundation for your mindfulness alternative AppendixLO1
How to get started with routines that stick.AppendixLO1
Seven principles for choosing the routines that work for you AppendixLO1
How the right routines for you support your mindfulness alternative AppendixLO1
What other time management hacks do you need to implement?AppendixLO1
Which of the 10 time management tips is most in the sweet spot between easy for you to implement and likely to make a difference?AppendixLO1
Whose help and support do you need? What request do you need to make of them?AppendixLO1
What will it take for you to make a commitment to manage your time so you show up at your best?AppendixLO1
Ten tips for keeping that commitment AppendixLO1
Where responsibility for that commitment lies AppendixLO1
The one commitment you need to make to successfully pursue the mindfulness alternative AppendixLO1
What characteristics describe you when you’re at your best?AppendixLO1
What were the conditions that made it feel that way?AppendixLO1
When was the last time you felt that way?AppendixLO1
What does it mean to you to be in the zone or in flow?AppendixLO1
The “uber” factors that can keep you from showing up at your best AppendixLO1
How other accomplished professionals view themselves at their best AppendixLO1
How to identify how you are at your best AppendixLO1
What difference would consistently showing up at your best make to the outcomes you hope for at work, at home, and in your community?AppendixLO1
What routines have you had in the past that might help you show up at your best today?AppendixLO1
What routines do you have in your life today that help you show up at your best?AppendixLO1
The difference the Life GPS has made for other busy professionals AppendixLO1
The components of your Life GPS AppendixLO1
How a Life GPS can guide you toward the mindfulness alternative AppendixLO1
What’s one easy thing you could do now to activate your rest and digest response? (Hint: It involves three deep breaths.) What else could you do?AppendixLO1
What are the situations or factors that cause you to go into fight or flight when you’re not actually under physical threat?AppendixLO1
What signs, if any, tell you that you might be in a state of chronic fight or flight?AppendixLO1
How activating your rest and digest response supports the mindfulness alternative AppendixLO1
The impact of chronic fight or flight on your mind and body AppendixLO1
The causes of chronic fight or flight AppendixLO1
What other stories could also be true?AppendixLO1
What story do you have about why you’re overworked and overwhelmed? Is that a micro story about what’s happening lately or a macro story about why you’re in this situation in general?AppendixLO1
What types of extrinsic interference typically create the intrinsic interference (mental chatter) that keeps you from performing at your best?AppendixLO1
What does mindfulness mean to you?AppendixLO1
Some common barriers to mindfulness AppendixLO1
How mindfulness sets you up for high performance AppendixLO1
A practical definition of mindfulness AppendixLO1
What are the biggest drivers of distraction that keep you from being fully present?AppendixLO1
What are the big wedges in your pie chart of how you spend the 168 hours you get each week? What would you like to change about that?AppendixLO1
What’s the payoff for you from overcommitting to many of the things that make you feel overworked and overwhelmed?AppendixLO1
What’s making you feel overworked and overwhelmed?AppendixLO1
Why being present matters and what you can do about it AppendixLO1
Why things feel crazier lately AppendixLO1
Why you feel overworked and overwhelmed AppendixLO1