ICP 169 Creative Parenting, Emotional Resilience And How Our Thoughts Affect Feelings with Kim Ades

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ICP 169 Creative Parenting, Emotional Resilience And How Our Thoughts Affect Feelings with Kim Ades

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In this episode you’ll learn how:

Journaling can help through the toughest of times
To empower our children
Not to become a bottleneck in your own life
Being constantly busy is counter-productive

Kim Ades is the founder of Frame of Mind Coaching.

As a mother of 5 and as an author, speaker, coach and entrepreneur, Kim is an expert on thought mastery and mental focus.

In this episode we go deep into the topic of how our thoughts affect our feelings and how they affect our actions too.

Kim explains how her pioneering work has led to breakthroughs with her clients using on-line journaling.

And what we can learn about how parents behave towards children.

You’ll also hear how a need to be productive can be counter-productive.

And how people who possess high emotional resilience are often the most successful too.

How and why this all comes down to the ability to develop self management.

“The way you think will profoundly affect the way you feel” – Kim Ades

Items mentioned in this episode (quick access):

How a person thinks

[01:22] Introducing Kim Ades.

[01:39] Paris, France and Toronto, Canada.

[02:22] How Kim got into coaching.

[03:46] Being in business with her ex-husband.

[04:50] Kim talks about emotional resilience.

[05:48] Kim shares one of the toughest times in her life.

“Emotional resilience is all about how a person thinks” – Kim Ades

Creative parenting

[08:10] Being the best parent she could be.

[09:20] Managing yourself as a creative parent.

[11:50] How we are not the managers of other people’s biology.

[12:20] Kim demonstrates how to instil pride in children.

“Parenting is about the management of the self” – Kim Ades

Journalling

[13:07] How Kim works with her clients to develop self management.

[14:57] Though affecting outcome.

[15:45] Slowing down the brain towards what we want.

[17:07] Becoming aware of your natural operating state.

[17:54] Kim talks about how beliefs affect action.

“We want our clients to start to become masters and observers of their own thinking” – Kim Ades

Productivity

[18:22] How being constantly busy is counter-productive.

[19:35] Seeking external approval.

[21:23] Interpreting feedback from others.

[23:14] More about emotional resilience.

[23:41] Using journalling to break the cycle.

[27:13] Beating yourself up over being less productive.

“Thought proceeds action” – Kim Ades

How thoughts affect feelings

[28:10] Kim explains how thought proceeds action. Olympic example.

[30:02] The tail wagging the dog.

[31:11] Kim talks about her performance as a coach. Live speaking.

[34:15] How Kim deals with distraction.

[35:00] How Kim fits everything in to her schedule.

“Parenting isn’t actually about the child otherwise it would be called childing” – Kim Ades

Creative entrepreneurship, inspiration and showing up

[35:46] What Kim’s children believe she does.

[36:06] What did when Kim started her business.

[38:48] Kim talks about what she is most passionate about in her business.

[39:19] How Kim’s clients inspire her.

[39:58] Kim talks about her own podcast.

[40:57] What Kim is grateful for today.

[41:20] Where to connect with Kim.

“Do what you do well and get help” – Kim Ades

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