I worked for a long time in sales at a large insurance company before I started the family phase and had my two children. During this time I studied to become a psychological counselor, read a lot and used all this knowledge to design my mental coaching. After raising my children, I decided to become self-employed as a coach - and I have been doing that for 17 years now.
Do you benefit from your previous experience in sales in your work as a coach?
Simone Langendörfer
For me, it is a great advantage that I austria telegram screening have worked in sales myself and have felt the pressure that often prevails there. Not least because I know this everyday working life and know what moves and concerns the people there, I am booked for my coaching sessions. Because I can empathize very well with the worries and needs, the ups and downs of my clients. Many of my clients see this as the big difference to a psychologist who worked in a clinic after studying and has never worked in the private sector.
Your topics are mindfulness, happiness and mental strength: what influence do these topics have on your own work? Do you use the techniques that you teach your clients yourself?
Yes, I do that every day with great discipline. In my work, I always talk about the head-gut balance: it is our thoughts that keep setting traps for us. The mind gallops away and puts us under pressure, tells us what we still have to do. This causes us to drift off, have doubts and worries, become restless and tired and ultimately mentally exhausted.
The trick is to listen more to your gut and to live consciously in the present. This includes observing your thoughts, controlling your breathing and consciously focusing. If you put all your energy into one thing, be it an email or a customer meeting, you are present and focused and the results suddenly improve. This requires discipline and you have to practice it over and over again every day. Me too.