2. Fill Bucket:
- SEARCH for the things that makes you happy, that makes other people happy. Train yourself to do them consistently.
- BUILD good relationships, when you have good relationships people will love you, enjoy your company and will give you this feeling back.
- CHOOSE to look at all opportunities in difficult situations before looking at the negatives (its important to see the negatives, but focusing on the positives & opportunities is the thing that will make you move forward)
- Praise yourself & others. Make it a habit to recognize people when they do something good, to recognize yourself when you do something good. Don’t ignore good things, you don’t know the amount of effort that had been put in it, and you don’t know what a simple recognition can do to other people, it could change lives.
Coaching Application
As a coach, how would you deal with a client who always sees negatives & the dark side of every thing? Who always on a bucket-dipping mode?
- CHANGE PRESPECTIVE: ask the client powerful questions that would give him the chance to see different perspectives of the topic & that would support him to identify opportunities.
- VISUALIZATION: Let the client visualize the opportunities…the positives. Let him experience the vision on how does it look like when he sees the positives and opportunities vs. the negatives, let him visualize how would he looks like when he experience the positives, what is the impact on his life from seeing the opportunities and working on it?
As a coach, how would you keep your bucket full for your client?
- SELF LOVE: A coach needs to love himself/herself, doing the things that he/she enjoy will give him/her the power of positivity that will send positive vibes to the client.
- FILL THE CLIENT’S BUCKET: A coach shall pay attention to the client’s effort to change and improve, by filling the client’s bucket, the positive results and the success that he and the client will reach will be a bucket filler for himself.
- CELEBRATE with the client every time he achieve his goals
- ACKNOWLEDGE yourself when you feel you achieved your goal, when you do something positive and when you fill other’s bucket.
Reflection questions:
- List down things in your life that you are blessed to have.
- Am I continuously practicing the joyful activities that make me happy?
- To what extend does filling buckets serves my needs vs. dipping from buckets?
- How good does it feel to visualize the positives and opportunities vs. living in the negatives?
- How many people have I met today who did something good and I haven’t praised them on it?
- How many people did I fill their bucket today?
- What did I do today that I want to praise myself on?
Always ask yourself
Resources
How full is your bucket” For Tom Rath & Donald O.Clifton, Ph.D.
Finally:
The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.