Life Coaching with Melody

Posted July 2nd, 2021 by Melody Taylor-Fliege & filed under Coffeeshop Coaching.

Today’s takeaway from Free Coffeeshop Group Coaching – Idaho Falls, ID USA – 02 July 2021 is:

“Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.”
John Lennon

Connections new and old alike, how are your connections as we seem to be coming to the other side of the COVID-19 pandemic?
What’s changed?
What’s new?
What’s different?
What has opened up for you?

These were some of the questions that opened today’s live coffeeshop coaching near the beautiful falls in Idaho Falls, Idaho, USA.

Today at the Villa Coffeehouse, even a few interesting connections for me personally with passer-by people asking about coffeeshop coaching brought me to reconnect with my past of being a firefighter in the US Army National Guard, working at the nuclear facility in the desert outside of Idaho Falls, being pregnant with my girls. GREAT memories! GREAT connections!

Personal note: This is also the morning of my 35-year high school class reunion, and the anticipation of the many connections… an excellent way to start this day!

Posted June 25th, 2021 by Melody Taylor-Fliege & filed under Coffeeshop Coaching.

Today’s takeaway from Free Coffeeshop Group Coaching – Loveland, CO USA – 25 June 2021 is:

“Coaching is like rearranging the pieces of the puzzle just enough to create a new perspective that ignites new thinking. New thinking applied to old patterns can produce new impulses for action.”
Melody Taylor-Fliege

Challenging times create opportunities to change in ways yet discovered. Change is one constant in life; we change with each breath we take. How we take that breath – how we choose to act in the face of the challenges before us is entirely up to us. Today’s group interacted in a way that helped lean into what’s difficult, stepping into the shadow to reclaim value, redirect, re-define discomfort.

In his book “When everything changes, change everything,” Neale Walsch explains that the experience of Fear is the emotion of Love, distorted, and all Fear is an expression of Love. Fear can be very discomforting and hold us back from good things in life. Walsch helps us understand that what we think we are seeing is our interpretation of what we are looking at. The “evidence” that is “false” is the appearance of things in his acronym of FEAR being False Evidence Appearing Real.

What if there is nothing wrong with my current situation, instead everything is simply different?
What if this is Heaven?
What happens when I lean into this discomfort?

What I really love about coffeeshop coaching is that no matter what the individual focus is, somehow, the topics evolve and unify the group! There is so much in a group to harvest as individuals. It’s always a delight witnessing individuals process their challenges in these coffeeshop coachings.

Posted June 12th, 2021 by Melody Taylor-Fliege & filed under Coffeeshop Coaching.

Join me at Villa Coffeehouse – Downtown IF near the falls, Idaho Falls, ID USA for my next Coffeeshop Group Coachings 9am Friday 02 July 2021! It’s free! No need to sign up, just show up!

1x Friday 02 July 2021 at 09:00am
Villa Coffeehouse – Downtown IF (near the falls)
344 Park Ave, Idaho Falls, ID 83402, United States

Life is meant for awesome adventures, good friends, great coaches, and LOTS of coffee! – Melody Taylor-Fliege

Coffeeshop coaching is confidential, while using a more relaxed and informal platform that being lost in a crowded room can provide. We meet over a cup of coffee or tea, and although this isn’t corporate coaching, don’t be fooled into believing that the depth and amount of change to be achieved is any less. This style of coaching is just as committed as any other form of coaching just experienced in a more gentle and relaxed way of coaching support, encouragement and none-judgmental accountability. These group coachings usually last 60-90 minutes and they are FREE!

If you are struggling with big changes in your life, need to make a decision, or just need to be heard, coffeeshop coaching can be the perfect platform for you.

Coaching is a productive relationship enabling YOU to:

Creatively explore solutions
Prevent self-sabotage
Take actions that move YOU forward
Achieve YOUR goals
Attain clarity in what YOU want

Villa Coffeehouse - Downtown IF 344 Park Ave, Idaho Falls, ID 83402, United States

Posted June 12th, 2021 by Melody Taylor-Fliege & filed under Coffeeshop Coaching.

Join me at Loveland Coffee Company next to the post office, Loveland, CO USA for my next Coffeeshop Group Coachings 9am Friday 25 June 2021! It’s free! No need to sign up, just show up!

1x Friday 25 June 2021 at 09:00am
Loveland Coffee Company (next to the post office)
3620 E 29th St, Loveland, CO 80538, USA

Life is meant for awesome adventures, good friends, great coaches, and LOTS of coffee! – Melody Taylor-Fliege

Coffeeshop coaching is confidential, while using a more relaxed and informal platform that being lost in a crowded room can provide. We meet over a cup of coffee or tea, and although this isn’t corporate coaching, don’t be fooled into believing that the depth and amount of change to be achieved is any less. This style of coaching is just as committed as any other form of coaching just experienced in a more gentle and relaxed way of coaching support, encouragement and none-judgmental accountability. These group coachings usually last 60-90 minutes and they are FREE!

If you are struggling with big changes in your life, need to make a decision, or just need to be heard, coffeeshop coaching can be the perfect platform for you.

Coaching is a productive relationship enabling YOU to:

Creatively explore solutions
Prevent self-sabotage
Take actions that move YOU forward
Achieve YOUR goals
Attain clarity in what YOU want

Loveland Coffee Company, 620 E 29th St, Loveland, CO 80538, USA

Posted June 8th, 2021 by Melody Taylor-Fliege & filed under Life Balance.

Effective systems integration can produce and maintain positive results towards personal and professional goals, especially in times of crisis like COVID-19. Developing systems allows you to be creative, have fun in the process, and lead to better outcomes with less time and resources invested. And isn’t right now the perfect time to create systems? Lots of indoors-time on your hands to integrate and develop systems that make you more productive. If you have any ideas or related system suggestions, feel free to comment below but here are my tips to use systems to make change easier.

Tip 1: Questions Can Help Identify Systems that Reduce Your Stress
Feeling overwhelmed or drowning in a pile of undone tasks that may never get done is a good sign, you should try something new. The power in questions comes more from the quest to find a solution than it does from exact answers. New thinking, new perspectives, and new possibilities open up when answering questions like 1) How painful is each task on your list, what resource will this task require? 2) Can I delegate this task or pay someone else who specializes in this specific area? These questions and others can positively impact the situation by helping to assess strategies that reduce risk and associated stress.

Tip 2: Utilize The Positive Power of Smart Systems in All Areas of Your life
Effective implementation of simple systems can empower and enable you to step-up and overcome what you might have previously viewed as character flaws, turning them into character strengths instead. For example, someone who hates reading might enjoy an eBook App that reads to them at twice the speed. All of a sudden, they feel empowered because they understand and comprehend exciting stories and concepts from (paper) books they would have never touched before! See how this Systems App overrides a self-perceived character flaw like, “because I can only read one book compared to all my friends’ eight books, there must be something wrong with me.”

Tip 3: Utilizing System Implementation Through Coaching
Coaching is full of systems like goal-setting and accountability. The creativity element of coaching continuously opens possibilities where news systems can transform and evolve from the smallest new thought or idea. My 180- and 360min-Packs are systems. I intentionally set them up to provide maximum flexibility for personalities that need more time and less time to talk through solution-finding. I systemically created my intake questionnaires to maximize coaching time for clients. They allow the coaching to begin the moment you decide to schedule your coaching session. Your answers already provide much information to work with inside the coaching conversation. We don’t need to start from scratch with “what do you want to talk about today,” therefore, we can dive very deep into your topic even with a 15-minutes in-depth coaching conversation. Coaching can help you discover which systems are smart for your personality. Consider hiring a coach today! Maybe online group coaching is your new thing since COVID-19.

Tip 4: Analyze and Optimize All Your Systems
Utilize the time and space the COVID-19 pause creates for you to adapt your business or personal life to the inevitable changes they steadily face. Review your life or business model, the systems you are utilizing, clear out clutter, remove redundancies, update, lose surplus weight, and build business muscle through functionality.

Posted June 6th, 2021 by Melody Taylor-Fliege & filed under Coffeeshop Coaching.

Today’s Takeaway from Free Virtual Coffeeshop Group Coaching – via ZOOM – 06 June 2021 is:

“Every wall that I build to lock the world out is yet another wall that I’ve built that locks me in. And in the most heinous kind of imprisonment imaginable, I find that I have become both warden and inmate.”

–Craig D. Lounsbrough, Author of The Eighth Page

I love the variety of topics that come into the coaching space, even the virtual coffeeshop coachings! Today’s coffeeshop coaching, with its wide variety of topics out of our personal lives, allowed looking at how we are biologically conditioned for behaviors and attitudes which are not necessarily conductive to a self-reliant and happy life… even vulnerability.

What is vulnerability to you?
How vulnerable are you? And what intention is underneath your vulnerability?

Although those exact questions did not come from today’s group, they can open your mind to something new. Perspectives are powerful in life. And how you perceive each challenge matters because your perspective influences the action you take. So the challenge is to act consciously with real intent in every phase of each challenge. Try doing something that gets you out of your comfort zone, makes you uneasy, even scared; it can help create more familiarity with the unknown and help you better deal with your challenges. What do you think?

I challenge you to join our next zoom group coffeeshop coaching! Do it for YOU!

Posted June 2nd, 2021 by Melody Taylor-Fliege & filed under Coffeeshop Coaching.

Find answers, take actions, & get results – Coffeeshop Coaching!

Join me online via-ZOOM for my next Virtual Coffeeshop Group Coaching! It’s free! You help choose the topic and direct the group discussion by answering a few questions when you register. To register, click this link: 06 June 2021

Be prepared to share something you discover from the questions you answer when you register, and ask more questions to the group via chat during the ZOOM- Coffeeshop Coaching.
Think about what you would like to hold yourself accountable for, and your possible next step. A coaching journal is a great way to create accountability and track your success!
Open your mind and together let’s uncover new perspectives and valuable takeaway tools for your life!

Virtual Coffeeshop coaching is confidential while using a more relaxed and informal platform that being part of an online coaching group can provide, and can be done from the comfort of your home, no need to travel! We meet online via ZOOM over a cup of coffee, tea, or whatever is appropriate for your time zone. Every participant and Coach Melody will join from their respective current global locations which gives the event a very international touch. Diversity is an added twist of value as each of the international participants contribute from their specific approaches adding a variety of new perspectives. Perspectives are valuable in the coaching process for clarity, opening up and leaning into what’s new in any change process. This gives a great latitude in creating tools for change. These group coachings usually last 90 minutes, and they are FREE!

If you are struggling with big changes in your life, need to make a decision, or just need to be heard, coffeeshop coaching can be the perfect platform for you. Coaching is a productive relationship enabling YOU to:

Creatively explore solutions
Prevent self-sabotage
Take actions that move YOU forward
Achieve YOUR goals
Attain clarity in what YOU want

Life is meant for awesome adventures, good friends, great coaches, and LOTS of coffee!
Melody Taylor-Fliege

NOTE: If the link above does not work, copy and paste this link directly into your browser https://lifecoachingwithmelodyllc.as.me/coffeeshop-coaching-free-virtual-group or go directly to the booking page on my website and click on the Free Virtual Coffeeshop Group Coaching appointment. To sign up follow these steps: 1) click the registration link, 2) click the orange set time zone button, 3) choose date, see the time, and click continue, 4) answer a few questions, 5) click the orange complete appointment button, 6) then you will see a confirmation page and receive an email with the ZOOM link, meeting ID, and password to be used when you join the meeting on Sunday.

Posted May 23rd, 2021 by Melody Taylor-Fliege & filed under Coffeeshop Coaching.

ICF Chapter Berlin decided to make group coffeeshop coaching one of our featured events of “Defying Challenging Times” during International Coaching Week 2021. Times could not have been any more challenging to try to reach out with group coffeeshop coaching that, by definition, depends on gathering in open coffee shops. During the International Coaching Week in many places in Germany, coffee shops were either not open or under strict hygienic regulations. Such regulations demanded from us coaches to think outside the box, stretch outside of our comfort zone, and utilize creativity and awareness of the health requirements of ourselves and our clients. I couldn’t be more proud of the dedication, flexibility, and creativity coaches have shown to make group coffeeshop coaching possible. They utilized the space outside of coffee shops and areas near coffee shops, including parks, to gather in small groups and offer free group coaching sessions – living up to the motto of “Defying Challenging Times.”

ICF Chapter Berlin hat beschlossen, das Group Coffeeshop Coaching zu einer unserer Veranstaltungen von “Defying Challenging Times” während der Internationalen Coaching Woche 2021 zu machen. Die Zeiten hätten nicht schwieriger sein können, mit Gruppen-Coffeeshop-Coaching zu versuchen, das per Definition darauf angwiesen ist, in geöffneten Coffeeshops zusammen zu kommen. Während der Internationalen Coaching-Woche waren an vielen Orten in Deutschland Coffeeshops entweder gar nicht geöffnet oder nur unter strengen Hygienevorschriften. Diese Vorschriften verlangten von uns Coaches, über den Tellerrand hinaus zu denken, uns außerhalb unserer Komfortzone zu strecken und Kreativität und Bewusstsein im Interesse der gesundheitlichen Belange unserer Klienten aber auch unser eigenen zu nutzen. Ich könnte nicht stolzer auf das Engagement, die Flexibilität und die Kreativität sein, die Trainer gezeigt haben, um das Gruppen-Coffeeshop-Coaching möglich zu machen. Sie nutzten Plätze außerhalb von Cafés und Bereiche in der Nähe von Cafés, einschließlich Parks, um sich in kleinen Gruppen zu sammeln und kostenlose Gruppencoachings anzubieten – ganz nach dem Motto “Defying Challenging Times”.

Posted May 11th, 2021 by Melody Taylor-Fliege & filed under Change.

when you replace “why is this happening to me?” with “what is this trying to teach me?” everything shifts.
–Anonymous

Change is continuous throughout life. Instead of wondering, “Why is this happening to me?” ask instead, “How could this be happening FOR me? Has this global crisis allowed you to take a step back and reprioritize what’s most important in your work and all your relationships? Have you finally given time to a previously neglected personal goal? Have you learned new skills in multiple areas of your life?

How are you using your ability to sew new seeds, cultivate them and make something tangle grow in your life?
Are you ready to receive what grows from your actions?

Posted May 2nd, 2021 by Melody Taylor-Fliege & filed under Coffeeshop Coaching.

Today’s Takeaway from Free Virtual Coffeeshop Group Coaching – via ZOOM – 02 May 2021 is:

“The key to keeping your balance is knowing when you’ve lost it”
Anonymous

Balance was at the center of today’s Group Coffeeshop Coaching. Seeking out physical challenges can help us create balance in an otherwise physically less active and emotionally stressful work environment. However, there are many ways to establish balance when our current situation does not allow us to go for a run, hike, or swim. Just taking a break, creating awareness of our current state of balance, blocking out the noises and distractions of our busy work lives for even a short time can help us accomplish balance by simply focusing on it.

Balance in life helps leads to contentment, individual growth, and personal expansion. We can restore balance by learning from what surrounds us, by taking it into our lives and applying it to expand ourselves into something more. Balance can still be a tricky thing and difficult to maintain.

Considering all aspects of your life, health and fitness, emotional well-being, professional and personal life, and relationships, how are you finding balance?
What helps you slow down, ground, and find your center?