Coaching Corner: Is It Time?
By Marilou Butcher Roth, Master Coach
Happy 2024! Welcome to a new bright year of unlimited possibilities! Truly, anything can happen, I love the beginning of a new year. Don’t worry, I am not going to talk about resolutions you may or may not have made, that’s up to you. Today, I am going in a different direction.
I read a New York Times article this week that prompted this particular post. They have been running a series on having more energy in 2024, which of course, captured my interest. Thursday’s tip was about identifying your ‘energy vampires’ and ‘chaotic friends’. Hmm, that seems like something worth exploring, wouldn’t you agree?
We have all, at certain times in our lives, had relationships that depleted us. How healthy are those relationships? The following is directly from The New York Times which I found very enlightening:
Make a list of your closest friends. Then, using the following prompts from Tawwab, take notes about the energy your friends supply:
- Who do you look forward to spending time with?
- Who makes you feel uplifted and understood?
- Who, if anyone, do you consistently put off seeing or dread responding to?
- Who often makes you feel so irritated, keyed up or fatigued that you have to recover after seeing them?
- Who makes you regularly zone out during conversations because they aren’t involving you?
If the last three questions bring to mind a specific friend, that person may be an energy vampire.
There you go. Last week we discussed purging items within our household, and this week we move on to relationships that are no longer in present time with who we are. What a lovely way to begin 2024!
Marilou Butcher Roth
Marilou Butcher Roth is the owner of The MBR Group, a coaching and training company working primarily with REALTORS who have a desire to work and live from a more inspired place. She is also the Broker/Owner of Group REALTORS in Cincinnati.
Marilou is a member of the Ohio REALTORS Board of Directors and past chairman of the organization’s Communications Committee.
