Ep. 10 - How to Coach Yourself Through Any Problem Using The Self Coaching Model with Ken Li

What if you could coach yourself through almost any problem? In this solo episode of The Practice Ground, Ken introduces one of the most influential tools in his own life and coaching practice: The Self Coaching Model, created by Brooke Castillo. Known simply as “The Model,” it breaks our experience into five parts: Circumstances, Thoughts, Feelings, Actions, and Results — CTFAR. The idea is deceptively simple. Something happens. We have thoughts about what happened. Those thoughts generate feelings. Our feelings influence how we act — or don’t act — and those actions help create the results in our lives. Ken first encountered The Model in 2019 while listening to coach Jody Moore. It made enough of an impression that he wrote about it in his journal. His desire to understand it more deeply eventually led him to become certified through The Life Coach School, and today it’s a tool he uses regularly in his own life and with his clients. To show how it works, Ken revisits the first Model he ever wrote.  Find out why Ken considers The Model more than a coaching framework. It’s a tool for understanding yourself — and one you can carry with you wherever you go. What you’ll hear inside the episode: what The Self Coaching Model is and why Ken has been using it since 2019 how Circumstances, Thoughts, Feelings, Actions, and Results fit together why separating the facts of a situation from our thoughts about those facts can be so powerful how to work backward from a feeling to uncover the thought that may be creating it why feelings play such an important role in what we do — and what we avoid doing Ken’s first-ever Model and what he sees differently when he looks at it seven years later why awareness can be valuable even before we try to change anything how practicing The Model can help us recognize our thinking in real time how The Model can become one more tool in your own mental wellness toolkit Mentioned in this episode Podcast | Jody Moore | Better Than Happy, Episode 3: How to Solve Any Problem Video | Kari Watterson & Ken Li | The Self Coaching Model: How it Works Video | Kaitlyn Flake & Ken Li | 3 Steps to Creating Confidence ----- Ken Li is a confidence coach. Connect with Ken on LinkedIn, where he regularly shares mindset tools, resources, and strategies to help professionals who second-guess themselves feel as confident inside as they look. Kari Watterson is a mindset and habits coach. Connect with Kari on Instagram (@theadhdhabittrainer). where she shares her ongoing series, The Habit Training Diaries, or visit her website at KariWatterson.com.