SHIFT YOUR FOCUS AND FIND GREATER BALANCE IN YOUR LIFE
By Jeremy Cutler, Director of Special Projects
Success Counseling How can Success Counseling be useful in a pandemic? Wow, what a topic! And perhaps not one perfectly suited for merely a few short paragraphs, but let’s give it a shot. We could start by saying Success Counseling is an internal control psychological framework that borrows from and builds on many other counseling and philosophical traditions…zzzzzzz. Uh oh. I’ve put you to sleep already. Okay, new approach coming up! How about I give you a bare-bones look at Success Counseling, and then
include some vintage SC questions you can ask yourself during times of high stress or hardship (2020, anyone?), even if you’re a beginner. The quick idea: Success Counseling looks at the world and what is happening around us (like a global pandemic) and helps to illuminate the places where we still have perhaps more control over how we think, act, and feel than we might realize. Instead of saying something “makes us feel” a certain way, SC helps us focus on the places where we do retain some power, even in very difficult circum-
stances. By introducing thoughts, questions, and actions with an inward focus, Success Counseling helps us to thrive and find balance in situations where it’s hard (or unwise) to fully control or change what’s happening around us. This definitely sounds applicable to the last 12 months! So, in honor of one of my favorite talk-show hosts, I’m giving you a “Top 11” list of Success Counseling questions that an expert camper or counselor might be asking themselves at regular intervals. None of this is easy. It takes practice, discipline and lots of mistakes. Give it a try!
The quick idea: Success Counseling looks at the world and what is happening around us (like a global pandemic) and helps to illuminate the places where we still have perhaps more control over how we think, act, and feel than we might realize.
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