What can affect our coping ability?

What can affect our coping ability?

Gladeana McMahon (Life Coach) gives expert video advice on: What is coping ability?; What can affect our coping ability?; Why can some people cope more effectively? and more...

The kinds of things that tend to affect coping ability for individuals include simply not recognizing that something's going wrong. I mean, most of us rush around thinking it's our fault, saying, "I should be able to do this, I should be able to do that." Stop! Analyze what you're doing, work out if it's actually feasible, and if it isn't feasible then put an action plan in place. Talk to people, get some help. Everyone says, "Oh, I couldn't possibly do that," and they do a lot of what we call 'mind-reading.' So they'll already have written the script in their head without ever asking the other person in the first place. So that's one of the things that you have to do, you have to learn to ask for help.