Step 1: Track one ordinary week
Before you talk to anyone, keep a simple log for five working days. Note when you start and stop, how many hours go to meetings, how often you check messages after dinner, and which moments leave you most drained. Don't fix anything yet. You're gathering evidence about your own routine.
If your work is tied to a big institution's calendar, such as a university's semesters, it helps to note which pressures are seasonal and which are constant. The university's site, cited below, lists its Ogden campus at 3848 Harrison Blvd and more than 250 certificate and degree programs, and an operation of that size runs on deadlines. The university also lists Weber State Downtown at 2314 Washington Blvd., a Community Education Center at 2605 Monroe Blvd., and a Davis campus in Layton. If your role has you moving between sites like these, count the travel time in your log too; it is easy to forget how much of a week disappears between buildings.
Step 2: Name what you want to change
Look at the log and pick two things. Maybe it's the evening email, or back-to-back meetings with no time to think, or the feeling that every decision routes through you. Write each one as a sentence: "I want to stop answering messages after 8 pm," for example.
Step 3: Decide what coaching should look like
Think about logistics:
- In person in Ogden, by video, or a mix?
- Early morning, lunch, or end of day?
- A set number of sessions or an open arrangement?
- Who pays: you, or your employer? If it's your employer, what will they hear about the work?
Step 4: Shortlist coaches and call three
Use the directory to pick a few non-clinical coaches who work with leaders. On each call, ask who they usually work with, how they structure the first month, how they handle confidentiality, and what they charge. Coaches are not health providers; if you need that kind of support, see your own doctor as well.
Pay attention to how each coach listens. Do they ask about your log, or jump straight to a program? Do they explain what they would and wouldn't help with? A coach who is clear about limits is easier to trust with the rest.
We introduce you to independent coaches and don't check credentials, so ask the questions that matter to you.
Step 5: Plan recovery time on the map
Coaching tends to stick when it includes actual time off. Ogden puts open country close at hand. The Forest Service places Pineview Reservoir about eight miles east of Ogden at 5,000 feet in the Ogden Valley, reached by Highway 39 through Ogden Canyon; plan on roughly a half-hour drive. Its page lists lake fishing and motorized boating.
Utah State Parks describes Antelope Island's backcountry trails for hiking, mountain biking and horseback riding, and the free-ranging bison, mule deer, bighorn sheep and pronghorn that live there. Expect roughly 45 minutes to an hour by car from Ogden.
Drive times here are approximate. Check road and park conditions before heading out.
Put one of these on your calendar before your first coaching session, and keep that date.
Step 6: Bring your log to session one
Share your week of notes and your two sentences from Step 2. A good first session ends with one or two small experiments for the next week, such as a meeting-free morning or an email cutoff.
Step 7: Review after a month
After four weeks, repeat the one-week log. Compare it with the first. Talk with your coach about what moved and what didn't. Adjust the plan, or the coach, if needed.
Step 8: Protect what works
Once you find a change that helps, write it down where your team can see it: office hours, a no-meeting block, a standing outdoor afternoon. Leaders who make their limits visible give others permission to do the same.
Revisit the plan each season. Budget cycles, hiring and year-end work all shift the load, and a schedule that fit in spring may not fit in fall. A short check-in with yourself every few months, or with your coach, keeps the gains from slipping away quietly.