One of the places many coaches get stuck and in fact quit the coaching profession is the inability to master the bridge between having a complimentary coaching session to being hired by the prospective client.
"Well, you learn something new everyday." said Mrs. Parker, the neighborhood matriarch. She was looking vacantly out her domain, otherwise known as our neighborhood. She sounded lackadaisical: surely not intrigued by the process.
"I have to solve this problem now. The sooner the better!"
"Once I figure this out I will....."
"I can't do Y until I do X and I do X RIGHT"
Those are the words in an advertisement on the television screen when I walked into the living room yesterday. I was doing my usual morning routine of getting the children up and out of the house so Katherine would arrive at school on time.
There is a Growth Formula I have used in Coaching that has really made some huge shifts In the lives of those who apply it.
Ever have one of those days? Seems as if the cloudy murkiness holds over your head sort of like the cloud of dust is continually hovering around Pig Pen's feet in the Peanuts cartoons.
Was this speaker stark raving mad? One hundred goals? He thought I could come up with 100 goals for my life?
Two sentences from 1977.
The one single, specific memory I have from the ninth grade was during a math class. We were being introduced to Geometry for the first time. The teacher whose name I can surprisingly not remember, asked "What is intuition?"
Some faces scrunch up as if to say, "I wish you had not asked that!" Others look contemplative, as if saying, "Oh, I am so grateful you reminded me of that question, now I can take some powerful action!" And then there are the few who answer with confidence, knowing exactly what they are meant to do by when and how.
Eric closed his eyes as he rubbed his temples for what seemed like the twentieth time that hour. His life lately resembled an episode from a daytime soap opera rather than reality. A thought entered his crowded consciousness: "What is it about me that I can not have a quiet, calm, uninterrupted life?"
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