As a business and personal coach, I'm living the dream, all day, every day. I am fortunate to spend hours with people, talking about their hopes and dreams and goals. Once my client has honed in on the things he or she wants to achieve, we formulate a strategy for achievement.
We'll spend the next sessions focusing, honing, refining, sometimes changing the course, but always we keep the end in mind. We strategize together, talk about "what if," imagine what life will be like when that goal comes tue. Nothing is off limits; thinking big is encouraged!
After a call last week, I hung up feeling strangely dissatisfied. My client was happy; she had a plan and a goal. She was energized, she was creating something new. But I realized I wasn't taking my own advice!
I didn't have a plan of my own, let alone something fabulous with action steps outlined. I wasn't spending time thinking about what I want to accomplish!
Like a cobbler whose children need shoe repairs, I was a coach without a coaching plan in place for my own life. Whatup with that?
And it occurs to me, as a woman, as a busy professional, I, too, get caught up in the 'doing,' rather than exploring, dreaming, thinking, creating, imagining "what if?" I'm so busy on the treadmill that I forgot why I climbed on the machine in the first place.
So my question to you...
You're a brilliant person. Absolutely brilliant. People call you for advice. People come to you with their problems, people listen to you.
You give good advice.
And I'm wondering...what advice are you giving others that you should be taking yourself?
(If you're brave, share it here. I dare you.)
We'll spend the next sessions focusing, honing, refining, sometimes changing the course, but always we keep the end in mind. We strategize together, talk about "what if," imagine what life will be like when that goal comes tue. Nothing is off limits; thinking big is encouraged!
After a call last week, I hung up feeling strangely dissatisfied. My client was happy; she had a plan and a goal. She was energized, she was creating something new. But I realized I wasn't taking my own advice!
I didn't have a plan of my own, let alone something fabulous with action steps outlined. I wasn't spending time thinking about what I want to accomplish!
Like a cobbler whose children need shoe repairs, I was a coach without a coaching plan in place for my own life. Whatup with that?
And it occurs to me, as a woman, as a busy professional, I, too, get caught up in the 'doing,' rather than exploring, dreaming, thinking, creating, imagining "what if?" I'm so busy on the treadmill that I forgot why I climbed on the machine in the first place.
So my question to you...
You're a brilliant person. Absolutely brilliant. People call you for advice. People come to you with their problems, people listen to you.
You give good advice.
And I'm wondering...what advice are you giving others that you should be taking yourself?
(If you're brave, share it here. I dare you.)
Lotsa love, Sierra
