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When will you know you’ve won? — Newsletter #31
When will you know you’ve won?
When I work with new coaching clients, I ask them ‘what is your dream for yourself and your life?’ We’re not often gifted this question, nor the safe space in which to explore it.
Most often, most of us tend to hurry through life, put one foot in front of the other, try to check off our to-do lists, maybe hit some of our New Year’s goals, and the rest of the time — we survive!
Once I’ve encouraged my client to dream, I bring him/her back down to the here and now as we start to work backward — from their preferred futures to today. Together, we will identify their wants and attach them to action steps that are specific and measurable — because you need to know where you’re going in order to know whether you’ve arrived. In coaching, we will create the path, map out the journey, and begin to take steps towards it.
In explaining coaching to a new client recently, I used the car metaphor; therapy is like looking in the rearview mirror, whereas coaching looks forward. Of course, as you’re driving, you do look back and side to side — it’s a…
