A Coaching Power Tool created by Catarina Mendes
(Life Coaching, PORTUGAL)
The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!
Fernando Pessoa, Portuguese writer (1888-1935)
The intention of my Power Tool is to encourage clients to assess whether they are living their lives with purpose and intention or simply drifting through their lives. In other words, if they are being ‘Active’ or ‘Reactive’.
Some considerations about my power tool:
1. The starting point:
2. The aim:
my power tool was built to be delivered to all my clients as:
3. The method:
4. The limits/benefits of this approach:
The limits:
Although intentional the choice of presenting a power tool which stresses the negative versus positive perspective, has the natural limitation of the exaggeration and the constraint of a perspective that is mutually exclusive (as if we lived on an “either/or versus neither/nor” model). It is known that nobody lives ONLY and ALL THE TIME in Reactive mode or Active mode. It wouldn’t be even healthy, realistic or desired to assume that.
The benefits:
By using the technique of putting in contrast both perspectives REACTIVE – ACTIVE MODE, it is easier: