Role of Coaching
How then, can we begin to move forward toward positive change and embracing our WHY?
As stated earlier, there are numerous authors of self-help books written on this subject. Knowing that the answer to your WHY is right inside you, and that all you need to do is look deep inside yourself for the answer is a powerful truth. However, our current reality is the sum of all our life experiences, underlying beliefs and how and what we think. It is often these beliefs and our thinking that keeps us from uncovering our why and living a full and happy life.
Embarking on this journey of self-awareness is not an easy one. Some have been successful in finding and living their passion with determined dedication to self-study and self-reflection. For some it requires the help of a mentor, a true friend or a loved one who truly has your best interests at heart and can be unbiased and reflective. Increasingly, people are discovering the power of having a coach to guide and support them on this journey of self-awareness, discovery, and immense joy and fulfillment.
Coaching is the art of supporting someone in their journey of discovery, identifying where they currently are in their life and where it is that they want to go. It’s about helping people go from being good and feeling OK about life, to being great, feeling energized, aligned with their purpose and enthusiastic about who they are and what they do. Built on the foundation of trust and confidentiality, the coach listens deeply to you, and asks questions. The power of coaching is in the questions the coach asks. The very nature of a question will cause you to pause and think, and slowly or not so slowly, you will begin to uncover the real you, like peeling back the layers of an onion.
For many people, simply being asked their WHY causes distress, often related to the underlying fear that if they state their why, they will be required to define HOW they intend to live their WHY. This and any other fears, underlying beliefs or issues keeping you ‘stuck’, can be addressed in the coaching process.
Coaches come from a wide variety of back grounds and experiences and are used in a variety of contexts to support individuals, groups and organizations to move from where they are to where they want to be. Underlying all of this is the state of every human beings’ WHY. Once you know your WHY you can have, be and do whatever it is you desire. And a coach can help you get there.
You’ve heard it a hundred times – ‘knowledge is power’ yet only knowledge put into action can make a difference. What action are you going to take with the new power you have?
In the words of Tony Robbins
Human beings are capable of incredible things. If we have a big enough REASON to do something, we’ll go to the greatest lengths to get it.
That reason is your WHY. At the end of the day and at the end of our lives, we will ask of ourselves: did I LIVE, did I LOVE, and did I MATTER? If you are not living your life’s purpose, something on this earth will not get done, as it is unique to you, and ONLY YOU can fulfill that purpose. Live your life on purpose!
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined Henry David Thoreau
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