Sharon here
I sent out a goal setting series this week and have been inundated with questions. I can’t get to them all individually (and get any sleep!) so I’ll answer them here and in a class I’ll run shortly.
Thanks, firstly, for the questions. Good to see so many people thinking about how to get their lives where they want them to be. And great to hear from so many people who love what we’re doing. Good to hear the appreciation, sometimes, just so we know we’re on the right track.
There were over 100 questions, so I’ve picked the three most common, and I’ll answer them here.
Question: How do you stay focused on your dream when everyone (family) around keeps keeling you and insisting it’s the silliest thing you’ve ever heard?
As someone who wanted to become a life coach before most people had ever heard of it, I know what you mean! 9 years ago no one I knew had heard of life coaching, but it resonated with me and I kept coming back to it.
Finally, and this is just my experience, I realised I was 37, not getting any younger, and had one life to lead. It was either spend the rest of my life fitting into how other people wanted me to be, or giving it a red hot go.
So with lots of nerves, I did it.
My greatest fear was that they wouldn’t talk to me. What’s interesting is, we now have an improved relationship, because I ‘grew up’ (don’t mean to sound harsh, but that’s what it was for me) and realised I had to live life for me.
Anyways, that’s my two-pennies worth, trust it helps.
Then there are these questions, which are related, so I’ve put them together –
Question: How do you live a life where you feel that you are making a positive difference in the life of others? Why did you choose coaching to be the business that you wanted to create?
How can you not choose a life where you make a positive difference in the life of others? I believe we’ve all got within us the capacity to make a difference, and to leave this planet better than we found it.
My life coaching experience and training has taught me that people who contribute feel better about themselves than people who don’t. By giving, we feel needed, and by feeling needed, we grow.
And I chose life coaching to learn how to get my brain working for me, and not against me. I was tired of self-sabotage and fears dictating some pretty poor results. I figured there had to be a better way, and got determined to find out what that better way was.
I could have got a coach, but by becoming a coach, I got to help myself and help others at the same time.
It was, to me, the difference between learning how to fish and being given the fish. I wanted to learn how to fish for myself.
Anyways, stay tuned and I’ll run a class for people on all the other questions, and write another blog next week dealing with some of the more common questions.
Yibbita
