Coaches ask bold questions, designed to help clients keep their focus glued on an achievable vision of an ideal future -- questions like these. All of us have our growing edges, that line we're afraid to cross because the unknowns on the other side are too big. Many of us reinforce our fear and stagnation by telling ourselves catastrophe stories of imagined awful outcomes.
What if we took a different approach instead, one that is more empowering? One that looks fear in the eye.
Think about this:
- Successful entrepreneurs feel the fear of failure all the time, they just don't let it stop them.
- High achievers prioritize the potential gains of taking calculated risks over the known comforts of feeling safe.
- Worry can be turned into supportive structures and practical action steps if we treat it as "just information."
- Trust is a choice -- it's a decision to remember your own resilience and see an abundance possibilities.
What information is your worry giving you today? What productive choices can you make based on that information?
Will you decide to trust yourself, and your knowledge and abilities? What empowering one sentence can you believe about your ability to survive, no matter what?
There ya go -- coaching by blog! LOL
1 comment:
Hi Deah,
I find the reframing of worry and concern into information really empowering. So much so, that I incorporated it as an illustration of a coaching approach, when arguing for how coaching can be of beneficial use in thes somewhat unstable times. (http://eminentcoaching.blogspot.com/2009/03/coaching-useful-support-in-challenging.html#links)
Thank you for the inspiration.
/Helena
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