Glimpse 11 - Expand vs. Push

It amazes me how often I have to "push" myself to do the things I know will expand my territory, world, curiosity. As I begin to more officially kick start or "re-launch" my own coaching organization I know exactly what I need to do. Daily. Seriously, I know it -- and yet, it's seems so damn scary, almost difficult to do it this time around.

I'm a coach. I'm professionally trained and have years of experience at this. The undertanding, comprehension and skill sets are all there for my craft, as well those necessary to build a business which makes a measureable, attainable... achievable difference in several ways. Still.. I'm filled with angst. Am I really good enough, do I really have what it takes? Hell, I even put Field of Dreams on my Netflix list to get a good shot of "If you build it, they will come." going for myself.

Each of us has this piece within us that aligns in our work with who we are. Coaching couldn't be more perfect if I would have made it up and slapped a name on it myself way back in 1985 when it truly began as a profession. I feel very blessed to 'get it' as well as I do and even more so to look out at the lives and faces of the hundred's of people I've served with who have allowed me to call myself their coach. Still that piece that aligns with who I am isn't going off as easily as it did some 11 or 12 years ago when I threw out my shingle and said, "Let's ROCK the Casbah kiddies."

You see, after training and starting Ko-ching, I took some time off from my own business to further my own and others skills and lives by beginning and work with a non-profit organization that spent five years figuring it out and all the while expanded lives, charitably, through coaching and through training coaching skills. It's a ride I don't regret and yet it's a ride that made me kinda dizzy and disoriented upon getting off of it. When I began coaching, I had no 'baggage' around it, the business of it, the chaos of what some people call coaching that isn't, the lack surrounding alot of the people in my field practicing it - coaching was just this 'thing' I had to do then and by God, I just did it. I don't recall the feelings of "holyshitamIreallygonnadothis" I have as I sit here today.

And yet.. there is nothing else. No one I'd rather be, nothing I'd rather be doing. This is my "it" in life. Supporting others in moving it up, on. Taking the higher hill and calling them forward to and through their own greatness. Listening, intently, without judgment, to someone in a place of sheer brilliance as they wander their path to figure out their own best answers and actions. Holding someone accountable to taking steps, big OR small, to re-invent their life and truly themselves within it. To have the opportunity to stand on a set of trainings, experience and ethics that is in complete agreement with my own spiritual beliefs seeing everyone as creative, resourceful and whole - right where they are, right now.. creating relationships of trust and sanctity and based on identifying reality and then altering it to a place of hope, courage, faith, trust... action. To be a part of some one else's life as a catalyst of sorts, to hear them, see them, know them as they grow and change and get more of what they TRULY want - even if it's slow or fast - it is all so very good to me. It feeds my soul.

And so it goes. What attracts me to it, what makes me me, will draw me out, self responsible for those changes and actions I need to grasp or grapple with, I will go forward. And no matter what comes, I will handle it. Because I practice what I preach. I know the difference it makes and I am, what I am. Creative, resourceful and.. very whole.

My request for you today is for you too, to identify, with great clarity, what it is that draws you forward to something compelling and beautiful, challenging or real in your life - and then, write me two ways you can have more of that today in your life.