Looking Back - Realising I needed coaching

Going back in time again, and following on from last weeks post:

I had been coaching people for a number of months. Its really strange. You can spend a lot of time with people who want to address their own issues. They know what they want to deal with but don’t know how to deal with it.

Sitting opposite them, exercising my listening skills, showing them support and encouragement is easy. It’s a fantastic experience watching them grow and learning to understand how deal with their issues.

But its very easy to associate with their issues and think – “that’s me”. I knew I had confidence issues, I knew I had to deal with them. I have all these new coaching skills – so why can I so easily help other people and yet not apply this skill-set to myself?

So that’s when I made the decision to get myself a coach......

When were you last told you were inspirational?

I’ve made some real progress today. I asked Hubby for some of his time and he patiently sat through some internet research with me.

We have very different skill sets and he was able to support me in making sense of the information overload that I have been facing over recent weeks.

I still have a lot of work to do, but feel that I have taken a major step on my journey.

I also took the time to look through some notes I’d made. Two people that I have looked to for support have paid me massive compliments.

The first came from Special Friend. Who said I was “Inspirational”.
The second from a trainer in my company who stated that she admired me.