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Welcome to week 9 of your summer challenge!
You've spent two weeks learning to manage doing nothing. Isn't it weird that something as seemingly easy as doing nothing can be so hard?
This week's challenge will support your nothingness.
Hold a bigger picture.
Clients bring me all kinds of situations - relationships with bosses, struggles with children, hard feedback, the challenges of leading through change, life transitions (divorces, job changes, moves), big promotions. Their starting question is usually, "What do I do?"
I assure them that we will definitely talk about what to do. Coaching leads to action. And, the pathway to action is to get out of the weeds. By putting down the details of who said what or who did what to whom, clients fly up 10,000 and look at the situation from a much bigger picture.
- Who do you want to be?
- Who are you becoming?
- What's important to you in the situation?
- What's the lesson this situation is showing you?
- How is this situation part of the larger work of your life?
For example, maybe you are struggling to get a promotion you want. What is this sitaution showing you?
- Is about claiming and holding your value?
- Quieting the over-acheiver?
- Holding your strong core and not comparing your career to other people's?
When you see the bigger picture of any situation, you will have more options. Give it a try this week and let me know how it goes!
If you're enjoying this challenge, please invite your friends and colleagues to join you. All they have to do is sign up here.
You've got this!