#12 - The confessional one.....

It's been 2 months since my last post.....

🧐 What’s on my mind….

It’s been 2 months since my last post…..oh all right then - 10 weeks.

• That’s 70 days

• 1680 hours

• 100,800 minutes

• 6,048,000 seconds

That’s the length of time I’ve been in limbo land 🫣. Or that should probably be la-la land (and no I don’t mean Hollywood). La-la land is when I’ve been popping my hands over my ears and just ignoring everything and while my “Stronger Business and Body Experiment” has gone by the wayside.

I’ve been in limbo land because I’ve been busy juggling my clients with business trips and family stuff that comes at the end of every school year.

And….I got caught up in my next (rather wonderful if I say it myself) idea.

• Thinking about it.

• Designing it.

• Talking about it.

• Creating it.

• And getting ready to launch it.

It’s been great - to let the excitement build and see it take form.

But I’m noticing my physical energy is depleted.

And that was most definitely NOT what was supposed to happen this year!

This year, I was longing to do things differently - and in the last couple of months, I’ve forgotten to make my career work for me. All of me. Not just the part of me that loves to create new things.

💡 The advice I’d give to clients

Now rather embarrassingly, I talk all the time about how to make your career work for you. I’ve done it many times for myself over the years and helped hundreds of other people on this exact thing. There are 2 bits of advice I always give….

First - get clear what’s most important to you deep down.

Then look at who can help you.

🎯 Taking my own advice

So what’s feels most important to me right now is simplicity and peace. Having it all come naturally so I get out of my own way and get shit done!

And let’s face it - the person that can help me is me. And I’m a bloody coach after all!

I should be able to do this.

But we all have our “stuff” we want to work on - and I’ve written before about how coaching can help and yep - even a coach can use a coach from time to time to help them get out of their own way! So, as I’ve promised to take my own advice, I decided to get a coach for a few sessions.

Now I originally wanted a technical coach to help me move a few of my new products forward as my tech VA was on holiday. And as the talented Amelia Stewart (Em) helped me sort some tech bits last year, I got in touch again. When we had a bit more of a chat, she shared that she was all about helping people make things simple. And I thought - that’s just what I need!

And I signed up for 3 months.

We spent the first few weeks getting those tech headaches off my lap. And today we went deeper and actually did an exercise I use all all the time with my own clients.

It was fascinating being on the other end of it - and I’ve got to confess I resisted it for a while because I had my own Coach voice in my head treating it as an observation exercise! But Em did a brilliant job at keeping me there - and I’ll share more once I’ve let things settle a bit. It reminded me how much things can shift when we feel listened to and heard - that’s the beauty of coaching.

👉 Your Turn!

How is your own experiment getting on? Have you gone great guns or have you got your own pause you’d like to confess?

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