Starting Over
Posted on November 03, 2010 by Lise Mathieu, One of Thousands of Executive Coaches on Noomii.
Are you considering Starting Over and how coaching can help? This one pager by Coach Charley might just be the reflective piece for you.
Starting Over
My friend Charley had this to say about Starting Over and how coaching can help. It struck me as so very true that I decided to post it for you to appreciate. Have a great day!
Starting Over by Coach Charley Hampton, 1 November 2010
The thought of starting over is very intimidating to people. Staring at a blank page with no action steps, no ‘to do’ list, essentially no place to go freezes them into inactivity.
Yet people are confronted with this challenge all the time: losing a job, ending a relationship, retiring, physical or emotional injury. An imposing prospect – starting a critical part of their lives from scratch. What to do, or more importantly, where to start?
Part of the problem is perspective. When people are starting over, they are typically moving away from something or some place. Pretty tough to see the future when you’re focusing on where you’ve been. Kind of like driving while looking in the rear view mirror.
The other part of the problem is ignorance and lack of awareness. We are always prone to undervaluing our assets. All the things we have learned, all our experience, all the people we know. Revisiting our assets and actually writing them down in a systematic fashion will create the foundation for the first steps of starting over. When you can actually see them in black and white, they become strategic tools waiting to be deployed.
Deployed where, you might wonder? This is the key. People often wander aimlessly through their lives looking for that random ’something’. Like a dog in a field of bones, eventually, they may find something actually works for them. Or, maybe never. Having a filter through which alternatives can be evaluated will dramatically increase the likelihood of success.
This is where assessments and an experienced coach can make a difference. Shortening the analysis part of the process and creating a plan to which you can be held accountable are what coaches do.
