People often ask me who coaching is for. Well, I’d say coaching is for anyone, really, who knows they need to change something in their lives.
It might be because you are facing a major transition: the need or desire to change your job, children leaving home, the end of a relationship, moving into a post-working world.
Or perhaps it will be because you are starting to notice a feeling… or a whisper… or a knocking at the door… or the sudden onset of tears… or the knowledge without knowing what that knowledge means or where it will take you… that something needs to change.
And if that feeling, that silent whisper, that knowledge goes on for too long you might start to say to yourself, to hear in yourself, to feel in your self, deep inside, that you are lost, that you have lost your way. Or that you have lost your purpose. Can’t work out where to go next. Lost sight of what it all means. Or just plain lost the plot.
Or maybe you know that things need to be different but you can’t see the way ahead. There’s just a brick wall. A dead end. And so you stay. Stuck.
Or for some people it’s what happens when you get tired, really tired, and the thought of changing makes you feel: overwhelmed. And you don’t want to move forward because the world has got so grey, so dull, so drab, so lacking in colour that you can’t really see the point. And yet, inside, you know that this isn’t how things were meant to be. Not how you were meant to be. And that this isn’t how the story is going to end.
But that it is, in fact, just about to begin.