Peer Coach 2: Session 2

I’m really proud of myself because I spent the first part of my session acknowledging my good work! I spoke to Joanne, my 1st Peer Coach, yesterday and realized I’m being too hard on myself. So one of the things I’m working on is cutting myself some slack! I really feel like I made a big leap in de-stressing myself and not letting my mind (and my To Do list) control my mood and actions.

So today I focused on business building! I’m really getting the itch to get things up and running, especially since my job satisfaction has gone downhill lately. I want to get my website up, a business plan on paper, a logo for my company, and some business cards. That should take……about a week, right? WRONG!

I think my first step is to buy the book that Holly recommended, as well as talk to Luke about building a site. He builds great ones, but I don’t want to have to rely on him to get into it, update it, tweak it, etc. But I should use him to help me (it’s not like I keep him around for his good looks and personality or anything)!

External Client 1: Session 8

I ain’t going to lie - Client A came to me with some heavy stuff today. It was both an easy session (when she needed me just to listen) and a hard one (how do you deconstruct a larger problem into smaller pieces?). You don’t want to have the client follow-up with something that they’re not ready for, or comfortable with, or isn’t their idea. I tried to make sure I really understood her situation, and tried to turn the mirror back on her so she can see if her recent revelation is an accurate one.

What’s amazing is that now she’s coming to these revelations herself, looking at things from a different way, and I hope she took it to heart when I commended her on that. What’s tough now is helping her figure out what to do with it. She knows what the obstacle is, but how is she comfortable moving forward? She didn’t know, and I wasn’t sure how to help her there.

I think what I need to do now is to find some key questions. I’ve seen them written down somewhere - great, thought-provoking questions. And not to use it as a cheat sheet, but to keep it close by (or really get it into my head) and, when I’m not sure how to go about something, I can just ask a question. I feel like, if you only Listen and Question, you can be a phenomenal coach.

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I’m grateful today for allowing myself to cut myself some slack. It’s a nice feeling.