I remember the day I first heard about Coaching: November, cold, gray and rainy day and my mood at level minus one on a scale of 0 to 10!
I'm in the office opening the email while I take off my coat. Among the infinite unread emails, a "newsletter" from an Internet job bank. I read it reluctantly… and suddenly something catches my attention: an article on “Coaching for personal and professional development”.
In my eagerness to find something to fix my life mess, I jump like crazy to read it. The article explains what Coaching is, what it is for, gives precise data on where and how to access it, web page addresses… I write it all down in my agenda, sent it to the printer, put the author's phone in the directory of my mobile… and that's it.
With my usual inertia, I mentally put it on my "to do" list. Actually, I was a little afraid of the unknown to expose myself to a stranger, mixed with certain doses of skepticism.
So I parked it. And my life continued through the same paths with the same "no solutions" to the same problems.
Until another rainy day when I couldn't take it anymore, I called that phone number, and Susana answered me, and there began one of the most magical adventures I've ever known…
Magic? Yes, it is definitely magic. The one of oneself, the one that you have inside… the one that is usually asleep and that we sometimes sense in moments of special inspiration, when the planets align, it is sunny, and we are enjoying it on a terrace having a cold beer…!
That feeling of well-being I have now, without sun, without a terrace and without beer. That feeling of peace with the world and with yourself and at the same time an illusion and an extraordinary energy to do things… that is the magic that Coaching awakens in oneself.
If I had to put colors to my moods, I would say that I came to Coaching in “leaden gray” and I came out in “light blue and clean as a summer sky”. And all this in the space of two months !!!.
It was so surprising that I needed to talk to Susana about my feeling of unreality: such an unexpected change in such a short space of time… would it be a mirage? Or maybe it coincides that you are on a hot streak and you see everything in a positive light…
NO. I believe that Coaching teaches everyone what they need to know to make that change. In my case, Susana said something to me one day when I told her all my avatars and my inability to face them. The possible solutions seemed to me such huge companies that I did not know where to start, nor did I have the strength or desire to do so.
"How would you eat an elephant?" Susana asked me.
I thought with my usual process: you have to hunt it first, then cut it up, bone it, cook it… UFF! Impossible…!
But I didn't tell him, of course, because although depressed, I could still recognize a joke when I had it in front of me. So, with absolute originality, I said, "I don't know." And Susana said: "in small pieces".
As simple and as powerful as that. It was absolutely revealing to me, my touchstone, the learning I needed at the time.
Two months later, the circumstances of my life have not changed to white. But it does not matter. The change is within me, where it has to be for it to be solid and lasting.
Coaching has helped me change the way I approach and face problems and I know that the circumstances of my life are changing where I want, directed by myself. And I can see and check it every day. It is not a mirage.
Isn't this magic?
Coaching allows people to find themselves for a period of time and teaches them to find their own solutions in subsequent periods. The benefits of Coaching do not end when the process ends, but are maintained over time.
If you believe that you can also aspire to more and better… Personal Coaching allows you to achieve it. Why not try it?
A hug
