David: How would you feel about delaying leaving about 10 minutes so you could call your dad?
Client: I don’t know. I am planning on speaking to him tonight. Do you want me to get into this on the phone or do you just need to connect with him?
David: Well I don’t want you to get into this, because this is not about my life. In my experience, the longer this waits – like it’s already there for you to communicate to him and you just tapped into something today. It’s already there for you and you just found a way to communicate. So, for you to wait is to take you out of that space, and it’s going to weigh on you until you communicate it.
Client: Oh.
David: So, I’ve found that the only time really to communicate something like this is as soon as you can get yourself to a phone and say what you need to say. So then you can spend the rest of the evening just free and feeling like you said what you needed to say.
The following is an sample form from Top Coaching Techniques.
1. What have you achieved since the last coaching session, in any/all areas of your life? (Include anything you have learned)
2. Are any actions not done or incomplete from the last coaching session? I will complete these by:
3. Have you been blocked anywhere? What is your current Perspective and underlying Judgment? What new Perspective will you create?
4. Please name three things in your life for which you are currently grateful (at least one should be different from previous weeks).
5. What concerns, if any, do you currently have?
6. What opportunities exist, or can you create for yourself this week? (In particular, you might like to use any insights from 3 or 5)
7. Please list the actions you will take to move yourself forward by the next coaching session:
(List numbered down the page, and please be specific)
8. What do you want to accomplish from your upcoming coaching session? Please be as specific as you can, and if you draw a blank, I invite you to create something!
The following is an excerpt from the book Get Paid For Who You Are.
When web designer Mike Hall pulled his SUv into the shadows of the tree-lined drive of a prospective client, he was about to find out that Joe troyer, owner of the Cross fire archery shop, didn’t even own a computer. in fact, Joe was amish. But Joe knew that Amish or not, if people were to find out about his custom-made, hand-crafted bows, he needed a website.
Now the world can come to Joe to experience the passion of archery equipment made the old-fashioned way. He gets to spend his time lightly sanding a freshly bent bow while his website works away. . . because he hired someone to do it.
Hey, if Joe can manage to get a website (www.crossfire archery.com) up and running in a woodsy snow covered setting in ohio without even owning a computer, you might have to think hard about any excuses that might be holding you back.
