How are you feeling about the recent constant media bombardment about changing your body, lifestyle, habits and career?
What compels us to think that a New Year ‘should’ mean a New You?
Maybe you like yourself the way you are?
That doesn’t mean that a New Year can’t present new opportunities to think differently. Jane Hirschfield wrote the short and powerful poem:
‘I moved my chair to sit in the sun
I sat in the sun
The way hunger is moved when called fasting.’
Interestingly, it is the same person with the same chair in the same moment. It involves a physical movement and a powerful mental shift that results in a different experience, perspective and outlook.
If you don’t like where you are, you can move (you are not a tree!). Have you considered working with a coach to access your best thinking, shift or reframe your perspective and explore challenges from a different angle?
Recently, a senior client was struggling to make significant systemic changes happen in an ambitious timescale. She had focussed on developing the relationships between teams, working on more co-operative behaviours and enhancing collaboration. All hugely beneficial but the necessary speed of delivery had not automatically followed.
By re-framing the view point of the challenge, our coaching revealed the blockage as the long-established and respected system and the need for honesty, and bravery, to call this out. Once it was named and put under the spotlight, the change speeded up.
There will be 8,760 hours in 2019 – how might you even spend one hour a day thinking differently (that is just 0.1% of your time) and create the space to move towards your potential?
Do get in touch if you would like to discuss how coaching could move you into the sun.
