Post number 1!

Well here we go my first entry to my first blog. I am taking on coaching as my new profession. I have been coaching informally through many years of owning several businesses. I have coached my clients, employees, business partners, friends, family, community leaders, kids etc. I really enjoyed the "conversations" I would have and would feel honored when someone would comment on me being a good listener, or helping them find the answers they were seeking. I thought they were simple conversations between two people and that I was benefitting much more from them than they were from me. I now recognize this as being the synergy that moves us all along our paths. I now understand, looking back, that this is one of the most dynamic forces in the Universe. If understood and applied correctly, this talent alone could result in much less suffering in our lives.

I have always had mentors and now I know them to have been coaches along the way in my path of development. Sometimes it was life skills and sometimes it was business skills. Some of them know, and some of them do not know the influence they have had on my life. Most of them came into my life just as I needed them for a particular lesson! I now keep an eye out for my next coach or mentor as I move along in my life and career. I know life moves at the speed of sound, and sometimes as slow as a drunken sloth. I have given up trying to dictate the pace in my life, and instead decided to take it one day at a time. Some days will be really hectic and some will be uneventful. Either way it will still be approached with the same balance, joy or perspective that makes life so wonderful.

What kinds of coaches have you had in your life? What kind of coaching have you done for others in your life? Remember how you felt, helping others. Remember how you felt being helped by someone who cared? Do you feel balanced? Visit the assessment tool below and see how balanced your wheel is. I would love to hear your feedback. It has been around for awhile, but is a good one to revisit from time to time.

http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newHTE_93.htm