EXTRACT FROM “MAPPING MOTIVATION FOR COACHING” – PART 2

Coaching starts with considering the issue of self-awareness for the simple reason that the person who is not self-aware has – by definition – no awareness, or consciousness, that there is anything on which to work within one self. This applies as much to self-development as it does to coaching a client. If a cat scratches its fur going through a barbed wire fence, we know it has become ‘aware’ of the injury because it will start to lick the wound relentlessly in its efforts to heal the scratch.

Vision, details and the centipede

I’m a great believer in vision and goals. But, as with everything, there are limits. This was never truer than when I heard the story of the centipede. One day, not so long ago, two teams of animals decided to compete to see who was best at football (soccer). It was a case of theContinue reading “Vision, details and the centipede”