The Pursuit of Your Potential is a Process

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The only people who have a coach are those who WANT a coach…why would you want a coach when you don’t need a coach?

There are two questions to ask yourself to help resolve the question of whether or not you should hire a coach.

1-Are you satisfied with the direction the world is moving?

2-Are you satisfied with the direction your life is moving? 

3-What are you going to do about it?

I know, that's three questions (five if you’re really paying attention). 

You see, people who live great lives explode with possibility when they realize they are the solution to the inadequacies they notice around them. They begin to move in the direction of the solution or at least a solution that is better than the current circumstances as they collaborate and conspire with the available resources at their disposal to begin making an impact on improving circumstances they are not satisfied with. 

As you evaluate these two questions, you probably have a myriad of things that come up about which you are not satisfied either in the world or your life or undoubtedly, both. 

Your initial response to the 3rd question is probably along the lines of, “What can I do? I can’t fix that. It’s too big. It’s too much. I don’t have the ability, education, background, connections, resources, capacity, etc., etc., etc.” 

You have rationalizations and justifications as to why you are not the solution to the issue. We all do this. We all create the evidence we need to justify and defend our response and we end up in a place of complaining, or at best, saying nothing, which leads to doing nothing. 

This response leaves you in a place of indifference, apathy and resignation to dealing with the way things are instead of charging ahead, taking the bull by the horns, and getting busy with correcting what you are not satisfied with.

I believe that if you were to truly evaluate your response and honestly look at what you could do, the truth of the matter would reveal itself...you are scared to acknowledge what you could do because you would be forced to take ownership and make things happen. 

Fear rules your response and you are afraid to acknowledge, engage, and release your imagination and creativity. You are afraid to acknowledge the fundamental truth that lives deep in your bones…Marianne Williamson captured this thought brilliantly when she wrote, ”Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”   

When you face your fear and realize that you have the capacity to take a step in the direction of positive progress, you begin to pursue the potential and the capacity that lies mostly dormant in the mass of humanity who live lives of “quiet desperation” because the masses settle for what shows up instead of pursue their highest aspirations. When you embrace you purpose of not settling and allow your passion for what you know to be right to pull you toward something that helps to satisfy what you are not satisfied with, NOTHING will stop you. It is the magical & mystical power of the human spirit.

You will gravitate toward the outcome effortlessly and with ease...with determination and resolve that can move mountains. Ella Wheeler Wilcox wrote, “There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.”  

When you acknowledge your ability and power to satisfy what you are not satisfied with AND you raise your standards to take ownership of the outcome and current circumstances become irrelevant…they no longer matter, what matters is what action you will take to correct it. What direction will you begin to move?

Once again, the words of  Ella Wheeler Wilcox convey the point...

“One ship drives east and another drives west

With the selfsame winds that blow.

Tis the set of the sails

And not the gales

Which tells us the way to go.

Like the winds of the seas are the ways of fate,

As we voyage along through the life:

Tis the set of a soul

That decides its goal,

And not the calm or the strife. ”

When come to the realization that you will no longer settle for the status quo and you are, at least, part of the solution, then you have to ask, “What is the best and fastest way to correct the situation?” 

That’s where you may decide that you WANT a coach to help shorten the time and effort necessary to resolve the issue. A coach helps make the ride smoother and less stressful. This is exactly why true professionals (from athletes to business leaders) who are already the best at what they do, use a coach to help them move quickly & efficiently beyond the limits of their current capacity and their inability to see it by themselves. 

What are you not satisfied with in life or in general? What are you going to do about it?

Don’t you or someone else deserve better results in this regard? 

Isn’t it about time you made some progress?