In the Vitamin P Coaching podcast, I'm trying to capture what I'm learning as I develop as a leadership coach each week. I also built a deeper resource to help my coaching clients to reflect better so they can create a bigger, brighter vision of the future next year - I’m happy to send it, just let me know what email is best to send it if you want a copy! What credit can I give myself to help me be braver in 2024? How did I look after my mind, body and “spirit” and what might I do differently?ġ5. What skills have I developed and what will I focus on improving next year?ġ3. How might I schedule more fun and what would I like to try during this time?ġ2. What do I need to do more of or less of?ġ1. Who do I need to spend less time with?ġ0. What are the tasks / actions / habits that had the biggest impact?ĩ. What decisions did I make that had a big impact?Ħ. To build on this, here’s 15 questions I’ll use to reflect and position myself for improvement in 2024:Ĥ. To keep it simple, it might be what will I stop, start or continue doing? This will be the first year in almost 10 I won’t have a year end assessment. This frees up space to invite in a brighter future for the year ahead. Use this time of year to let go of these identity statements that no longer serve you. Letting go of some of these statements will free you up & create the energy for growth. Take back the pen & author who you are, who you are not. This creates fear & a threat response because we crave certainty, crave belonging. To belong gives us certainty of belonging in a world that is uncertain.īut just because it creates certainty doesn't mean it serves you. Or that we do NOT belong to something else. They help us feel we belong to something. This is why you'll see identity statements EVERYWHERE. I followed my path because I wanted to identity statement "I am a leadership coach" to be true. Recently, he told me I had proved him wrong. I was told I was too young & wouldn't be taken seriously. This was something I was told when I started coaching senior leaders. too young, you'll hold back from taking on opportunities or responsibility., Those beliefs hold you back because of what you feel you have to do to make them true. You'll be carrying a LOT of beliefs about who you are that will hold you back. This can be powerful & liberating, freeing up energy you didn't know you had. These create containers or limits to what's possible for you.Ĭheck if your identity statements are true or useful to hold onto. One of the best things you can do is get clear on the IDENTITY statements you make about yourself. Knowing there is more within you that is wasting away is uncomfortable. I've been there & supported other people too. You can see what's possible but it will feel like too much of a stretch. Until you learn to say no, growth & progress will stay on the horizon. The space between old and new is full of life - open up to it with curiousity rather than retreating because of fear. Some questions to make this space a little easier to walk through: Sometimes, the comfort of knowing there's a model helps us contain the anxiety and feelings.Īnxiety can be excitement though and we forget that in this space, there is an opportunity.Īn opportunity to explore, to redefine ourselves, to leave behind what's needed, to embrace new with energy. There's models to explain each of the stages. Many have been on the journey and travelled across this path. This is because it's a new space to them, so the uncertainty is really uncomfortable. Often, people look for answers to what next step to take. The reason is in this place of between worlds, it creates anxiety, self-doubt, fear, questions of identity, questions of purpose and commitment etc. There's always this edge, this place between the old and new that can be uncomfortable. It could be a new job, new career path, building something new etc. Most people I work with in coaching are in transition between an 'old' and a 'new'. This translates to: "Pathmaker, there is no path, you make the path by walking." "Caminante, no hay camino, se hace camino al andar." Antonio Machado (1875-1939)
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