This interesting question asked by one of the little people who lived in the labyrinth in the story 'Who moved my cheese?', leads us to meditate on the theme of the fears that accompany the individual throughout his life.
Sometimes we are not armored under a hard crust called personality and that makes us seem brave and even daring, when in our interior we may be struggling with fears and deep-rooted mental structures that lead us to make the wrong decisions.
This question becomes so interesting precisely because it is a coaching question that, in the right context, should lead the respondent to analyze what makes him doubt inside, what he relates to pre-established and eventually inadequate concepts.
This is precisely the purpose of coaching as a discipline, to help the trainee to see what is hindering their better judgment, the proper performance in their management and that slows down their decisions and organizational processes, but beyond helping them see it, the ideal is come to accompany him in that learning that is required to see results in short times.
It is there where the coach and the coaching process take on greater value, since it is not enough to know the problem, but to take it on a clear path of empowerment and control.In one of the sessions of the diploma, one of my trainees asked me: "Why are there things so obvious and so simple that we are not able to see for ourselves?".I mentioned to him about the life arguments and positions that we adopt towards life and that lead us like a donkey, always along the well-known and much traveled path... we learn to do things, to make decisions and to make agreements that many times we do not even consider new options, precisely because we know the paths by heart, we enter the so-called "comfort zone".
There is a phrase that has been attributed to Albert Einstein: "if you are looking for different results, do not always do the same" and this is precisely a reflection that we ask our students to make in the process of immersion in coaching, since in short what we seek is to bring them to the "awakening" that leads them to take a clear position regarding the challenges of daily life.Today we want to lead you to reflect on what you would be able to achieve if you free yourself from your fears, from those ghosts that limit and reduce you, those giants that you yourself have perhaps unconsciously erected. How far would he have been able to get to this point in his life if he didn't have those mental fences.
Now you will tell me: "Well, I don't think I have those fears you speak of"... but rest assured that most of the things you have dreamed of have not been realized. How many projects has not left on the road. How many ideas died before coming to light because you thought they were not possible or feared the reaction of those around you. Paraphrasing the German poet Hölderlin: "Man is a giant when he dreams, but only a dwarf when he thinks."And I don't mean by this the baseless dreamer.
Coaching gives you life tools, decision-making tools, development of that winner's nose that takes you to a higher level of consciousness... not as something esoteric or mysterious, but weighed, sitting in reality and the knowledge of your own power, of the principles that govern the universe itself and that will lead you to act, to move to be.We should all go through a coaching process, a real process that takes you into what leads you to a better level of performance. To a clarity of what you are, of your relationship with the other and with the whole. Remember, you are what you want to be.