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Coaching Is Interdependent

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Coaching Is Interdependent

I had a great reminder of a principle I learned in training – that “Coaching Is Interdependent.”

During a coaching session, a client related all the progress she had made in “getting organized.” That triggered an idea, and then an insight for me. Since she isn’t going out as much as before to observe public health precautions, she had turned her focus to the more mundane (but satisfying) clearing clutter and getting filing up to date.

Organizing the Paperwork of Life

She explained all the subjects she had organized – family, legal and estate stuff, home matters and projects, some work-related materials, health records… in addition to bills and subscriptions and recurring credit card payments to track, etc.

I’m sure you have similar organizational subjects – and hopefully an ongoing system to track them.

We talked about how that effort was about ‘cleaning up the past.’ All was a matter of organizing stuff that had needed tending to for some time.

The Past Present and Future of it ALL

I observed that “getting organized” is not an end goal. Once you get organized, you arrive not at an end point, but a starting point: staying organized. Because, like life and career, it is a process.

The subjects are important to track and stay on top of. “Getting” organized moves you from the past to the present with those areas. Using a system to track them allows you to manage the related materials (papers, records, bills, documents) that accompany them.

But that system does even more:

…it allows you to regularly review, and then update as future developments occur. More importantly, it allows you to plan for how you want those areas of your life to unfold.

Because life and work are more than the darn paperwork you use to keep track of them.

That’s actually how you spend your precious time and money – the things you decide about when considering what to bring into and keep in your life, and what to let go of, in terms of your activities –  that is, what you DO and how you spend those precious resources.

CREATING Your Future

There’s no time like the present to be considering this. Especially NOW. How you design and plan for your life and work going forward is how you decide and take action for your future – how you CREATE what you want to have and experience.

It’s important to do more than clean up. It’s important to create just what you want and how you want that to unfold. Because you CAN.

It may not always look exactly like you envision it. It may well be better than you can even imagine – with a design and plan to act on. Conscious creation applied to your work and life is much better than letting outside forces determine it.

That’s like being a leaf being blown around by the wind.

Better to plant the tree and nurture its growth…

Be the tree, not the leaf…

What I Learned From My Coaching Client

So here’s the interdependent part of this story:

As a private client, she has access to my Masterful Life Redesign group coaching mastermind program materials. While relating the various subjects that were the focus of her organizing, I realized what she was talking about is closely related to what research tells us are the 8 Key Areas of Life Satisfaction. Those make up the framework for the design and planning activities in my program.

I got the idea for a new document organizing product to develop. (We entrepreneurs love to develop stuff…)

Then I realized: no need! That’s just another application for the program materials, because ALL her organizing could already be based on the 8 Keys framework. Even better, the program includes the “sorting process” of deciding what’s most important in each area – what to include and what to let go of:

Work and Career, for sure, and
Finances and Estate (earning and building assets, money IS important)
but also Health (especially!),
Personal Development, Family, Friends, Leisure,
and
pursuing a Sense of Contribution

Is there paperwork to organize in each area? Of course. But living is far more than filing paperwork.

The MLR program certainly could be developed into yet another new organizer for the product marketplace. But I’d much rather help you with your life and work design than your paperwork! (Organizing that can follow more easily…).

Even more important is what I call the “spiral design process.” Using the program’s 8 Key Areas framework allow you to address (and keep track of) the ever evolving process of life and work design. That helps you make sure yours is exactly as you choose it to be (or better)… because you’ve put as much effort into actively creating what you want from your ideal design, than just filing the paperwork associated with it.

Can you relate?

I’d love to share the program with you, and show you how you can design and create everything that’s most important to you. Right career direction and great, well compensated work for sure – but also the life you are working so hard to create.

Isn’t that the ALL, we all really want?

Let’s talk about what you want that to include! Schedule a time at www dot DollyCalendar dot com

ALL the best to YOU. From me. That’s what I’m here for.

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