Thursday, December 9, 2010

How Do You Approach Change?

Change is constant! we are reminded, usually right after we forget this truth. But we love when things stay the same. It feels safe and delicious. We revel in following our holiday traditions. We feel accomplished working for 20 years for the same company. We develop comfortable, repetitive every day routines to keep our lives ‘on track.’

But we know in our hearts that change is happening all around us, all the time, large and small, sometimes life-shattering and sometimes not. How these changes and opportunities work out is up to us—and how we greet and think about change.

As a woman in midlife, you may be hearing a call for personal change. It may be just an intuition that your job or a relationship must change or it may be a nagging truth, you’ve been tamping down for years. How will you handle it? Will you greet it with an open heart or with worry?

However you feel about change, you are not alone. There are many women out there dreaming about breaking out of behaviors, jobs and relationships who don’t know where to start—and this is where my life coaching practice comes in.

Life coaches supply the structure and encouragement most people need to accept or plant the seeds of change. Just like anything else in life we want to excel at, we need a solid, practical plan and to keep at the plan one small task at a time. Picture the work more like moving small pieces of debris out of your way, rather than a mountain to climb.

And the coaching collaboration is productive and fun. Working with a coach gives you access to ideas you might never think of on your own, if you are blocked by old thought patterns and beliefs. Sometimes just a little tweak or suggestion makes something impossible possible.

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