I don’t know about you, but life seems crazier, faster and busier than usual these days. Maybe I have taken on too much, but I barely have time to breathe and another week has passed. It is almost February and the Christmas holidays both feel like they were yesterday and like they were an eternity away. What is happening to time? Is it speeding up or happening all at once? I really don’t get it.
All I know is I feel like I am watching a movie that is going in fast forward and I am trying my best to keep up. Is anyone else feeling that way?
And I hear we just entered Mercury retrograde a few days ago. Oh my, hold on, the ride is going to get even bumpier…
I recently attended a conference with my mentor coach and 150 women who are currently taking her year-long coach training program. My mentor is a highly successful, well-known, accomplished, transformational coach who teaches the business, mindset, and coaching skills to create a thriving business in this field. She has developed a multi-million dollar coaching company, which is rare in this field, knows what it takes to do so, and teaches by example as any true mentor does.
Over the years of working with clients as a psychotherapist and life coach, I have witnessed many people go through periods of time in which they felt everything was falling apart. Life is full of unexpected losses, changes, and transitions such as an illness, a job loss, a divorce, a cross-country move, a major financial setback, etc. However, there are those times in life in which multiple uncontrollable events may be happening all at once that push you to the edge of your ability to cope and keep you from wanting to get out of bed in the morning.
I have been a participant this year in a program called Your Year of Miracles led by NY Times best-selling author Marci Shimoff and success expert Debra Poneman. The program has had some of the most notable inspirational teachers, thought leaders and authors as weekly guest speakers and we have been taught some of the best tools available for making life changes.
Part of my purpose as a transformational coach is to help my clients achieve success in their life. Since success is often about the fulfillment of one’s goals, I generally start by asking my clients what they would like to accomplish in our work together and how I may help them the most.