This is my 100th post and with it, I am refocusing The Coach Approach blog to reflect more of my passions, skills, and experience in my coaching practice. For the past couple of years I have been blogging about how to use coaching in the work place to improve business relationships. It is an area worthy of attention and coaching skills are most certainly a useful tool for creating even greater success at work. But...
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What I've notice over the last 5+ years in coaching people toward greater success in their careers and their personal lives is that at least 80% of the progress comes from a person''s willingness to do their own personal development work. We can become better leaders and managers. We can learn to understand difficult people and to communicate with an unruly boss. We can practice seeing things from another's point of view. But first, before any other effort will succeed, we need to have an awareness and a conversation with ourselves. We need to become more conscious. Without it, we will repeat old patterns and wonder why we achieve the same results.
The posts that follow will dive full in to the art and science of personal development. I intend to share what I've learned through my coaching practice about what's useful, what works and what's important along with what I've learned on my own journey from my addiction to a lucrative career on Wall Street to the professional freedom I experience today among other things.
It won't be all about work any more and it won't be all about relationships with other people. Mostly, it will be about the most important relationship in the world - the one you are having (or could be having) with yourself.
I am open for feedback and welcome your input as I move through this transition. It feels right and I am a little nervous about letting go of some of the safe topics of the past to move in for a closer look at personal development and conscious living. This is a little stretch for an ex-Wall Street trader....
