Looking for Open Windows – A Perspective on Changes |

Looking for Open Windows – A Perspective on Changes

Sometimes prospective clients investigate coaching with me because they are simply looking for open windows. That is, they aren’t sure about the change or changes they want to make and they take steps towards an open window to see if there is anything there that will help make them clearer. They are in the discovery phase and they want to run their ideas by someone who can understand where they are and hear themselves talk about it.

It’s a healthy approach to consider your options with an expert who knows how to listen and feedback what they hear from you, so you can hear it with a fresh ear. However, you may be someone who does too much window shopping, dragging out decisions or never even going in the store, letting time pass and waiting till frustration or forced circumstances cause you to act.

Someone once said to me when I was being indecisive about signing up for a program I wanted to do, ”you can certainly wait, but what will happen is more time will pass and the cost of this program will go up.” That didn’t seem horrible, but it also put the delaying my goals in perspective for me. I’d already been waiting to get started and make some changes. I didn’t want to keep waiting – and I didn’t want to have to pay more.

It may be that you really don’t want to make the changes you think you do and that comfort and familiarity are more important values for you. There’s nothing wrong with that. It’s giving prolonged attention to the constant push and pull inside and questioning where you are and where you think you should be, that is unnecessary and will not give you peace.

A professional life coach works with you to address those concerns, while planning the action steps necessary to make your change. You will not be afraid to look out open windows, take in new views or breathe in the fresh air, you will just have a better connection with what you’re looking at and how it relates to where you are and where you’re going.