We are living in a world that gives us more information, more opinions, and more comparisons than ever before. Attention is constantly fragmented, and it can feel as though we are not only living our lives but also evaluating how those lives appear to everyone else in real time. I think this changes us as it encourages us to become highly self-conscious without necessarily becoming more self-aware. We spend so much time managing how we are perceived that we lose touch with how we actually feel. We begin performing our lives rather than fully inhabiting them.
Yet our greatest resource is rarely found outside ourselves. It is found in our accumulated experience, our instincts, our values, and our capacity to think clearly when we are fully present. We often know far more than we give ourselves credit for and what gets in the way is the internal commentary. The voice that questions our ability, magnifies our fears, and convinces us that we are not ready. This is where coaching can make a profound difference as a coach does not give you your potential. A coach helps you access it through thoughtful questions, reflection, and honest dialogue, coaching quietens the internal noise so that your own judgment, wisdom, and natural intelligence have room to emerge.
““A fourth monkey has emerged. He sees no one, hears no one and speaks to no one.””
