Challenge 31: Clean Kitchen. Walked Dog.

February 12, 2010

Geez...so another late blogging day for me. But I have to admit, that it's for very good and exciting reasons. My week, and especially the last two days have been absolutely packed to the brim in the best ways possible. Coaching. And boxing. Today I didn't even have a spare minute until right now. And so I'm spending the time sipping on some wine and reflecting on the day.

Some really cool things have happened in the past couple days. And I'm so glad because I started off this week feeling just kind of off. Off about coaching, off about everything. I wasn't sure if I was being a good coach, etc, things weren't falling into place the way I wanted them too, and I just felt stuck. But I had a great call with my coach on Wednesday, who basically gave me this silly, but effective, exercise to do when I noticed myself freaking out...snapping a rubber band on my wrist, and it has worked! The past couple days I'm feeling more alive, more silly, more happy, and more together. Another common thread is that I've spent both days coaching. For hours. It's so cool to me to realize that when I'm doing that, I feel better. When I'm coaching, it feels right. When I'm busy coaching, I'm bouncing around the day, happily. So more of that, please!

Another thing that has been really great is that I'm getting wonderful opportunities from my completely amazing and supportive friends. One friend offered to tell her whole work about me as a coach, and pass along my info and she did! And they were excited. And another friend wrote an email on my behalf to her network of friends, and out of that I got an email from this guy who works for a PR company who came across a site that was looking for a coach to interview for an article. I not only talked to the woman today to answer questions for her article, but I gave her a free coaching session, which she said completely changed the way she thought about coaching. I offered to be her coach. Will keep you posted on that. She also said I could write an article for her website about coaching...which I MUST do next week or this weekend.
The coolest thing about talking to this woman today was that I not only was able to help her realize there is another way to look at her dreams/desires/things she's been wanting, but I helped one more person to not think coaching is cheesy. I've never really addressed this on my blog, but I do realize that some people might think coaching is silly, cheesy, woo woo, or not a legitimate career, but I find it so powerful and cool that I just want to share it with anyone willing to go there. This woman was definitely a skeptic. Helping her feel better about it was the best thing that has happened to me in a long time. I could have talked to her for hours.

After that hour ish call, I went to the boxing gym to meet with my trainer. I'm getting into more actual hitting of stuff. Gloves and hand wraps on. Punching bags. Drills. Jump-roping. I sweat more today...the dripping kind. And it felt great.

After that I came home and immediately had another coaching call with a new client. I feel so grateful.
Then some nannying and now I'm here. Wine in hand. Dog at feet. Blog being created. Best friend in town. Things feel real good.

So I know it's late in the day, but I still have challenges for myself. Since I've been so busy, I haven't made much time to clean the house or spend time with Coach. So tonight, I want the kitchen to be clean, and I want to go on a long walk with Coach. There it is.

Challenge 31: Clean Kitchen. Walked Dog.

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