Challenge 149: Out of the closet

June 7, 2010

I just wrote an email to one of my clients saying that I felt like everything was falling into place for her. I feel like that with me too. I have a sense of calm about my coaching, a knowing that it will work out. That if I keep following what I love and keep learning and growing as a coach, that everything will fall into my lap and fall into place.

Lately I've gotten some really incredible feedback from my clients. Calls on Sunday evenings telling me of their amazing wins and great news. Emails of appreciation. I see and feel movement. Not just with them but with me. We're moving together.

I still wonder and try to figure out how it's all going to play out, what it's all going to look like in the end. And right now I have snippets of images and feelings of what it'll be like but I don't have the whole picture . Part of me wants to see if I can find it and part of me just wants to keep doing what I'm doing and let it all unfold as it does.

I had a good call with a partner of mine from the Belief Closet practitioner training. We were working on an old belief I had that I wanted to get rid of. The old belief was that "when things get hard, I won't do it." I've known that was a belief I've had for awhile and I know that it's had a hold on me. We got to a place where the fifth grade Sally who just turned down the role of Dorothy in Wizard of Oz got to talk to me, and then a future Sally got to talk to me. Both had messages for me, and to my surprise both Sally's wanted me to have a life filled with excitement. I'm not sure if this is making any sense. But the new belief I came out of there with was that "I do the hard thing and I find it exciting." So instead of looking at a challenge as this big, hard thing, I came out of there wanting to look at challenges as exciting things to try.

I took that belief with me to the gym this morning when I couldn't even walk because my muscles were so sore from my training session on Friday. I went from almost letting myself not go, to "ok, this will be fun to see how much I can still do even though my legs hurt." I had one of the best work outs.

I really hope I can hold on to this belief. It's a much better way to approach life. My challenging client this morning turned into an exciting "seeing of how things go." And I hope that pesky old belief doesn't try to sneak back in. If so, I'll just have to go back in the closet.