One of the first major insights I had about myself and my clients over twenty years ago was this:
When it comes to creating results in our lives, most people are pretty much exactly where they ought to be.
What I mean by that is that over the years I’ve rarely seen anyone who consistently outperforms their own efforts. On the whole, life doesn’t really lift people up who haven’t earned the lift or hold them down when everything else is pointing towards success.
When a client comes to me with concerns about an inability to get themselves to do something, I often ask them what they think the problem is. The answers vary, but some of the most popular include self-sabotage, a lack of motivation, poor time management habits, physical exhaustion, and mental overwhelm.
The next Learning How to Thrive small-group retreat will be held in Ojai, California from the 30th of March to the 1st of April, 2012.
If you’d like to get an experience of what it might be like to join us on the retreat, please listen in on this recorded introductory call to experience the transformative conversation in real-time:
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Do you ever feel like you’re carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders?
I do. From time to time, it seems to me like if I don’t get it all together and write a brilliant tip or teach a brilliant class or have a brilliant coaching session, the world will stop turning, people’s lives will grind to a halt, my business will fail, my wife will leave me, and the fragile peace in the Middle East will fall to pieces.
I was speaking with a coaching client this week who was very concerned about what she described as her inability to “access God’s wisdom” while working through a variety of challenges in her business and her personal life. As we explored things more deeply, she explained that in her best moments, she felt very connected to a higher intelligence, but that it seemed like whenever she “really needed it”, that connection was unavailable to her.