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.

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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.

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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.

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One of the most significant conversations I’ve had in the past five years or so was an argument I lost with a coach I’d hired who I was attempting to persuade of the value of intellect in general and my intellect in particular. What lost me the argument wasn’t anything that she said, but rather something that I felt. In the midst of my repeated intellectual thrusts into her annoyingly non-judgmental listening, I was suddenly overwhelmed by a deep and profound feeling of peace and quiet.

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