When the Problem is the Emotional Churn
This week I took in two new executive coaching clients and had another client renew for the year - all three having the courage to address the same issue. They’re smart, educated and have good roles. Yet they want a plan that delivers tangible career and life reward and mostly want to address their inner critic that inserts itself in their heads such that they adopt its voice as fact when it’s only an assumption and end up with less results than they are capable of.
There is nothing wrong with these three leaders. They’re just human. We are wired really well for avoiding danger. This is how we’ve evolved over the centuries and are not extinct. But the fight or flight mechanism does not serve us at a staff meeting, in a conflict situation, when receiving feedback or when challenged in the board room.
Patterns of thinking lead to patterns of behavior. We have to turn into the thinking - not away - to understand and challenge it. We need to adopt practices to clear the head trash that haunts us. And we need to replace the stuck perspectives and old stories we retell ourselves with authentic facts and vision. That’s transformation and it doesn’t happen with a self-help book, conference, or video. It takes humility to search inside yourself for your vibrancy.
It’s the beginning of 2020. If you don’t have a plan for the end of 2020 you’re already there. If you want to set up a call with me to discuss if coaching is a good let’s talk about what you want for 2020. https://www.maryleegannon.com/Consultation.
Success is freedom. Not more hours, money, control, responsibility, or status. It's time.
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Your coach,
Mary Lee
P.S. Feel free to forward this email to someone who could benefit from it. We are all walking down the same road in life looking for a hand to hold. Sometimes we must be the hand that reaches out. www.MaryLeeGannon.com
Mary Lee Gannon, ACC, CAE is an executive coach and 19-year corporate CEO who helps leaders have more effective careers, happier lives and better relationships. Request a free consultation call.
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