“I know I need to make a change, but I just don’t know what I want to change to.”
This is one of the most common pickles my clients bring to me. They know that the status quo isn’t working, but they are mystified as to what will really make them happy. In this era of personality profiles and deep introspection, it’s easy to think that we need to do some serious detective work to figure out what makes us happy, and what we’re good at doing. But I’m here today to tell you that the clues really are all around us, if we just open our eyes.
A few years ago, I made a huge life shift by leaving biological engineering and becoming a life coach. Like my clients, I used to tell the story as if the realization that I should become a life coach took a ton of digging and introspection as I journeyed into the hidden recesses of my consciousness. Sounds like a sci-fi thriller, I know, but that’s how mystical and unforeseen the process felt to me.
Just this week, evidence has surfaced that blows holes in that story. I have been working from my parents’ house, while visiting them, and my mom asked me to clean out the old stuff in my bedroom. What awaited me was about two decades of poems and essays from English class, programs from theatre and band performances, and napkins and other bric-a-brac from supposedly memorable experiences that I no longer remember. In performing this archeological dig into the past life of Samantha, guess what I learned: teenage Samantha had “life coach” written all over her.
A blog by Dr. Samantha Sutton, VP of Courses and Seminars and Senior Coach at the Handel Group
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