Away for a long weekend and catching up after five days without blogging….oh my. This morning I had a major epiphany. Not a small one, mind you, but a big, huge, fat one. My beloved and I share our morning cuppa over a daily inspirational reading and a few minutes of prayer and meditation to give our day a combined crystal launching off.
This morning was a bit different. We started having this amazing conversation that is similar to many we’ve had over the past 20-something years about his business, his current challenges and wins, and the extraordinary day to day occurrences of being the CEO of a startup company that’s been chosen in the top hundred of worldwide startups for mentorship with the most elite investors on the east coast. The conversation usually starts with interesting minutia, often leads into a challenge or query, and almost always ends with big smiles, clarity, enthusiasm, and a renewed sense of accomplishment and moving to the next phase.
As a spiritual business coach to many women embarking on opening their own businesses or shifting gears towards ramping up their businesses, this type of conversation comes easily to me. It’s like breathing, making a sandwich, and finding a new ingredient when the preferred one isn’t available. I love what I do and am so darn good at it that like many people who are gifted in a certain area of expertise, I take it for granted.
This morning, however, a light went on. I realized that what comes to me so naturally is not necessarily that easy for someone else. It dawned on me that I have been coaching my beloved for decades and that he is not female, holistic, or embarking on his own one person service venture like my clients. He’s been corporate for years, has employees, gives high level presentations, has been a consultant to firms seeking to overhaul the very foundations of how they approach large projects, and is an ambitious, goal oriented, driven, suit wearing, briefcase carrying, highly intelligent male. (He’s hot, too.) What dawned on my marble head this morning was that I am a highly skilled leadership coach for men and women who are on the cutting edge of worldwide paradigm busting entrepreneurial ventures. What sets me apart from the typical leadership coach is an incredible thirty years of training in various spiritual and energetic modalities that shift and transform blocks and patterns that keep people stuck, catapulting them into the success they desire, thereby saving them from years of frustration and failure. Whoa, right?!
What are your gifts, and what have you been hiding from yourself in order to stay small and comfy? What comes so naturally to you that you don’t even consider it a skill? Who have you been helping in your life in ways that you don’t acknowledge? Where in your life are people thriving and so much better due to a little something you gave them that was almost effortless on your part, or even really, really fun?
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Goddess Oceana's Gold 
July 11, 2012 at 7:34 pm |
This is why I opened up shop as Heart Centered Writing Coach – when i realized what an awesome editor and writer I am. I knew it, but it seemed to be something that came so naturally so i was blinded to my own awesomeness. This was a great awakening you shared and a wondrous affirmation for me.
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July 11, 2012 at 7:41 pm |
So great to read this, Joss! I love it. Thanks for the confirmation!
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