NO FAILURE JUST LEARNING AND TRYING AGAIN

“It is only a matter of time!” Last week that became one of the themes that we stressed over and over at Coaching Mastery in New Zealand. But not only there. I’ve stressed it in many places. Maybe, everywhere! And there’s a reason— participants often come to the Coaching Boot Camp for training and what they mostly want, or at least what dominates their consciousness, is “the certificate.”

Yet here is the paradox—the very frame of mind of focusing on something external like the certificate, that mindset itself undermines a person’s ability to do his or her best and to succeed in reaching the benchmarks. So the solution to this problem strikes most people as sounding contradictory: Forget getting the certificate; forget the scores you get on the benchmarks, focus on your client, be fully present, listen, really listen and you will be much more likely to succeed. Forget to succeed!?