YOUR SKILLS ARE NOT PERMANENT

Your coaching ability to listen and support, to question, induce state, frame, challenge, etc. are in flux and flo. They rise and fall according to how you feel, the client you’re with, your ongoing learning and practice, the level of your training, and many other factors. One day you may be on and nailing the structural processes like the well-formed outcome, the axes of change, the meaning—performance axes and the next day you are off. Your tongue seems to be tied down, your mind strains as if in slow gear, and you are just not fully present in the session. That’s the way it is with skills — they are not permanent or static.

So if you reached 2.5 at a certain point, you can count on the fact that you are often below that level. As a process, your coaching skills rise and fall just as your fitness skills in whatever exercises you do, or sport that you participate in, also rises and falls. If you one got 2.5 and you want to maintain a 2.5 average — you have to get up to the 3.0 level. That’s what every Bell curve scale indicates.