When working with clients there is one stage of the process that is more painful to work through than others. It’s the stage right before they make the breakthrough they want or the point before the ‘a-ha’ moment.
It would be so much easier to ‘rescue’ and say ‘this is what you need to do next, then this, then this, then that’ (if their answers were obvious), big no, in a ‘typical’ coaching session that is extremely unprofessional and not part of the ethics (direct coaching perfectly okay!) It’s the indecision stage I’m talking about. Not being able to make a decision is PAINFUL experience, it costs you big time…
Make a DECISION: there is so much power in deciding what is best for you. Some people get it all jumbled up with PERHAPS or MAYBE, they are not the same!
The meaning of decision is not ‘choice’.
To make a decision is cutting off and detaching self from all other options. It’s the conclusion to the process of weighing up choices. You take the role of the wig wearing judge and you slam the gavel (judges hammer) down and have the final say.
I’ve had friends who dragged themselves through torment on a daily basis because they could not decide what to do that day, then ended up doing nothing at the end, or dipped into 40 things and at the end day they were so disappointed with the no results.
Imagine a life of the same quality…no decision = no result = ongoing disappointment!
Decision making is extremely empowering. You call the shots, you decide that those other options are not GOOD enough and close them down.
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