I’ve been in a holding pattern for a lot longer than covid has been around. My life, generally, is good. Yeah I’ve been searching for “What’s Next?” and have felt something missing for a long while, but overall not much to complain about. These would be referred to as “Quality problems”.
Most people right now have frozen their lives and are waiting for it to return to normal. But you, the reader of this blog, are not most people.
I acknowledge that something about what I write about and how I present myself to the world attracts you to what I talk about. People that create things. People that are rule breakers, or strive to be. So let’s talk about us.
I’ve been in a creative space this whole time. I write, create new ideas, keep myself on a “news diet”, connect with new and interesting people, have been part of an awesome new group of people that stimulate me, and have been slowly experimenting and testing new skills, like hosting Zoom meetings.
In my desire to figure out what’s next and help others one of the new tools I’ve added to my tool-belt has been coaching, but I don’t use that word. You don’t hear me talk about it much at all, because it’s just a part of me. Like entrepreneurship is, and all the past things I’ve done, every book I’ve read, every course I’ve taken, every conversation I’ve had, every therapy session I’ve done, every mistake I’ve made, every failure I’ve had regret over, everything I’ve taken the time to write, every experience and choice that I’ve made. This all has created the person I am today.
Then I thought, what if there are more people like me? There’s a huge “coaching” industry out there, but what if there are others that don’t like to call themselves coaches? What if, like me, they don’t want to label themselves or operate within any type of framework?
So, I experimented. I threw an idea out there. I shared an idea of creating a community for Coaches who don’t want to be “Coaches”. If that was interesting, then reach out to me because I had some questions I would like help with.
My calendar filled overnight. I had to make more time available.
This was all because I experimented with an idea that had been percolating in me, something as unique as I am, and put it out into the world.
I’m not waiting for covid to pass, I’m not waiting for normal, or whatever that’s going to look like. I’m going to create new things, today, for this game we are playing today. The rules have changed and I’m not waiting for a new playbook. I’m going to press ahead.
And I share this knowing you can’t do what I did, because what I did was unique to me. What I can do is share my story and give you permission to do you and not wait to do it.
What need is out there than only you can fill? What can you do today to create an experiment around it and see what happens?
