Coaching Tip: Perspective - up, up, and away!
Category: Coaching Secrets (CS219)Originally Submitted on 3/21/2000.
Introduction
One important function of a coach is to help clients keep a balanced perspective.
The Coaching Tip
Envision the view when you are on the ground in a valley.Now move upwards, up a hill, up a mountain. With each upward step your view of the surrounding world changes.
Become an eagle and soar over the land. See the valleys, harsh deserts, craggy mountains, lush forest, the panorama of the world. It is spread out before you in all its glorious variety.
Now use the same vision to survey your life.
This analogy is useful when working with clients who become so immersed in their own viewpoint that they cannot see beyond that initial narrow valley. In truth, most of us can develop a far greater perspective when we envision ourselves soaring upwards and looking back down over our lives, seeing the lush areas and the deserts, the valleys where we rested, and the mountains we had to climb step by exhausting step.
A coach can help a client see his/her life more fully in perspective, and so gain insight into present situations and future plans. By helping the client "soar" as regards to his/her life the coach adds perspective, which in turns provides greater insight.
About the Submitter
This piece was originally submitted by Diana Robinson, Ph.D., Personal Development & Business Coach, who can be reached at Choices4U@ChoiceCoach.com, or visited on the web. Diana Robinson wants you to know: I coach my clients to greater success and enjoyment of life by enhancing their ability to focus on what is truly important to them. To learn more, and/or to subscribe to either/both of my two e-mail free newsletters, please visit my web site. I also offer you the gift of a half-hour of free coaching by phone, with no obligation. The original source is: A guided meditation I designed for a client.
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