This is the painful truth about coaching someone

This is the painful truth about coaching someone:

“I can bring opportunity, I cannot bring determination.”

As true as this statement is, it’s equally frustrating.

🧐 I clarify, confront, provide tools and homework, mirror my client, inspire, and unravel patterns...

And yet:

I don’t live their life.

I’m not in the driver’s seat.

I can’t—and shouldn’t—do it for them...

No matter how much I sometimes wish I could.

We all know it:

Extrinsic motivation is far less effective than intrinsic motivation.

They have to do it themselves, in the end.

Even though I sometimes think:

“Just do this already!” 🤯

Not. ❌ My. ❌ Job. ❌

The beauty of it is this:

It makes the transformation the coachee undergoes even greater, stronger, and more lasting.

✅ Because they do it themselves, they see they have it in them.

✅ They realize they can come up with solutions.

✅ They discover they are capable of taking the necessary actions.

This is the power (and exercise in patience) of coaching.

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