WHY DID I BECOME A LIFE COACH?
Okay, here’s my story
I was born:
- independent
- cute
- stubborn
- smart
- mouthy
Luckily the mouthy part was quelled by my parents in short shrift, but now and again I do slip. The independence converted into entrepreneurialism and the stubbornness fortunately morphed into tenacity. Even though I always longed to be elegant, I remained cute, just like our Smart Car, as it seems anything small is labeled ‘cute’. My husband, a heavy duty mechanic, does not find it amusing that he drives a car everyone calls ‘cute’.
As for the ‘smart’ aspect of my abilities, this was replaced with intelligence after it was found that mathematics was completely unable to find a way into my left brain, the logical part. But I could
- read, write and spell like the dickens
- solve problems (not mathematical)
- locate bottom lines with the speed of light
- dance ballet
- figure skate
- tie myself in yoga knots
- make clothes
- refinish old furniture to like-new condition
- knit sweaters and socks
- type
- organize
- lead, cook and bake scrumptious food
- create businesses that succeeded.
Never allowing grass to grow between my toes, I was always on the go, always mastering something new and learning, learning, learning so I could teach, teach, teach. Everything I learned, I taught.
In the days of my youth, to about age 35, I tended to be serious with a git ‘er done, git ‘er done right and git ‘er done now inflexibility. Although some of this remains, today I am
- more analytical
- more heart centered
- more spiritual
- with a well developed sense of humor
but still with a stuck accelerator driving me to learn and teach. Always with goals beckoning me forward. Without goals I don’t have a life.
With many decades beneath my wheels, years and years of studying the masters, experiencing the elation of bringing three human beings into the world plus incredibly loving relationships, the seeds of wisdom began to sprout.
My philosophy of life has become “to create value in all things” and thus I know a peace that nothing I have done was in vain. I regret none of my choices as they were based on my instinct and intuition and they come from the Divine Source. Most of my choices have resulted in happiness and success, but I could look at some outcomes as failures. Instead I choose to find their value, not only for me but for all involved.
It is through all my relationships, profoundly deep relationships as well as casual relationships that most of my life learning has come. Combine this with my reason for being, my life path which is to be a teacher leading people to discover their true value, and my passion which is to learn so that I may teach so that I may learn anew and you have the Life Coach that I am today.
Every mode of business, career, and relationship has involved helping others help themselves through teaching in some way. Today, everything that I am makes me a coach, a coach for the woman searching for more meaningful purpose during mid-life and later years; these incredible ‘Baby Boomer Women’ who have spent their lives unconsciously preparing to be of profound influence during their ‘wisdom’ years as the world is now shifting into a new consciousness.
So that’s my story and I’m stickin’ to it.
