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Finding Your Coach, Diving Deep Within
By Melinda J. Kelly
Have You Contemplated Hiring a Coach for Life, Business or a Specific Issue in Your Life?
Have You Tried It and It Didn't Work, but You Know You Need
SOMETHING or SOMEONE to Help?
THEN THIS IS THE BOOK FOR YOU!
Melinda J. Kelly makes the case for why you should hire a coach and what you have to do to make sure it's a successful collaboration and investment
Dear Jeff:
Are you a "coach resister?"
You're afraid to invest the money? Don't want to give up control to someone else? Think you know better and if you tough it out, it will get better? You've tried and it didn't work, so you won't give it another shot?
Until, maybe, the hammer comes down! Your business hits rock bottom, partner leaves you, your health deserts you, you're so miserable you're loading up on anti-depressants?
That's usually when someone gets desperate enough to hire a coach. But Melinda J. Kelly says it's a mistake to wait that long when there are so many ways for you to thrive and succeed NOW with a coach that's right for you.
But there's more to it than just hiring a coach...you have to be ready, willing and have the right mindset to make the relationship succeed...and she tells you how you can go deeply within to prepare yourself for a coaching relationship that will take you far beyond what you can do on your own.
She provides the roadmap in Finding Your Coach, Diving Deep Within.
Melinda's own crucible came when she realized the family business that she had been a part of for most of her life was collapsing, and she didn't have a passion for it.
Trying to fix things from the body of knowledge she already had kept her from seeing solutions that eluded her own knowledge base. An unwillingness to open up to others and to trust - or to listen to what she didn't want to hear meant that she was preventing her own forward motion. Even attending events, seminars, webinars and conferences in business and personal growth didn't prove fruitful because the information wasn't sinking in.
But then Melinda started asking herself some critical questions that made her realize that she couldn't do it alone, and she needed the help of someone who had trailblazed ahead of her, and could show her the way.
In Finding Your Coach Melinda illuminates those questions, and the various ways that we dismiss coaching as a solution for whatever isn't working in our lives. She shows how to overcome those objections, and the alternate mindset position that opens the way for a successful coaching relationship.
She takes into account how you look at authority, how to manage your time efficiently so that you can actually follow through on a coach's recommendation, how you deal with distractions that pull you away from what is necessary to create change, is money really the issue when you resist coaching, can you accept responsibility for changing your life?
She has a section on "Know They Teacher, Know Thyself"...selecting the right kind of coach based on your personality traits, plus the various types of coaching models and how that would work into your lifestyle. And she offers some great insights into how you define success, and what that means for your coaching relationship.
Melinda got over herself! And has not only hired one, but several coaches--and is now a coach herself. Her book is a powerful resource to get you out of the stuck zone.
Melinda can address some of the points included in:
The 7 questions to ask yourself when you start working with a coach
The 7 questions to ask yourself about how you learn
The 4 questions to ask yourself as you embark on your new course.
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With a successful career in Melinda’s family business, it would have been easy to continue and gently ride into the sunset. But a combination of major life events – reviewing the future for the business, the direction of a key relationship, and a family member’s health issues - derailed those plans, leading to a reassessment of Melinda’s life as she had known it, had planned it.
Suddenly, there were new questions before Melinda. Lots of questions.
On her journey toward answers, Melinda was able to work with many thought leaders, coaches, as well as draw upon her experiences in non-profit volunteer work. Patterns and traits began to emerge, for herself, with others. As Melinda started to question herself, she found that the questions often brought great comfort and understanding. It is Melinda’s observations that became Finding Your Coach, Diving Deep Within.
Acknowledging that often we don’t know how we have become stuck, or can’t see the way to the next place, can be the starting place of wisdom. Looking at common ways most people continue to not hear what is going on in the room, helped her to find her path, and so we can begin to engage again. In the hope that we can all find what we are looking for, Melinda also discusses the various ways to view success, beyond the limited way of financial success. More, the question for many of us is do we want success? Happiness? Both? Do we know? Have we thought about it?
In embracing the Power of the Question, Melinda found a strength to see herself, and the world, that left her feeling supported and empowered. After a life seeking answers to put the matter to rest, it turns out the questions have become Melinda’s best companions. And you? Your questions?
