“What is your truth?”
This is a question that comes up frequently during coaching sessions with my clients. As we navigate through a situation or sticking point, the bottom-line question is often “what’s true?” We get so caught up in stories about how things “should” be or are “supposed” to work, that we lose touch with our core truth.
Confession time: I have some major attachment issues.
Attachment – to an outcome, an agenda, a certain way of doing something – has been a theme throughout my life. Over the past year, I’ve made friends with my attachment tendencies. I recognize when it’s happening, and I release and trust the process.
At least, I thought I was.
What you resist, persists.
When we’re first recognizing that we want to make a change in our lives, affirmations are among the first pieces we try to snap into place in our self-help puzzle. And there’s a good chance the affirmations we take on aren’t true.
Taking the “easy way” is not a particularly popular approach to success and life.
Consider this quote: “The path of least resistance is the path of the loser” (H.G. Wells)
When I tried to find a contrasting quote that stated the virtues of a life lived with ease, I came up empty-handed.
Not one to force the matter, I’m going to rely on my own intuition and experience: forcing things – applying effort where there is resistance – creates struggle, stress and needless suffering.
When I decided to enroll in a coach training program, it took a while for a certain reality to fully sink in: I was going back to school. While it’s not school in the traditional sense, it pushes the same buttons. The biggest button, lit up and flashing wildly, is the “good student” button.
