“I’ve already been to therapy,” he sighed.
This is the relief a first-time coachee expressed about not sitting through yet another therapy session was audible and felt.
One distinction between coaching and therapy is that coaching is about the future. It builds like an architect. Therapy can be about the past digging up old bones—excavating like an archaeologist.
Let’s look to the future in coaching. What’s coming up? What do you want to maximize? What’s a future challenge you can address now so that it's not a challenge later? What are you planning for? What could you be planning for? (Excuse the sentence structure, we’re having an everyday conversation).
Coaching helped calm my anxieties because I had so many future plans and challenges but rarely made time to sift through them. Instead they haunted me and weighed me down. Taking time to address the future really opened me to numerous possibilities for my life, ministry, business, even parenting.
Taking 30 minutes to have a future-focused conversation can begin to change your life. I see it everyday!
Look at the futuristic questions posed in the third paragraph. Then begin addressing them with a coach. Whether it’s me or someone else. Your future depends on it.
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