There is an old expression that “Man plans; God laughs”. I used to take that as a bit of an insult, assuming that when God laughed, she also pointed, shaming me into enforced humility every time I set a goal or made a plan that was too big for my britches.
“Wisdom is not learned – it is unfolded from within one’s own consciousness.” – Syd Banks
One of the only rules that we institute at Supercoach Academy is the “No Helping” rule – an agreement that as best people can, they avoid rescuing, advice giving, saving, or otherwise helping their fellow coaches and students during the training sessions.
Which would you rather have – a computer with a huge programmable memory and no internet access, or a computer with limited programmable memory that was always online, wherever you went?
One of the words that comes up a lot in worlds of sales, coaching and therapy is “resistance”, as in “I’m getting so much resistance from this client” or “how can we overcome this potential customer’s resistance?”