A client complained to me recently that he needed to become more disciplined, as he was failing to hit his targets in several key areas of his business. Years ago when I was first starting out as a coach I might have taken his complaint seriously and worked with him on becoming “a more disciplined person”, even taking the time to explore his patterns of self-sabotage and encouraging him to ‘just try harder’ and ‘focus more’ on what he really wanted.
To coincide with the publication of Supercoach, I’ve decided to feature the work of some of the coaches I talk about in the book. In each case, I’ll share what I consider to be some of the most transformative elements of their work. I will also do my best to make clear what is their material and what is my interpretation and experience of that material. Any misrepresentation is mine and mine alone…
What do you believe right now? Take a few moments to finish these ‘sentence starters’ for yourself. You can do this in your head, but I strongly encourage you to jot down your answers somewhere you can find them after you’ve finished the book. That’s because they are likely to have changed so radically by the time we’ve finished our time together you won’t remember them later:
Michael Neill speaks about personal well-being at Alternatives in London.
In 1997, my wife and I watched a documentary called “I Want My Child Back” which followed a family from the United Kingdom and their autistic son through a two week journey to a place called The Option Institute in Sheffield, Massachusetts.
