{"id":1604,"date":"2023-08-04T19:21:05","date_gmt":"2023-08-05T00:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/awecoach\/?p=1604"},"modified":"2023-08-04T19:21:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-05T00:21:05","slug":"a-coach-being-coached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/awecoach\/2023\/08\/04\/a-coach-being-coached\/","title":{"rendered":"A Coach Being Coached"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had a friend that I\u2019d met through church in Barbados who decided to go into coaching. This was before it was even in my consciousness that being a coach was a thing. It was not at the forefront of my mind.<\/span><\/p>\n

She started to tell me about her offer and I was very interested because I really felt like \u200b\u200bthere were things in my life that I wanted to clarify and I wanted help with.<\/span><\/p>\n

I had been part of a mastermind group at the time, before we knew it was a mastermind group. We were a multicultural group. The person who led the mastermind group was someone from another part of the Caribbean whom I had met when I was a student in Trinidad. We were just a group of three ladies coming together, setting goals with a spiritual focus. We had decided to set goals for each year.<\/span><\/p>\n

By the end of year 1, we wanted to really double down on setting a vision for our lives and the legacy we want to achieve by the end of our lives. From that, we built 5-year goals, 10-year goals and 15-year goals.<\/span><\/p>\n

We were challenged to not think small and to not think about limits.<\/span><\/p>\n

I stuck with that.<\/span><\/p>\n

What I came up with was so elaborate. It was overwhelming. It was energizing, but draining at the same time. This happened at a time when I was starting to feel really burnt out from work.<\/span><\/p>\n

I had all these ideas and things that I wanted to do, but I really wasn’t finding the space, time or energy to pursue any of it.<\/span><\/p>\n

I thought, \u201cThis is my vision. How do I achieve it? If this is led by the Holy Spirit, maybe I am meant to do all of these things.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

One of my objectives was really prioritizing my massive list of goals. I really wanted to prioritize what should come first.<\/span><\/p>\n

I felt like it was a great time to really get some coaching.<\/span><\/p>\n

When I went in to do the coaching, it helped clarify what my needs were. I shared the plan with her, and she was very excited to know that I had all of that in mind. I ended up talking a lot about my current issues at the time – feeling very overwhelmed and lacking support.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the end, she sent me <\/span>a video<\/span><\/a>. It was about a jar, rocks, pebbles and sand.<\/span><\/p>\n

The analogy illustrates prioritization in life. The jar represents limited time and resources. Filling it with rocks (the most important tasks\/elements) first ensures everything else (pebbles, sand) fits around them.<\/span><\/p>\n

The message I got from my coach was that:<\/span><\/p>\n

I kind of want to do everything, but if I only have so much time, resources and energy, there\u2019s only so much I can do.<\/span><\/p>\n

With this, I have been working towards focusing on the rocks in my life, channeling my energy into achieving my vision and goals.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had a friend that I\u2019d met through church in Barbados who decided to go into coaching. This was before it was even in my consciousness that being a coach was a thing. It was not at the forefront of my mind. She started to tell me about her offer and I was very interested […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4272,"featured_media":1605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/awecoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/awecoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/awecoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/awecoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4272"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/awecoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/awecoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1606,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/awecoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions\/1606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/awecoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/awecoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/awecoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ctacoaches.com\/awecoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}