Client’s Big Learning: Vision becomes reality, with trust, confidence and patience.

A Coaching Lesson from the Client’s Perspective- Samantha

One of my recent posts was about some of the lesson’s I’ve learned on my journey as a Coach.  Here’s the next in a series of big lessons learned… Names have been changed to maintain the absolute confidentiality of coaching- a cornerstone of our Code of Ethics.

Samantha is one of those people who is full of life. She has poise, exudes joy and presents herself as very capable and self-motivated.

But deep down, Samantha didn’t believe she had the experience or degrees to make a leap from her current position in a government department, to something in the creative sector. Although not an artist herself, she re-discovered through the coaching conversations, that she is truly at her best when surrounded by creative people involved in ‘making stuff happen’!

She had come to coaching because she was questioning and second guessing herself. She had a ‘good job’, it was stable and steady and pretty good pay. So she wanted to know “what’s wrong with me that I’m not feeling fulfilled in this position?”

What the coaching allowed Samantha to do was to fully explore, in a safe and trusting place, what kind of work would truly make her happy.

One day Samantha announced she had been told of a job posting by a friend, that she really wanted to apply for and she had the confidence to go for it. She applied, was short listed, felt fabulous about her performance in the interview, but was not the successful candidate. She was, in a word, devastated. She couldn’t figure out where she had gone wrong. We talked about the need to let it go and trust that there was a reason she did not get that one position. That she would be well served by holding onto her vision of a new job.

A few days later, she got a call from that same company. They offered her a different job. A more senior position than the one she had originally applied for. She was as you can imagine, thrilled beyond belief.

Samantha is a glowing example of someone who learned to trust her own abilities and that with patience and clarity, her vision could and indeed did become reality.