Nothing annoys me more than hearing about a celebrity, consultant or, yes, a coach, who says they overcame their overwhelming circumstances by quitting their (often lucrative) day job and becoming a consultant or a coach, and now they have a gold BMW and a Tesla and travel the world because they tell people how they, too, can be successful.
What Did I Overcome?
Fuck those guys (and Gals – looking at you Oprah).
But here’s the thing. I’m not quite a real coach yet, and I have some idea of the niche of people I can work with (people like me). Also, my day job is not that lucrative, but a damn sight better than being un- and underemployed. People who overcame some disease market to people who are working to overcome that disease. People who overcame the obstacles of being in some misunderstood minority (color, ethnicity, gender, disability, etc) market to people with that identity or condition.
What condition did I cure in myself?
I felt like a loser.
Worse, I blamed myself, feeling something must be wrong with me, when it was actually conditions mostly out of my control.
So what, you may ask, is the cure for feeling like, and by all appearances, being, a loser?
Even when you feel like a failed Houdini, complete bound up and underwater upside-down because of circumstances, you still can wiggle something. You can move a pinky finger, a toe, your nose. . . something. No imprisonment is fullproof. There is a flaw somewhere.
You may feel like you are in checkmate, there is nowhere to move without the king getting killed. Well, that is a 2-dimensional board with rues that cannot be bent. The real world is not that simple.
Figure out what can still wiggle, and wiggle it. You have something going for you. You’re still alive, aren’t you? If you have life, you have a chance.
A C
oach can help you find wiggle room you have, and figure out how to get free from your prison. Let’s talk. Schedule a FREE Discovery Consult. Fifteen minutes could become the turning point in your story.
I did it, and I’m certain that anyone else can, too. For me it was going back to school and starting to work-out. Whatever your thing is: music, art, fixing things, dressing nice taking care of family. . . Little tiny successes in those things lead to much bigger successes, and continue to grow.