Exploration is Freedom

Exploration is Freedom

by | Jul 26, 2019 | Adventure, Change, Coaching, Create, Explore, Fulfilment, Mindset, Uncategorized

Pounding the streets at 5:30am (yes, I am a morning person!) in preparation for the Asics London 10K run on 21st July in aid of Manta Trust to support the research and preservation of Manta rays, I have plenty of time to reflect on what drives and motivates people. Exploration is freedom, what does this mean to you?

What do you choose to explore?

I am struck by how much freedom we have in Europe. We have so much choice to be able to achieve virtually anything we want. It is in our power to decide how to live our lives, to change direction if we don’t like the way our lives are heading, and even to create a new life if we wish.

We may come across constraints such as those generated through past experiences, family obligations or money.  Sometimes, we may decide not to take action, and that in itself is a choice we make.

However, having that choice in the first place and putting the power back into our decision-making process is empowering. It generates confidence that we can follow our dream, gives us a purpose and determines actions that take us on a journey to reach our destination and goal.

Where to begin?

Firstly, realise that you have the resources within you to go after what you wish for. Create a storyboard of what you want. Visualise your desires and start working on thoughts about what you want your life to be like. Look at this creation process as a game, a fun thing to take part in, rather than looking at it like something scary and difficult. Exploration is freedom.

It’s a question of mindset and YOU are the only one who can decide how you want to look at it. In the end, this is a journey that helps you understand better what you want and what you don’t want.

Explore. Research the possibilities. I love my role in helping people to dig inside their mind and find their own solutions. My clients build, mould and shape what they want for themselves. 

Sometimes, it’s difficult to know exactly what you want unless you try it. However, taking action, testing it and moving in the direction you want to go in based on your feelings is very powerful – even if it’s not quite the right destination in the end. Ultimately, you get to know yourself better!

Redefining failure

Failure can be equally as powerful. Failure is getting one step closer to what you want by learning from it. Next time, you can do the same but better – or different.

I love this quote from Martin Luther King Jr: “You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” The whole staircase might be overwhelming to look at, with fears creeping in, but if you take it one step at a time, then it becomes more manageable.

I love exploring, discovering and learning. And that is why I love travelling so much. I find it a wonderful opportunity to open your mind and get to know yourself better by getting out of your comfort zone and exploring new territories.

In this adventure, you get to experience new things, some you like and some not so much. For me, this is such a beautiful parallel with exploring the possibilities that you have to create the life you want.

Growing is taking the freedom to explore and embarking on the journey… Exploration is freedom! #FreedomToExplore

Want to start exploring? Connect here.

How I chose the coaching path…

How I chose the coaching path…

by | Jul 26, 2019 | Change, Coaching, Create, Explore, Fulfilment

How I chose the coaching path? My journey started a while ago…

A good friend of mine planted a seed in my mind, thinking I could do something else than business development. I have, one would say, a rather eclectic background… Sales, business development and headhunting, in various types of businesses, from water to corporate events, executive search to blinds, and from big corporation to start-up.

I have been going through my career led by opportunities coming my way. Yes, I am a lucky one!

In those various roles, I have learnt tremendously and met great people. And guess what? Meeting people, getting to know them and building relationships to help them was what was motivating me the most on a daily basis. I have lost count of how many times I have been told to focus on my revenue, that it was great I was helping people but I needed to bring that same energy on bringing revenue for myself.

What do I want?

Ultimately, I didn’t know what I wanted to do in my life. How did that manifest? Well, every two years or so, I would accept a new opportunity coming to me and because I didn’t have enough excuses to stay in the current business, I would move on. It would happen rather quickly and the decision was always straight forward for me to take.

After having spent a lot of my time travelling for work, working long hours, I was exhausted and I was unhappy… Something was missing! Everybody who knows me knows that I love travelling and doing that through work was something that very exciting for me. Not only mentally but physically too, my body was giving me signals that I could not ignore.

Time to wake-up!

I decided it was time for me to think, question and listen to myself, to figure out what I really wanted to do with my life. Looking back at my career, I felt I had been on auto-pilot mode. Time to wake-up!

I wrote down things that I love doing and skills that I have. I wanted to do something more meaningful to me, more fulfilling. This is when the idea of coaching grew further in my mind. I had always been fascinated by personal development and after researching and reading further, I found an organisation to train with.

Going through that path, what has also been very important for me has been to go through my own transformation with my coach. I had been wanting to go further in my personal development, to get more in touch with my emotions, to open up the range of possibilities and see how much I could stretch myself to grow.

Ah the great adventure of self-discovery! The good news is that it is just the beginning!

Since I have started that journey, coaching people has been bringing me joy. Being at service of people, challenging and supporting them is what makes me come alive like nothing else!

This is how I chose the coaching path. My job is to lift people up to realise their dreams… Best job ever!

And you, what do you want?