My ah-ha! - You revealed, unveiled, realized
While working with a client recently, I said what I have said countless times — “I’m not teaching you anything you don’t know – I’m giving you permission to express what is in you. These are not new ideas; they are just a little sleepy in you. I share with you techniques that help you express what is awakening.” And he looked at me knowingly, understanding it to be true. And again, I am exhilarated and charged as if it is the first time, each time I see the joy in the eyes of the speaker as he or she realizes, “yes, I do know how to do this.”
It’s like Michelangelo. Quickly I clarify; I’m not saying I’m Michelangelo. But it dawned on me that it’s just like he said that he could see what was – not even what could be, but what was already present.
“In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect in attitude and in action. I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition to reveal it to the other eyes as mine see it.”
Coaches are there to guide you — to be who we see you already are. We are like bowling bumpers to keep you rolling for a strike. In all my years of teaching I’m still startled when people don’t see how amazing they are when I see it seemingly so plainly. Often, I see people where I know they can be, where I know they are.
I invite you to see what I’m seeing – you in all your excellence and grace and balance of human imperfection that is of itself, perfection. I invite you to step into you.
