So what is a picture of a car alignment doing in a blog about coaching? Ah! Whether coaching is for business, life, or relationships it is about alignment (or realignment).
The purpose of getting tires aligned and balanced is to ensure you have a smoother ride and to ensure you have maximum tire life. Ensuring personal alignment in your life also helps to make life a smoother ride and ensure you get the maximum happiness and joy from your life, relationships and career.
For example, you can work for the best organization in the world, but if that organization doesn’t share your same values and allow you to freely operate in the realm of your strengths and passions – you’re out of alignment. In this situation you most likely leave work feeling tired, stressed, rundown and unfulfilled. Why? Because you’re not operating in the realm of your passions and values.
The same can be said for working in a profession or role in which you are skilled and do a good job (even a great job), yet feel you burned out long ago and are simply going through the motions. You may even say, “I am good at this, but I don’t really love it. What I wish I would have done with my life is _______________.”
These situations described are only a few of the many situations where people can find themselves out of alignment with the true nature, or essence, of who they are. When you find yourself in these types of situations, life is bumpy and it takes a toll on our bodies, relationships, mind, and emotions (our tires if you will).
Rarely do we, as human beings, take the time to be truly introspective and take a periodic comprehensive look into the life we are living. I was watching an interview with India.Aire who said for so long she feels she was afraid of failure and success, so she says she lived in the middle – never risking anything to feel alive. In the middle she found “comfort”, but never fulfillment and feeling true purpose or joy. This is the way most people move through life.
People find themselves looking in many places to try and continue to find fulfillment. It could be a larger home, new paint job, their children, and more to give new energy to their lives – and find most often that it is a short term jolt of “happiness.” Why? Because we love to look outside of ourselves for happiness and meaning versus inside of ourselves first.
So what can you do?
I have included a link below to a tool provided by The Coaches Training Institute. I use this as a jumping off place for many of my clients to take a cursory look at the areas of their lives. This allows my client to look at the areas where they want deeper satisfaction and joy, as well as get a view of the balance, or lack of balance, in their lives.
Feel free to use the tool for your own cursory journey into your life and reach out me to discover more of what you can do to gain greater balance in your relationships, career, and life. Learn how to be authentic in all of the areas of your life by realigning your life with what is important to you. “DO YOU” – NOT THE PERSON SOMEONE ELSE THINGS YOU SHOULD BE.
Click to access Personal-Assessment-Wheel.pdf
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