The Courage Catalyst #6 Being Fear-less

Are you being fearless or do you fear less?

Did you ‘catch’ that? 

First things first - I’m thrilled to have you on this journey with me. A warm welcome if you are joining this week. This is my weekly series where I share my learnings, challenges, musings on stepping powerfully into a life of your dreams. Choosing Courage over Comfort!

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Five things in my Courage catalyst series:

1. The Courage Toolbox 
2. Book I'm Recommending
3. Quote I'm pondering
4. Action that Inspires
5. Playground 

May this enrich and support your own journey of becoming the courageous leader with ease and joy. 

🧰The Courage Toolbox

‘CAUGHT’ vs ‘TAUGHT’ 

In one of our Pre-School Coaching Webinars, Amir Karkauti, one of our faculty, shares a very powerful distinction between Being Caught vs Being Taught. 

Amir shares a story of how his cute daughter started emulating what he did in his home gym. After he worked out, she would start lifting the lightest weights. He realized that he had never taught her to do it. She caught it by what she saw him do. She caught it!

 How does this relate to being courageous?  

It’s being with people in a way that has them catch who you are, not what you say. They catch your essence. That has so much more power and impact than to tell people what to do. 

This distinction came alive for me last week as I was honoured to be coached by Marcia Reynolds, PsyD, MCC ., who I have admired and learned from over the years.

In a laser coaching demo, Marcia went deep in a short time and provoked deep insights that shifted my thinking and created a breakthrough.

It was fearless coaching in action that was pretty magical in its impact. To be honest, Marcia was so present and masterful, I caught a little bit of her essence. 

Seeing new possibilities for how I can show up with my clients and being fearless myself

What do you catch from the people around you?

[I've committed to having 25 courageous conversations over the year to show up powerfully in service of my clients. No strings attached. If you are really want things to be different, lets talk. You can book one of the calls here.]

📚 Book I’m Recommending

Coach the Person, not the Problem, A guide to Using Reflective Inquiry ~ Marcia Reynolds 

We read the book in our community Shemantra, and invited Marcia as our guest.

'Mastery is the deepening of presence, not the perfection of skills' - Pure gold! Enjoy the book

💡 Quote I’m Pondering 

'A ship in a harbor is safe - but that is not what ships are built for' ~ John A Stedd

🌟Action that inspires

I was once asked a question on a podcast: What is your WORST advice you have ever got? 

Be Fearless!!

I remember getting this unhelpful advice and staying stuck in a situation because I was trying to get rid of the fear. 

Fear will always be along for the ride, but it is up to you to make sure that you will be in the driver's seat. And guess what happens when, even in the face of fear, you do what you have to do? You fear less and do it anyway.

That's called Courage!

Here is an invitation. To write a letter to FEAR. An even more interesting thing to experiment is to invite your fear to write a letter to YOU. And just listen to your fear with respect. With an open mind and heart.

If you want to get inspired, you can catch a letter to fear here. 

😄 Playground 

[This is anything that makes you either Grin, Gasp and Giggle. 

Grin because you’re excited with possibility. Gasp because you’re thinking “How am I ever going to pull this off?”  Giggle because you’ll LOVE IT if it actually happens!]

This week, I committed to participate in the TCS 10K run in my city. It was a thrilling experience. Here are 3 things I learnt by saying YES to the run.

1. Commitment rocks the world!
2. Strength comes from getting uncomfortable!
3. The words that follow I AM................follow you!

I AM A FINISHER

What about you?

Thanks for reading. I hope you find my thoughts useful for your own journey. I’d love to hear from you. Your feedback is a gift. Just reply and hit send. You can also email me at farah@interactconsulting.in

Keep Couraging

Farah Ismail

Founder, CoachFarah

💡 Did you know:

The World Business and Executive Coach Summit -WBECS 2023 is starting next week. You have free access to 17 days of live learning with the world’s greatest coaching experts, including Marcia Reynolds! The cool thing is that I am facilitating the IM sessions (Implementation Mastery) at the Summit and would love to see you there.

Simply secure your complimentary seat for your favorite sessions, then show up. Register for the FREE Pre-Summit here