Self-coaching. What is self-coaching, and why is it vital for our future?
Introduction
Before we can understand self-coaching, we first need to understand coaching. Coaching is a multi-billion dollar profession that has been blooming over the past few decades. Individuals, leaders, and leading companies and organizations invest in coaching to accelerate their progress and secure success.
What is coaching?
Coaching is a process where a trained professional, known as a coach, helps an individual or a group of individuals achieve their goals and reach their full potential.
Who is the coach?
The coach is a professionally trained counselor who acts as a soundboard and facilitator, helping the client gain clarity, set meaningful goals, and stay accountable to their aspirations. Through the coaching process, the client gains new insights, builds self-awareness, and enhances their decision-making skills. This is an outside-in process.
The coaching process
Coaching is a collaborative journey where the coach provides structure, feedback, and encouragement while the client takes ownership of their actions and commitments. By fostering a supportive and non-judgmental environment, coaching enables the client to explore their potential, unlock hidden resources, and unleash their inner greatness.
Now, just imagine if you can give this all to yourself. The process will then change from outside in to inside out.
The questions are: What is self-coaching, and how do you coach yourself?
What is self-coaching?
Self-coaching is the conscious ability to go within, reflect on who you are and where you are coming from, take ownership, be responsible for your decisions, navigate yourself through life, and create a quality life by being the happy, successful, and prosperous person you were created to be. Only then can you help others to do the same. The result is a fulfilling life of health, wealth, happiness, success, and prosperity that benefits all.
Self-coaching - an advanced ability
Self-coaching is an advanced ability of being mindful and conscious of who you are as an authentic person, where you come from, what your unique soul purpose and talents are, where you are going, and how to get there. The process changes from living outside in, to living a mindful life of inside out.
This includes discovering your full potential and personal abilities that make a unique positive contribution to your relationships, work, society, and even humanity as a whole. In the process, you need to be aware of your shortcomings and overcome negativity, barriers, and blockages that can keep you back.
The aim of self-coaching
The aim of self-coaching is to raise your level of awareness, make conscious choices, take ownership of your life, discover who you are as your authentic self, recover your full potential (power-on-hold), and live your best life of health and wealth, happiness, success, and prosperity that benefits all.
Self-coaching as a powerful must-have tool
Self-coaching is a powerful tool that puts you ahead of the mindless masses. It allows individuals to take control of their own personal and professional development. Self-coaching involves the process of going within and navigating oneself toward achieving specific goals, overcoming challenges, and maximizing potential through self-awareness, self-assessment, self-reflection, goal-setting, and action planning.
Why has self-coaching become the number one skill to have?
Research shows that only those who are mindful, conscious, and self-aware can think on their feet, take ownership, accept responsibility, and coach themselves, can ride the waves of change, create success and prosperity, and secure a quality future of health, wealth, happiness, success, and prosperity that benefits all.
The tempo of change is speeding up, bringing new challenges and demands. Only the fittest will survive these waves of change. The challenge is to become self-coaching fit.
Being mindless, unconscious, and getting stuck
Research also shows that those who are stuck on the level of the mindless masses are unaware of personal responsibility and accountability and cannot coach themselves. They then stagnate and inevitably implode. Unfortunately, they take others down with them.
Our future
The quality of the future for each individual, relationship, family, community, business, company, organization, or government all depends on each individual's ability to coach themselves consciously. A relationship, team, company, organization, or government is as strong as its weakest link. Self-coaching is the first link to a new future.
Our future depends on becoming unstuck.
Our future depends on those who wake up and move beyond the mindless masses, become conscious and self-aware, coach themselves, and take us forward into a better future. This means that most people, especially our leaders, need to wake up and become unstuck and take in their place as new pathfinders and way-showers.
Self-awareness and self-coaching are the first steps in the awakening process.
The question is, Who coaches whom?
Two sides of self
We live in a world of duality. We all have two sides of self.
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On the one hand, we have an authentic self that leads to health, wealth, happiness, and a quality future. On the other hand, we have a shadow ego-self that leads to struggle, negativity, and, inevitably, implosion and destruction. Whatever side, authentic self or shadow ego self, control your decision-making process will determine your future.
Self-coaching is all about being mindful of this inner battle between the authentic self and the shadow ego-self for control and the conscious ability to coach the self to overcome inner barriers and create ultimate success that benefits all. It is time to 'get over yourself' in the best way possible.
The pleasure of being with mindful, conscious people
Just imagine the pleasure of being with mindful, conscious, happy, fulfilled, fun people or in a relationship, family, community, team, company, organization, or even country where all are mindful, conscious, and committed to their own success and well-being, the well-being of others, and a quality future that benefits all. Struggle and survival will be replaced with happiness, progress, and fun. Just imagine!
Raising your level of awareness
By practicing self-coaching, individuals can raise their level of consciousness and enhance their self-awareness, decision-making skills, and overall performance. It empowers individuals to become their own coach, identify their strengths and areas for improvement, create a roadmap for success, and hold themselves accountable for taking the necessary steps to achieve their desired outcomes.
Self-coaching as part of life
Self-coaching is a continuous process and part of life that requires dedication, commitment, and discipline. It enables individuals to break free from limiting beliefs, overcome obstacles, and develop the mindset and habits necessary to reach their full potential and achieve ultimate success in both their personal and professional lives.
Leadership. The emerging of new pathfinders and mapmakers.
People who learn how to coach themselves are now becoming our new pathfinders, mapmakers, way-showers, and bridgebuilders. They are our new leaders merging out of the dark slumber into the light and securing a successful future that benefits all.
Any person in a current leadership position who cannot coach themselves cannot lead. They will remain place-keepers until someone comes to take their place and do the job.
Self-coaching and leadership.
The world is in turmoil. The Leadership Development Profession has failed to produce quality, enlightened, authentic leaders who can take us forward.
'Lead' means to 'show the way.' It is not possible to lead or show the way to others if you are still unconscious, stuck, lost, and confused in yourself. It is delusional to call such a person a real 'leader.'
Leaders serious about the future
This means that all people in leadership positions who are serious about a quality future must first learn how to coach themselves before attempting to lead others. This is the next level of understanding of the true essence of leadership. The whole concept of leadership, leadership training, and leadership development is on the brink of radical transformation. Self-coaching for leaders is a game-changer.
Traditional perspectives on leadership and leadership training will now disappear, replaced by authentic, enlightened leaders and leadership training. Those individuals, companies, and organizations who are true leaders in their fields will now come aboard and ensure that all their people are prepared to take the leap into this new season of prosperity that is now here.
We are creating the future - Now.
Investing in self-coaching for leaders
The upcoming Power Intelligence Academy Course titled, Self-coaching for Leaders. Developing enlightened, authentic leaders to secure a quality future provides all the necessary information, skills, and tools for our new quality leaders to take in their place.
For more information on next-level leadership training, l send an email to workshops@powerintelligence.net to request a free consultation, and proposal.
Call to action
You can embark on this exciting journey of self-coaching for yourself, your partner, family, community, business, company, or organization by starting here.
The PISP is an online self-assessment tool for starting your self-coaching journey. It is also available for groups, companies, and organizations as part of collective self-coaching. Two options are available.
Free option. Power Intelligence Success Profile Introduction (PISP) HERE
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Please note: This article, like other articles, is part of the Power Intelligence Academy (PIA) course Self-coaching: How to Coach Yourself to Ultimate Success. The PIA will soon be available to the public.
In the next article, we will focus on answering the question, Who is the authentic self, and where does it come from?
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CEO at Centre for Power Intelligence
8moThank you Johan. Hope many other leaders follow in your footsteps. You are a trailblazer in your own right!
MD at Automotive Training academy
8moDr Brenda, this article definitely highlighted a few of my short falls on my, self-coaching journey. It is reminding me to be honest with myself, and to close those gaps. Thank you for forwarding this article, it has assists in me finding the authentic self.