Coaching is about helping people achieve their goals and reach their potential. As I work with clients or teach classes (I am currently teaching a small business class through community education) I am often faced with people failing to see how many resources they have access to. They know that the answers lie somewhere out there, but they do not know where or how to find them.
Most people have heard the term "paradigm", but many people do not understand the concept nor how it affects them. The easiest way to understand this concept is to think of your life and your entire wealth of knowledge a "box". We all live in a box and that box contains the total sum of the knowledge we have accumulated. No person can know everything about everything. To solve problems or answer questions that are outside of the scope knowledge requires us find other ways to find the answers.
Learning to live outside of our own paradigm or "box". Will make us more effective and successful. To do this we must engage out network of friends and contacts. They will help us find the resources we need to solve the problems or provide the knowledge we need.
Each of us have access to a vast network of people who can help us solve and answer question but the problem is most of us do not see how vast that network really is.
A research scientist came up with the term "6 degrees of separation". What he proved was that no mater who you are or where you live you can get, hand delivered, a letter to a total stranger living anywhere in the world. This could be accomplish needing only to have the level travel though six levels of people. Does this concept sound crazy or impossible to you?
The process goes like this, most people know or are associated with hundreds of people. If you know 300 people and we assume they know three hundred people you have access to 90,000 people. If we take this to the assumption to the next level, level 3, we can see that we have indirect access to 27 million people! (300X300X300) Did you ever dream that you had access to so many people?
We all have a vast network of people. We need to unlock this resource by talking to those people and to start asking them for their help or advice. If they don't have the answer, we need to ask them if they know someone else who might be able to help. The real power does not come from what we know but the cumulative knowledge of others.
As you look to solve problems you have with relationships, you business, you health or any other items you might face, you need to start using the resources you have.
Life coaching helps people open minds to the possibilities and resources that exist all around us.
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