Your Challenges Are Your Greatest Gift
In my quest to be a masterful coach, I continue to learn and accept ownership every day.
This week I learned about Paradigms.
I have always loved this word, but was never really sure about its exact meaning and how it could relate to me and to health coaching.
Paradigm: a typical example or pattern of something; a model.
"There is a new paradigm for public art in this country.
" Synonyms: model, pattern, example, exemplar, template, standard, prototype, archetype My new favorite Paradigm is: Your challenges are your greatest gifts.
It's so good I have to write it again: Your challenges are your greatest gifts.
As most of you know, I recently left Wall Street after 27 successful years to start my own health coaching business.
Some (many I'm sure) must think I'm crazy.
Who, at age 47, leaves a successful career, a steady income, and health insurance to become a health coach? The answer is me.
Why? After years of struggling with some extra pounds, struggling with self-esteem and with making good food choices, I found my way.
It's been a two-year journey for me and one that is ongoing.
My inner happiness is so apparent I glow (I hear this often).
It hasn't always been easy and at times I have become discouraged and sidetracked.
This has been my struggle.
Now I realize it also been my greatest gift.
I was meant to show others how to glow.
Since I was a teenager, I have always felt I was not thin enough, not smart enough, not pretty enough.
I was my harshest critic.
Since I've been on my own journey, I accept my body for what it is.
Am I the thinnest, the strongest, the one with the best abs? Maybe not, but I'm damn good.
My two best friends growing up were both exceptionally bright and both became doctors.
Next to them I never felt smart.
Even when my career was at its most successful, I always felt I wasn't as smart as the men and was only succeeding because I was the hardest working person in the room.
Now I feel like I'm the smartest woman on earth.
I left a career that was killing me to pursue my greatest passion - helping others.
Now when I look in the mirror I see a beautiful, smart, sexy lady inside and out.
Now that I have learned and worked on conquering my challenges (a constant work in progress), I realize they have become my greatest gifts.
Without my challenges I wouldn't be able to understand the struggles and challenges that face us all.
My challenges are what help me help others.
Your challenges are your greatest gift.
So the next time you are beating yourself up for making a poor food choice or snapping at your kids or checking out when your man is talking, realize your challenges are your greatest gifts.
It's all about how you look at your challenges, how you learn from them and how willing you are to accept ownership.
(I admit it's harder than it sounds.
) All you need are the proper tools to look inward and accept your challenges as a gift.
If I can do it so can you.
This week I learned about Paradigms.
I have always loved this word, but was never really sure about its exact meaning and how it could relate to me and to health coaching.
Paradigm: a typical example or pattern of something; a model.
"There is a new paradigm for public art in this country.
" Synonyms: model, pattern, example, exemplar, template, standard, prototype, archetype My new favorite Paradigm is: Your challenges are your greatest gifts.
It's so good I have to write it again: Your challenges are your greatest gifts.
As most of you know, I recently left Wall Street after 27 successful years to start my own health coaching business.
Some (many I'm sure) must think I'm crazy.
Who, at age 47, leaves a successful career, a steady income, and health insurance to become a health coach? The answer is me.
Why? After years of struggling with some extra pounds, struggling with self-esteem and with making good food choices, I found my way.
It's been a two-year journey for me and one that is ongoing.
My inner happiness is so apparent I glow (I hear this often).
It hasn't always been easy and at times I have become discouraged and sidetracked.
This has been my struggle.
Now I realize it also been my greatest gift.
I was meant to show others how to glow.
Since I was a teenager, I have always felt I was not thin enough, not smart enough, not pretty enough.
I was my harshest critic.
Since I've been on my own journey, I accept my body for what it is.
Am I the thinnest, the strongest, the one with the best abs? Maybe not, but I'm damn good.
My two best friends growing up were both exceptionally bright and both became doctors.
Next to them I never felt smart.
Even when my career was at its most successful, I always felt I wasn't as smart as the men and was only succeeding because I was the hardest working person in the room.
Now I feel like I'm the smartest woman on earth.
I left a career that was killing me to pursue my greatest passion - helping others.
Now when I look in the mirror I see a beautiful, smart, sexy lady inside and out.
Now that I have learned and worked on conquering my challenges (a constant work in progress), I realize they have become my greatest gifts.
Without my challenges I wouldn't be able to understand the struggles and challenges that face us all.
My challenges are what help me help others.
Your challenges are your greatest gift.
So the next time you are beating yourself up for making a poor food choice or snapping at your kids or checking out when your man is talking, realize your challenges are your greatest gifts.
It's all about how you look at your challenges, how you learn from them and how willing you are to accept ownership.
(I admit it's harder than it sounds.
) All you need are the proper tools to look inward and accept your challenges as a gift.
If I can do it so can you.
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