And I come back and there’s an email from Jan Elfline, my
colleague with whom I created the coaching programme, those many years
ago. And Jan is going to be doing a four
day Master Class, and she has spent days and days, if not weeks creating a
brand new kind of manual for it. Which
is a very visual manual, because the Master Class is on Visual Coaching, so you
know, she was sending me the proofs and is just totally delighted with it. And it struck me again, here is a labour of
love and somebody just investing their time because they care.
And then, yesterday, I was having a conversation with Robert
Dilts, because he and I are very close now to being ready to launch our
programme that will be on the internet, which is the Fellowship Programme. And it struck me again, talking about a labour
of love, we’ve been doing this for, I think it is just about three years, a
mindboggling amount of time, and we’ve had a great time doing it, but again we’ve really invested a
disproportionate amount of time and energy into something that, well it matters
to us, so therefore we do it.
And all three of these instances, seem to me to be examples
of how if you do what you really love, if you do what you really care about, if
you put the time and effort in, it may seem initially quite mad, and certainly
to other people it can seem like, well ‘just what is going to be the return on
this?’ But frankly the return is the satisfaction of the moment, the
satisfaction of seeing what you wanted to come into being. And that then, very frequently, engages
others because somehow or another, what matters to you is conveyed, and it
begins to matter to others.
So I think it is a big mistake to question whether or not to
follow your dreams, it’s actually more to the point to be able to realise
them. That may be in the form of a building,
such as this beautiful hotel rescued from a pile of rubble. Or it may be in creating something new which
really interests you. And that’s
absolutely been the case with Jan. She
has been so taken with the notion of the visual being a component which really
hasn’t had that much of a look in, in coaching, and yet, of course she comes
from a visual background, having lectured in the visual arts, but it’s also
that if you look at the tools that are most wide spread, and have come out of
coaching, the Balance Wheel has to be one of them, and again, what is
that? That’s a visual tool. And then with Robert and myself, what we’re
really focusing on is, well, how can that fuller life, which is one that drives
what we do anyway, namely a sense of being in service to something bigger than
oneself, and honouring that, by delivering practical ‘how tos’ so that first
ourselves can learn and then those who choose to engage with us, can learn the
tools and techniques for bring a more, I think, spiritual dimension to life
lived with purpose. You know, that
matters a lot. Well, it matters a lot to
us anyway. And so, I’m left with the
question, you know, what would it be like if everybody was engaging with their
own dreams, and grounding them so that something tangible issued forth, which
then everybody can benefit from and engage with. So, that’s the question that I’m left with,
and I’ll leave it with you.
‘Till the
next time.
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