Getting Back in Touch with the Magic of Coaching

This past weekend I participated in a course focused on personal development, and it was the first time doing so since four and a half years ago.  It was in that course way back when that I first heard of the word “coaching” applied to anything outside of the sports world and I had never seen anything like it. Back then, it didn’t compute for me how person A (who knew next to nothing about person B) could offer person B tremendously powerful insights into person B’s life.  I don’t think it computed for many people at the start, but at the end we participants constituted 100 or so more people who had experienced coaching in this new sense of the word and seen it work wonders.

It’s easy for me to get lost in a sea of code and to-dos while building CoachAccountable, so it’s easy to lose track of what I’m building it for.  The good dose of coaching in action that I experienced this past weekend really has my thoughts and actions realigned towards supporting you guys, the coaches, in making more of that magic happen.

I might wonder if I’m the only one who can lose sight of the value of coaching while working on coaching, but I’m pretty sure I’m not.  When you’re making your coaching business work, how do you stay in touch with whatever it is about actual coaching that lights you up?  Are you in touch with it right now?