Personal coach

I had my first session with the personal coach on Tuesday. It was very different from what I expected. After she provided an overview of the coaching process, she asked me to draw a circle and divide it into wedges that represented the various aspects of my life. She then asked me to rate each aspect on a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being very dissatisfied and 10 being very satisfied. She then asked what it would take to bring each rating up to a 10. Some highlights:

• It's interesting to me that I gave the two most common sources of fufillment--career and family--a 5 rating. (The 5 represented a mix of good and bad, rather than neutral.)


• My highest rating was for money, of all things.


• Personal growth and spirituality rated high not because I'm where I want to be, but because these areas are in play right now. In general, areas that I rated low are areas in which I'm static.


• I rated love life a zero because I'm not romantically involved with anyone. That doesn't mean that I've spent the last several years going "Oh, woe is me. I don't have a partner." I made some choices, some of which I regret and some of which I don't, which brought me where I am today.

( The ratings )

She said that I was better off than a lot of her new clients because many of them come to her with their life in a total shambles and everything rated 1. Something to think about.

She didn't get into actually breaking down the projects that I'm stalled on and working on my motivation. Well, I suppose that I can break them down and track progress myself. Motivation is a bit tougher.