The Pursuit of Humanity

As a performance coach, I've worked with leadership at all levels, from 1 to 100 people and from a plethora of industries. The diversity of people and the work they do is extraordinary and their similarities in challenges are, surprisingly, even more so. It comes down to working with two things: what's the potential and what's the interference. Once identified, it's then down to how we amplify one and reduce or eliminate the other. Simple ... right? :)

Well not particularly, as sometimes we're not clear on the potential. Oh and some interference is external, some is internal, some we have some control of and some we don't. And sometimes (often) we're not even aware of the internal intereference, let alone the external. But we're trying our little hearts out anyway and, almost all of the time, our intention is good.

Despite this great effort and positive personal intent, we're also default programmed to assume negative intent in others and we hijack their good intent ... unintentionally of course!

So we're scared. All of us. To varying degrees, but we're all scared.

I think probably by the nature of my engagement, my clients seem to fall into the assumption that I’m above the intereference they're suffering. That somehow those things don't apply. Things like self-doubt, fear of failure, fear of public speaking, fear of starting, fear of things not being perfect, fear of losing control etc etc etc. To get closer to the truth, and perhaps to some extent to remove that excuse, I like to ‘humanise’ myself; to help them realise that this is a challenge of humanity and not just them; to help them to realise that it's actually absolutely OK for them to be human, and therefore not perfect, and to make mistakes and to grow. It’s not about being above interference. It’s about getting conscious of it and dealing with it.

So having made the decision to 'start my own thing' I want to share with you my fears. I fear that I won't be able to help as many people, while I build my clientelle. I fear that my partners, including my previous employer, might feel that we're less aligned. I fear that people might think that I'm less interested. I also fear cashflow issues. I fear (any) negative impacts on my family. I fear focusing energy on the wrong thing. I fear launching. I fear my first blog post not being brilliant. I fear ...

So anyway, I just received my new business cards today and my super basic website has just gone live. I'm just starting out, I'm human, I'm not perfect and I'm alive!

AND

I can't wait to unleash the conscious potential in as many humans as I can :)

Love humans!