The coaching journey

I am back on the blog after a really long time. My first book got published, by me:) , I did try to connect and present to some of the leading book publishers in the country but I got no help from them, thats when I thought what the hell!! Why can’t I publish my own book. I got the book printed and published it myself. Launched by my Reiki Guru Prasad Karmarkar, the book so far has been a success, lots of personal calls from people who recalled and remembered the learnings and advice given to them by their parents or elders, a nice book review in DNA, number of readings at various venues, etc.

While I was rather preoccupied with my book, I was at quite a loose end on my work front, not much work happening, wrapped in the firing of office politics, personal agenda’s, exclusion in supporting the teams efforts and ofcourse the most hard hitting being the fact that my confidence to create and deliver becoming weak!!!!

This was not a comfortable situation to be in considering that I had always through the course of the large part of my working career been an achiever with success.

What should be my next step, change job, shift to an entrepreneurial approach, stay and be patient and alongside work on self evolvement. Promptly i remembered that my dear friend Abhijit Pradhan, now an executive coach was furiously working on REDIFF, alignment and coaching the top officials of the Agency. I needed help and who better than abhijit could hold my hand and lead me through this situation and help me emerge with a clear strategy and new goals that enable me to retain or rather bring back the glory in my work and life in general.

The word for the moment was TRANSFORMATION!!!!!

I spoke to dan (abhijit) and he was surprised and happy that I chose to undergo coaching under him – another candidate for Superstar Business Solutions.

We set out on the JOURNEY after dan briefed me on the guidelines and mandatory’s.

Yesterday was our 10^th session and with two more sessions I will have commmmmppppplllleeeeteeeed the executive coaching!!!!!! Why the word completed stretched so much, you must be wondering – the journey took a break in between and the distance between sessions got stretched so much that at some point dan must have wondered if this is meant to happen or not??? Not to worry with some sharp admonishing I was thrown back on to the track to move forward. Not that i had not moved positively but situations took a toll and i lost my self in them. But alls well that moves forward.

I would like to take you with me through the journey is a fast forward manner.

I thought, spoke, wrote down and discussed my goals for the coaching, we evaluated my present situation, where i would like to reach at the end of the journey, made primary and secondary goals etc. All this is in the ‘coaching’ aspect. But what was important for me was that I had done a great deal of thinking that was more psychologically clarifying for me. The start was fantastic. When you embark on a journey of transformation there is a certain kind of joy that engulfs you and this makes the start and the journey satisfying.

Coaching is a journey that every one must experience, dan must design one for non corporate clients, those people who would like to move on in their journey of life and have goals that help to decipher their lives more pragmatically and help achieve things that they never imagined to.

This worked for me big time. We chose goals in three areas, one close to my heart – my book, the second related to my work area and the third yet most important related to MY SELF AND MY LIFE.

Each goal was worked on at different levels analysing the issues that engulfed the goal and through this very sensitive style of working released the limitations and shackles of the goal and our mind that set the heart to fly towards the goal and achieve the unimaginable.

Soon my goals changed the right ones came in to focus; the journey became exciting and enjoyable. Sometimes looking tough and difficult but most times dan’s encouraging and aligning process did the trick.

While the process was designed to get complete in twelve sessions within three months my journey did have some gaps, my focus kept moving away, and I attribute this phenomenon to the fact that my mind kept distracting me so that I could continue to bask in the glory of self pity and feel apathy for myself for the situations that was in. But if one believes in transforming one’s self, the strength to fight this you can come back to the tracks quite easily.

By and by I realised that my coaching journey was fructifying and I was realising my goals infact i could now see them shining up close.

The journey has been line a roller coaster with its bumps yet enjoyable and challenging.

At the end of the tenth session the results were mind blowing, my life was revitalised, energetically poised and full of miracles.

A number of learnings that I encountered and they have enhanced my life. I learnt how to creatively express my goals, how to swish away unwanted images and feelings, how to spend time and design each goal to suit my individual personality and needs, how to balance life professional and personal, how to include joy in life, how to treat everything in life as if it is the very first time you are approaching it, so many more learnings that I can enunciate.

Thank you Dan for this truly satisfying and fantastic journey. Coaching is transforming.