Career Hit and Run?

My colleague announced yesterday “I have never met anyone who is SO curious before”, as I hypothesised about the motivations of a neighbour. They dad reversed their van, rather forcefully, into their own (adjoining), house. We all felt the impact…
My Beloved’s response would be: ‘they just fxxked up!’. My question is always ‘but why?’. This is why I am a coach. I am endlessly curious about what would cause a particular outcome. I want to explore what an individual was thinking for such a thing to occur. What was happening contextually around them. What behaviours led to the impact. What erroneous belief led the person to that point. I want to draw out the leaning and identify what skills they might refine and what they they could do differently for next time. 
Yep! I do realise theirs was ‘just an accident’, but it is also a mine of Invaluable information. Many individuals arrive in my coaching space believing they have a real car crash of a career. My endless curiosity can enable them to explore the real value inherent in their journey so far. 
No experience is wasted. Where there looks to have been disaster, there is always real potential for new, stronger, and better informed growth. If you did something that didn’t work, let’s choose another way. If there was an element of the process that did really serve you, then do more of it, much more. 
Recovering from a career car-crash is not about getting out of the vehicle and walking away. It’s about choosing what to take from the wreckage, it’s about looking at the wider cultural implications, it’s about taking the learning, refining your choices, and taking that forward to the next journey. Career choices never need to be ‘hit and run’. Unless you use the impact to inform your next choices you may risk creating the same outcome again…….
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