Is Now a Good Time for Career Coaching?
Is Now a Good Time for Career Coaching?
I’m gonna be radical because my answer genuinely IS ‘No’.
When I first began coaching, way-back-when, I utterly imagined that on January the 1st (OK, maybe the 2nd!), ALL the new clients would come pouring through the door with their New Year’s resolutions. Bringing their career discontents.
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The reality has been that for over a decade been thus — it takes people several weeks, if not more than a month past the festivities to ready themselves for significant life changes.
Why?
Firstly its Finances … The festive season can leave many of us eager for payday.
Secondly, and perhaps more significantly, it’s just not the time the natural world would start anything new … Looking at The Wheel of the year, no new leaf bud or new shoot is going to pop its head out of the ground whilst there is still the risk of frost around.
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Any activity that’s taking place is DEEP down in the dark of the warm ground. The Tap Root might tentatively begin to work its way down deep into the ground but there’s nothing to stirring in plain sight.
Is Now a Good Time for Career Coaching?
Humans are EXACTLY the same – these dark days at the beginnings of the year are The Dreaming Days, the time when the beginnings of new ideas begin to tentatively reach down into the rich, dark, warm soil …
To act on these now would be to be to atrophy their organic expansion — Why would you expose your most intimate possibilities to the frost of the outside world?
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Take your time: You are made of the same stuff as the mud and you are not yet ready to make external changes. — Trust yourself: Come and find me when you’re ready — together we will enable you to put strong roots down to support a deeply satisfying career-change.