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How To Self-coach Using A Powerful Request
April 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Self-Coaching is an interesting approach to use when working to achieve a major goal. In particular, using the coaching technique of making a “powerful request” of yourself can be very motivating. If you are fortunate enough to also work with a professional coach, it can be life changing!
This article looks at how I used the “powerful request” as a self-coaching technique back in 2005. I was then in the preparation stages of making a major career change out of the corporate world I had inhabited for almost 20 years.
My powerful request to myself at that time was:
Begin working with my own coach from 10 November 2005 on living more of my “ideal life”, which is based on the “If I had 12 months to live” question.
I had previously designed most of it out myself and was indeed already living some of it even while in the employee role – but I recognized from my coaching training program how the power and energy of (self)coaching can help sustain and even build on the momentum gained so far.
Four key drivers behind making this “powerful request” function effectively in a self-coaching context were (and still are today):
1- Minimum Acceptance
The minimum I would accept of myself is that living my ideal life begins now with even the smallest step towards it – and so I will make the request of my coach today to work with me on this topic from 11 November 2005 onwards.
2- Bold Request
The bold request I am making is to work with a coach to enjoy the process of bringing 100% of my ideal life into existence day by day.
3- Feelings
It makes me feel like the genie is being let out of the bottle…my genie!
4- Potential Benefits
I think the potential benefits of this powerful request are that:
- action will become a positive and enjoyable habit.
- I will enjoy the journey even more than any specific destination or goal.
- I will experience in a more direct and recurring way the “course correcting” aspects of psycho-cybernetics (that of Maxwell Maltz fame).
The momentum generated by this and other powerful requests, ultimately led to having sufficient courage to swap the high paying Tokyo Investment banking I.T. world for a very different career universe – that of Internet-based Entrepreneurship.
What’s your powerful request?
Try it and surprise yourself!
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Mark McClure is Asia-Pacific’s leading change-the-game Career e-coach and goal setting mentor.
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