When you are ignored...

Do you want to know the hardest thing about the work I do?

It’s not the sadness that people come to me suffering with, it’s not the complexity of unpicking a lifetime of habitual self-destructive behaviour… No, the hardest thing is when a client ignores an obvious solution to their troubles and remains stuck.

I can’t help but take this personally – I feel it in my gut, as a failure. For some reason, with some clients, I cannot find the ‘key’ that will unlock them, release them from the self-imposed prisons. I want to say to them “it's easy! just do this…” but of course, the job of teaching, of coaching, of leading, is not a job of telling.

People have to see the solution for themselves – and as much as I show them the solutions, if they themselves do not see them, well… it isn’t a solution for them, is it?

Do you want to know the best thing about the work I do?

It is the laying down of a new path built in cooperation with my client, walking them towards their goal. Sometimes that path is a straight and direct one – they see it immediately and find an appetite to walk it. Sometimes that path is a long and winding, sometimes spiralling one upon which I must work hard to persuade my client that the journey is a worthwhile one.

As a teacher – a position I officially held, and a head-teacher (Principal ) at that, for over half of my working life – the best fun I had was with the recalcitrant pupils. The children who were convinced they did not, could not understand a particular subject and who actively tried to prove it. It was fun for me, because I had to bring all of my skill and experience into play in order to find the particular angle, the particular way of describing, the particular explanation that would finally unlock their understanding. That work, on my part, was always worth the effort. Even though it often involved weeks upon weeks of difficult persuasion and a lot of being ignored! That moment, when the penny drops, the light of understanding goes on, that is what a teacher lives for.

That is what I still live for to this day. So yes, being occasionally ignored is hard on me. But at the end of the day, it is not about me. It is about you.

Do you want to be heard?

If you’d like to achieve greater success in your life, if you are ready to become a PROFITABLE ENLIGHTENED LEADER then it is time to take action.

Action always starts with the first step. success lies in the momentum you create and sustain

You absolutely deserve to succeed!

Gina xx

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