There’s Beauty in the Breakdown

I began the day at 5:30 am. Ate breakfast, had coffee, spent an hour at the gym. I went to work, sat in traffic for five hours, got into a car accident, waited an hour for cops that did not arrive and drove for another two hours home. I arrived back at 6:30 pm with thirty minutes to make up for all of the food I hadn’t eaten throughout the day. From 7-9: 30 pm I had two coach calls scheduled.

This was a HUGE breakdown of a day. In coaching, breakdowns are access to breakthroughs. As you can imagine, in the moment the breakthrough was difficult to see. While I was driving home all I wanted was to cancel my calls. I couldn't imagine being in my Essence after the day I had. I got on the calls anyway, I felt I was letting my clients down otherwise.

There came the breakthrough.

From 7-9:30 pm I felt like all was well in the world. I forgot about the ulcer-inducing circumstances of the day. I was able to smile, laugh and support others that I genuinely cared about. It lit me up. It clicked for me after I got off the calls that Coaching is my thing. It’s what I want to commit to in life. All of the growing pains that come with sales and marketing, all of the years I will put in to build an amazing coaching practice, all of the inevitable rejection I will experience will all be worth it.

It took an incredibly crappy set of circumstances for me to realize that. It’s not that I didn’t know coaching was for me before all of that happened. But I was doubtful. I didn’t know if it would work out. I wasn’t sure I made the right decision. In short, I left the door cracked to bail on Life Coaching. The crappy day had me shut the door. Commitment is a big deal and in this case, involves a ton of uncertainty. I just decided that it’s worth it. I made the choice.

What aren’t you committing to that you know damn well that you love?