How to get clarity and shift out of stuckness, overwhelm, burnout and fedup-ness.
Over the past few months a good deal of my private clients have brought similar issues to the coaching space. Although each situation is unique, they find themselves at a pivot in their professional lives and are stuck and overwhelmed, or burned out and fed up.
They seek clarity first, to make sense of their current position and how to change it, untangle the web of emotional weight and misaligned values that created the stuckness. And then clarity on a way forward - a clear plan to make a sustainable career from something they love, that feels aligned and in flow, that feels easier, energised and joyful.
I see a lot of people in this space, whether they have worked up a corporate position or have created a portfolio of mixed products and a businesses as an entrepreneur.
And it's wonderful to be able to hold for them a creative thinking space to reflect and unwind, and a place to spark ideas, fire up and get excited about the next chapter.
In all of this there lies the Zone of Brilliance™ - a concept I’ve developed over years of coaching clients towards showing up as their best selves, to be in flow, to find a peak performance but to focus that performance on aligned purpose in their professional goals and career.
The Zone of Brilliance™ is a space that we co-create for the client to expand into, in order to work from an optimum position. We examine the person, the values and beliefs to understand the parts that create that space, and we put in place things to support and sustain that space so that it becomes the very ethos of the person themselves.
Everyone has the capacity to become their best selves, and it could be said that we owe it to ourselves to be that incredible person. Everyone is born with creativity, curiosity and love. When we bring these two statements together we create the possibility of growth and discovery. These are the foundations of the Zone of Brilliance™ and from where our journey begins.
The journey to the Zone of Brilliance™ takes on board the inner and outer environments - the people, the spaces, the assumptions, the beliefs, the habits, the patterns - and teases apart the tightly knitted fabric of identity that we carry to the present. It acknowledges where we are. It removes the toxic assumptions and bad habits and thinking that holds us back. It celebrates the strengths and wins. It looks to the future and allows a breathing space, a safe space, a creative space to honour and hold a version of you that you will be proud to look back on in years to come.
We do this through exploration, deep listening, insightful questioning, curiosity and playfulness in a 121 or small group coaching programme.
So where you are stuck, overwhelmed, feeling out of alignment then take a moment to consider your own Zone of Brilliance™ and what it might look like to create a beautiful space that can support your journey forward.
