Life Choices
It finally happened. It has only taken most of my existence, but I now have the answer to the question that has plagued me my entire life.
“What do you want to be when you grow up?”.
Decades of absorbing knowledge, working at both whacky jobs and career jobs, it’s taken years of relationships with friends and family, and finding & accepting what my strengths are as a human being. Now, when people ask me this question, my answer will be,
“I’m a Life Coach”.
I first heard about Life Coaching about 5 or 6 years ago while I was still employed, and the title piqued my interest right away. I immediately started researching what a Life Coach does, and then found a podcast by Brooke Castillo that lit a fire in me to keep digging more. I remember telling my friend Brandy, “I think this is something I could really get excited about as a job”.
Over the next few years Brandy would poke at me and ask if I had looked into it more, and ask when I was going to pursue it. I kept giving excuses about it not being the right time or second guessing my commitment to it. Even after I left my job of 17 years, for some reason I wasn’t ready to take the plunge. What finally cinched it for me? The loss of my friend who was my greatest champion of the idea in the first place.
Around this time, Jonathan and I had been having discussions of me possibly taking classes and getting more education in the field of web building. It fulfilled most of my requirements of the kind of work I wanted to do…it could be done anywhere with a wifi connection, it payed well, and it was something he and I could share together. The problem was, there was something about it that wasn’t feeling quite right.
I remember the day I finally committed to Life Coaching very well. It was the week after Brandy had passed, and Jonathan and I were in her apartment taking care of her sweet kitty, Alice. We were having one of our discussions about next steps for me, when I just started to cry. I realized in that moment, that web development was definitely NOT what I wanted to be doing. Jonathan saw me, and asked what was wrong…and in that moment, surrounded by all of Brandy’s things along with her spirit, I told him, “I want to be a Life Coach”. I swear I felt her gently nudging me to say it out loud and to accept that it was TIME.
Jonathan was amazing, and in that moment was completely there and supportive of me going for it. That week I started researching schools and in the end I chose iPEC. I was so happy when I got accepted there, and even more excited after I did my first weekend intensive. I knew I had found the right place.
Since then I have been focusing on starting my business, getting ready to work with clients, and redesigning my website so it starts transforming to support my next steps. I started Daily Choices a decade ago as a blog. Its sole purpose was for me to have an outlet for talking through my thoughts on how our lives are the product of thousands of choices that we make everyday. Choices like what and how much we eat, the way we respond to outside influences, the time we take with our families, the beauty we choose to see in the little moments of everyday life.
Fast forward to today, and the more I think about it, the more I can see how this will be the focus of what I coach on as well. Helping people see the choices they don’t realize they have each day to help them create their best life. What choices do you need help seeing? What choices are you afraid to make? How do you choose to live?
