Three days later, at 4:40 p.m. on Sunday afternoon, the Coach's phone rang. He was walking into the house, back from a quick trip to the store. The FaceTime call was from the Client. Quickly, the Coach entered the house and set the grocery bag on the kitchen counter while his thumb responded to the call. “Hey there!” he said, looking at the screen, “I didn't expect to hear from you so soon. How was your weekend?”
On the screen, the Client was grinning from ear to ear. “I did it. I really did it!”
The Coach asked if he had quit his job.
“No, not yet. Nothing like that! I have had the most amazing weekend – you're not going to believe it.” The Client was sitting at his kitchen table. The background of white walls behind him was a simple frame for the FaceTime conversation.
The Client relayed a story of how he recognized that the layers of thinking around this last-minute request were suffocating him. If infinite creativity were always available, he reasoned, why wasn't he able to tap into it? If he were wired and built to adapt and really operated inside of a universe that had his back, why couldn't he see it?
“Well, new ideas are always available, except for my thinking,” he said. “My concentration on the utter hassle of this redundant assignment was just filling me up with ...
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