grow.
You know what used to trip me up all the time? My beliefs about how things should be. “I’m this age, and by this age I really thought that I’d be here by now.” Or “I’ve been working at this business for a decade, and I thought I’d be way more successful than I actually am.”
My very wise coach does a great job at pulling out the best analogies when I need them most. During one of our more intense conversations, she had me think about how plants grow. She asked, “Does a gardener go outside and plant a seed and expect to come out the next day to find a huge lush plant providing shade for her? Does she look at it expectantly and say, ‘Have you grown yet?”’ Without waiting for an answer from me, my coach said: “She does not. The gardener first ...
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