Coach
Coaching
Lately I am leaning in on being a coach.
A coach is one you hire when you are refining to excellence.
A coach offers precisely tuned cues to polish you to your own idea of excellence.
A great coach is able to aim beyond all that has ever been known, to call forth from you outcomes which were previously unimaginable to you or even to the sport.
A great coach approaches you with humility, acknowledging the asset of your every limitation. A great coach honors limitations as authorities and shows you how to leverage their strength.
A great coach recognizes the genius within you, never creating it, never taking credit for it. A great coach helps you build a context to support your greatness unfurling.
A great coach addresses the fundamentals, is relentless with the basics, is patient in the ongoing refinement of what seem to be minutiae of technique and skill.
A great coach makes it fun, but they are not attached to your emotional state or your outcomes. These belong within your own heart. A great coach cares for you as a soul, sees you as what is beyond all your performance, all your technique, all your skill, all your achievement, all your emotion, helping you remember that you are expressing yourself in your art or your sport or your life, but never defining yourself by that.
The way a great coach honors your soul reflects to you the truth of your own self-definition.
The greater your artistry, the more profound your outcomes, the more important the self-definition beyond them becomes.
