Coaching Services - How you can use an Enneagram Coach

One of the reasons coaching is getting more popular is that it usually doesn't work. People go to coaches like they go to a slot machine. They know they probably won't get help or hit the jackpot, but think what would happen if they did.

I've read some coaching books. Here is their advice. Follow these instructions and you will be successful. First: focus. Nothing happens until you focus on what you want. That aligns your energy, the energy of those you work with and on good days, the energy of the stars. Read "The Secret" and you'll know why.

Second, set goals. Write them down, make them crisp, clean, concrete, both proximate and long range.

Third: Persevere. Work hard, keep your integrity, network like crazy and save a huge portion of your income.

That ought to just about get you there. You've always known that, you've read it an embarrassing number of times, why don't you do it?

First of all, the above program is terribly conscious. When you think "focus," you're exercising your neo cortex and you are conceptually clear. Alas, your stomach is churning, you feel tired all over and you wonder what's on TV. Ignore all that: focus!

Maneuvering in Inner Terrain

Now we get into Enneagram coaching territory. We know you already have a focus, ingrained in your blood, bones, history and habit. And that focus may at sharp odds with your conscious focus. Telling you to focus is like telling a baseball player, "hit the ball squarely and you'll have a home run every time." Doesn't always work.

Now set goals. Alas, your family, your talents, your body, your history and who knows what all have implanted some extremely solid goals, of which you are seldom aware and when you are you either don't approve of or you just deny. You doubt me? Tell me about the last 10 people who failed miserably at their diet. All they had to was follow the above instructions. I wonder why they didn't? Hint: weight is a systemic problem, not an individual failure. Besides, when people eat for non-hunger reasons, they eat for their Enneagram reason.

Now persevere. Try harder. Drive faster, we're lost! Ask any student who routinely flunks tests why he doesn't study more. All he would have to do is do more of what he has failed to do for six grades. That's not that hard, after all.

The reason an Enneagram coach is so effective is that your coach (that would be me) will know your conflicting foci, goals, habits, strengths and weaknesses. I have a quiver of interventions, suggestions and imaginative strategies to enable you to free yourself of the focus that interferes with your conscious focus, to free yourself from the childhood goals and habits that sabotage your work ethic, to make it easier to really do what you want to do.

Most coaching books and materials will promise to help you do what you should. I'll go one better. My specialty is helping you do what you want to but can't - yet.

I coach over the phone and offer a free consultation session. Here's how to reach me.