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You guys. I signed up for a coaching course. It’s happening. Starting in a few weeks I’ll be a coach in training. I went back and forth between grad school and coaching for the last few weeks (as evidenced in my previous newsletter). One of the deciding factors was a great conversation with a Portland-based coach, Andrea Leda (check her out). I realized that one of the things I tend to do when I get freaked out about doing something big and vulnerable is that I overanalyze (hello spreadsheets and pro/con lists), then I come up with a new plan. She also helped me to realize that I have two core drivers that sometimes work phenomenally well together and sometimes are at odds. For me, they are safety/ security, and variety/ novelty. My interest in coaching was totally checking the novelty box, but it was challenging the security piece. My capacity for risk was being stretched, and I hadn’t even done anything! After working through some self-imposed challenges and really digging into what I want, I decided to sign up for a coaching course. Even if I’m not good at it. Even if nobody cares. Even if it’s not what I think it is. Because that’s the journey, folks. You can’t plan out your life and know how each step is going to play into the next. But I’m excited and curious about this step! In other news, Brian broke his hand last week playing ultimate :( We are learning just how much his right hand affects our day-to-day lives and it turns out it’s a pretty crucial player. So now we are very appreciative of everything it normally does while it’s healing. It’s also about to be the busiest week we’ve seen in a while, with hand surgery, an all day team meeting I’m helping to put together, a big work event I’ve been planning for the last 6 months, and a wedding (that I’m in). HELLO AUGUST, bring on the heat, the challenges, and the excitement.
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