Welcome to the Delygate newsletter! This newsletter keeps you up to date with everything linked to coaching and your favorite career podcast Reaching your Goals. It is all about supporting you to get one step closer to living a fulfilled professional life.
I like to ask my coaching clients “Who do you want to be?”. It sounds like such an easy question. Wait for it... it might turn into a brain teaser. When you look in the mirror, whom do you want to see? Is it someone kind, caring, and patient? Or rather someone bold, funny, and adventurous? Someone who has your back and is proud of you, just the way you are. Someone who beliefs you are enough. Imagine this unconditional love and compassion for yourself.
Now look at the mirror of your reality. What do you see? Do you like the person that is looking back at you? If not, who do you want this person to be?
A coaching client told me this week that he also signed up for coaching with me to find out who he was underneath all those layers added throughout the years. I find this picture intriguing: I see a little child covered by layers of expectations and experiences. The result might not have much in common with the little child anymore!
The expectations might have been set by ourselves, parents, teachers, society, colleagues, bosses, and others. “You should be more like this!” “Don’t do that!” “Others do it like this!” “What will the others think if…?” Our life experience left its mark as well. Suddenly we look in the mirror and don’t know that person anymore, or it doesn’t have much in common with our aspirational self.
The good news is that it’s never too late to work on ourselves and become the person we want to be!
What would happen if we were getting rid of all those layers? Imagine getting back to the child in you. And yes, maybe you want to leave a couple of layers based on your learnings that help you be a better person.
The key question remains: who do you want to be? Once we have your answer, we will work on getting you there!
To get started, why don’t you grab a pen and paper and think about the person you want to look at (or maybe even smile at) when you look in the mirror?
You choose who you want to be.
The question of who you want to be is also relevant for this week’s Reaching your Goals episode. I talk with Dario Sipos about Personal Branding in the digital world. Know who you want to be, assess which skills you need to get there, and then document those skills and have Google find you for them. Sounds easy, right?
That’s it for today!
All that is left for me is to check in with you. Do you have a concrete topic you’d like to work on to reach your professional goals? If so, I’d be happy to support you in your journey. You can reach me at hanna@delygate.com.
And, of course, if you enjoy podcasts, don't forget to tune in to your favorite career podcast Reaching your Goals on Apple Podcasts or Spotify, or wherever you listen to your podcasts. You will also find more information on our website.
That’s it for today. We are one step closer to reaching your goals! Talk to you next time!
Hanna
It Was Great , would love to receive more , keep it up