By Joan Smith<\/p>\n
Perhaps this is familiar to others: I grew up in a world of \u201cI told you that you\u00a0shouldn’t\u00a0do that; it never works\u201d and \u201cI don\u2019t know why you feel like that, what\u2019s wrong with you?\u201d\u00a0 I began feeling like I\u00a0couldn’t\u00a0do anything right and something was seriously wrong with me because of the feelings I was having.<\/p>\n
Then I met a professional coach who opened my mind to limitless possibilities.\u00a0 I fondly remember many conversations beginning with an unsolvable problem and ending with me laughing at how I limited myself with my internal conversations.\u00a0 I took her Certified Professional Coach<\/a> class and realized I had been feeding this negative language to my children and my spouse, poisoning my relationships.<\/p>\n Before coach training, I was a terrible communicator. \u00a0I was over-explaining and focusing on what I\u00a0didn’t\u00a0want.\u00a0 I learned the human mind processes in the positive.\u00a0 \u201cI don\u2019t want you to keep your shoes on\u201d is remembered as \u201ckeep your shoes on.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0I learned about I statements in a way that made sense because it is about owning my feelings.\u00a0 Now I am empowered by the realization that I control my happiness.\u00a0 I choose how to think and what I feel.\u00a0 Coaching<\/a> is amazing and coach training is a whole new skill set that helps everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Joan Smith Perhaps this is familiar to others: I grew up in a world of \u201cI told you that you\u00a0shouldn’t\u00a0do that; it never works\u201d … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,40],"tags":[52,77,48,85,50,86,55,81,88,51,103,87,78,79,107,76],"class_list":["post-3644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coaching-stories","category-tools-and-techniques","tag-build","tag-client","tag-coach","tag-coach-training","tag-coaching","tag-coaching-certification","tag-coaching-services","tag-coaching-success","tag-effective-coaching","tag-excellence","tag-opportunities","tag-professional-coach","tag-rapport","tag-skills","tag-strategy","tag-understand","latest_post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\t\t\n