{"id":7680,"date":"2017-10-16T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T09:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/?p=7680"},"modified":"2017-09-26T20:25:40","modified_gmt":"2017-09-26T20:25:40","slug":"what-might-get-in-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/what-might-get-in-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"What might get in the way?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/training\/certified-professional-coach\/program-overview.html\">coaching certification<\/a> participants learn to ask powerful questions.\u00a0 What might get in the way? is one of many questions learned and used by coaches.<\/p>\n<p>When people are asked this question, the most common answer is: me.\u00a0 We get in our own way.\u00a0 What is behind this?\u00a0 Sometimes it is simple laziness or procrastination.\u00a0 What is behind that?\u00a0 What else might be the reason?\u00a0 Often there is fear &#8211; a fear of failure or a fear of success.\u00a0 Most commonly the reason or the reason behind the reasons is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/confidence-and-coaching\/\">confidence<\/a>.\u00a0 Occasionally people are overly confident and more often people lack confidence.<\/p>\n<p>What is the reason for a lack of confidence?\u00a0 An interesting insight moves us toward the answer: most of the time we seek affirmation and confirmation from others or externally.\u00a0 Confidence is actually built internally.\u00a0 During <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/training.html\">coach training<\/a> we discuss saying to a client, \u201cbe proud of yourself\u201d and \u201cgive yourself a pat on the back\u201d.\u00a0 We learn to ask, \u201cwhen you achieve what you want, what will you say to yourself?\u201d\u00a0 These questions support the client acknowledging themselves which means building confidence internally.\u00a0 As a client acknowledges themselves they learn that it is okay and appropriate to do so which in turn supports ongoing confidence.<\/p>\n<p>With confidence people are able to move past what might get in the way and achieve what they want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During coaching certification participants learn to ask powerful questions.\u00a0 What might get in the way? is one of many questions learned and used by coaches. &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[131,470,471,16],"tags":[438,85,50,541,243],"class_list":["post-7680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coaching-program","category-coaching-resources","category-coaching-skills","category-coaching-stories","tag-ask-questions","tag-coach-training","tag-coaching","tag-coaching-certifciation","tag-confidence","latest_post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7682,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7680\/revisions\/7682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}