{"id":8972,"date":"2021-01-25T09:03:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T09:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/?p=8972"},"modified":"2022-09-10T20:08:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T20:08:43","slug":"making-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/making-a-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Making a Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest benefits of being a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/training\/certified-professional-coach\/program-overview.html\">coach<\/a>, and or a trainer of coaches, are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Working with people that really care about what they are doing and how they are doing it.<\/li>\n<li>Working with people that want to make a difference.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is so wonderful to hear their stories, their examples, their motivators, and what they really want to focus on in terms of making a difference. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8973 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Making-a-Difference-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Making a Difference\" width=\"273\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Making-a-Difference-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Making-a-Difference-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Making-a-Difference-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Making-a-Difference-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Making-a-Difference-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Making-a-Difference-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Making-a-Difference-90x60.jpg 90w, https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Making-a-Difference-480x320.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Making-a-Difference-800x530.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Making-a-Difference-420x280.jpg 420w, https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Making-a-Difference-520x345.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 273px) 100vw, 273px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Over the past year one thing I have noticed is more and more are wondering, where do you even start? \u00a0There is so much going on, so many people that are struggling and dealing with challenges.\u00a0 There is so much call for change.\u00a0 \u00a0As coaches we wonder, where do I even start? \u00a0What can I do? I&#8217;m one person, how can I make a difference?<\/p>\n<p>There is a wonderful story for insight: A young child is walking along the beach with their grandparent.\u00a0 \u00a0On the beach hundreds of starfish have washed up.\u00a0 \u00a0The young child is picking up the starfish and tossing them back into the water and picking up starfish and tossing them back into the water.\u00a0 \u00a0The grandparent says to the child, \u201cwhat are you doing?\u201d\u00a0 The child explains, \u201cif they stay on the sand, they will die from the sun, so I am saving them.\u201d\u00a0 The grandparent says, \u201coh, there are so many you cannot possibly save them all.\u201d \u00a0The young child leans over, picks up another one, throws it in the water, and turns to the grandparent and says, \u201cI saved that one.\u201d\u00a0 That is the key for all of us.\u00a0 \u00a0We cannot save everyone; we cannot fix everything.\u00a0 \u00a0We cannot do it all.\u00a0 \u00a0We can impact and make a difference within our sphere of influence.<\/p>\n<p>What does that tell us? \u00a0As a coach, focus on what you can do and what is possible.\u00a0 \u00a0Reflect on these<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coaching.html\"> coaching<\/a> questions for yourself:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Where can you make a difference?<\/li>\n<li>How can you make a difference?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest benefits of being a coach, and or a trainer of coaches, are: Working with people that really care about what they are doing &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[470,471,16,40],"tags":[48,50,1335,1347,1348],"class_list":["post-8972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coaching-resources","category-coaching-skills","category-coaching-stories","category-tools-and-techniques","tag-coach","tag-coaching","tag-difference","tag-making-a-difference","tag-people","latest_post"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8972","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=8972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8974,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8972\/revisions\/8974"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coachcert.com\/coachingblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}