Spring cleaning has its origins in
ancient history. Back then; with no labour saving devices
and no electricity, spring marked the start of the season
when the weather allowed a complete cleaning of the cave or
house.
Since then, the tradition has been
maintained but now there is a new angle. It is called
Coaching and it is, in effect, spring
cleaning for your life.
According to Samantha Whay-Jenkins of
Coaching Synergies, coaching is one of the most effective
ways of staying green and growing instead of becoming ripe
and rotten. It is simply a way of looking at where you are
now, where you want to be in the future and how you are
going to get there.
Samantha is a trained, professional coach
who helps her clients to do just that in a series of
sessions given at weekly or fortnightly intervals. “A few
people are able to do this for themselves but the vast
majority find that having an outsider like me to keep them
on course is a vital ingredient in their life spring
cleaning.”
She says that she is not interested in
how they got to where they are now. The only
place that they can start to change their
life is here and now. So the focus is totally on the future
and the actions that will lead to the positive results that
they desire”.
She makes the following analogy: “In the
same way that our homes can become musty during the winter
months and often look in need of a new lick of paint, so our
lives can become a bit tattered and full of mental junk that
no longer serves us well.”
Samantha states that we all, without
exception, carry a load of excess baggage in the form of
worry, guilt, fears and false beliefs or expectations. She
is a great believer in the power of a positive mental
attitude and claims that very few of us ever achieve
anything approaching our full potential.
In coaching, clients are shown how they
can let go of all this baggage to create room in their lives
for new and exciting challenges. She says: “Many clients are
amazed at the positive impact that even a small change or
shift in attitude can produce.” This really is spring
cleaning for the mind.
In the same way that the onset of spring
is often the catalyst that triggers a burst of domestic
action, so a coach can be the catalyst that allows amazing
and positive changes to happen.
She says, “I am still surprised at how
often my clients tell me that their emotional and mental
spring cleaning is like a weight being lifted from their
shoulders. The joy is that they do it all themselves, I am
just there to show them how.”
Samantha is always happy to discuss this or
other aspects of her approach to coaching, she can be
contacted during usual office hours on Tel 91 3837322.
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