The Value Of A Coach With Questions

We just returned from a stimulating Chaplains Conference in Adrian, Michigan. It was sponsored by the United Methodist Chaplains Group. The presentations were on the value of being coached to experience our true potential. A coach is a person who cares for you, knows what you are capable of, and calls forth the greatness within you. This is a different relationship of a counselor who listens and reflects your feelings. A counselor may need to help us to understand our past wounds to learn lessons from grief or failure. A coach instead calls us to look at our current situation, where we want to go in life, our abilities, future goals and action plans to get moving. We took turns offering a coaching session for each other as brother or sister chaplains. It was a growing experience to be challenged to think of the next step to take to be more fruitful as a person made to be achieve creativity. Each of us is created to be a great person because we are made in the image and likeness of God. Sometimes we need to be reminded of the great potential we have within us to do positive and creative actions. It is our own responsibility to discover and bring forth the great potential within us but coaching can help us. When we are blind to our potential it is profitable to be given powerful questions by a coach to make us think again about our attitudes and practices right now. Let me be your coach with this blog. Please consider some of these questions for your own life journey in the here and now. I hope they will be positive for your growth. Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 says there is a time for everything. What time is it for you right now? What needs to happen for this year to be the best year ever? If you gave us worrying, what would life be like? What really matters for you? I thank our instructor J. Val Hastings, MCC, for sharing many life changing questions for us to ponder. Yes, I bought his book of questions! I will continue to share some of them on my blog as they help my soul work!