Coaching Corner: How Are You Living?
By Marilou Butcher Roth, Master Coach
Take a minute and bring this visual to mind ~ an old time wagon wheel with the big cog right in the middle. Now this particular wagon wheel does not have the metal band around the circumference, so the spokes are exposed. With me so far? Great! Now imagine the cog in the middle represents you. The question I pose to you (as the cog), is how are you living your life?
If you are living/working, etc. proactively, everything will come from you (the cog). If you are living in a place of things happening “to you”, all of those very pointy spokes will be coming right at you! Ouch!
We have choices in each moment to decide if we are creating our lives, or letting those nasty spokes get us. Living in the place of “to me” will not get you where you want to be, as you are constantly in the state of being “at the effect of”, which is not a comfortable place to be.
This may help……one action I have incorporated into my morning time is to ask myself how I can experience as much joy as possible today. For me, this opens up a new space of unlimited possibilities. This absolutely does not mean that things don’t upset me, trust me, they do, and yet, realizing that I have some control is hugely helpful.
Give it a try, and watch out for those spokes!!!
Marilou Butcher Roth
Marilou Butcher Roth is the owner of The MBR Group, a coaching and training company working primarily with REALTORS who have a desire to work and live from a more inspired place. She is also the Broker/Owner of Group REALTORS in Cincinnati.
Marilou is a member of the Ohio REALTORS Board of Directors and past chairman of the organization’s Communications Committee.
