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What's natural to you?
May 12, 2005
Recently, I gave a workshop for a group of dentists and their staffs. I was busy the night before, looking over details of what I wanted to cover and the million other things that go through your mind when you're about to be "on stage". Would I remember to emphasize that point? Could I keep them engaged? Am I being clear and concise? Will they see the applications in their own practices? Would they "get" what I am doing, how it would benefit them in so many ways to practice and apply the principles I was showing them?
A good friend, who was listening to my rambling, said one very simple thing to me: DO WHAT IS NATURAL TO YOU.
I relaxed. It was a great reminder that all I could be - all I should be - was just me. I had a great night's sleep, and the next day had a great time giving the workshop. I was just being myself.
Who are you trying to be? As dentists, we wear many hats, from manager and CEO, to clinician and counselor, to who-knows-what the next minute. We try to understand P & L statements and what our CPA told us, grapple with the staggering amount of new technology and information, fret about whether we should market more . it can feel endless!
Outside our professional life, we struggle over who we really are - what's at the core of who we are, what's happiness to us, what's most meaningful to us.
Are you doing what's natural for you, without any self-talk, without any hesitation, without any censoring?
As a coach, I help people reach their goals, live their big dreams - whatever those may be. As a coach, I don't tell people what to do, psychoanalyze them, or rearrange their lives. The founder of modern coaching, Thomas Leonard, once said "The extent to which you think you can help someone is the extent to which you take away the power for them to help themselves." I beleive that statement, and I hope you do, too. Truly, I don't help people; taking that type of credit would be silly. What I really do is support change, development, discovery, performance, growth, and celebration.
Do what is natural for you. Be yourself. Learn about yourself. And look no further than inside yourself. Good coaches know that helping you means being a catalyst for you to find your own answers, and that you already have those answers inside you just waiting to come out.
So, try for a day just doing what is natural for you. Reflect on how it makes you feel, on how your energy shifts, on the difference in the way you interact with people. I believe you'll find it to be a freeing and rewarding experience.
Thank you for the honor of being a part of your journey, in whatever way I am serving you!
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