COACH: I was forced to take a sabbatical in 2003. I was just too sick to work and could barely function for a long time. It was quite depressing. I took lots of walks around the neighbourhood and on one (...)

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I was forced to take a sabbatical in 2003. I was just too sick to work
and could barely function for a long time. It was quite depressing. I
took lots of walks around the neighbourhood and on one particular
day I was pondering, “God, where do I go from here? How can I more
eﬀectively help people?” I ran through several conversations in my
head, imagining meeting people and running through a number of
titles, people helping kind of roles ... and nothing quite ﬁt. The phrase
“I’m a coach” popped into my head and the lights went on, angels
started singing, ﬁreworks were going oﬀ. That was it! Although it
sounded completely new to me, as though the idea had just fallen from
Heaven ‒ it was a perfect ﬁt! My next question was “what is it?” Soon
after, Google came to the rescue and answered my questions. Results
Coaching Systems, the leading Australian Coach trainer I found used
words on their web pages that could have been borrowed from my
personal journal. Again, a perfect ﬁt.
(Excerpt from my book Lifting The Lid on Quiet Achievers)

I thought that coaching was a new idea to me that day, so I was stunned, several months after beginning the coaching journey (as a client and a trainee) to find a journal I'd written in 3 years earlier, and across the top of a page, in my own handwriting I read "BECOME A COACH"!