COACH YOU BLOG

Being Present: It's a Gift
29/11/2011

Have you ever driven home and cannot remember the last 3 miles of the journey? Your mind was elsewhere: you were not fully present.

 

OK, so no big deal, we all do it. But what do we miss?

 

What do we miss … When we are sitting there with our children, half listening to them burble on about their day while still ruminating some report due in tomorrow or how we can get cleared up in time for XFactor. “hmm… yes, that’s nice dear … now run along and do your homework.”

 

What do we miss, when we are so busy stuck inside ourselves planning? I know I have forgotten really fun events because I was busy in my head planning the next thing.

 

What do we miss when we are so busy thinking what to say next, we don’t actually listen to what they have to say. “Did you say mice … you should see the rat in our barn … we were going to saddle it up and take it to Newmarket”.

 

Being present in our lives means that we fully experience every minute.

 

Life takes on a different quality and somehow all our senses are more available to us. We no longer walk to work with a furrowed brow working out everything we have to do in the day, we notice where we are walking, what is the landscape or the architecture, who are we passing – do they smile: do we?

 

Living is about fully experiencing every moment of our lives not just passing through. Co-Active Coaching is about three things your fulfilment, life balance and being fully witness to your life: Being fully present.