Why does it have to be so hard?
Iāve been thinking about what it really takes to be great at coaching, and thereās a mindset shift that feels important to share⦠A lot of people step into coaching with an unspoken expectation: I want to get better at this⦠but I donāt want it to feel hard. And I get it⦠But the reality is, growth doesnāt work like that. The hard isnāt a sign that somethingās wrong. Itās part of the process. The difference between people who grow into great coaches and those who stall out isnāt that one group finds a way to avoid whatās hard. Itās that they learn how to stay with it. Itās not about trying to remove the challenge. Itās about building the capacity to move through it. And hereās where it becomes even more important for coaches⦠We ask our clients to stay with whatās hard. To not avoid discomfort. To keep going when things feel uncertain or uncomfortable. There has to be congruence there. If weāre not willing to face our own hard⦠if we pull back when it gets uncomfortable⦠it becomes much harder to ask someone else to stay in it. But when we do stay with it, something shifts. Weāre not just teaching it, weāre modelling it. And thatās where coaching becomes far more powerful. So instead of asking, āHow do I get better at this without this feeling so hard?ā⦠The better question becomes⦠āHow do I get better at coaching and get better at doing hard things?ā That shift is liberating. It lets you stop fighting the process and start working with it. If this truly matters to you, then itās worth accepting the full package⦠It will stretch you It will challenge you It will require consistency And it will be hard The goal isnāt to eliminate that. The goal is to become someone who can meet it and keep moving forward. You donāt need to choose between growth and discomfort. You need to learn how to do both.