Debi Johnson Coaching

Do you find that you start a project excited, gung-ho and full of energy….but then find as you try to keep up that pace, you fizzle out?  It’s that feeling of a car reving up and up until it totally runs out of gas.  I think our bodies wonder….”is she excited or stressed”?  It gets confused and tired after awhile!

I get it!  I am there!  I am what the Kolbe index calls a “Quick Start” through and through.  I tend to jump high and fast with both feet into whatever I intend to do.   I excitedly work at a high pace giving it 110% until I run up against a barrier of some sort, then I crash.  Then it’s “Oh crap, what am I doing”?   

I am learning that I need to ask myself at that point, “Deb, what do you really need right now”?  The answer is almost always deep rest or play, because both are needed to survive this crazy life that we all live!  Then…..after awhile……I dust myself off, and begin again…..but slowly…..in turtle steps.  I want to work toward sigificant change, but I can’t get there at such a high speed.  I need to align my body, soul and spirit to work in unison between rest and play.  Then magic can happen that I could never had caused with my quick start brute force!   

We can have an unlimited source of energy if we listen to our essential selves (our true selves that we were born with).  It’s that little voice that is inside of us that we know is there, but we so often ignore.  She is very wise and has been through a lot.  She knows you like know one else does.  She knows your dreams and what you are capable of.  

Close your eyes ~ breath in the quietness ~ there, can you feel her now ~ follow her lead.

“If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves” ~ Thomas A. Edison

This is my beginning.  The official beginning of Debi Johnson ~ Life Coach.

I now have a website!  I am coaching clients!  I am following my passion and get to be me!  I am astonished, delighted and blessed to follow dreams.

I am learning the fine craft of life coaching with Martha Beck and her master coaches and astounded at what I have learned and accomplished over the past year.  

I am finally understanding that I am capable of doing much more than I ever imagined ~ and so are you! 

Is there a dream you have tucked away thinking that “no, it just can’t happen”? 

Is there anything in your life that you would like to change, but just seems so very hard?

Life is an adventure, an amazing journey with roads, hills and valleys.

Anything is possible!  Take tiny turtle steps to something better.

~ ASTOUND YOURSELF ~

You can go to that place, you know….even in the middle of your hectic day, you can get to that state of bliss?

How?

Just take a minute and close your eyes….take a deep breath and lean in.  Imagine your favorite things, smells, tastes, sounds.

My own:  puffy cotton clouds ~ the smell of popcorn ~ holding my cat against my chest ~ fuzzy caterpillars ~ taste of coffee in the morning ~ 
smell of rain on concrete ~ vibrant tulip colors ~ the roar of the ocean ~
a newborn’s soft skin ~ happy tears ~ waterfalls ~ my husband’s brown eyes ~ my favorite song ~

What about your very favorite things?  I-M-A-G-I-N-E

Do you ever think about your life and how satisfied you are; have you ever looked down at your feet and thought, “hmmm, something just doesn’t look right”?
Are you doing just okay in your day to day shoes or do you ever long to wear –  let’s say RED HIGH HEELS or maybe even NIKE’s? I know, it sort of feels easier to wear the ones that are on your feet right now, but it is okay to think about what else you might try on.

 I have been feeling that way – in my black pumps that I wear to work during the day. They still look nice, but they just don’t fit me anymore. They are strangling my toes and actually constricting my heart.

I have a seemingly normal good life, but I know I was meant to do something else. I know that I am meant to be a life coach and the more that I delve into learning the coaching craft; the more it actually opens my heart.

It can be scary though. I mean, “what if I fail”?  Living life means that we must fail to learn.  But the scarier thought to me is “what if I do nothing and  just stay where I am”? If I decide to live my life in these tight black pumps, then my life will remain the same. I would not be able to help my clients decide to take off their own tight shoes. I have a voice in coaching that I am meant to use.

So what do you say, just for now, let’s take a walk by the ocean, remove our shoes and give them a toss? Then we can run barefoot in the warm sand for awhile until we decide what our next pair will be.