resources for the coach

If your default is warmth and relationship and the deep satisfaction of bringing people together, you carry a particular kind of genius that most people underestimate. But the shadow side of that gift is this: the same instinct that makes you brilliant with people can make you deeply, quietly afraid of choosing.

The coaches who shout loudest about their success rarely talk about the season before it. The three-in-the-morning uncertainty. The client who cancelled and the invoice that didn't come. You give and give and give — and somewhere along the way you forget that you cannot give what you don't have.