how to find the answers within

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welcome to 2023 with me, Life Coach Franzannie. When you're feeling stuck I help you figure out how to get out of your own way so you can get what you want through one on one individual coaching sessions. Coaching gave me the courage to believe that I could have the life of my dreams and take the action steps to make it happen... Four years later I see that it's going to take a lot longer and be a lot harder than I anticipated. 

My theme this year is to Find What Feels Good so I can fall in love with the process. In this podcast, I invite you on this intentional journey into myself... each week I pick a theme and  4 different topics to coach myself around, to gain clarity and/or challenge myself to search for answers and new possibilities

This week I'm talking about how coaching changed my life. When I first started coaching, there were certain things that completely changed the way I approached life and one of those things is when I realized that all of the answers I need lie within.

I'm big on learning from other people's mistakes, avoiding failures and pitfalls by listening and learning from people who have done what I want to do. But no one has or will walk a day in my shoes and before coaching I believed the solution was to keep searching for the answers either from someone else or by like combining as much knowledge as possible. 

The search for answers without instead of within has led me down so many different paths and while I believe they're all necessary, without coaching I consistently fall into old habits of not checking with MY due north

Asking empowering questions is the cornerstone tool in coaching because the way to find the answers you have within is by asking yourself the right questions

Honestly, I was initially unimpressed with empowering questions because a lot of the time they're so simple  but the breakthroughs I've experienced  have been incredible. Here are 4 of the questions I ask every coaching session and why they're so powerful:

1. what specifically do you want to address?
   1. clarity- so many times our problems are jumbled in our brain. This lays out the issue plain. WHAT IS THE ISSUE EXACTLY?
2. what does success look like?
   1. Basically, what do you want? So many times we have vague ideas and that leads to vague results. This gives direction and puts what you want in concrete terms. It also helps you visualize what you want, so you can feel what you're working TOWARD. 
3. why is that important to you?
   1. why does this even matter to you? sometimes the answer is that- it doesn't, and that's the problem or the answer serves as a powerful reminder and motivator.
4. what do you think you need to resolve to be successful?
   1. what's standing in your way? in order to figure out an action plan, you have to know what's stopping you. Sometimes I'll spend a lot of time here, to really pick apart what obstacles me/my clients are facing to figure out a path forward

In a coaching session, each question leads to more empowering questions that uncovers the answers we all have within ourselves. It helps uncover both the energetic things- our mindset, emotions, thoughts and the pragmatic obstacles, the who, what, where, when and how. When you use yourself as a compass, you come up with unique solutions that are authentic and aligned with you... Coaching helps me feel confident and over the years, I'm learning to trust myself and rely on my own genius to find answers...

If you could use a deep dive into your genius, I got you. Book a session through the link wherever you follow me. 

Thanks for being here! Tomorrow we'll finish off the week with a final way that coaching changed my life