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welcome to 2023 with me, Life Coach Franzannie. When you're feeling stuck or unsure I help you figure out how to get out of your own way so you can get what you want through 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- I quit my job, sold my house and started my own business... Four years later I see that it's going to take a lot longer and look a lot different than I anticipated. 

In this podcast I each week I  coach myself to gain clarity and/or challenge myself to search for answers and new possibilities so I can learn to love the process

This week I'm talking about how coaching changed my life. Today, I'm talking about taking consistent action

I'm prone to analysis paralysis. In some ways it's a superpower- I can see 10 steps in the future, I see the possibilities and potential obstacles beforehand. I get super-motivated by the vision and I can plan for the obstacles...

But the downside, for myself, is that I tend to focus on all the ways I might fail. But what I learned in coaching is that you can't know until you do. No matter how good I am at analyzing possibilities, I fall short of predicting the future.

Once I let myself dream- another way coaching changed my life- I realized that my cynicism was masking my jealousy and through coaching I not only found the courage to change careers but matched it with action. 

I remember complaining to my coach at the time about work and wanting to quit and start my own business NOW. I had this perfect plan to leave my job at the ideal time and my coach cut through everything and just asked me- what would it take to leave your job now? And as I created the list, I realized I had everything I needed...so I created a plan to leave my job and launch my business.

And I feel like I've take nonstop action since to create a business that I love. 

Taking action has proven its importance to me in 5 ways:

1. getting comfortable with uncertainty
2. building confidence
3. learning what I like and don't like 
4. to try, and try again
5. how to take inspired action- Recognizing how taking inspired action feels is the most powerful lesson in this list- taking action that's aligned with who I am creates the best results

The path to the most successful action plan is through the right questions, which what we talked about yesterday. Empowering questions ensures that you're creating your own roadmap for your life instead of blindly copying someone else's.  

Taking action can look like a lot of different things, sometimes action can be- research the thing, make the list, check off the list...And sometimes action can look like- take time to reflect, rest, practice talking to yourself better... It's all about- what can you do to move you one step closer to the thing you want to achieve?

So how can you get coaching around this?

are you waiting for the "perfect" plan before you take action? I'm sorry to tell you that there's no such thing. But coaching can help you figure out the right plan for you right now... In a session together we can create the first steps of your own personal roadmap so you can feel confident that you're getting closer to your goals.

If that's you, book a coaching session with me wherever you follow me.

Thanks for being here. Love you- mean it.