So over the last few videos I've talked about understanding people in a life coach in context is good.
To understand the journey how it is that our clients have got from where the where to where they are
right now and also for those that they see for the future.
And if you think that that's going to be interesting for us to know I can guarantee it will be even
more insightful and uninteresting for our clients to know as well because sometimes we can go through
life with our blinkers on don't we where we're focused on there right here right now.
Some people get trapped in the past focusing on the past all of the time.
Some people live their lives just years ahead in the future by looking at greener grass on the other
side of the fence you know.
When we get there jaw dropper there is you know when we talk about getting there Your life will be better.
When we get there.
Well many people are so focused on getting there that they always miss what's going on here.
Here no.
All right so I want to present you with a little demonstration something that you can actually practice
on some people that you know right away.
So if you have a child a small child or a husband or a wife or a boyfriend or girlfriend or a mom or
a dad or a best friend or a colleague or something like someone who's open to exploring their life story
I guarantee you you're going to just really deepen the relationship because everyone loves to talk about
themselves.
And this exercise is actually more for you practicing your listening and hearing than what it is about
them telling their story.
No yes is going to benefit the client or the person that you practice.
But more than anything else this is just a listening and hearing exercise for you which is something
that is a great exercise of great conversation that we can have especially in the early stages of our
life coaching relationship.
It's about just asking our clients conversationally about their past while lessons they've learned not
really so much looking at what issues the hard but the lessons that they've learned.
Just talking about roughly where they've come from how the past has influenced and played a part in
determining the present and then looking to identify the lessons that they've learned in the present
from the past that gives them confidence and boldness to step out into a more meaningful future.
All right.
So don't worry so much about remembering this stuff.
Just simply watch the conversation that I have with Karen and the next demonstration video and then
we'll build build then kind of like a question template you can use as a script if you want to I'm not
going to use a script but we're going to include a script into the course.
You can just simply read through the questions and practice on someone else.
But the purpose of this demonstration is about you practicing listening and hearing and yes you might
be seeing that came out be listening and hearing my whole life.
Yeah.
That's fantastic.
But there's certain things we want to be listening out for especially in a coaching context such as
limiting self beliefs that the clients have developed over the years that are going to stand potentially
to prevent any action steps from ever being taken so the sooner that we can identify any limiting beliefs
call them I name them and shame them.
The sooner we kind of know what it is that we're working with as life coaches with me.
So really simple exercise I promise you nothing complex about this.
And if you do go into practice as someone else and I promise you're going to really grow to understand
and appreciate just how simple and how effective exercises like this can be.
So see you in the next clip or we're gonna bring back current.