Authors, The First Step Towards Change Is Awareness: Shifting

7 of 28 big ideas from the world of coaching to grow your author business

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The seventh in a 28-part series on 28 big ideas from coaching for authors to coach themselves, adapted from my book, The Coach Within.

“The best vision is insight.”

— Malcolm Forbes

“The first step towards change is awareness.

The second step is acceptance.”

— Nathaniel Branden

There are various ways to interpret and apply shifting in the realm of coaching. Right now, we’ll focus on the shifting that is part of the basic coaching model. This is the moving from the fog and unknowing to the aha’s referred to in the last lesson — the breakthroughs, the insights, the things revealed, the newly crystal clear.

Let’s review the steps of this simple model that will bring you to the shift, and the gift on the other side:

· You realize you need a bit of coaching around something related to your writing, your book marketing, your author business, etc.

· You make the time and space for a session with yourself.