Authors, You Know Best for Your Author Life and Business: Self as Authority
28 of 28 big ideas from the world of coaching to grow your author business
The twenty-eighth and final article in a 28-part series on 28 big ideas from coaching for authors to coach themselves, adapted from my book, The Coach Within.
To finish up this series, let me emphasize something fundamental to coaching that has run through the entire book: You are the authority on you. This basic premise is behind the flourishing of coaching as a vital arena of human potential and development. Coaching as a field believes in you as a source of valuable knowing — and recognizes, grows, and supports your ability to tap into that. You are enough. You are whole. You know best. You’re in charge. Coaching concepts and tools can help promote and reinforce that, allowing you to hone and employ the skills that optimize this truth.
Another meaning of self as authority is you as author, the author of your own life. You are writing, spinning, devising your own story — past, present, and future. Its plots, subplots, tangents, and adventures. Its revisions and deletions as necessary, or as creativity suggests. What’s next for your author life, author business, author success.
