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Who is sitting in the boardroom of your brain? Who is sitting around the table, challenging your decisions, making noise, and offering critiques? Today Adrian and I are walking through one of our favorite coaching exercises by offering up (and coaching each other through) identifying and describing three of our current loudest board members and who we want to hire moving forward. This work connects to a therapy tool called Internal Family Systems which Adrian will share more about in our next episode together. We want to hear from you! Leave us a voice memo about this episode or to request a future topic for us to cover at http://pivotmethod.com/ask. Are you working on a pivot-in-progress? For guidance on reconnecting with what lights you up and creating an action plan to move forward, check out Adrian’s flagship Career Pathfinder Program and apply promo code PIVOT at checkout. More about Adrian: Adrian Klaphaak is a coach, purpose guide, entrepreneur, and founder of A Path That Fits Career and Life Coaching. His coaching approach is holistic—a constant balance between getting results and a quest for meaning and fulfillment. He describes himself as “a deep seeker with a constant itch to make things happen.”
3 Key Takeaways
- We all have voices in our heads speaking from different perspectives, and when we’re going through a change, separating them out to really understand what each is trying to tell you can give you powerful clarity.
- Actually ask questions and imagine (or write) the answers from your board members. When you tune into what they need and are telling you, you are building a better relationship with yourself.
- What would be lost if you didn’t have your more negative or critical board members? Could there be something better to replace them with, and how would that affect how you feel about what they are trying to communicate?
Try This Next: Brainstorm your current board members (either on a piece of paper or together with a friend). Make a list of as many as you’d like, and build out the description by personifying them: What are they wearing? How are they acting? What is their primary fear and their primary motivation? What do you want to say to each one? Bonus: Who are the three board members you’d like to hire moving forward to help bring out your best self?
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