16 Personal Coaching Experiments to Try Right Now

As you are reading this piece, it probably means you have some interest in your personal and professional development. Great! Perhaps you are unsure what you can actually do, whatever age you are? 

This is coaching practice you can try out now. 

I’ve worked as a Psychologist, with 23 years experience coaching more than 700 people on a one-to-one and over 15,000 in groups. 

  

I want you to take a leap of faith, trust me for a moment and try out an experiment.  You’re worth it, as the advert says.

Like a tennis player who wants to excel, you can’t read a book and hope to significantly improve your game. You need to honestly assess how you are playing and experiment with different strokes. 

Here, the aim is to achieve greater satisfaction within yourself and your relationship with others. 

My job, is to help improve performance, support talent when things go array, help develop a person’s wellbeing,connect with others well, and build high performing teams.

I have one observation about those who command a stronger sense of awareness of themselves and their relating with others - they...

     Ask difficult questions about themselves

    Experiment with new ideas and ways of relating
    in the world

Give yourself 30 minutes to trying at least one of these 16 experiments below. They are all well tested and work effectively. Some people prefer to simply blame others, their childhood, legacy of parents, the weather, capitalism, or their jobs for their conundrums.  Making money is also a favourite excuse for resisting change efforts. Self awareness is never enough - it's like sitting in the river and saying, "hey, I'm wet." We need also, to experiment creatively (play).  My most rewarding clients, who achieve the best results for themselves, always do these sort of experiments between sessions, that lead to more creative living: 

Why not try some of these experiments with people you are close to?

If you want to share about the experiment you tried, send me a mail: julia@julianoakes.com