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34 coaching RApport 50 Mastering Your Craft Introduction…the call, the path To mark the 10th year and 50th issue of <strong>Rapport</strong> we introduce a new inspiring and enlightening series of articles from leading life coach, speaker and business coach Rasheed Ogunlaru to help you become a master of your craft. The series invites you to embrace, explore and utilise the often invisible, intangible, unseen and under-appreciated qualities that will help you master your craft and enjoy more flow and impact in your work. In this article Rasheed introduces the subjects which will be covered. The call, the path In life there are no certainties – no guarantees. As you start walking down the path of following your life’s work – while you may have vivid dreams – you have no idea of where it will actually lead. But after a while all the other paths vanish and you become one with that path which is uniquely yours. That moment, that realisation – right then – is when you know are on track! The journey of being a NLP practitioner, trainer or coach is a fascinating one. Ours is one of the fields that helps, heals, supports, teaches, empowers and enables. It is a gift. The invitation is for you to become one with your work and to do your life’s work. It is not merely a job, a practice, a business. It is much more. You may be starting out in your training or you may be years or decades in. Like the call of an athlete or a martial artist the series will whisper, beckon, nudge and urge you to master your craft, shine and serve. 2 Awareness, attention and intention You can become good at what you do by putting in the time and effort but it’s not enough to become great at it. It’s also not enough to help you notice and navigate your way through the personal and professional challenges you will face. As you become more still, silent and centred you will become more alert and aware. It’s this quality that will help you tune into your customer’s needs, what’s going on for you personally and in your industry and wider society. Your practice/business will (need to) change slightly or radically as society does. Any of us who have been employed and faced restructure or redundancy knows that. There’s more to this though early on and as you progress the ‘great’ NLP practitioner, coach or trainer will become aware of and align with their intention. Intention blended with attention becomes powerful and you will be carrying out your work ‘on purpose’ and ironically a true master purpose is always to serve and elevate one and all. 1 1 Gifts, talents and potential As a coach I meet too many people who play shy of their gifts or who are unaware of them. You must spot your potential and passions and nurture them. So that’s where we’ll start, so you can acknowledge your gifts and follow your life’s work. As you read this, I invite you to begin that process. What are your gifts and talents? Which do you use, which do you overlook and which are under-used? 2The invitation is for you to become one with your work
coaching RApport 50 35 3 Intuition, instincts and insight In today’s world of testing, measuring, tools, techniques, league tables and lists we can forget that while these things 3 have and can offer huge value, they are of themselves not the thing. The human being and its growth, wellbeing and evolution is. These are just tools. You will need these along with sound, professional training. But to master your craft and to truly connect and serve, you will need to incorporate and nurture other innate gifts. Too often I meet professionals who negate the innate, who overlook that which they cannot see or measure. If you do, then you block your own progress and you may be unable to deeply connect, attract and inspire those you see to serve you. Make no doubt they will be using their instincts and intuition to see if you are right for them. 5 5 Acceptance and appreciation All the seasons will come. All the weather will come. All the emotions will flow. That’s the case for your clients – so what makes you feel you will somehow be exempt from that? Why do you beat yourself up when there are bumps on the road? Actually some bumps help remind us what a smooth and special journey we are having. But as you become more still and centred – as you become more accepting and appreciative – you’ll become less prone to and less thrown by the rollercoaster of life and business. Acceptance and appreciation are two of the greatest qualities – they play a huge part in helping opening you up to mastery not just in your profession but also of the human condition. It is actually the human condition that is your business as a coach/NLP practitioner. 6 Trust, trials and tenacity It’s one thing to recognise your insight and instincts. It’s another thing to trust and learn to use and introduce them. Have you ever had those challenges in your life and career that really tested you? Have you had those moments of real uncertainty that forced you to simply trust yourself and life itself? Have you had those times that – once the personal or professional storm or drought had passed – enriched, enhanced, developed and directed you? Have you ever experienced times where pushing or persisting was not enough and you needed to have tenacity to move forward? In this article we’ll explore how all these challenges can help shape, sharpen and actually strengthen you personally and professionally. 4 4 Space, stillness and silence Working with others on their challenges, habits, difficulties, goals and dreams can be taxing work that requires energy and vitality. You need to be present while working with clients and able to relax, reboot, switch off and re-charge when you are not. This article will help you explore, clear, create and embrace the space you need within yourself and around you. Becoming still and silent will also help clear the pathway to insight, inspiration and intuition and will mean you are quiet enough to hear it. 6 7 7 Compassion, courage, consciousness and connectivity First you’ll need courage to make the jump and to follow your path. Then you’ll need the compassion and consciousness to trust and use your heart. I touched on some of these themes in my ‘Soul Trader’ series and these qualities are real gifts for one who is a master of their craft. As I put it ‘until you understand your clients deeply, genuinely and profoundly you cannot truly serve them’. That is the invitation of mastery. You may possibly become rich by just caring about yourself and what you want to gain from your profession but you cannot possibly enrich the lives of everyone you meet that way. Compassion, empathy and connectivity are the doorway to true healing, transformation and empowerment. The pathway to enlightenment and transformation is the heart not the mind.
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