Where are you going with your vision?
That's a timely question to ask me, Harry,
because about 10 minutes before we came on,
I just got the final draft of my book.
So that is one significant place that I'm going to go,
is using that to get the word out about what it is that I do,
but also what I've experienced.
And secondly, hopefully having some impact on lives
through that and through maybe connections
that I'm able to make through that publication.
So that's a big vision, one.
Secondly, I want to take good care of myself.
I'm not a spring chicken anymore,
but I think I've still got a lot to offer.
I've got all this knowledge that I've
accumulated through the years, and I
want to keep myself in such condition
that I'm giving myself a decent chance
to do that for a long, long time just yet.
With the draft of that book, I'm hopeful to get that
into the hands and ears and eyes of a lot of people
that are out there who are looking for direction,
pathways, maybe a little bit of advice, some thoughts
as to what their next directions are going to be.
I hope I'll have the opportunity to interact
with many of those folks that receive that.
So that's one vision, and that relates to my authorship
as well as my coaching practice.
The second thing is I want to keep myself in good condition.
I'm not as young as I used to be.
None of us are.
But I want to put myself into a position
that I'm able to be here for quite some more time
and continue to have connections with people
and talk to people and have relationships with them
through my coaching practice.
Thank you for sharing that.
If I were to ask you more about your coaching practice,
and I think you've already told us about that,
would you like to share something more about it?
It's built on two things.
I think, first of all, developing a connection
with someone.
How do we go about identifying connection?
I was talking with somebody earlier today,
and I think that's the most important element of what
comes next, and that's building relationship.
But the connection is born by what
do we have in common?
So much of what we often focus on, I think,
is what are our differences in background, education,
where we're raised, faith or non-faith, just kind of where
life has taken us up to that point.
So where is our commonality?
Where does that intersection lie first?
Once we've established that, we can build a relationship
on top of it, I believe, focusing on many of the things
that we have in common, acknowledging
what makes us different, but also celebrating that,
because with what a variety of people bring to the table,
you're stronger with those divergent viewpoints.
So my coaching practice starts from that standpoint.
It feeds into curiosity after that.
I'm interested in people and what their backgrounds are.
Learning things that I'm not familiar with
makes me better as an individual.
And so it's building that curiosity,
satisfying my interest in that that comes next.
From there, we can dig into coaching.
What is it that you want, client?
How can I help and assist you to get there?