I enjoyed this article. My favorite insight is when Steve mentions
you can give up control, but you can't give up responsibility.
2 years ago, I was in a place where I volunteered as a coach for a local personal development company. My personal growth positively
exploded during that time, I conquered my lifelong fear of heights, hypnotized people to let go of lifelong traumas, realized I could speak in front of an audience and actually have them
enjoy it, picked up more about myself and life than I ever realized.
But you know what? I wasn't making much money.
In fact I was broke! I gave and I gave, but in the end I had to stop: the bills were piling up and it was time to raise the bar.
So I went back to being a 3d animator and then, thinking it'd be a waste to throw away everything I'd picked up during those 1 and a half years, I started the
Life Coaches Blog to share those useful tips and tricks.
Looking back, I'd say I was skilled and idealistic, but I wasn't
practical. In elemental terms, I was doing great being airy-fairy, building castles in the air, but I wasn't doing great laying the foundations beneath them, grounding them into the earth.
I liked it when Steve mentioned it's not a conflict between the ideal and the practical, but a synergy. I now see that to be fully integrated and congruent I have to be powerful and connected on all levels, from the spiritual to the physical. Being overly concentrated on one would lead to a unhealthy unbalance in the other.
I'm still working on how to do what I love, provide more value and getting rewarded abundantly for it. It seems like most of us here are on the same road together
