Everyone with a driver’s license knows about the blind spot. These are areas you can’t see in your mirrors or areas, hidden by parts of your car ?. Missing these areas can lead to collisions. A safe driver understands the blind spots and knows how to avoid them.
In my coaching sessions, I regularly find myself coaching the blind spot. My clients do not see or know and are not aware of something about themselves that others do see. Their brain desires not to notice it to protect their beliefs and decisions. Since rationalizing choices is easier than critically questioning them, they robotically move on at the cost of self-development and missing out on reaching their desired goals.
To uncover the blind spot during our coaching session, I summarize and reflect on what I hear and ask them how that sounds. Hearing their thoughts from somebody else disturbs my client’s automatic brain process?. Then the time is ripe to inquire deeper and create the willingness to explore a wider area. The fear that held them back transfers into the desire to remove their limiting beliefs and find the holes in their previous logic.
At this stage when the client feels safe to walk another path in the forest, beautiful shifts happen and they detect and leave their blind spot, walking slowly and patiently in another direction, unraveling the process of change and reaching their preferred destination. During my outdoor? coaching sessions, I have seen clients walking from the tree they thought they liked to another tree they had not spotted earlier, opening their minds to alternative solutions.
How do you uncover your blind spots?