Choosing Yes, Choosing No

Keep in mind that you are always saying ‘no’ to something. If it isn’t to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.

-Stephen Covey, author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People

I spent the last three days as an assistant at the Coaches Training Institute Balance course. In Co-Active coaching, Balance is all about our continual state of choice. We are making choices everyday, in every area of our life, that either move us toward or away from where we ultimately want to be. How do we keep balancing our choices to keep us moving in the direction we want to go?

Coaching brings all these choices to the level of awareness, so that our choices become powerfully conscious. When we start looking at each choice as a “yes” or a “no” to our best and future self, we start making choices that are a resounding “yes” to what Stephen Covey describes as “the most fundamental, highly important things.” 

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