Throughout February, we’ve been discussing self-coaching and I really hope you’ve taken some valuable information out of this month’s topic. Today, we’re rounding it off by taking everything I’ve shared this month and working on applying it to the other people in your life.

As a principal, you’ve seen the massive difference that self-coaching has made in your world, but wouldn’t it be truly amazing if your teachers understood the impact self-coaching could have if they applied it to some of their situations? Sure, solving problems for your teachers can get quick solutions, but what if you could cut your own workload by imparting some of this knowledge onto them?

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Over the past few weeks, I’ve been covering the process of self-coaching in great detail for all of you. With this knowledge, it can feel a bit like I’m sending you off into the world and that the rest is up to you. Well, to be honest, that would be crazy.

I understand that you’re bound to have more questions – the most pressing of which is probably, “Why do I still need you if I already understand the self-coaching process?” Well, this is a lifetime process, so with that in mind, I’ve got answers for the most frequently asked questions I get on the subject.

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Last week, we looked at the self-coaching strategy of doing a brain drain – transferring all of your present thoughts onto paper as a method of helping you identify where the drama is in your mind around a certain topic. But what happens when we don’t like the thoughts that we identify?

Well, it’s not unusual for us to have conflicting thoughts, some of which are more conscious than others. It’s very common for us to want something on one level (this happened to me all the time) like an open-door policy, but in reality, being interrupted while I was trying to work on something important made me feel a whole lot of negative emotion. It wasn’t helping me or my staff.

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When you started on your journey to becoming a school leader, did you think that once you got that position, everything would change? If you can’t relate to that, maybe you know someone who goes from job to job, is super happy for a little while, then gets bored and moves on? Well, this is a common occurrence in our profession and it all comes from the thought that we can finally be happy when our situation changes.

It’s genuinely impossible to predict the reality of how it will feel when we do land our dream job as a school leader. One thing we can do, however, is keep a really close eye on what thoughts and emotions are coming up for us once we get there.

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