executive coach – Clarabelle Online Magazine

It is with great pleasure that I introduce this next Guest Blogger to you. Her name is Debbie Hollingsworth and she is a wonderful friend of mine and Strategic Business Partner. Debbie is an outstanding Executive Coach and Leadership/Management Trainer but she also has a special talent for writing poetry, which I only fairly recently found out.

Here is a little more about Debbie (extract from her Website):

What should I know about you?

I have been a professional coach since June 2006. I work with executives, business owners and their teams. I also work with private coach clients in aspects of their personal lives.

What did you do before you were a coach?

I ran my own travel business, before that I managed other peoples and before that I travelled the globe as a sales executive and trainer.

How did you become a professional coach?

The story how I found out about the coaching world is a little long to tell here, but if you want to know I will share that with you sometime!

I have been a professional coach and trainer since 2006. I trained with a global business coaching franchise and also as a life coach. I left the franchise in 2009 to focus on developing my own business and products.

Why are you a coach?

Being a coach is my way of making a difference in the world. I have never experienced job satisfaction in anything I have ever done to the same extent that I get from coaching people. Nobody ever came up to me when I sold holidays and said “Debbie, that trip to Barbados changed my life”. But they do say that about the work I do with my clients now.

What life experiences have you had?

I have been impacted by adoption, been married, divorced and remarried, faced infertility
issues, failed IVF, started two businesses and coped with more changes in my life than most before the age of 40!

What is your mission?

When working with anyone, whether it is 1-1 clients or groups, it is vital to me that change happens and there are positive results.

Not all results are tangible, as some are behavioural changes that must happen first of all. I have a mission, that as many people that I can influence, awaken to themselves and all that they are capable of being, doing and having.

To help people take full ownership of their lives and responsibility for their outcomes. That we focus only on what we can influence, not on what we cannot. That we realise that anything is possible.

My role is to help others to become aware of their obstacles so that they may be worked with and around, not always taken away but sometimes so.

As I said above, Debbie also writes beautiful poetry and below is one of these poems:

Debbie and Sam — Debbie and her Dog, Sam

The Girl With Cornwall Hair

Who is she? Her over there, running free, running wild

Who is she? That girl in the flowing skirt, with roses in her hair

Who is she? She runs with the wind, without any care

Who is she? Sand between her toes, a smile, a laugh, a giggle

Who is she? Spinning like a wooden top, time standing still for her

Who is she? Her long, curly locks billowing behind her in the cool breeze

She is me, though I rarely feel her, see her, know her or be her

She is the girl with Cornwall hair.

Copyright Debbie Hollingsworth, 2013

Thank You

I would like to personally thank Debbie for sharing her wonderful creative talents with us here on this Clarabelle Blog, I am delighted she wanted to share her work with us.

If you wish to contact Debbie, you can do so, as detailed below:

Website: www.debbiehollingsworth.co.uk

Email: Debbie@debbiehollingsworth.co.uk

Facebook: www.facebook.com/debbiehollingsworthcoaching

Linked In: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/debbie-hollingsworth/6/58b/a50

Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaostocontrol

If you would like to be a Guest Blogger on this Clarabelle Blog then please do let me know on the comments below and we will discuss it further. I look forward to hearing from you.

Love, Clarabelle

Most people spend more time planning their yearly holiday/vacation that they do their life.

What do I mean by life planning?

I believe it is about YOU exploring some of the the following things:

Looking at want you specifically want from life.
What experiences you want to have?
What contribution you want to make?
Identifying and understanding your core values.
Living your life in alignment with your core values.
Aligning your goals and desires to these.
Making a plan of action on how you are going to achieve that.
Putting the plan into action i.e do the “doing part”.
Measuring progress along the way.
Celebrating successes.
Reflecting on your learning experiences.
Continuously developing and implementing feedback.
Reviewing and fine tuning your goals along the way.
Setting an appropriate timescale for achieving these goals

Some of you may not know this, but I am a fully qualified Coach (Executive, Life & Career), I have had my own Coaching, Leadership/Management Training and Human Resources Business since 2008. I work with clients in business and privately on the above stuff, I also do tons of work on this myself for my own self development.

If you don’t make a plan or set goals for yourself it can be really easy to “just drift by”, like a cloud in the sky and sometimes helping other people to live out their dreams more than your own. I am all for helping people with their dreams but this should not be at the detriment to your own self.

Take some time today to think about what you REALLY want from life and how to live your life more in alignment with your core values. When you do this you will be moving more towards long term life fulfillment rather than just quick fixes and short bursts of happiness.

Maybe just maybe your were meant to read this post today and maybe just maybe it will inspire you to take that first step towards living the life you truly desire and truly deserve. Don’t be a drifting cloud in the sky, be that SUN shining bright and full of forever happiness.

Much love to you today, Clarabelle