What would that braver version of you do?

SPOILER ALERT: You ARE that braver version.

I’m finding myself curious about what you’ve been noticing over the past couple of weeks as we’ve explored the themes of spaciousness, longing and turning dreams into reality in our Summer Dreams, Real Life mini series for August at The Coaching Café.

Tell me!

As we pour the iced coffees this time, I want to explore with you what you would do if you were braver.

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So. The braver you, eh? Well. Spoiler alert. It’s already there, that braver version of you is just waiting, bursting, to be let out. To be given permission to get behind the wheel for a change.

Imagine putting yourself in her hands as we chat together this week.

August can be responsible for stirring up deeper desires. For unleashing creative urges, lifestyle changes and career pivots.

Things begin to feel possible in a way that they might not normally. Fuzzy-round-the-edge ideas start to become crisper, as though your brain is applying the ‘sharpen’ filter to the images. You start to lean into the ‘what ifs’, start to seriously think about what might be possible…

And then reality bites. Before you know it, it’s ‘back to work’.

It’s ‘don’t forget to buy the new school uniform for these children who have grown far more than should be allowed over the summer’.

It’s ‘dare I open the emails’.

It’s retuning to ‘normal life’ and suddenly all that possibility slips. Gives way to meetings, appointments, food shops…

So, before that all starts again with a vengeance. Here’s what I want you to do to make this year different…