Life in France and Other Musings

I have the best, most supportive husband in the world. More on that later...

We're in France! I'm sitting here at the dining room table, looking out at the water and the cruise ship that is docked in our bay for the day. How crazy is it that we're actually doing this thing we've talked about for so long?

The view from our apartment in Villefranche

After spending ten fabulous days in Israel (I'll probably write about that soon), we arrived here in France on Monday night. We're getting more settled in, and definitely want to do more exploring of our town and surrounding areas.

While we were in Israel, we were on vacation. No work, no coaching business, no nothing. And truth be told, I didn't do a whole lot the week before we left, either. Now that we're in France, it's back to normal life, albeit in a most amazing setting. So, back to "building a coaching business", which is what I tell people I'm doing nowadays. I'm definitely slow on getting back into things. I've signed up for a program that starts next week, called the Confident Coach Blueprint program, which I've put a lot of stock into as far as really moving me forward with my coaching business and helping me suss out who/what I really want to coach. We have pre-course homework, and as I sit here pretending to work on it, I'm hearing that fabulous little voice in my head again. "Am I ever going to have a successful coaching business? Do I even remember how to coach someone?"

I think partially I'm feeling disconnected from coaching, as it's been quite a while since I was coaching anyone with any regularity. In fact, while we were in Israel, the subject came up, and it was almost physically jarring to me to realize that I'm a coach. It was so completely out of my reality!

And here's where my amazing husband comes in. I share all this with him, and he says to me, "You are a little girl who moves mountains." I am? He gives me a couple of examples of me making things happen, like us living in France for eight weeks, or remodeling his house from top to bottom to turn it into our amazing home. Yes, he says, "You get shit done...if you want to." Hmmm...If I want to...interesting. And what pops into my head as I stand there in my husband's arms is "If I want to, and I think that it's possible." Which makes me wonder...

Do I truly believe, deep down inside, that I can have a thriving coaching business? That I can discover my message, reach out into the world, and make a real difference with people? Through coaching, through speaking, through writing a book...do I believe that??? Because yes, I am a woman who gets shit done. And of course, I have everything I need to be successful, in spades. Except maybe the belief that it's possible. Which is kind of the key.

So what now? For starters, I'm going to sit here and enjoy my amazing view of Villefranche, and think about what it's going to take to truly believe in my future success as an amazing, inspirational coach.