COACHING WITH ANDREA

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BY NICOLE HEROUX WILLIAMS I PHOTOS BY NSP STUDIO BY ANISSA SCALICI I PHOTOS BY ALICE PATTERSON

If there’s one thing I’ve learned from three years of coaching women to achieve their goals, it’s this…

Women are strong as hell, when they let themselves be.

When a woman has a goal and fully commits to achieving it, get out of her way, because she will not stop until she’s achieved it.

When a woman wants something that appears to be just out of her reach, she will find a way to get it, because she is smart, resourceful, and determined.

This is what I see when women are actively going after their goals while working with me as their coach. And it’s seriously inspirational.

But women don’t always come to me with this super motivated state of mind.

Most of them come to me with a goal in mind that they really want to make happen but also feel a little defeated and unsure they can actually get what they want.

They’ve got every excuse in the book as to why they can’t have this thing they really want.

Their kids need them. Their spouses don’t support them. They don’t have enough time or money or experience.

They don’t have any evidence they can make their goals happen. Actually, they have evidence they can’t. Evidence from past failures.

You name it, I’ve heard it, every excuse in the book.

Even though the women that come to me feel mentally exhausted from thinking about all of the things holding them back from achieving their goals, these women also know they still really want to make it happen.

There’s a voice inside of them, or a feeling, or a general desire to see if they can do it anyways. They just don’t know how to get started. They don’t know what to do first. Their goal seems so far away and impossible.

That’s when women reach out to me for help. And I love showing them how to get what they want. How to get started. How to take the first step. It’s a passion of mine.

Think about this.

We tend to overcomplicate things, right? It’s a human thing to want to overcomplicate things. And when we do that, things tend to feel really big and hard in our minds. But when we can simplify how we’re thinking, things start to feel easier and possible for us. Our motivation starts to build.

Think about a goal you have in your life. It could be an old goal or a new one. Doesn’t matter.

Think about that goal for a minute. Dust it off in your mind. Get all the cobwebs off of it. And ask yourself if it’s still important to you.

If your answer is yes, it’s still important to you, ask yourself how to simplify the process and make it happen? What would that look like?

DR K