Lisette booked a 1:1 coaching package with me after she attended one of my free online workshops (which she freely admitted was her way of checking me out!). We had never met before in person, in fact we still haven’t but do have some mutual acquaintances from my time working in the creative sector in the North East of England.
We spent about an hour together every fortnight for a few months, looking at and unpicking her beliefs and behaviours around her creativity amongst other things.
Here’s what she had to say about being coached by me in her own inimitable way:
“I’m writing this in my PJs, in bed, on a January Sunday. The sky is blue. I have time to drink a cup of tea, curl up with my dog, not because I need to, because I’m broken, but because I’ve given myself space in my schedule to enjoy and be in this moment.
I have noticed the light; I’ve written three ideas and my morning pages in my journal that is now, once more, always by my side. Yesterday I had lunch with a dear friend, bought a book that will help me develop a new creative piece that I’m excited to uncover and discover, went to sign a stack of copies of my current book and see the full window in Waterstones for my new one, and then listened to an audiobook while I made miniature things in my tidy and organised study.
I’m doing smarter work tomorrow, lots more money for a lot less time and energy, on my terms, that means this year I can work less hours.
This year I’m taking 3 months out to play, and the universe has already ensured that two of these, so far, are paid for, even though I’d allocated them to be self-funded. This year I have one day a week that’s mine to make and fail and nap and discover, and I’m guarding it ferociously. This year I have a new book out and another commissioned to write. This year I’m off to Canada because I want to sit by the lake and notice. This year is about intention, process and play, about noticing, about working smarter. About sheer joy. About rediscovering and reigniting creative random Lisette.
I could not have done any of this work, this change; this acknowledgement of what I need, of what has happened, of where I am now, and where I want and need to be; the business planning to enable it to happen; and the courage to leap, without the ridiculously talented Sarah Raad.
Thanks to her I’m on course for my most financially and creatively successful year yet, all while working far less hamster wheel hours. I very much suggest spending some time with her. It’s the best money I’ve ever spent and has already more than paid for itself. Invest in you: you are your biggest and brightest asset. Boom.”
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