From Human Rights to
Human Potential.
Navigating life’s most critical crossroads with a decade of United Nations humanitarian experience and elite psychological strategy.
The Background
The blueprint was met, but the inner alignment was waiting.
I was approaching my late 30's. I'd lived a wonderful life, working for almost a decade within the human rights field that reassured me of my life's purpose. I had loved, been married and had a son. I'd ticked off many of the targets I'd set for myself in my mental blueprint. Milestones met.
In the early 2010's, my world changed, on a personal, professional and relationship level. I could no longer recognize who I'd become. I felt stuck. I lacked clarity. I missed the old version of myself — the light hearted, positive and kind person I was. I mention kind as I was harshest on myself, which made me feel even more cemented in a life that wasn't me. Not even 10% of me.
The Turning Point
Recognizing the key is within you.
I knew change needed to happen. I knew I deserved better: a better partner, a more fulfilling career, a much more passionate relationship as well as a calmer and kinder version of Michael to Michael. Change needed to happen. Change needed to happen. That thought took me over. And it was months before I came to the realization that I held the key within to substitute the reality I was begrudgingly living.
Well aware of what needed to be substituted to become closer to the version of Michael I knew was waiting for me. The best version of me. I refused to accept the prison I was living in, the one I'd put myself in. I recognized the need to let go of old versions of myself. I began brainstorming, rejecting to be a passenger in the direction my life was heading. I was the driver. I was the conductor. I was in a funk, it was my responsibility to improve my reality. And I did.
The most underrated act of kindness is simply letting people be. Let them mispronounce a word, talk too much about a show they love, or get excited about something you don't quite understand.
Everyone has something that lights them up, let them shine, even if it's not your thing.
@weltszzn / X
"Everything you're becoming is already within you — coaching simply lights the way."
The Preparation
Learning from the world’s elite mentors.
I started my first life coaching training with Martha Beck. Nine months later, I had navigated back to self; I realigned with myself, with resources and strategies I had acquired from the training, which today I pass down to my clients. I'd learnt a new language to speak with myself. But there was work that I needed to do on a relationship and professional levels. I scratched my head more and more, and eventually as fate would have it, fell into the laps of a man called Anthony Robbins. After completing my second life coaching training, I'd learnt to move from Point A to Point B. I learnt to push my boundaries. I learnt to challenge myself. I learnt to veto any aspects in my reality that I knew weren't below anymore. I began to deliver to me the targets I had set forth. Fast forward a few months, I was selected for an Elite Training by the Anthony Robbins Institute, (I was one of 70 candidates selected by 8,000 training coaching) and took the opportunity. I further developed my tool box. I was becoming alive again. I felt plugged back in. My clients learn the same strategies I was taught and applied, aligned with the standards and ethical framework of the International Coaching Federation (ICF), the world's leading and most widely recognized professional body for coaching excellence.
Slowly but surely, in a non-reactive and consistent way, I chose to let go of the life I was living because I loved myself enough to know I deserved better, and now had all the skills in my box to become a closer vision to my ideal self. I turned down the notion to compromise on my final destination, or the new me, and replaced thoughts, emotions, strategies that aided in dissolving the old version of Michael with plenty of self-imposed restrictions and created ideas/actions that moved me forward. I set myself free!
We are all works in progress; we grow, we learn, we adapt; and we WIN!
And today, this is what I guide my clients with. Not to compromise. Not to remain stagnant. Instead: loving ourselves enough to shed limiting beliefs and characteristics of ourselves and learn to shine, once again, from the inside out...
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