When Its Time To Change, Youve Got to Rearrange.... - When I Grow Up

When Its Time To Change, Youve Got to Rearrange.... - When I Grow Up …who you are and what you wanna be!* (Sha na na na na na na na na. Sha na na na na!) Hello world! I love The Brady Bunch! But, thankfully, this is not what this blog is about. You’re welcome. Since August of 2007, I have been enrolled in the International Coach Academy, where I’m on my way to become a certified life coach. In the past 9 months, I’ve learned a ton about…well….life….and….coaching. OK, so it’s way more complicated than that, but that’s a good way to sum it up. As a life coaching student, it’s natural to go through huge transformations while taking these classes. It’s natural to question your longstanding beliefs, and to have breakthroughs on your behaviors and different obstacles you’re encountered (sometimes over and over) throughout your life. And while I have had that, I feel like it hasn’t been enough. This might be my Too-Hard-On-Myself monster rearing it’s ugly head here, but I want to challenge myself. And grow. Grow Up, so to say. Who do I want to be When I Grow Up? And how can I get there? I originally thought I was going to use this blog to set out certain challenges, and track how I was accomplishing those goals. Or not. But now I think it’s going to be an extension of my learning. On getoffyourtuchus.wordpress.com (link to the right, as I’ve yet to learn how to work this thing), I blog about my classes as well as all the homework I do for ICA. But then it’s left at that. I’m hoping to use this blog to really let my teachings sink in. Hopefully, it will allow me to make shifts in my own life so I can then coach others on similar challenges. Because without making those shifts myself, how can I expect to take others on the adventure of Growing Up? *Hello, I just looked up these lyrics because I wasn’t sure if they were “who you are INTO what you want to be” and I got this instead: “ when its time to change you’ve got to rearrange move your heart to what your gonna be.” MOVE YOUR HEART to what you’re gonna be (yes, I corrected the grammar, but that is not the point). Did that sink in? Moving your heart is a BIG thing to do! Who moves their heart? How does one even go about moving their heart? This is obviously a HUGE undertaking. This is not subtlety here, people. I get it. And goddamn it, it won’t be easy. ** ** I also just found “ When it’s time to change, you’ve got to rearrange, Who you are and what you’re gonna be.” I found that twice. But still people. I’ll take the edition above just for the weightiness of it. It’s my blog. I can do what I want.