Daily Human – Becoming a Coach – 1/3/22

Yesterday, I got my coaching certificate. Which qualified me as a leadership coach. I am super pleased and highly relieved.

It was extremely hard to finish this. With my additional responsibilities at work and some of the other stuff going on in my personal and all the COVID complications, It was really hard to find the time and mind space to finish this properly. I often considered giving up. But somehow, egged on by my family and fellow batchmates, I literally crawled to the finish line.

I have often been guilty of not finishing things. I can get things started and give them momentum but often don’t see them to the end. This was on my mind as I contemplated giving up. So it helped.

Giving up would have meant a big failure on another front. I am a big proponent of self learning to become better and not to get a degree. Which in turn is a means to get a better job. Or get a hike. That’s the reward most of us seek. I sought that myself when I went to college. But this was the first time I was doing a program to self learn. I had started this program to become better at understanding and managing people. I have no plans to become a full time coach anytime soon. Coaching doesn’t benefit my professional standing in CaratLane. There is no reward essentially.

So a failure to finish would have meant a failure to finish because there was no reward. Which would have validated that the the intrinsic desire to learn counts for nothing. That eduction always needs an extrinsic benefit in the form of rewards. By finishing successfully, I have done my tiny bit to refute that.

Now its time to see how much I have learnt :-)