How to Coach Yourself and Others Popular Models for Coaching | Page 237

2.19 WHAT COACHING MODEL
Effectively discover what is behind your behaviors.
How? By finding out what may be driving HOW you do things.
Perhaps you've heard that one of the surest ways of gaining
insight into one's personality, behaviors or limiting beliefs is by
asking questions of oneself. I'm sure you've been asked the who,
why, when, where and how?
I'm also sure that if you're like most people, you're likely to
draw blanks more times than not. These days it's hard to keep
track of even the simplest things, let alone trying to come up
with answers to sometimes complex situations.
It makes much more sense to focus on a specific question, I'll tell
you why in a second.
Let me ask you a question first, when you're asked to answer
why, how does it make you feel?
If I'm right, do you want to know why you feel that way? Hang
on for a second...
When someone asks us why we did something it normally
brings up a funny reaction in us humans. You see, we want to be
consistent with what we say or think and why tends to make us
feel like we should justify ourselves, like we're being judged, and
nobody likes that.
What ends up happening is that we tend to cling to our views,
blocking our ability to see other perspectives and perhaps
limiting our growth.
Something similar happens when we're asked how? On simple
problems this question may be easily answered, but rarely is a
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