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One of the many reasons that people want to be coached is that they have lost the spark or interest in their job, business or project and are unable to explain why this has happened or what has happened. Certainly some times the individual should never have got involved in the career or business in the first place, but whatever the reason for running out of steam and there can be many reasons for this, one of looking at it is with the use of a seesaw diagram and different sized buckets. What I have discovered with my clients is that we all generate interests in subjects, projects and also friendships even falling in love during the course of our lives and these interests and relationships can be depicted as buckets of different sizes. Some of them are micro small, the equivalent of a quick read of a magazine article, or a small bucket, which would be the equivalent a half day trip to a concert or museum, a big bucket which would be a few years study of a subject and some of them are huge and almost bottomless like a life long hobby of wine making or building a business. Whatever size they all start off by being totally full and occupy one side of the seesaw. On the other end of the seesaw is an empty bucket into which all of the energy in the form of interest, time and curiousity is placed. This bucket of energy is exactly the same size as the bucket on the other side of the seesaw and obviously it will range from very small to a huge, ginormous bottomless vessel. The thing is that we don’t know how big these buckets of energy are at the beginning. We only discover how big or small as time moves on.
As times goes by we move energy from the full bucket to the empty one as our curiousity and interest grows but often there comes a time when the energy bucket becomes empty and the corresponding bucket on the other side becomes full. When this happens the seesaw tips and at this moment the individual’s interest begins to wane as their energy bucket just does not have the resources to make it as interesting. This will eventually result in a non-interest in the subject and a mere shadow of the what it felt like at the beginning, which could have been minutes, hours, days, weeks, months or even years ago.
All of this can feel very unsettling at the time almost as if we are not being true to ourselves. In fact this feeling is completely natural as our brain and neural systems settle into a new way of thinking and sensing and over time this will uncomfortableness will pass as new things replace the old.
If you found this interesting then you will be interested in a recent blog on the bucket seesaw principal about how behaviours creep up on us http://www.coachinginsight.co.uk/content/view/381/56/
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