by Gundula Welti
08 May 2021
The names of our jobs have changed a great deal. Our grandparents were accountants, mechanics, or farmers. Something you could say in one single word. Recently, bartenders have become beverage dissemination officers and shop assistants customer experience enhancement consultants.
The American-style CEO and CFO arrived, then the “Chief Happiness Officer” crept in and is now an accepted term.
I hesitated before putting the word coach on my business card because I am not only a coach and what’s more, I’m not a coach like other coaches. I’m much more than that and, above all, I am unique in my field, as indeed are all my colleagues.
The word on the business card doesn’t tell the whole story, far from it.
Do you know what it represents for you?
Would you like to assert your uniqueness?
by Gundula Welti
08 Apr 2020
Recently, several people have thanked me for simply being in their lives. In each case I was surprised and a bit embarrassed to hear it, as I don’t have the impression that I am doing anything particulularly special for them. For one of them I am a coach, for the other a friend that listens and for the third I’m a matrimonial advisor. For all of them I’m a distributor of big hugs.
The common denominator of everything I do ? I thoroughly enjoy doing it ! I love the fact that somebody feels reassured because I listen without judging. I’m thrilled when someone takes off to new horizons thanks to my coaching. And – above all – I love offering big hugs to those in my life.
I don’t feel like any of this is a special effort, I am just being myself. I have stopped worrying about what others might think and simply follow my instinct. I hug people when I have the urge to do so, and I say « I love you » when feel it’s the right thing to do.
It’s a lovely paradox that when I am not trying to be anything special, and allow myself to simply be « just myself », I end up being very special for those in my life.
And you? When would it be helpful to follow your instinct, to be more of yourself – and therefore at your best?
