The BIG Questions – Better Than Sprinkles… Inside of you there’s a BIG Question alarm clock and it’s beeping like mad. (Nooooo, this one has nothing to do with those eggs!) What are THE BIG QUESTIONS? And, more importantly, how do you shut off that infernal beeping?
The BIG Questions aren’t mere enhancers, like sprinkles to ice cream; gravy to french fries. And taking the time to answer them isn’t frou frou, like should you splurge on two shots of espresso in your caramel macchiato or play it safe with just one? No ma’am, we need to take time to answer THE BIG QUESTIONS, so that we’re not jittery and jonesing for the next sweet, salty, or tall-dark-and-steamy fix. The BIG Questions, once answered, infuse our lives with meaning, purpose and self-assurance. (Who doesn’t want a full pot of that?)
There are eight (8) BIG Questions.
- What do I want?
- Who am I?
- What am I called to do?
- What makes me happy?
- What are my responsibilities to myself?
- What brings out the best in me?
- What impact do I want to have on others?
- What do I want to be my legacy?
- What is the meaning of life? [just kidding, that’s nine, and a BIG question that you alone cannot answer!]
When you find the answers to THE BIG QUESTIONS (okay, at least some of them), you can claim who you are, say what you do best, and finally create a life that satisfies you. . .delights you. . .dare we say makes others ‘ooh’ and ‘ah’ with longing! (But only if instigating envy is your thing.)
How To Know if The BIG Questions Are Dogging You? You’ve been drifting from day to day, putting in time at your “good enough” job, hanging out with your “nice enough” friends, never stopping too long to contemplate what you’d rather be doing from 9 to 5, who you’d truly enjoy spending your spare time with, or where that childhood dream of being the next Nadia Komenich/Geraldine Ferraro/Frieda Kahlo disappeared to.
The BQ Alarm Clock Doesn’t Shut Itself Off… No ma’am, it will wedge itself under your pillow and bleep all sorts of noise to get your attention, to alert you to the fact that “good enough” and “nice enough” is not how this needs to go down. It wants you to wake up, rise up, and take ownership of your life. . .to leave a mark on the world, rather than derrière imprints on your couch.
Only you can shut the darn thing off (and no, hitting the snooze button is no longer an option). It has to be your ears that heed the sound, your arm that stretches beneath the pillow, and your hand that finds, even if fumbling, the Off button.
Life Coaching With Hatch: Answering THE BIG QUESTIONS Together… Although others can’t answer the BIG Questions for you (Sorry!), you don’t have to fly solo. Hatch offers life coaching designed to make this journey as painless and rewarding as possible:
a) You get to dump the contents of your brain into somebody else’s lap. (Huzzah!)
b) From there, it’s my role as the coach to help you do two things:
- Sort through and make sense of what’s in your head and your heart when it comes to answering The Big Questions.
- Create a plan with clear objectives, concrete steps, useful benchmarks, and all that good stuff so that the BIG Answers are integrated into your life, guiding you like a compass, operating in reality and not merely in theory.
As part of this process (and it is a process) you’ll pick up some handy self-coaching skills, like how to outmaneuver your Demons of Doubt and the trick of trusting your gut instincts. These are skills that last the long haul.
Taking the Little Step Toward Your Big Answers… You can squeeze your eyes closed, clap your hands over your ears and hum loud enough to bring down the heavens, but those dang questions will keep resurfacing. And don’t kid yourself that it’s too late to start gathering your BIG Answers. Late schmate. Unless you’re dead, if you have the desire and determination to take action, there’s still time.
Hatch offers single coaching sessions or small customizable packages so that you can chip away at the BIG Questions at your own pace. Take a peek at the Services page for more info, including some How To’s.
When you’re ready to chat about your BIG Questions, please call me for an informal, friendly conversation so we can see if there’s the oh-so-essential chemistry between us and if coaching is a solution you want to explore.
And, just one more thing…if you’d like to get a jump-start on exploring the BIG Questions, sign up for the 8 BIG Question postcard prompts. A postcard for each of the BIG Questions will be emailed to you over the next eight days. (Don’t worry, you won’t be bombarded with spamonious offers forever after.)
