On Becoming a Leadership Coach

Abstract

The operative word in the title of this chapter is “becoming.” Human beings always become something. Those who like to learn set their intention to becoming a new and learned version of their self. Those who are mind-ful find ways to learn from the multiple events, surprises, and disappointments that comprise daily life; they also know they will never really “arrive” at a place of achieving “becoming”—like a river that continues to flow, the lessons are too numerous, our time is too short.

There are two ways to live your life—one is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle.

—Albert Einstein