Nobody has a health problem...

One of my clients is a CEO and mentor to other CEO’s, 

he used to run a company with several thousand staff and now he doesn’t want to do that anymore he gets a lot of people that were like him 8 years ago looking for support. 

Quite how I ended up working with so many grown ups I’m not sure... 

With that said I could tell you that none of the grown ups I work with see themselves as any older than 21 and none of them see themselves as having all their ducks in a row. 

We all do that to a certain extent I think, 

we see ourselves as faking it and look at others as having it all figured out. 

It’s quite re-assuring to know that very few people see themselves as having it all figured out and those very few people, are wrong. 

There is always a deeper layer we can dig down to that will undo all that we hold as true today. 

Anyway, 

the two of us are working on creating some CEO retreats over here because despite being hired to help with business problems, they don’t have business problems. 

They have relationship problems or health problems. 

It’s those things further down Maslow’s Hierarchy that keep pulling their focus away from where it should be and causing stress, anxiety and overwhelm. 

Actually thought,

they don’t have a business problem or a health problem or relationship problems: 

They have a beliefs problem 

that causes them to consistently reach for an action or behaviour that doesn’t serve to produce the outcome they want for themselves because that action likely once served them and now no longer does. 

They have a values problem 

in that they haven't taken to the time to define what’s important to them and who they want to consistently show up as in their interactions with others or they are failing to use those values as their guide. 

They have a purpose problem 

in that they aren’t sure why they are doing what they are doing so the struggle consistently out ways their desire to achieve their objective. 

They have a habit problem 

in that the pre-programmed thoughts, words and actions that once served to create safety are now in some areas creating stress or even suffering. 

They have a recipes problem 

in that the recipes that they are using to create the life they that want for themselves are producing the delicious outcome they desire. They are also consistently collecting the ingredients to recipes that would rather not be eating. 

Some problems are just puzzles. 

Those problems that consistently stand in our way though, the relationship challenges, the constant help challenges, the habits we can’t seem to break, the answer are further down stream. 

If you would like some help with these challenges, if the above makes sense to you then send me a private message and we can have a chat. 

Ed Ley