Future Here Now: Listening is the key to future success

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This is a piece that I wrote several years ago… for something. After a while, it can start to run together. But when I came across it again, I thought this deserved another view.

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My husband is more assertive than I am. And that’s saying a loooot.

He is currently doing a certification to become a life coach, and I have been riding him a little about that. Dave is a Guy Who Solves Problems, and a coach isn’t supposed to solve or tell you how to solve, they’re supposed to ask you questions that help you figure it out for yourself.

You don’t interact with your longtime spouse the way you do with a client or a direct report or anyone else, I know. But based on my 30 + years with the man, I’ve been viewing this particular new direction with a bit of a disbelieving side eye. At least when it comes to me, this guy has an opinion or a solution for everything.

This morning he sent me an article that I think his program assigned him to read. And I almost jumped up and down at the breakfast rable: YES THIS!