It was the week of April 14th, a short work week as spring break would begin on Wednesday. I was working more on what a life coaching program would look like based on my experience.
Who would my audience be? What had I done intuitively that had legitimate foundations in training and development?
As I did this, I came up with Life Compass Alignment as my directional approach and what would become the name of the framework I’d use.
This is critical, because too often we describe ourself by what we do, our job, and not as much by who we are and the two aren’t necessarily compatible, which causes problems.
I’ve changed my job many times. I’ve been a school administrator, a communications manager, a membership manager, a manager of online strategy and analytics, a project manager, an associate teacher, a student, a caddy, a bus boy, a warehouse worker, a hot dog vendor, and several more.
I’ve been a son, brother, husband, father, uncle, and several other familially titled persons.
I’ve been a volunteer, announcer, broadcaster, presenter, speaker, host, and MC.
Do any of these describe who I am?
I created the professional and personal self to comprise your current being. Who you want to be, your aspirational self is your true being.
The goal is to align your professional with your personal self to create a current being and align that with your true being and work toward becoming it.
Who you are can’t be your profession. I explored what I value and did an assessment of my signature strengths to help me figure it out.
My top values are hope and love of learning, followed by gratitude and honesty.
What makes me feel good and that my time was well spent? When I am actively thinking about what I am reading and writing. When I walk in nature, take in my surroundings, and allow my mind to focus as it may here and there as I go. When I am sharing knowledge with others and engaging with them in conversation.
Having gratitude reinforces the good things I have. Being honest about myself allows me to grow and improve. Being hopeful acknowledges the opportunities that are available be they known or yet to be discovered.
So who am I? I came up with this:
I am a lover of learning for the sake of the journey of exploring life on an immaterial basis.
No, it won’t earn me money, but it sure makes life worth living. My alignment then with my professional self, an associate teacher and want to be an author and life coach is consistent and aligned.
Exploring who you are, is actually harder than you realize, because so much societal emphasis is on what we do.
Resilient Seeker Coaching | Ross Raymond Nunamaker 