Gremlin

"What is a gremlin?"

"It is a voice that tries to protect you from painful experiences"

It was weekend 2 of my training to be a coach. We had just looked at something I would later see is one of the biggest stumbling blocks for change.

The voice in our head telling us of how we aren't good enough.

I am not good enough comes in many forms. For some people I worked with it appears as a voice dressed up as "I need to learn more",

others have it as having to be more successful, have more impact, do more more more.

"the gremlin once served you to protect you but it will limit what is possible for your future"

And whatever painful experiences we went through in childhood, you adapted to not repeat these. And as a child you judged failure as a deficiency of you. Not a deficiency of skill, no a deficiency of YOU.

Your brain's job is to keep you safe. Not to have you thrive.

And to thrive you can't live your life as a reaction to a perceived lack of self.

This voice is not a rational one, and it usually doesn't lay out a plan for when you will be sufficiently trained, be enough or know enough. It simply protects you from going places where this failure repeats, and it keeps the judgement on yourself in place, no matter how accomplished you are today.

Distinguishing this voice in you, saying thank you but no thank you, opens the door for you to live your life from a place of already being fulfilled, ok and enough.

Where success is an expression of your want, not need.

Where you show up to work already whole, instead of needing work to fill the hole.

P.S.

If you are done with letting this voice determine what's possible for your life, and instead come from already thriving, I have an open spot for coaching, in which we get to work on the one thing that makes or breaks a fulfilled life. YOU.

Warmly,

Moritz

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