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Stuck

Stuck: By calling the chapter this, I want to address two topics. The first is when the focus of the coaching is the client being stuck in his or her job or life, and the second is what to do when our coaching (which to us seems, of course, brilliant) is somehow leaving the client stuck.

Client Being Stuck

Probably the majority of our clients come to us because they feel stuck in their life. Of course, the word “stuck” describes a wide variety of phenomena. Clients can mean that they are bored, not learning anything, and don’t see a future for themselves. They could also mean that they are attempting to accomplish something and can’t get it to happen. Alternately, they might mean they are seeing the same cycles of behavior return again ...

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