Just get started. You don’t have to be perfect. Just do something. Put yourself out there and figure it out as you go. Focus on progress. Be consistent. Create the dreams. Just get started. What will you do to make your dreams a reality?

Dr. Moira Hanna

Introduction

I’m Dr. Moira and I’m a college professor, instructor, coach, and passionate mentor to health coaches around the world, but I haven’t always been that confident and committed to my coaching career. I wasn’t sure if I could make it work or even what the best approach was to success and fulfillment. I decided to step up and step into my dream of guiding health coaches on their journey from Hesitant Health Coach to Committed Health Coach. With a unique approach to coach growth, the Health Coach Catalyst program creates a strong hexagonal effect. The Coaching Hive podcast is your glimpse into the concepts, ideas, and approaches that underscore the Hexagonal Effect while giving you the opportunity to implement tools and tips along the way. Are you ready to dive in to today’s podcast? Then let’s go and remember that this podcast is family friendly so go ahead and play it through your speakers!

Diving In

Welcome to Episode 10 of the Coaching Hive Podcast! (whoop whoop. I’m ridiculously happy to reach the milestone of 10. I know this podcast is still in infancy, but each milestone is fun.

Today we were supposed to move on from our focus of mindset because we are beginning a new month. I have told you that we would start a new podcast topic each month so that we could stay focused, efficient, and cover a variety of topics, but I find that with the start of Spring I’m just not quite ready to transition to a new topic. This gives me the heebie jeebies because I’m a rule follower, even my own rules, but this topic seems right for now so we will see where the month takes us. Sound ok? Phew! Thanks for being so flexible with the plan.

Now, last week, we were supposedly wrapping up our mindset discussion and I shared with you the Mindset Refresh Workbook. This is something that I use with my coaching clients to spark exploration and action. Have you grabbed your free copy yet? If not, it is still available. You can still get it at hexagonalapproach.info/mindsetrefresh. Once you enter your information on the website, be sure to check your email and click the link to download your workbook.

If you have already downloaded your copy and gotten to work, what changes are you noticing? Have you decided what beliefs might be holding you back? Maybe you are feeling stuck. Sit with that for a little while. It is ok to take time and sit in the silence and revisit the workbook time and time again. But the workbook is not our primary focus today. We talked about that last week and you can always go back to Episode 9 to learn more about the workbook. Today’s focus is progress over perfection.

The Topic

I hope you’ll allow me to share a little about my journey before we talk more about this concept of progress over perfection. I promise, there’s a connection. So here it is, I grew up as a musician. I performed, I auditioned, and I generally had a boatload of confidence in my performance skills. Don’t get me wrong, I still got nervous, I still worried, but I knew that I was capable. Fast forward to college and I pursued not only a music degree, but a psychology degree as well. Man, that psychology degree was HARD! I have never worked so hard, so thoughtfully, so diligently, and so nervously in pursuing success. I have to admit, it got the better of me sometimes. I wasn’t always successful and by the time I got to graduate school to work toward my Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Ps