It is common for people to recognize that they exist today because of their various experiences, and to choose their future actions based on the effects of those experiences.
However, people who have had similar experiences often have different values that they take away from those experiences, which may constrain their subsequent actions or cause them to repeat the same mistakes without taking advantage of the experience.
Coaching is fundamentally future-oriented. We encourage our clients to take autonomous action by asking questions that change the time axis of their perspective so that they can move firmly toward their “desired future.
The time axis will be viewed from two perspectives, “from the future” and “from the past”.
We take the perspective from the future.
Assuming that you are in the state you “want to be in the future,” we look back at the present from that point of view.
(Example question.)
What do you want to be in five years?
What do you want to be in 5 years from now?
If you could speak to yourself today from where you will be in 30 years, what would you say?
What do you think will happen in the future if you leave the problem as it is?
Then, when do you think you should address it?
What do you need to do now to get the results you want?
What habits can you think of that you need to stop?”
Take a perspective from the past.
If the client feels that the current situation is not working, ask questions that ask them to recall past successes and surrender to the feeling of the past. On the other hand, there are cases where the client is fixated on past successes and is unable to accept that the situation is changing.
（Example question.)
What were your thoughts when (the job, etc.) went well?
What is the major difference between before and after the problem occurred?
You mentioned that you feel uncomfortable with your current work style; has this changed compared to the way you have been doing things?
You said that you are sometimes spellbound by your successes.
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