Posted by Dave Lorenzo - Business Coach

Spending more time on the beach may seem like a crazy suggestion even coming from a South Florida Business Coach.   

That is exactly the advice I gave to a client yesterday. 

I received a call from a stressed out Miami business owner.  She was panicked because she could not see a way out of a particularly thorny problem that had surfaced in her business.  The problem was financial and it involved another person so the degree of tension was high. 

After asking her to take a couple of deep breaths I asked her where she thought she did some of her best – and most creative –  thinking. 

She responded that she often found that a walk along the beach would often help her clear her head.

I then asked her to share with me all the feelings she had related to this particular problem.  After 90 minutes of conversation, some of it at a high decibel level and some of it through tears, my client was finished.  She had literally relieved herself of all of the emotion associated with the problem.  She said she felt as though a weight had been lifted from her shoulders.

It was at that point that I advised her to go home and take a long hot shower, read a book and then go to bed. 

I asked her to wake up early the next day and go to the beach to watch the sunrise.   I asked her to sit in a chair and stare at the horizon for an hour before she headed into the office.

She followed my suggestions to the letter. 

I spoke with her a short while ago (it is not even 24 hours since she had a meltdown).

She called me to say that she came up with a creative way to solve the problem.  When I asked her what her inspiration was she responded with two things:

1. Getting the emotion of the situation out of the way – literally beating it to death on the phone last night – allowed her to think about the issue from a purely logical perspective this morning.
2. Going to the beach – a place she associated with relaxation– stimulated her creativity.

In the end, only time will tell if she has a solid solution to her problem. What’s important is that she feels better about the situation and she realizes that she is in control.

Ultimately I can come to only one conclusion:  Business Coaching in South Florida means that clients get to spend more time on the beach.

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