No Arrival

“There is no arrival. If you have arrived, you have died.”

This is how I started every AP Lang class I taught. I then went on to remind these High School Seniors that this was the beginning of the end. The last first day of PK - 12 school. The last homecoming. The last prom. The last of dictated courses (sort of). The beginning of the last year in this chapter of their stories. How will this chapter end? What will be the words right before they turn the page? How will they construct this chapter over the course of nine months?

And then they got to work writing their best arguments, standing on a tree stump in the middle of my classroom and declaring in their best Lorax voice who they were and what they stand for? “I am Julie and I stand for unearthing every person’s beautiful wiring.”

And that is what I do. I help people unearth the very best version of their wiring. I do that through coaching, through consulting, through writing, through speaking, through being a decent human and good friend. And it is always in the person’s hands. It is your story. How do you want to write this chapter?

I act as an editor, a proof-reader, a questioner, and a coach. Sometimes it is a pacing issue, and we need to slow up or speed up. Sometimes the order is just not resonating, so we rework, reorder, rediscover. It is an exercise and practice that is never mastered but constantly learned.

Are you facing a transition? A lull? A knot that you just can’t seem to worry out? If so, let’s connect.