Shrink Your Snakes

                         Shrink Your Snakes 

I was coaching one of my clients , she was sharing that one of her main challenge to all her problems was that she was risk averse and loathe to take any action , so she felt demotivated and nervous about any escalation that happened in her office . Did she feel competent enough, Yes! she affirmed But she did not feel she could cope with the problems that might arise .

So I asked her to imagine a snake in the room , and what would her reaction be ? she said she would scream and run and hang on to the fan . she imagined it to be a 5 ft quite heavy , pock marked venomous , lying on the side of the table .

I asked her to imagine that she could shrink the snake .

So she shrunk it to a black thin one lying in the corner a feet long 

Now what would she do? I asked 

She said she would call the gardener and have it removed 

the silence of realization hit us 

How often do we create big snakes in our minds , that it renders us powerless , and incapable  of action depletes our ability to cope . Yet time and time again we have in reality coped with harsher and tougher situations , sudden crisis , unexpected ambiguities , unknown people 

My invitation .. how would it be  if I could shrink my snakes into a manageable perspective? 

How does it make me be , when I do ?