The Epiphany Moment

Epiphany - a moment of sudden and great revelation or realisation

Colin Campbell has been very generous to me over the years, including commenting in his blog about our regular meetings in West Bridgford, prior to full-day coaching sessions.

Quite often, we would meet early, enjoy a splendid breakfast, begin our conversation and, before we left the cafe, Colin would announce "that's it - that's the epiphany - we could finish now and go home."

We didn't go home, of course, and usually spent the rest of our time planning the tactics around the strategic epiphany that had occured.

An epiphany happened to me on Wednesday afternoon, at the conclusion of a three-hour meeting with my own business coach, when after discussing my plans from now until December 2030, I suddenly realised that I wanted to make a change on 01/01/2025 that would transform my life.

Today I'll be booking the time with my team to explain to them what I want to change and asking them to work with me to make that happen.

Yesterday, I attended a full-day coaching session with a long-standing client and friend.

We began at 09:00 prompt - and his epiphany happened at 09:55 precisely.

The rest of our meeting was "tactics" to plan for the huge change that he realised was necessary.

You don't get an epiphany from every conversation with a coach, but when it happens it makes all the investment of time, effort and money worth it.

Of course, if you never stop to think, listen and talk, you are unlikely to have the experience.