COACHING THE COACHES,
PART 21
by Jon Rappoport
Copyright © 2011 by Jon Rappoport
It’s part of the lesson of modern society that the individual is small.
It’s easy to overlook the fact that, as a coach, you are working with individuals who are trying to solve their lives within very, very restrictive boundaries. The real problem is the boundaries themselves.
You’re basically working with a person who is sitting in a projection booth above a theater that is a hundred miles wide and a hundred miles deep, and he’s using a camera that will cast an image on a six-inch screen.
And he wants to clarify that image. He wants to improve its focus. He wants to get the dust off the lens.
If you choose to help him do these things, you will, sooner or later, arrive at a point where no amount of fiddling produces dividends. Your client will tell you he’s still not satisfied. He needs to sweep the floor of the booth. He needs a better broom. He needs to fortify the spindly legs of the six-inch screen.
It will occur to you he’s obsessed. But this obsession is, of course, connected to the actual size of the actual theater—the dimensions of which he denies.
That’s why he’s developing a full-fledged fetish.
That why he has an itch he can’t scratch. He knows, at some level, that he has titanic space at his disposal, but he wants to keep his blinders on.
He wants to keep them on and he wants to take them off. He wants to play out his life as a cameo, and he wants to play it out in full. He wants yes and no.
He looks to you for help.
Yes, the deck is stacked against you. But you knew that, didn’t you? The game is rigged from the start. It always is. That’s the beauty of it, in a way. You’re there to expose the bigger picture. You lead him to new lands. Then he sees how he has been taking those shrinking pills he keeps in his closet. He sees it.
And how do you accomplish this feat?
That’s why I’ve written the 20 articles previous to this one in the series.
Because that theater that’s a hundred miles wide and a hundred miles deep is imagination.
Jon Rappoport
A former candidate for a US Congressional seat in California, Jon has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years. He has written articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. The author of The Ownership of All Life, Jon has maintained a consulting practice for the past 15 years. He has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, and creativity to audiences around the world.