How I Work

Coaching is a process of clarifying where you are (Point A), where you want to go (Point B), and then creating and implementing multiple action plans and strategies to get there.

Life and Business Design is like planning and tending a garden. You need to determine what you want and need to grow so that you can plant, water and fertilize the appropriate seeds to get the end result you are looking for.

I help you clarify on a scawatering a plantle of 1-10 (10 being ideal) where you are, as well as specifying what a 10 would look like, in each area of your life. We then prioritize and break your objectives down into smaller steps and phases, starting where you are and working your way over time to the fulfillment of your vision for each area of your life.

While coaching is not consulting per se (where you hire someone with relative expertise in a specific area to do something for you), one advantage to you is that I practice a “consultative” form of coaching. In addition to facilitating your own best thinking, I do not hesitate to make available to you anything in my lexicon that may help you to move forward toward your goals and intentions.

If I have a tool, practice, checklist, process, skill, book, reference, etc. that will add value to you and your efforts, then I will not hesitate to offer it to you in terms of specific suggestions, recommendations, personalized teaching or hands on guidance in specific areas where you may benefit from my various experience and expertise.

That being said, the emphasis will be on supporting you to do your own best thinking and to take the actions you need to take in order to ultimately get where you want to go. I am not interested in just solving the immediate problems you may be facing, but also transferring capability to you, so that you can be self sustaining at an even higher level. I subscribe to the old adage “If I feed you a fish, I only feed you for the day. But if I can teach you to fish, I can feed you for a life time.”

What’s the process?

Here is a quick overview of the steps we’ll take and the questions we will ask along the way…

  • Expanding awareness. What’s really going on with you? What is your current situation? What’s working/not working?
  • Clarifying focus. What’s most important to you? What do you really want and need?
  • Creating solutions, strategies and action plans. What is the best way to get there?
  • Addressing limiting beliefs and fears. What fears or beliefs are in your way and how can you move through or past them?
  • Personalized teaching. What knowledge or expertise is missing and where can you get it?
  • Designing environments. What structures can you put in place that will help make these changes sustainable?
  • Taking action. What specific next steps need to happen and by when?
  • Evaluating progress. Track and Measure Results!. What progress have you made and how can you measure it?
  • Celebrating accomplishment! What is there to celebrate and how best can you do that?

Now that you have a better idea of how I work, take a look here to learn more about my unique approach: My Unique Approach >>>

Or, you can contact me directly at 310-372-7711, or patrick@patricksummar.com to set up a time to talk.