The Magical Coaching Stick is something I came up with as a Life Coach. It's a pencil that changes color as you hold it. This is a useful exercise to do on your own and possibly bring with you to a therapist.
Magical Coaching Stick
At the heart of the Magical Coaching Stick is Phoenix ash. Using the Magical Coaching Stick to get to the center of things for you will allow your dreams to be reborn and come alive. You will notice that the Magical Coaching Stick will change colors when you use it. The colorful stick is also a manifestation of all the beautiful change that is possible in your life when you take action and take hold of your dreams. It is a metaphor of the changes you will see in yourself when you become an active accountable actor in life.
Instructions
To Activate Your Magical Coaching Stick, set aside a half-hour where you will not be disturbed. Consider that this life is just a school and a playground for you. Eventually you will graduate and move on to greater things. So for this moment let yourself be an elementary school kid again. This means you will need to put aside all those limiting beliefs of adulthood that come about by our reactions to life experiences. For this half-hour allow yourself to go back to a time when everything was new and anything was possible. Give your adult mind permission to take a nap – after all it’s been working rather hard and deserves a rest.
To begin you will need to whittle one end of the stick down to a point revealing the Phoenix ash. As you do this imagine that you are centering and focusing yourself by sloughing off all the layers you may have been hiding behind. Now that you have exposed your heart and the Phoenix ash you are ready to begin the first exercise.
The First Exercise
Before you begin, you will need to obtain a life playbook. Find a notebook that you like, but that you won’t be afraid to mark up. Take the Magical Coaching Stick in your hand and imagine your life as you want it to be one year from now. It’s a magic stick so don’t hold back. The more specific you are the stronger the magic. What are you hearing, tasting, seeing? What are you wearing? Who is with you? Be as specific as possible. Once that image is clear in your mind, take the Magical Coaching Stick and write every detail down in your life playbook including your feelings.
You have now set up a magnet to draw these things into your life. Review your vision regularly and start watching in life for evidences of the magic occurring. If you’re really feeling gutsy, share what you’ve written with a friend. Or better yet, find a partner who will double your efficiency in bringing your dream to life. After all no one said you had to do it alone.