Three questions for 2026
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Working on the new website was interesting. Not only in the "I learned a lot" sense, which I did, but in the "I uncovered so many things about me" sense. Partway through the process, I realized that my measures for success had been rewritten. The transformation wasn't intentional; I hadn't planned for it to happen, but as I explored who and how I wanted to work NOW, I realized that what has energized my work for the last decade no longer felt like the driving force I wanted for the next decade.
Growth is funny that way. I notice that I so often have to look back to appreciate what's changed and where I've grown. On a daily basis, there is just ME, and it's easy to miss those incremental changes that leave one changed after years of not noticing.
I decided to use this new knowing as I imagined what I wanted for 2026. If I really do want to live life in a softer, kinder, more generous way, what would I do? But also, who would I need to BE? Who is the me that doesn't strive and make things happen?
These questions are guiding me through 2026. It's a year of being-focused doing; a year of evolution, not revolution.
I've made a workbook to explore these questions, and I wanted to share it with you here first.
I'd love to hear what you discover as you explore - what resonates, what doesn't, and especially the dimensions you add that I missed. Send me an email at cecile@cruxcoaching.ca.
And if sitting with these questions makes you curious about what coaching could offer, I'd love to explore working together.
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Interesting finds
I came across this little snippet from Katy Milkman about temptation bundling. I am an avid proponent of the audiobook/exercise or podcast/exercise bundles… Which temptations do you bundle? Which might you experiment with?
What I'm thinking about…
I am currently reading Coaching for Person-Centred Healthcare. I have been waiting for a book that captures some of my experience about the impact of wholeness as an underlying principle in healthcare. Things it has me thinking about:
What would healthcare systems that assume wholeness in providers and users be like?
What would happen when we start focusing on what people can do, have found useful and desire, instead of our current deficit-based assessments?
And one has me completely rethinking some things:
They use an optimal functioning scale for rating. This means that optimal functioning is 10/10, and the worst functioning is 0/10. Imagine a pain scale where we aim to get patients to 10/10 FUNCTIONING. What if we actually start asking about what we do want? Where is your pain now, with 10/10 being completely gone? It feels weird in my brain, but it feels like that shift might do something important.
What do you think?
As always, I am so grateful you are here. Please feel free to send me an email with any of your thoughts at cecile@cruxcoaching.ca.
