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Late in my bowling coaching odyssey, a quote halted me mid-stride; “the greatest transformations happen only when we become curious enough to deeply study ourselves”.
Like most coaches, I could undoubtedly teach from tips, physical game tweaks, ball motion knowledge, advanced tactics, and cheer victories. However, my expertise has failed to empower genuine sincerity in others. This kind of reality is available only through continuously upgraded self-understanding.
I soon grasped coaching’s limitation: Over-reliance on external authority figures. Achievement overshadowed consciousness development. So, I evolved my philosophy from transmitting expertise to cheering personal inquiry for unlocking innate capabilities latent within the seeker.
Consequently, my core procedure is simplified into two steps:
Coaching techniques can help, but to awaken curiosity, pointing out where to access reference materials will kickstart the livelihood project I call “self-research for self-development”.
I am responsible for investigating why I think, emote, and act as I do. So, I study repetitive thought patterns that undercut or sever my human potential and where distorted self-narratives block acknowledgment of a different, more accurate worldview. Ultimately, it draws attention to physical and emotional fears that inhibit expanding my perspective of bowling coaching and self-consciousness beyond the physical and emotional worlds.
Once committed to self-research, I could reject my comfortable notions of “who I am”. The role of self-research exponentially multiplies capability once we stop outsourcing self-research for self-development. Focused on my mental evolution rather than quick-fix skill shortcuts, self-understanding became coaching breakthroughs, lifestyle upgrades, and greater freedom. Research revealed inner riches.
Early on, my research for my development was driven by external authority figures. Here’s a list of their so-called time-tested tools from the perspective and teachings of mystical, spiritual, and other exoteric folk.
Of course, one's motivation will fluctuate following external authority guidance to “normalize”. Guidance felt like a bamboozle. Then, in 2023, I discovered a research path well-trodden by two millennia of esoteric knowledge seekers.
I slowed down and learned to celebrate micro-discoveries. Each new inquiry held promise for enlarging perspective if gently nurtured. What crystallized that drive to keep seeking? Frustrations from mainstream exoteric coaching methods dissolved once I paid attention to my emotional and mental blocks. Suddenly, self-research became urgent for fulfilling my development. I discovered an essential movement in coaching evolution.
While first initiated by my bowling coaching ambitions, the self-research payoff came through translating expanded consciousness into self-authorized living. Reinforced by perspective shifts, I soon asked more significant questions:
Such questions revealed untapped talents and unearthed hidden resolve. Motivation stimulated. Before long, my solopreneur business aligned naturally with my upgraded self-consciousness.
Sure, coaching initially positioned me to attend to the internal individual subjectivity. Ultimately, I realized my responsibility was to self-discover and continually manifest insights through serviceable inter-subjectivity. Understanding my fears and aspirations held an obligation to impact the global community constructively.
Self-doubt resurfaces. Yet now, I’ve strengthened my innate capabilities to meet uncertainty with curiosity rather than avoidance. Each dilemma contains seeds of growth through questioning. A phrase comes to mind: "By openly investigating triggers; defensive patterns unravel to reveal wiser ways forward".
When we incorporate self-research, the drive for bowling scores gives way to winning by continually interconnecting. Individual metrics shift from superficial metrics like tournament payouts to fundamental qualities like creativity, compassion, and consciousness.
From the hybrid coach-play self-initiated self-authorization perspective, the coaching evolution movement reveals that true victory arises through urging others in their self-discovery. Public cheers matter less than the quiet integrity of helping teammates and communities approach their human potential. "The project never ends, but the purpose compounds."
A new perspective provided by years of commitment to working on self-consciousness reveals that beyond our over-weighted reliance on emotion, the next higher dimension of human development, the mental-causal world, needs our attention. Universal human potential moves by unlocking knowledge.
Finally, it is time to transition from ignoring knowledge to cultivating learning skills constructively. I have committed to the coaching evolution project by creating a dynamic systemic framework to support better flow through rethinking assumptions.
Of course, I don’t travel alone here. We all hunger in unique ways to make sense of passions and pitfalls navigated across brief lifespans. Maybe the bowling industry will model society by boldly questioning inward and then courageously reforming outward. I don’t know if the aspiration exists, but this bowler will continue working through all the distractions. Humanity’s shared purpose and responsibility is to create a lifespan experience of self-respect and fully self-authorized development.
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