Tom --

Yes ... the reason I so appreciate Michael's model for coaching is that he serves as a teacher, pointing the way to finding out more about the subject by way of "experiment," myself being the subject.  The inspiration is revealed by way of the pointing rather than by any "telling."   Someone said once that words don't teach, experience teaches.  He goes a step further with goosing the experience by creating an inquiry for the specific experience that will illuminate an issue so that it may be addressed by my own wisdom -- not that of a "more experienced" authority. 

I tend to proceed with caution because suggestions to "fix" me turn out to be more about the coach or therapist.   I've relied on my journals ... an "Intensive Journal" method developed by a Jungian Therapist that is designed to structure the journaling so as to hold up life challenges to my own wisdom.  I trust that.  Michael seems to have captured some of that structure in his work.

In the larger context, asking for help brings up the same cautions ... e.g. financial planners who have something to sell and are not objective, real estate brokers who act on their own behalf rather than their clients', car mechanics (including the good ones) who take ignorance about the workings of a car to the bank. 

I find myself asking, how can I do this myself?  And when I can't, there comes an approach/avoidance conflict.  It's like that old TV program "Who(m) Do you Trust?'

Thank you for your responses ... I'm incorporating into daily practices ... trusting the moment has all that I need to guide me, and that's what I believe in.  M.

Being aware of my skills and talents and wants and needs and desires, and asking myself what is my next right step puts me in my head -- my logical mind subject to all my conditioning and steps I've taken in the past. 

My field of dreams is vast and knowing I can have them is even more a challenge because I want to be able to "drop the reigns" and let myself discover what's next ... trust this will come to me ... wait for this to come to me ... and believe that I'll know it when it appears.   I am feeling this compulsion to ask someone else to help me see my way through this differentiation between what feels good and what feels right and touching that inner "knowing" that Michael speaks so confidently about.

I guess I'm looking for the solution to a cartoon I saw once of this down and out-looking guy sitting on the street with his back against a wall, and the cutline reads ... Problem is, I don't know if this is enlightenment or just another one of my boneheaded ideas." 

I don't have a reference point for that kind of knowing ... I've lived in my head.  I want to say yes to everything, but there isn't enough time or lifetimes for that.  I just don't trust myself to choose well.  It seems everything until now has chosen me.

I don't know where to begin to ask for help!  I barely know how to frame the question.

Thanks.
M.

I suspect the subject of asking is an Everest.  "Seeing" myself doing it, how to do it, when to do it, from whom are energies that elude me; an attitude and intention that isn't visiting.  Would that it did!  I am in a chapter of solitude and know I need help, yet a vision of asking for what I really need draws silence -- even after reading, seeing, hearing Michael's good wisdom on the subject.

I could use a magic wand to part this impossible fog.  (Did I just ask?)