Taking a challenge

I coached in English for the first time today. Last year, I interviewed a foreign company that provides coaching services through the Internet, and I became a partner coach. He went through several procedures to get the service open, but there was no coaching application for several months. It's a start-up, so the service isn't widely known. Then, from last month, there was an atmosphere of checking my profile, and then I applied for online video coaching.

I was happy when the coaching application came in. Because I waited. However, this kind of feeling came up for a while as well.

'Coaching in English... Can I really understand what the customer is saying? Can I ask a question properly in English?'

Fear. It is a natural reaction that occurs when you want to do well, but you do not have the skills to do it well. But what can I do, I can't cancel coaching. After all, I coached in English for the first time in my life this morning.

The customer was a woman working as an office worker for a Southeast Asian company. They say that the job is not right for them, so they want to try the right job. I asked him why he thought the job wasn't right for him, and what he could be good at. And I asked them to imagine what it would be like 10 years from now. He smiled broadly at the end of her coaching session, saying that she would do something right now for her future work.

Would I have understood 100% of what the customer was saying? Could I have been very fluent in English questions? Absolutely not. But how did the customer end up laughing and saying thank you to me? Maybe it's because I listened intently to the customer, responded to something, and thought about his future together. And it could have been because both of them didn't speak English as their native language.

English seems like a very old and unsolved homework to me. It's something that you hold on to for a very long time, but you don't get hold of very well. Maybe that's why he wanted to do something in English. Not just studying.

It seems like a challenge. Trying something a little different. It's not something you can do if you're too big or scared, and run away because you're tired, but if you have a little more courage. So little by little, but a little bit boldly. I don't think that's the right challenge.

Once I took a step towards English coaching, I felt like I wanted to challenge myself a little more. I want to understand customers more clearly, ask questions and talk more fluently.

If you step forward a little, you will see a little more forward. That's it. That's the challenge.