3 Hilarious Signs That I Was Meant To Be A Life Skills Coach
How did I become a Life Skills Coach? Well…
Before I started life skills coaching, I worked as a stage manager and production manager in theatre, dance, festivals, ceremonies, and other live performance events. Essentially, it was my job to make sure everyone and everything was in the right place at the right time. Now, I’m taking the skills I honed as a stage manager and I’m using them to help people build sustainable and empowering life skills. It’s so exciting!
As I make the transition and build a new one-on-one coaching program, I can’t help but laugh. Because, in hindsight, it’s obvious. I’m meant to be a coach!
🤷♀️ I’d Just Do It Anyway
Before transitioning to coaching, I was already helping my friends and family develop organizational, time management, and money management systems that play to their strengths and set them up for success.
👉🏿 You’re trying to save up to move out of your parents’ house? Want me to send you my budget template?
👉🏻 You have how much credit card debt? I’ll help you build a debt repayment plan!
👉🏽 You can’t seem to coordinate your work schedules with your school time table? A puzzle! Can I help?
Even before I decided to become a Life Skills Coach I was already doing it. I simply can’t resist!
🙈 They Aren’t Mom Vibes, They’re Big Sister Vibes
A teacher once told me that I was the most maternal teenager she’d ever met. I know what she meant, but she had it wrong. They aren’t mom vibes, they’re big sister vibes.
I have a brother, a step brother, and two sisters who are all younger than me. I’m also older than my seven cousins. You see, I’ve got this big sister thing down.
I’ve been a big sister since I was 18 months old and I took it seriously from the get go. I have video evidence of how helpful (and occasionally hazardous) I was. I’ve always been a big sister first.
Which means that, in some ways, I’ve been a Coach all my life. It may have started with teaching my siblings how to spell their name and use a spoon, but it developed into driving lessons and budgeting tips. I’ve been training for this all my life!
🔮 Solution Melanie
When I was little- maybe 6 years old- there was a game I liked to play.
I’d make a blanket fort or pile up pillows in my room and, in the center, I’d place my snow globe to stand-in for a crystal ball. But I wasn’t a psychic! The “crystal ball” was only there for the aesthetic.
I would call my mom into my room and have her sit across from me and the snow globe. My name was Solution Melanie. She had to give me problems, and I would present her with solutions. That was the game.
If ever my mom gave me a problem like “I don’t know what to make for dinner” I would get frustrated. That’s not a real problem! You’re not taking this seriously! And I’d make her leave the room and come in again with a “real problem”. This was a serious game!
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Your big sis,
Mel x
