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# Coaching: 15 things that make your heart sing
- URL: https://www.howardgray.net/coaching-15-things-that-make-your-heart-sing/
- Published: 2019-01-15T23:22:21.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-23T17:42:03.000Z
- Author: Howard Gray
- Tags: Coaching, Freelancing

One of the key components of my coaching certification program is to undertake peer coaching with other members of the cohort.

There’s a minimum requirement of peer coaching hours over the program, but most of us have gone above and beyond this already as it’s been very valuable time – both as a coach and a client (we usually do 30 mins each, swapping at the midpoint). 

I’ve been doing a couple of peer sessions a week and that focused practice along with absorbing how my partner approaches sessions has definitely improved my practice.

For yesterday’s session as a client I presented an agenda of blocks around my creative work.

After we’d gone into a deeper agenda and talked through some related challenges, my coach invited me to try a couple of exercises to help re-align with that creative space.

One of them was simply to list 15 things that make my heart sing. 

At the time of the session I was finding it hard to even list one. We agreed to check back in two days later so I had some space with it.

Getting back into it today it came to me far more easily (in batches of 5, strangely).

Here’s what came out – plenty of music, a fair bit of food, and some sun.

I feel more in the groove already.

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*The unexpected punchline*

*Grilling aubergines in the Ibiza outdoor kitchen*

*Drum & Bass mixtapes circa 2001*

*Cycling on a long, straight, open road*

*The inquisitively raised eyebrow*

*Fresh gridded notebook and a trio of colored pens*

*Early evenings in the departing sun*

*Cooking for friends with zero regard for surface mess*

*The next great visual metaphor*

*The locals’ choice of unassuming restaurant in a new city*

*Those few seconds before the band come on stage*

*Geometric patterns everywhere*

*Discovering the ID of* that *track*

*Being beautifully entrapped in an intricately woven story*

*Getting sunk into the groove of the never-ending beat*

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