Priming the Pump

For every action there's a reaction

I had forgotten how good it feels, just to step out and "do something." Yesterday my creative juices got flowing following Connie's terrific step at starting our blog. Once we took the leap to put ourselves out there the former "perfectionist fear" didn't keep me stuck. Suddenly great ideas started to come, ideas borne out of a need to share and serve what I have learned from my years as a practicing psychologist and from the short years of learning about the "art of coaching."

When do we ever decide we are 'ready enough' ? Of course the extreme example is that of the artist or scholar who labors over a work for decades only to find piles of canvases or manuscripts gathering dust for they were never quite good enough.

I have recently been introduced to the process of peer review in writing. In the teaching of writing, many folks now have students collaborate and share their work. Through that process they begin to build a rubric in order to evaluate the work. I was reminded over dinner last week by an artist, that art students have been doing that forever. They have become accustomed to putting their work 'out there' to benefit from the comments and reactions of their peers.

So, this blog is a place for us at Coaches Collaborative to do some primary process writing and for anyone in the world to jump in and join us. This process will let you know who we are, how we think, and perhaps we will all be motivated to jump ahead and do the things we might have not done before.

Here's to priming the pump !