Dr. Marty, Car Salesman

Visiting The Doctor, Part 4

Dr. Marty was addressing Dee, “…and the reason is because I need to adapt my coaching style and the work we will do to match who you are and what you want to accomplish. So if you want to focus on very specific things we’ll do that, but I think the big picture is the better place to work.”

He paused. Dee would have asked a bunch of questions if I wasn’t there. Instead, we were quiet.

He straightened up and looked at me. He mistook my expression for a genuine smile and smiled back. He continued, “So let me tell you how I see working with both of you. Tom, you’re a traditional guy. We’re going to go easy on the ‘life-coaching’ stuff. It’s simply doing things.”

If Dr. Marty could stay focused, and if ‘it’s simply doing things,’ then we might be able to actually work together. Even so, he sounded a lot like clients that need me to do their thinking for them.

“And we’ll do those things by the numbers. We’ll make things manageable. We’ll then manage those things.”

Another pause. No response. He continued, “You’re good at managing things. We’ll leverage that strength. My approach with you will be practical, and will involve practice. But if I set up the same approach with Dee, I’ll bore her out of her mind. She’d be sleeping in no time.”

He then looked to Dee, breathed deep, dropped his shoulders, and greeted her with a grin. Dee popped awake and said, “I have a bunch of questions.”

He said, “Yes, yes I bet you do. But first let me tell you that you and I are going to do this stuff a lot differently than Tom and me, and what we’ll be doing will be exciting, it will be new and different.”

Dr. Marty wasn’t hard of thinking. He was a car salesman.

I could see Dee’s enthusiasm as he continued, “Different from any training program you might have had, and more like experimental life coaching. We’ll kind of make it up as we go along, and really use our brain as a tool to help us get to where we want to go, a lot of big picture stuff.”

Dr. Marty continued on about brains and big pictures. Whenever he said the word ‘brains’ it sounded more like he was saying, ‘breasts’. Some people just give that kind of impression.

He answered Dee’s run of questions. Dee’s neck grew slightly pink the more her enthusiasm flowed. I tuned them out after more giggling.

… continued

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Visiting The Doctor

Part 3: Dr. Marty, Car Salesman
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