Someone on LinkedIn asked me yesterday: why the half-year minimum commitment? How can you be sure that it takes six months to turn a crisis into an opportunity?

Well, the truth is, of course, that I don’t know. No one can know in advance if a transformation takes a week, a month or a year. One reason for the half-year commitment minimum is that it has proven to be a good timeframe to build guardrails.

Imagine your transformational process as a bridge that spans a river. You’re going over the bridge, you want to go or you must go, or both. And when I arrive at your bridge and start walking at your side, I build guardrails. You can zig and zag, and you can take steps forward and back, and I’ll be with you all the time, maintaining and reinforcing the rails, making sure that you won't fall down and get carried away by the river.

Six months is a good timeframe for doing this, simply because after this half year, you’ll be able to maintain the guard rails by yourself. And there's another not as obvious reason. I’ll get to that in the next post.

I’ve got one slot opening for a new coaching client from February 6th, starting at 5K per month, for at least half a year. Check out https://crisis.wtf, or contact me on LinkedIn. And of course, if you've got any questions, put them into the comments.