My hairdresser cares the most about my future.

I get my haircut and colored with some regularity. It’s been a long, boring journey of finding just the right person. I’ve cried after haircuts, gotten haircut and color repairs the day after, worn hats and cut my own bangs more than a dozen times (it’s always a cry for help!) . Happily, I am now in a completely committed relationship with my stylist. What is it about her that really moves me? She gets me. 

She not only sees me right now, maybe a few days past a deliberate style, never able to commit to longer than 10 minutes (max) of hair attention, but also sees the potential in me. She tailors our time together to my potential. 

This is the part that always gets me. As I leave, looking the best I’ll look until the next time I see her, she tilts her head, sizes me up, does some hair trigonometry and says, “Let’s see you in 10 weeks.” 10 weeks. Then and there it dawns on me. Nobody. I mean - including myself - nobody is considering my future and what I might be doing or looking like in 10 weeks. Nobody is considering my potential and looking out for my best self like that. I tell this as a joke to a few people, that no one cares about my future like she does. 

My fifth time recycling my story for a laugh, I finally hear it: I need to care about my future self and believe in her AT LEAST as much as Tiffany does. 

I took the lesson and am now thinking about who I am and who I want to be in the short term. And not letting past mistakes and foils dictate potential me. Never a strict planner, I do like planning in smaller size chucks of time. Short cycles of change.  

I coach for your best you in the short term, setting you up for the longer term life you love. Need help seeing your potential in the short and long term? Want a partner to champion your next best self and help you own and design your future (at least as much as your own stylist)?  Let’s talk.