A short coaching transcript in which Breen (the client) returns after missing a session and describes feeling discouraged about academic goals and procrastination. Brandon (the coach) reframes the client’s self-judgment, asks about current time-management practices, and encourages use of a calendar and self-accountability as actionable steps to make progress.
Hi, Brandon.
I am Breen. Nice to see you again.
Likewise. How are you?
Hello. I missed last session, and I felt like I was missing. I was missing something. So it's good to be back again. I wasn't entirely. I didn't really know that all those things came with discouragement, like you said. And so I'm finding that I'm realizing more and more about myself and more about the things that I am discouraged about at the moment. Like, I guess, like, my. My academic goals is one thing I'm a little discouraged about. And I think I. I mentioned the last. Last session.
Procrastination a little bit.
Yeah, the procrastination.
Yeah. All right, so what's your number one academic goal where you feel that you're disc. See.
Maybe, like, tackling something that maybe I didn't really think through? I kind of just put myself in that situation because I'm taking a class right now, and it's a lot of material, and it's. It's over. Zoom. So it's pretty much just by myself. And so I. I didn't really think it through, and maybe I'm really realizing a little late that I might have needed more help than. Than I realized, and that's kind of been discouraging me.
Okay, so one of the most important things that I want you to do is I don't want you to think that you're late. Okay. Because you're already discouraging yourself by judging yourself to say, oh, you know what, Brandon? You're already so far behind, and if we can shift that mindset to say I'm exactly where I need to be, and I went through this and I realized that I'm discouraged. That's why I'm not making progress, then you can actually open up that door to be more welcoming of a solution. Okay, So I want to ask you, how are you setting up your time to stay consistent and move forward in this class that's fully something that you get to plan and action on?
Well, I. I tend to. To. To push it back a little bit into the last second. Like, I, I'll. I'll get up in the morning and I'll. I'll make a plan, and I'll tell myself that I'm. Today I'm going to study, and today I'm going to, you know, really understand what I'm doing. And I. And I set it back, and then I get a little discouraged again, and sometimes I'll. I'll be like, okay, I'm gonna set it back maybe again. Tomorrow when I feel better. And.
What is one thing that you can do to manage that time? Because we know that research shows that anything that's not scheduled is not getting done with the priority and the efficientness that it needs for it to be successful. So let me ask you, how can you use your calendar. Right. To equip yourself to be more successful with this specific class?
Well, first, I think I need to start using a calendar.
There you go.
Get myself organized and actually set.
Like.
A, like a time for myself. No matter if I feel I, if I feel like 100 that I'm ready to do it or not, I think I needed I just need to face it in that moment. Maybe that would help me overcome that.
Maybe. Definitely. Because now what you're doing is you're having accountability to yourself.
