Surgeon overcomes fear of cutting
(All it took was a little coaching)
This rash of publicity for garden coaching is creating a whole new bunch of coachees, and one of them is my new favorite. Not just because his professionally designed garden was so damn gorgeous, which it was. But because he decided the estimate he’d gotten for maintaining it - $11,000 a year - seemed outrageous, and he wondered if he could do it himself, with a little coaching. And because he took careful notes as I explained how to prune each of his shrubs and by the end of the walk-through he was visibly excited and exclaimed, "I feel so empowered!" God, I love that shit.
It seems that this surgeon-gardener had read many books about pruning and was still afraid to take action - it’s all so confusing! Yeah, I hear ya. That’s why teaching pruning one-on-one, in the garden, is so much better than books, videos, PowerPoints and all the rest. Coaching rules!
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