My goal had been to get bread and I had sort of failed at that. If I’d have searched on Maps for a bakery and headed straight to it, I’d no doubt have got what I was looking for. But in taking a less linear approach where the route to my goal was one of curiosity, presence and open-mindedness, I experienced much more than a loaf of bread could have given me.

Before I undertook my journey to becoming a coach, I’d sometimes heard the term “values” or the question “what are your values?”, but I never fully understood what it really meant…