Here is some Happy Friday/Weekend reading or contemplating….. Enjoy
The Door That Shouldn’t Exist (And Why You Need To Walk Through It Anyway)
There’s a film hardly anyone’s talking about called One Big Bold Beautiful Journey. The critics weren’t kind. The audience scores were middling. And yet, I walked away from it feeling like I’d been handed a map to something I didn’t know I was searching for.
Maybe you’ve felt it too, that pull toward something unnamed. That sense that the version of life you’re living isn’t quite… complete.
When Your Life Starts Talking Back
In the film, a car begins speaking to a man who’s been sleepwalking through his existence. Not metaphorically. The car literally speaks. And instead of questioning his sanity, he does something far braver, he listens.
What if the universe is always talking to us like this?
Not through cars, perhaps. But through the sudden restlessness that wakes you at 3am. The conversation that keeps replaying in your mind. The person who appears at exactly the right moment with exactly the right question. The book that falls open to the page you needed.
Coaching begins here, in that liminal space where something larger than logic is trying to get your attention. Where you stop dismissing the voice and start leaning in.
A Door With No Business Being There
Midway through the film, the characters stumble upon a door. Just… standing there. In the middle of the woods. No walls. No house. No reason.
And they walk through it anyway.
I gasped.
Because that door is everything. It’s the job offer that makes no sense on paper but feels electric in your chest. It’s the move across the country with no safety net. It’s the conversation you’ve been avoiding for five years because once you have it, everything changes.
These doors appear in our lives all the time. Freestanding. Illogical. Shimmering with possibility.
Most of us walk around them.
But what if?….Just once, you walked through?
On the other side isn’t certainty. It’s perspective. Suddenly you’re standing somewhere you’ve never stood before, seeing options that were invisible from where you were. The path you thought was the only path? It multiplies. The story you thought was fixed? It rewrites itself.
Coaching is the practice of noticing these doors. And then walking through them together.
Signposts Written in Invisible Ink
The characters in the film are never truly alone. Guides appear, some obvious, some absurdly cryptic. A stranger. A memory. A fork in the road that wasn’t there a moment ago.
Your life is full of signposts too. The colleague who casually says something that rewires your thinking. The argument that reveals the pattern you’ve been repeating for decades. The quiet thought that whispers “not this way anymore.”
Most people miss them. They’re moving too fast, too defended, too committed to the story they already believe.
But when you slow down? When you pay attention?
The universe is relentlessly helpful.
Two People, One Journey, Infinite Choices
Here’s where the film gets beautifully, devastatingly honest.
Two people. Same journey. Same doors. Same signposts.
One of them leans in. Stumbles. Questions. Tries. Changes.
The other? Stays locked in their patterns, acting out the same behaviours, unable or unwilling to see what’s right in front of them.
It’s a mirror we all need to look into.
Awareness isn’t something that happens to you. It’s something you choose. And not everyone chooses it. Not everyone is ready.
But if you are? If you’re the one saying ‘yes, show me, I’m ready to see’
Everything shifts.
Revisiting the Past Without Getting Lost in It
The road trip through memory is where the film becomes another metaphor for coaching. The characters move through their past, not to excavate every painful moment or build a monument to their mistakes, but to understand.
To see the pattern. To recognize the moment the path forked. To notice what was true then that might not be true now.
There’s a world of difference between purposeful reflection and endless rumination. One extracts wisdom. The other keeps you circling the same story, hoping for a different ending that will never come.
Coaching takes you into the past just long enough to gather what you need. And then it brings you back to the present with new eyes.
The Moment Everything Changes
There’s a moment in every great coaching session where time bends.
The room gets quieter. The client’s face shifts. Something unseen clicks into place.
“I’ve never thought of it that way before.”
It’s not dramatic. There’s no orchestra swell. But something fundamental has just reorganised itself in their nervous system, their worldview, their sense of what’s possible.
The film is full of these moments. Small. Unannounced. Irrevocable.
That’s what happens when you stop defending against your own transformation.
So Here’s My Question
What door is standing in front of you right now?
The one that makes no logical sense. The one you keep walking around because acknowledging it would mean you’d have to do something about it.
What if you just… walked through?
Not alone. Not without support. But with someone who knows how to read the signposts. Who can sit with you in the uncomfortable middle. Who won’t let you mistake rumination for reflection or fear for wisdom.
If you’re ready to step through your door, the one that’s been waiting, reach out.
Let’s begin.
