Coaches often use the metaphor with clients of 'peeling back the layers of an onion' to represent the process of coaching. Coaching starts at the outside of the onion and step-by-step removes a layer until the core is reached.

I would like to offer up a new metaphor - 'Coaching is like renovating a kitchen floor' - truly!!

My husband and I recently became the owners of our new house ... actually the house is very old ... we are simply the new owners. The previous owner lived there for 55 years so there is a lot of history in this house. We bought this house knowing that the kitchen floor may need some work.