There’s a lot of this about, especially at the moment. Normal life, whatever that ever was, has been dramatically interrupted these days for a whole host of reasons, and we all get things in daily life that hold us up. For example I’ve been without my laptop for nearly two weeks while it’s being repaired and I can’t believe how much I can’t get at and do. Then there are the people who say, Can you just...and you still don’t get stuff done!

But there is a deeper sort of interruption that I’m thinking about today - the sort that goes on in so many conversations, where we are dying to say our bit if only the other person would stop talking! Finally we can’t stand it and we leap in with ‘But...’ This of course is not nice for the person being interrupted. In fact it’s worse than that - it stifles their thought. If we all decided that for just one day, we would not interrupt, not speaking until we are sure the other person has finished, I am sure that peace would abound! 

Coaches don’t do interruption. We give a space where you can do your thinking and we won’t be afraid to leave enough silence for you to do it. 

This is so important that Nancy Kline wrote a whole book on it.