'Clean' is a method of coaching that can get great results very quickly. 

You may have heard of Clean Food and that sort of thing, and in a way this is similar in that it takes out what gets in the way. It's all about shining a light on your inner mental representations, uncovering the metaphors you use and how you actually do think. 

'What would you like to have happen?' is a good question to ask at the start of the year ( especially when we've all let our gym memberships lapse and we haven't kept our resolutions) and especially when starting to work with a coach. 

Clean questions strip out all the assumptions I might make about your situation and focuses your attention on what you want. Even if I ask you, What do you want to change, I am assuming that you want a change, when actually you might need a different way of looking at where you are already. Another good effect of this sort of questioning is that it takes the focus away from what you don't want. Remember being asked NOT to think of a pink elephant? 

So, you might say to me - I feel stuck. Then so that you know what this really means (this is much more important than that I know), we would start with a series of iterative questions, as follows,