25/08/2026
I’ve spoken before about my love of imagery in coaching, and a cable car travelling through a snowy mountain range is one I often return to when coaching topics and goals are being established.
I describe us starting at the peak of a snowy mountain: your ‘point A’, where you are right now in your life or career.
We look towards another peak: your ‘point B’, where you might want to move towards, or what you’d like to be different.
Then we hop in a cable car (ideally with a Baileys hot chocolate in hand) and the journey (coaching) begins.
But what happens when you can’t see your point B?
When there’s so much fog that you can barely see your own hand in front of you?
This was the case for someone I coached around 18 months ago. They felt stuck in their working life. They knew something needed to change but couldn’t see what the alternatives might be.
They described feeling “stuck on a mountain with the fog and cold all around.” They were focussed on “hunkering down and just surviving.”
Through our conversations, we explored what ‘point B’ could look like. Not choosing a destination, but improving their visibility across the mountain range.
By the end of our sessions, they described how coaching had “helped to lift the fog” and how they could clearly see a few mountains across the range to potentially travel to.
Over the following months, they explored, made decisions and progressed in their career. They’ve since moved into a new role with a different organisation and are now thinking about what might come next.
And this is what I love about it.
The fog lifting didn’t mean they’d found the ‘right’ mountain. It meant they could see there were options.
That’s what coaching can do: offer a new perspective, help you see a possibility you hadn’t considered, or create that little lightbulb moment.
Then comes the real-life bit. No new shiny life by Monday. The experimenting. The trying. The things that don’t quite work. The trying again.
Sometimes you know your point B. Sometimes you’re still figuring it out. Either way, you don’t need the whole route mapped out before you take the next step.
As always, I’d love to hear about your experiences.
Laura. x
