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Can we coach ourselves?

The theoretical answer to this question sounds like it should be yes - but in reality it is not as straight forward as it sounds. We should be able to outline and review our current reality about what is going well and what we are struggling with - but we would need to prompt ourselves to do so and then to isolate our issues, coaching objectives, and develop our own action plan.
The difficulties that we would face in coaching ourselves stem from the missing stimulus that a separate coach provides. A good coach provides both the appropriate support but also more importantly the challenge and probing questions that help to open up a persons mind to the deeper understanding of their issues and their context and the possibilities, options and thinking pathways that we can pursue.
A separate coach allows us to explore our thinking out loud and to gain access to our sub-conscious thoughts, feelings and emotions lurking behind our surface level problems. This is something that we cannot do simply on our own - yes we can ask ourselves the obvious questions that occur to us but by definition we cannot easily get into the areas of thought that another person's thinking may provide.
Moving on from the new thinking that a coach and catalyst can provide leads us on to the plans for action that produce the real impact and results from the coachimg process. Gaining commitment to a challenging action plan, implementing it and reviewing the progress and direction from it is a key part of the coaching process that a coach leads - doing this for ourselves in an authentic and effective way is more difficult to achieve!