Do you set the bar high for yourself in your professional life?  Do you demand only the best from your relationships.  Do you strive for perfection in many areas of your life?  If you do, then you are motivated by something that you value.  Something that drives you to be the best.  Coaching is pretty much all about being the best that you can be.  It works really well when you recognise the drivers for performance and you examine people's personal expectations.

Like most things in life, there are exeptions to the rule.  If you find that no matter how much effort you put in, and the results that you get, somehow don't fulfil you, then it is worth examining what is driving you.  If you are attempting to achieve perfection when perfection is not required, chances are you are expending a lot of unnecessary energy that could be channelled into something far more rewarding. 

During my secondary school education a fellow pupil was made to swim every single morning by his over zealous parents who had ambitions for him to become an Olympic swimmer.  It was not what he wanted.  In later years he discovered that no matter what he did, it was never good enough.  It never met his personal expectations.  Arguably you might then examine if those expectations were really his in the first place, or, if they were borne out of his parents desire to push him to be something better.  

I refer to this as the 'report card syndrome', i.e. "must try harder!".  You might remember having seen that written on a report card from school days.  Remember that the desire to better yourself in some way is for the most part healthy, provided that the motives and reasons for improvement are not destructive or drain you of valuable energy and peace of mind.  Check your 'feeling state' if it feels exciting and worth stretching for, you are probably on the right track.