Think back to some time when you really needed to make a big change or some substantial forward progress.
- Was it in school, when a tutor helped you master Algebra or Calculus?
- Was it in athletics, when a coach helped you and your team rise to the top of your performance level...and go beyond?
- Was it in a trade or profession, when a veteran mentored and championed you to grow to become savvy in the field?
- Was it just after New Year, when a fitness coach pushed you hard to build muscle and drop fat based on your resolution?
There are instances throughout life where we leaned on the guidance, encouragement, and greater perspective of ourselves than we alone possessed to get to the next level of accomplishment. That is the value of coaching.
The American ideal is of the "self-made man (or woman)." However, if you look behind the scenes into the lives of the greatest business, sports, entertainment, humanitarian, political and or other leaders, you'll find that they invest in and surround themselves with good coaches...not because they are incapable but, on the contrary, because they are capable of achieving and excelling SO MUCH MORE when they take in perspectives and views of themselves they could never get alone.
As humans, we are generally cursed with the fact that we see ourselves so much smaller and less capable than we truly are. Because of childhood programming or unfortunate experiences, we fall into patterns that limit our ability to play at the level we are internally wired to play at. And, even if we are experiencing "success," that still could be only the tip of the iceberg of our fullest capabilities.
Some of the wisest individuals knew that an investment in greater knowledge and insight than there own always paid off way more than any such investment. When Henry Ford was brought to the stand in a lawsuit to prove that he was incapable of running a company (with only a few years of elementary school education), and asked about some basic engineering concepts, he stated: "Why should I clutter my mind with general information when I have men around me who can supply any knowledge I need?"
Recognize that any investment that takes you to a higher level of effectiveness, empowerment, and earning can't help but pay for itself in short order. That's just good business: invest wisely, and sell for higher.
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