Although I hear it from my own clients, it’s usually only after my session with my own coach that I really can appreciate the power of coaching to help me move my business to the next level. Sure, I LOVE coaching my clients: It is the most rewarding experience there is. But then getting it from the OTHER end is just so amazingly empowering!
Do you have a coach to help you grow? If not, ask yourself why you don’t. No matter how successful you are, there are always other hills to climb and other dreams to pursue, and often it’s not that we won’t DO them, but with a coach, we do them SOONER! Imagine getting to your goals sooner! Wow. Why imagine, though, and not make it happen???
I know. I changed my focus of my business thanks to the coaching discussions I had with my very first coach, which led me in a direction I had never IMAGINED. And I wrote and published my book as a result of the discussions with my second coach. These days, thanks to the sessions with my third coach, I see a new path for my speaking career taking shape. It’s not that I wouldn’t be taking that path, but with someone for me to be accountable to, there’s that little extra push to move more deliberately and focused.
If you have dreams and goals you have not yet moved into, I can’t encourage you enough to consider finding a coach that will help you move in that direction.
Although anyone can call themselves a coach, the one strong recommendation I would make is that if you ARE looking for a coach, look for someone who has had some formal coach training. You may gain some advantage to having a conversation with anyone who provides ‘coaching’, but coaching is not telling you what to do (do it this way because that’s what *I* did and it worked!), but helping YOU decide the path you want to take. Plus, trained coaches have skills that someone who just wants to ‘coach’ you generally lacks.
Regardless, get out there and make your dreams come true! And if you want to make it happen SOONER, you need a coach!
Margie
Margie is a graduate of the Coach Training Institute and provides business coaching to health, fitness and service professionals around the country. To set up a complementary 30-minute coaching call, or to look at the services she offers, go to her website, http://www.meg-enterprises.com.
