Who is your Coach?
Pick a sport.
Now think of a really successful person within that sport.
Did you pick.... Tiger Woods, Lauren Jackson, Ian Thorpe, Michael Schumacher?
Doesn't matter. Whoever you picked stay with that person.
Imagine you had the opportunity to have a one on one interview with that amazing, world class sportsperson. You could ask them anything you liked. You could really find out what makes them tick, really get inside their head.
Do you think that if your successful sports person who their coach was that you'd get the answer: "I'm at the top of my game, the best in the World - I don't need a coach".
Wouldn't happen would it? Whoever your person is, or whichever of the successful people you could chose from the above list - they all have a coach. They all have someone dedicated to improving their performance, giving them guidance and instruction, keeping them accountable and helping them grow as an athlete.
Now if we can see in the sports world the benefit of having a coach - why is it that most of us trying to achieve success in the business world couldn't name our coaches?
In the business world is it an advantage to:
- Continually improve your performance
- Get guidance and instruction
- Stay accountable to your goals
- Continue to grow?
I would say the answer is yes to all of these points. In your business or career, whatever it may be, the quickest way to plateau is to stop learning and improving.
Now - there are many different forms of "coaches" for us in our careers such as:
- Your boss or a co-worker who has achieved what you want to achieve
- A role model you read about in books / articles
- A formal business coach or mentor
- A life coach
- A successful person in your industry or another that you admire and emulate from afar.
Your choice as to how many of these you take on is completely up to you. My advice would simply be start with one today. Whether you find your first coach in a book or email like this, or at the desk opposite you at work, make sure they push you to try new things. Make sure you're outside your comfort zone. Make sure you find ways to keep yourself accountable.
Good luck finding your coach and being on your way to being world class at whatever you do.
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Kirsty Dunphey has first and foremost always been entrepreneurial. From her start at an early age working in her parents small businesses or opening her first business at 15 – she’s had the bug her whole life.
Starting two small businesses at the age of 15 and her own real estate agency at 21 Kirsty has been described as "Little bit Aussie Battler, Little bit Sassy Entrepreneur."
From there, Kirsty grew her real estate business to a network of 6 offices within 5 and a half years operating around her State with a team of over 50 people and a swag of awards to her name.
The author of Advance to Go, Collect $1 Million and one of Australia's favourite public speakers Kirsty shows that anything is possible - after all she went from a family with two bankrupt parents and herself being broke at 19, to being a self made millionaire at 23 and a multi millionaire at 25 through her businesses and real estate investments.
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