Why I Plan to Have a Coach for the Rest of My Life
Sometimes people ask me:
Why would a coach have a coach?
Don’t you know all this stuff already?
Do you have like…a lot of problems or something?
To which I say:
I have a coach for the same reason a dentist brushes their teeth.
You can know everything there is to know about dentistry and the biology of mouths and teeth.
You can go to school for years and help people with their teeth every day.
Even if you have all the dental knowledge and skill in the world…
The nature of the human mouth is that it gets dirty.
And you need to manually clean it if you want to stay healthy.
All the dental degrees in the world don’t exempt you from this simple, practical reality.
Coaching is exactly the same.
The nature of the human brain is that it “gets dirty.”
By that I mean that your automatic brain makes interpretations of the things around you all day long.
It makes thousands of these interpretations every day, driving you to feel a whole range of feelings and take hundreds of actions all day long.
Now what are the odds that 100% of that automatic, snap-judgment programming aligns with how YOU want to feel, what YOU want to get done, and what YOU want your life to look like?
That would be insane, if your automatic brain got it right 100% of the time!
This is why your brain needs coaching, just like your teeth need brushing.
Coaching is an opportunity to get your automatic thoughts out in the open.
To hear yourself say out loud all those unquestioned assumptions that have been running in the background.
To look at the effect those assumptions have been having on your life.
To test new ones and understand the impact they could make.
And to make a plan for implementation so your life is permanently changed, well beyond the duration of one conversation.
Your brain is going to make snap judgments for the rest of your life.
You need a structured, systematic way to LOOK at what it’s doing and ADJUST whatever’s not working.
Now, you can do this work on your own, in your head or with a journal.
You can foist this work on your friends or spouse, making them listen to you talk for hours.
Or you can hire a professional who is trained to get you RESULTS.
Someone who can see your blind spots and be kind but firm in pointing them out.
Someone who can draw on their experience to make suggestions based on what has worked for others in your situation.
Someone who can get you un-stuck with an endless repertoire of exercises and questions to get even the most stubborn brain moving in the right direction.
Someone who is laser-focused on root causes and effective solutions, and wastes no time on detours or distractions.
Someone who can create open, non-judgmental space for you to say the things you’re most afraid to say out loud.
So what are you waiting for?
The only thing standing between you and the life you want is the current state of your brain.
And that’s exactly what we’re going to work on. So let’s get started.
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