Why Do The Greatest Athletes, Artists, Performers In All Industries, Hire a Coach?

The word coach has its origins in transportation – a conveyance to take you from where you are to where you want to go. That’s exactly what we can do together.  Einstein famously defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.  If you’re stuck, sliding backwards or moving forward just too frustratingly slowly, it may be time to find a coach to mentor you, challenge you and help launch you to the next level.
 
Here are ten ways that working with a coach can help you find your personal power and realize your best self:

1.  Check Your Alignment.  One of the first things that a golf coach will do is make sure you are aimed at your target and that all of the fundamentals are sound.  As your coach, I want to make sure that you have balance and that you are aligned with your purpose and connected with your calling.  
2.  Check Your Blindspot.  A coach can help you identify and remove some of the barriers that you may have in place that is keeping you from achieving your goals and realizing your dreams.
3.  Check Your Progress.  By having someone to check in with weekly, you have a new level of accountability.  Reporting your accomplishments and initiatives to your coach keeps you focused on the small steps that are required to reach big results.
4.  Life Enrichment.  There’s more to life than work.  A good coach can help you  understand a life plan, reduce the stress in your life, build a fulfilling balance in your life, improve your relationships with others, improve your self awareness and consciousness, improve your self-discipline and motivation and even improve your health, well-being and happiness.
5.  Create Your Vision.  Your coach can assist you in understanding your strengths and how to play to them. You have someone who can help you get very clear about who you are, what your core values are, what you are passionate about and what will provide you with greater abundance in your life.
6.  Celebration and Encouragement.  Your coach will celebrate with you accomplishments and steps towards your personal definition of success.  There will be times also when you’ll need support, nurturing and a source of energy to help you believe in yourself and achieve your dreams.  I can help you turn setbacks into comebacks.
7.  Raising the Bar.  Constructive challenge and stretch goals can move you quickly to higher levels of achievement and prosperity.  Your coach can identify new skills that you may need and provide you with resources and options for increasing your professional value.  
8.  Collaborator and Co-conspirator.  Imagine how much more confident you can be in your new ideas, creativity and innovation when you’ve bounced them off a practiced, experienced, professional who has worked through the challenges that you are now facing.  A coach is a sounding board and a veteran who can show you the short cuts that he learned the hard way.
9.  Non-judgmental.  You can tell your coach anything.  Things you wouldn’t tell anyone else.  Because your coach is trained to be non-judgmental and objective.  I’ll point out where your thoughts aren’t congruent with your goals or your values and will share where I’ve seen those ideas work or not.  You can try out any thought or idea and together we can find what’s brilliant about it and get rid of the rest.
10.  Playing the Bounce.  We live in times of incredible change.  Life brings surprises, set-backs, changing circumstances and economic realities.  Technology is a game changer at every turn.  Your coach can help you see the big picture—the effects on your industry and your clients —and help you prepare, adjust and bounce back.

Paul A. Kiewiet, MAS, is a former chairman of the Promotional Products Association International, and an international speaker, writer, coach and facilitator. Contact him at: 269-806-4489, or paul@brandkiwi.com; or visit http://www.create2bgreat.com.