Coaching is Essential

Say you wanted to learn to golf or to scuba dive or sky dive for that matter. What if you had never been bungie jumping and one day you just decided to go out to a very tall tower and tie a stretchy cord on your waist and jump?! The outcome in any of these endeavors without proper training from the experts or the right equipment might be sheer disaster. Real Estate is like any thing you do in your life and training is essential. Having a coach is what brings all the training to focus so that you can really pinpoint what works for you. Accountability is key. I have a coach that I meet with every two weeks. The first week he told me to write out a check for $100 and leave it with him. If I didn't do the things I said I would do I had to let him send the check to any one person who I didn't particularly care for in the business. That sucked so I have worked hard on making sure that I did my calls. It was not that big of a deal to do it. But it is one of those things that you put off because it is uncomfortable. The thought of paying someone $100 because I didn't do it was more uncomfortable.

The past two weeks I've also decided that I'm going to lose weight. I'm tired of carrying around this extra weight and tired of all the offshoot problems associated with it, from lack of relationships with people I feel less confident around to health issues that are starting to creep up. I've been eating 500 calories a day for 2 weeks. That has not been comfortable, but have I died? NO! My thoughts however are changing. My thoughts about food and what my body really needs to live and be healthy are changing. I've begun to realize just how bad my eating was and just how mindless. I think that is what we do with many areas of our lives, it is just mindless jibberish if we don't stop and get aware and see where we need to tweak our thoughts. Our thoughts will control the outcome of what we are doing, what we become. There is no other power that can do it, until we make a purposeful conscious decision.

Coaching is uncomfortable, but I'm going to stay with it and see what I can bring to the table each session, what I can rethink and remake, both personal and in my business. I cannot disconnect the two anyway. One step at a time.