The always brilliant Carl Richards penned one of the best descriptions I ever read of how coaching actually works and why it can be so helpful and nourishing:
You don’t hire a coach — whether to help you with money, business, creativity, or sports — because you’re stupid.
You hire a coach because they’re not you.
Other people can see things you clearly cannot see.
[A good coach is an excellent detector of blind spots.
Well said, Carl Richards!]
Way too many people think hiring a coach is the same as admitting something is wrong with them or screaming out loud in front of the world that they need someone else to "fix" them and that the fixing needed is so "bad" that they cannot do it alone.
This could not be farther from the truth.
Hiring a coach is about being willing to reach the next level and realizing that you can get there faster and more effectively with someone in your corner able to show you sides of yourself you didn't know yet.
Quite often, getting where you want to go becomes easier by having someone else looking at the map from another perspective and finding with you an unexpected direction to try out.
Tags: Quotes about coaching, Self-awareness, Self-reflection, Hiring a coach
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