Where do people get the idea that in order to be in business FOR themselves, they need to do it all BY themselves.
Do YOU believe that?
I hope not…
Now I’m not really referring to whether or not you have any employees or contractors working with you. By now I’m sure it’s clear to you that while you’ll want to keep your efforts laser-focused on playing to your individual strengths, you will have hired or in some other way retained the services of others (employees or not) to attend to the areas you’re more challenged or less interested in.
What I am referring to in this article is your role as the visionary leader of your business. It’s a role that you and only you can occupy. It’s a responsibility that you and only you can shoulder. And it’s the role through which you’ll define success for your business.
The people working for you can’t help you with this.
Your spouse can’t help you with this.
The Government can’t help you.
Your Facebook followers can’t either.
I think you get the idea. Your solitary position as the visionary and leader of your business is exclusively yours.
BUT…
It is NOT something you have to do alone. In fact, I’ll go a step further and say:
You CANNOT do it alone. Nobody can.
I’ll go further still.
If you try to do it alone, you will fail to realize the success that is really possible for your business. While you might make some money, you’ll ultimately not achieve all that is possible. Period.
But before you object too strongly, I want to be clear that this is not a reflection on you or your abilities. It is simply the case that, as the luminary of your business. no matter how big or small, you cannot see everything necessary to make your loftiest vision a reality.
Building a business is like playing a 3 dimansional game of chess. You need to be able to “see” all the players and all of the possible moves in every dimension all at one time…while they are all moving at once.
While the people who work for you can encourage you, cheer you on and support your efforts through committed and dedicate effort, they can’t develop your vision and make it real. Rather they are waiting, in one way or another, for you to lead them to that realization.
While your spouse can encourage and support you; while he or she can keep the bill collectors at bay and manage the household while you transform your vision into a reality, he or she can’t advance your business or business concept for you.
So if none of these people can help you and you cannot do it alone. What do you do?
Well, there is one and only one human resource that can help you, a Coach.
That’s right, a coach.
Someone who can stand WITH you without judgment or prejudice.
Someone who can stand FOR you without compromise.
Someone who can act as confidant to your success, while telling you like it is, whether you like hearing it or not.
Someone who can see what you cannot and round out your perspective to help you be the best you can be.
Your coaching will make you better.
This is the single greatest piece of advice I can give you, and it applies to anything you commit yourself to accomplish in business and in life.
Don’t debate…GET A COACH….
I remember when I first decided to win a ranked bodybuilding contest. Despite the fact that I was not particularly athletic and I didn’t play an organized sport, at 19 years of age I decided I was going to win a ranked bodybuilding contest. This meant I was going to be competing with many of the top people in the world in that sport.
My friends all told me I was nuts.
My parents were dead set against it.
My girlfriend was OK with it until it cut into our time together and she took-off.
The vision I had for my accomplishment and what it meant to me was mine and mine alone.
I couldn’t explain it to anyone.
I couldn’t justify it to anyone.
I was inspired and absolutely committed.
But I had no idea how I was going to accomplish this lofty personal goal.
At the time, I remembered something my father had told me when I was a little boy. He said, “Steve, whenever you want to excel at anything in life, find a person who has excelled at it and ask them how they did it. You’ll be surprised how many of them are just itching to tell you.”
And he was right.
So, despite the fact that this is not what he had intended for me to apply that sage advice to, the very first move I made was the right one; I went out and found a professional bodybuilder to coach me. One year later I won my first contest and a year after that I was nationally ranked amongst the top tier competitors.
Here’s the thing for you to see.
I had to do the exercise.
I had to eat the right foods.
I had to get the right amount of rest.
I had to DO the work to accomplish each and every goal each and every step of the way.
And I can say with absolute certainty that without my coach, there is no way I could have made it.
Period.
I remember when I decided to start my own general contracting firm. Heeding the same advice, I went out and found a 40 year veteran of that business in my city to coach and mentor me. Three years later, after earning a tremendous living before I was even 30 years old, I sold the company to my closest competitor for nearly a quarter of a million dollars.
Again, I had to do the work.
I had to learn the trades.
I had to write the proposals and win the bids.
I had to hire and fire the right people and manage a network of subcontractors and suppliers.
But I can honestly say that had it not been for my mentor, George Tuckwiler, I would never have succeeded as I did.
I can give you dozens of examples. In fact, I can say with absolute certainty that every major success I’ve had in life I can attribute to great coaching.
What I want you to learn today is this:
If you are in business FOR yourself, you do NOT need to be in business BY yourself.
YOU MUST HAVE A COACH.
A coach stands in a void that cannot be filled by any other person.
A coach is uniquely qualified to help you develop the inner resources necessary to generate the success you desire.
A coach can help you “see” all the moves, all the positions and all players on the playing field of your business and help you choose the strategies that guarantee the victory.
I don’t know where the idea that you have to do it all alone comes from, but it’s crazy-wrong!
If this is the way you’ve been thinking then trust me on this;
GET YOURSELF A COACH!
Now before you object and contend that you cannot afford a coach (until you’ve made some money in your business), let me stop you with this thought:
In today’s economy there is no time nor money to waste on trial, error and guesswork. In most cases, you’ve got one legitimate shot to get it right and you need to start making money in your new business quickly.
The truth is, you cannot afford NOT to have a coach.
Every successful business owner you can think of has at least one. I am working with several right now.
Success leaves clues. Do yourself a favor and get a coach.
I’m standing for all that’s possible for you in life and business.
Sincerely,
Steve
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I’ve been badly burned in a couple of “coaching” programs–to the tune of nearly $10,000. I’ll admit that in both cases it was because I simply refused to do what I was told to: I did not then, nor do I now, want to “sell” stuff I know nothing about or do menial ad placement for businesses I’m not interested in. I’m a retired lecturer in English and Education (from UM-St. Louis), but I’ve worked in retail, advertising and promotion, newspaper and radio-tv. I want this last business to be different–say, maybe, a compilation (collage?) of all the things I’ve learned in my seventy-five years. Computer tech is NOT one of those things. I want to LEARN to use it, not teach others about it (which seems to be the basis of everything I’ve explored so far). OK, so I’m being stubborn and unrealistic; but I’ve spent my life doing the things I truly enjoyed. I certainly don’t want to spoil the next twenty-five to fifty years doing “chores”! Can you help? Will you? I’m pretty short of funds till I can recoup the aforementioned 10k; can I afford your services? P.S. I’m an expert proofreader, having spent many hundreds of hours reading student papers; is there any way I can “moneytize” this skill in some automated internet-based way?
You are right, Henry Ford knew it. I have read a lot of Knitingale, Roberts, Zigler, and others. I have the Covey Seven Habits of Highly effective People in front of me now.I have a site called Fucustimeorg and a blog called The big Fucustime Blog. My Actionmat Advertising Alliance site is not turned on yet… nor the others. I know what I want ….. But I don,t know all the techy stuff yet. I am looking for techy to show me some of the basic things I need to know on seting up blugs ,twiter , and domains without spending an arm or leg. My domaine site needs tuned. I have a business offer. and I want my site to help with it. When it is all said and done I would love to have some of your vids on it. They can not be beat. They are the best, hands down. Sometimes I get excited and know in my heart that I am on the right track. Other times I get like Eeore , From , Winnie the Poo. I need to up my 5. and stay fucused. Thomas Savage
Did you see blugs? Late nights can be a killer. Thomas
Hi Steve,I am a selfstudy fanatic and/or expert. I have two degrees self studied (correspondence). I have selfstudied golf from Internet (http://www.videojug.com) videos. I have selfstudied dancing (foxtrot, swing, wailtz). I am doing gym every week for 5 hours on a selfstudy basis.I am a computer programmer/analyst/etc. A lot of what is in my career is/was self studied.I have my own computer software business, did my own tax and bookkeeping.I am about to retire. If I had done more of even the above under guidance of a coach, it would have surely taken less time, less trial and error, and I surely could have maximised returns on these investments. I agree: GET A COACH
Hi Steve, I am at a point in my life and buisness ventures that I have to agree get a coach. Is there any coaching avable to some one who doesnt have any income except for a smal fixed income. Like Social Security monthly check. Maybe you can help me locate a coach willing to accept a percentage of my buisness that isnt producing any income at present time. Am I asking the impossible??? Ha if I dont ask how will I learn. Thank you James Ross
Yes, I have been converted to the value of coaching in order to keep on track towards reaching one’s goals. However, in harmony with the idea of giving value before receiving rewards, I would like to see some coaching offered on some innovative kind of a contingency basis rather than requiring another $$ investment from the struggling businessman.
I don’t disagree
Like some of the other persons above, I have found that a Coach might be necessary but every time I have hired someone to do a particular job they have wanted the position (and the pay) but not the work that went with it. Few persons are willing to share the risks and work for reasonable pay now and reap rewards in relation to their worth to the business. I have had sales persons who would work only hard enough to meet the relatively spare necessities in life but would not accept the discipline to help expand the business for the benefits of the other persons working with them. I have had internet persons who have never delivered on their promises, thus no web site yet. I am only one person and do not have the time or energy to to learn all of the disciplines necessary to accomplish routine tasks in accounting or computer programming while selling product and producing the same product. I have watched carefully to see the work habits and work ethic of employees at other businesses and noted that only a few persons give a fully committed hour’s work for an hour’s pay. It is a rare employee that looks after the welfare of the employer just as he looks after his own welfare. How often have I heard an employee say ” I would do the work if they would just pay me” while not doing a good job at the task they were hired to do. (A secretary reading a romance novel while on duty, a salesman trying to get prices reduced by the employer to enable them to make more sales rather than focusing on the real value offerd by his company’s product and explaining this to the purchaser. A store manager who is afraid to manage but instead works as an administrator carrying out instructions rather than actually managing a store for the profit of both the owner and the customer. ) My father had the perspective on this that said, ” It is sad that the employee believes that his paycheck is the money in the pay envelope at the end of the week. The pay he receives is far more if he will consider it. He is receiving a specific amount of money while making mistakes that the employer must pay for and he is learning a profession or a specific set of skills for which the employer or a competitor will be willing to pay higher amounts of money in the future. Knowledge can never be taken away from you. If anyone offers you a school, take it. It makes you more valuable once you have the skills. I agree with this perspective. Too bad few parents teach this now.
I coudn’t agree with you more, you can’t do every thing yourself. I know you can learn from an onlooker if you are willing to listen I worked with older men learned from them. The other day on success, I like to feel I was successfull because different ones come for my advice. Oliver Amesbury
I totally agree, I have attempted to get my businesses off the ground for 2 years now; It took 6 months for the engineer to finish my construction plans on a remodel, 24×20 building and a 10×12 shed. I had to continue paying rent of $2900.00 a month which were monies I needed to complete other projects.I would like to be able to depend on others, but like you said thats hard to do.I realize coaching or mentors are an important piece of the puzzle, but when you have spent the money with no results I know I am a little leary. It would be great to find someone to do it pro-bono. but I don’t think that is likely. I do have respect for Steve and appreaciate what I have learned so far. Mark Danner
Dear Mr. Steve,I am one of the followers of all your shows and blogs. I think you are doing a great service for people all over the world. I am at India. I am also inspired by what you write. Can you coach people who are out of your country and in that case will the costs be very high? The peculiarity of different countries may require that the coaching be reoriented for that country.I wish that not only ne but a lot of people from my country benefit.I had written to you earlier but there was no response.Thanking you wish you a great 2010with warm regardsYours faithfullyRavi
I totally agree with what you say in the article and the similarity between getting a coach to win a bodybuilding contest and building a successful business is so true due to the fact that you are the one doing the heavy lifting. Lots of people rely on the coach hoping for the best, forgetting the fact that you alone will have to do the work, daily and consistently. The coach is there for guidance only.Keep up the good work. Thanks!
Like Barbara, I also spent $10,000 for two business coaching programs. Somehow, 5 grand seems to be the going rate for coaching. In retrospect I would have come out ahead paying someone to build a business for me (since at the time I thought I wanted an ecommerce biz). My first coach seemed to be only a couple of steps ahead of me in terms of skills. The other coach had his own agenda and I wasn’t getting what I had asked for. I truly believe that we might not be as successful going it alone as we would with a “wingman”. I also believe that there has to be the right chemistry between mentor/mentee for a more harmonious outcome.Having said all that I’d be curious to know if this would be part of One Coach or a totally unique program.
I’m just starting out I do want a coach but not now. I think the advice is good but for me as of now I’d like to be in business for awhile to see how it goes for about a 1year. So, there you have it I’m new to this like I said therefore I want to see what I can do first before getting somebody else involve with me.
Dear Steve, Experience has taught people not to trust. Very few people are trustworthy. I trust you. I order TPBF on the 19th. I’ll get on your coaching team. I’m so excited! Sincerely, karen
Firstly, I ascertained that the teleseminar was nor relevant to me as I live in a different country. I would agree that someone else can see dangers and mistakes that you may miss. No doubt you see one of your team filling the role as coach and confidant. When you talk of coach, I think of someone with a dollar sign attached, a large dollar sign. I know you will argue that is not necessarily true, and your coach may be a close friend with “business savvy”. As Karen says above, society teaches us not to trust, and our true friends, who we can trust with our lives, and our business are few indeed. Too often we are looking for the dagger in the other hand. I don’t have a business and a little selling on eBay I don’t think requires someone to whisper warnings in my ear. But I will concede that in big business advisors are needed to avoid all the pitfalls of business law.
Hey George, I never said “society”, I said experience has taught people not to trust. It’s right there in black and white. I trust Steve for a bunch of reasons. He gives a lot of information. It’s checkable. His story is consistent. His customer service team is nice, available, and professional. He’s already made his nut. He looks great in a speedo. He JV’s with Joe Vitale. I can’t find one bad thing on the scam blog sites. He resonates with me. I really feel his heart’s in this. I think he’s payin’ it forward.
What happens if you are uniquely talented at what you do – so that in principle you should be the one coaching everyone else, except that they will probably never achieve the same results because… they just can’t? And yet what you are doing costs you so much that there’s no way you can do it full-time, you can’t make a living, nor can you even realistically multiply or leverage the business because no one else can perform up to the standard your customers are used to? There is a downside to being at the top, to occupying a niche basically without competition. Especially when it’s a business you don’t really LOVE. And you can’t even really retire either. Because then where will your customers go? I think there are situations where even a coach can’t help you.
Hi caraboska,
Thank you for your comment.
Here is something for your consideration. People can only be as big (as smart, as talented, as capable, etc) as you see them.
The belief that no one else is capable in a particular area is just that, a belief. It is not “the truth”. But because it is your belief, others show up that way to you.
“Coaching” is not “training” and it has nothing to do with being the best at something. Think of the champion athlete and his or her coach. The athlete is clearly superior with regard to the actual competition. However he or she would not have attained that level of proficiency without his or her coach.
A coach helps you see and overcome the things that stop you or curtail your success.
If, for instance, you can begin to see others as capable and committed and decide to invest and lead them to succeed, you not only advance your business concept, but you advance yourself and your capacity for success too.
I hope this helps.
Thanks again for your comment.
Sincerely,
Steve
PS – Should you seek a coach with a high degree of experience, expertise and proficiency in a given area? Yes, absolutely. Getting the right coach matters. You want someone who knows how to help you navigate the waters of your particular journey. You hire a athletic coach to become a champion athlete and my coaches become a champion business builder. =0)
Hi caraboska,
Thank you for you comment.
I beg to differ with your conclusion. It seems to me that this is precisely where a coach CAN help you. Let me illustrate. The idea that “you should be the one coaching everyone else, except that they will probably never achieve the same results because… they just can’t?” is a belief that in this case is limiting what you see possible for yourself. Its not the truth…its just what you believe….what you see.
People can only be as big as you see them.
If you see everyone as being less capable than yourself then they will show up that way for you. But if instead, you take on the challenge of changing your perception of people…and find a way to make them even bigger and better then you are … then you have not only advanced their cause in service of your business….but you’ve advanced yours too.
A coach will empower you to see what you cannot see on your own.
Coaching is not training. Think of the champion athlete. Certainly the champion athlete is the best…better than the coach in the contest…but the coach got him or her there….without the coaching, the athlete would fail as a champion.
Make sense?
Thanks again for you comment
Steve
AWESOME STEVE KEEP IT GOING GET THE WORD OUT AND WE WILL SEE MORE SUCCESS
Steve I couldn’t agree with you more However before I go any further I want to address Barbara who posted at 1:33PM Barbara I am a new self-published author in fact my book was just released on March 31 2010 “Revelation Exposed Plain & Simple” By William P Kramer / W P Kramer. Anyway you were asking if Steve knew away for you to “moneytize” your skill. Let me reassure you that you can make an absolute awesome business in a very short time by offering your services to self-published authors. It is a very expensive service that most self-published authors desperately need. I was blessed that my mother-in-law was a proofreader for years for attorneys. Go to self-publishers and offer your services, make a blog offering your services to self-published authors, write and ezine article about your services with your price, website and history. Send out e-mail campaigns to authors. It is not hard to find out the best and inexpensive it is to get the word out because you can service anyone who needs you regardless where they live. The world is your market not just a corner store in your local city. GO FOR IT!!! Now Steve back to you and your message as I said I cannot agree more with you however cost can very well be a huge problem. As I said I am a new author but I am also on disability with a child at home with over $300,000 in medical bills I am struggling with and trying to maintain a living even after I lost around $3000 a month in income because of having to go on disability. I am praying that I will be able to turn my life around with this book and my second book I am currently writing, “Surviving the New-World-Order”. …
If you want to succeed GET A COACH ASAP!!!!! Don’t try to reinvent the wheel to success take a nice ride on one that already works.
God Bless W P Kramer
Steve, I had all those around to learn all the lessons and more from this journey, I keep thinking I am a survivor Yes a Coach is A DEFINATE , I have never thought that I could do it on my own my Vision includes many different idea’s however there was always one main one that stood out. So where ever my Money is then the coach shall come and until then I keep hoping that eventually I will have the finance for that to happen .NEVER THOUGHT i COULD DO WITHOUT OTHERS FOR THAT WAS ME ALWAYS OPEN ONLY NO fINANCE IS A PROBLEM FOR ME AT THE MOMENT. Any way thank you Steve Have a day, WITH THE BEST THINGS POSSIBLE .
your advice is funtastic. How do I get a coach who understands me and my situation?