Why would Tiger need a coach?

     Here is a photo of Tiger Woods and his swing coach Hank Haney. Why would someone as great as Tiger need a coach?

    The answer is he doesn't. He doesn't need a coach.

    But he wants one.

    Because coaching makes people dramatically better at what they do.

    I have a coach, myself. In fact I have the ultimate coach, Steve Hardison. (www.theultimatecoach.net). I've had him off and on for years and we are currently in the middle of a four year contract. He has changed my life.

   Steve Hardison says, "Most coaches have a script or a program. These coaches buff, tweak, and improve your life or your business - a little. I change lives. I have no set curriculum because you are my material. My program is in your speaking. You speak. I listen. We dance. Your life ignites."

   I not only have a coach, but I also coach coaches. In May I'll be doing a major segment of Stephen McGhee's coaching prosperity school in Denver, Colorado. I'll be doing my part May 30. Masterful, nationally-famous coach McGhee only has three more openings left for his school of nine coaches, so if you are a coach sign up quickly if you want to grow your practice. Like Stephen McGhee did. He's closing in on a seven figure practice right now and he'll show you how he did it.

    Go here if you are a coach: http://www.miracleleader.com/coachingschool.html  
    
    Let Stephen McGhee teach you to not just be a coach but to be a fearless coach. Look at him here:

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"A teacher affects eternity. He can never tell where his influence stops."

~Henry B. Adams

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        Great coaches always cite the coaches they themselves learned from.

        In today's environment, most (surveys show over 70%) of today's top business leaders have coaches….personal success coaches or life coaches who take them to higher levels of  success than they ever could have attained on their own.     

      The object of the coaching process is to allow the leader to discover his or her hidden strengths and bring them to the forefront in the daily life of the business.

     Every great actor, dancer and athlete credits most of their career progress to a coach who gave them support and teaching along the way. In the past, our society has celebrated the concept of coaching in sports and show business, because those were fields where excellence was always expected.  Business was just business.

      But because of coaching, today's business leader has the same opportunity to explore the upper limits of his or her excellence as does a sports star or an actor. Coaching makes that opportunity a conscious part of the leader's career.

    "I absolutely believe that people, unless coached, never reach their maximum capabilities," said Bob Nardelli, former CEO of  Home Depot.

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     I'll repeat something I've written about before. Ultimate coach Steve Hardison helped me understand something that lives inside of all of us, something he called "the voice." When you wake up in the morning, the voice is there right away, telling you that you are too tired to get up. Or too sick to go to work. During a sales meeting when you are just about to say something bold to a client, the voice might tell you to cool it. "Hold back." "Be careful."

     "The trick is," said Steve, " to not ignore or deny the existence of the voice. Because it's there, in all of us. It's in Michael Jordan. It's in everyone. No one is free of the voice. However, you don't have to obey the voice. You can talk back to the voice. And when you really get good, you can even talk trash to the voice. Make fun of it. Ridicule it. Point out how stupid it is. And once you get into that way of debating your own doubts, you start to take back con-trol of your life."

    Many times I'd be in the middle of a large business project and ask to meet with Steve for an hour. After he listened for a few minutes, he would almost invariably see right away what was "missing" in my behavior. And like a great golf coach watching Tiger Woods' backswing, he would say, "Are you willing to accept some coaching on this?" And I would eagerly say yes. Then he would tell me truthfully, sometimes ruthlessly, what he saw. I didn't always like what he saw, but I always grew stronger from talking about it.

     Hardison's coaching was so jolting that sometimes it reminded me of an incident that happened to me when I was a little boy playing Little League baseball.

     I had injured my knee in a play at third base and when the game was over the knee was swollen and my entire leg was stiff. As I sat on the bench with my leg straight out in front of me, a doctor whose son was on our team was kneeling down by my leg as my father looked on.

     "I'd like you to bend your leg now," he said to me as his hands gently held my swollen knee.

     "I can't," I told him.

     "You can't?" he asked, looking up at me. "Why can't you?"

     "Because I tried, and it really hurts."

     The doctor looked at me for a second, and then said simply but gently, "Then hurt yourself."

     I was startled by his request. Hurt myself? On purpose? But then, without saying anything, I slowly bent my leg. Yes, there was tremendous pain, but that didn't mat-ter. I was still mesmerized by his request.

     The doctor massaged my knee with his fingers and nodded to my father that everything would be okay. I'd have to have x-rays and the usual precautionary exam, but he saw nothing seriously wrong for now.

     But I was still aware that something very big had just happened to me. After a boyhood that was characterized by avoiding pain and discomfort of any kind, all of a sudden I saw that I could hurt myself if I needed to, and that I could do it calmly without batting an eye. Perhaps I wasn't the coward I'd always thought I was. Perhaps there was as much courage in me as in anyone else, and it was all a matter of being willing to call on it.

     It was a defining incident in my life, and it was not dissimilar to the way Steve Hardison, as a coach, has required that I call on things inside me that I didn't know I had.

     One time I was having a hard time enrolling people into seminars and doing my prospecting calls on the phone. Steve grabbed the phone and started calling people and signing them up. Just to show me that anyone could do it if they just did it. Then he accidentally dialed a wrong number and reached some mechanic at a car repair garage. Most people would have apologized at that point and hung up and dialed again. But rather than waste the call, Steve introduced himself and then stayed on the phone ... until the mechanic had signed up for a seminar.

     Hardison is a gifted and courageous public speaker, a resourceful and relentless salesperson, a talented athlete and a committed family man and church member. The kind of guy who used to make me sick!

     I could write an entire book about Steve Hardison's remarkable work in coaching and consulting, and someday I just might. Examples of ways that he coached me to higher levels of performance are plentiful. But I think the greatest thing he has taught me is the value of coaching itself.

     Once you open yourself up to being coached, you begin to receive the same advantages enjoyed by great actors and athletes everywhere. When you open yourself up to coaching, you don't become weaker-you grow stronger. You become more responsible for changing yourself.

     In "The Road Less Traveled," M. Scott Peck writes, "The problem of distinguishing what we are and what we are not responsible for in this life is one of the greatest problems of human existence...we must possess the willingness and the capacity to suffer continual self-examination."

     The best coaches show us how to examine ourselves. It takes courage to ask for coaching, but the rewards are great. The best moments come when your coach helps you do something you have previously been afraid to do. When Hardison would recommend that I do something I was afraid to do I'd say, "I don't know if I could do that."

     "So don't be you," he would say. "If you can't do that, then be someone else. Be someone who could do it. Be DeNiro, be Bruce Lee, be anybody, I don't care, as long as you do it."

     His coaching's contribution to my life is illustrated in these words by French philosopher Guillaume Apollinaire:

" 'Come to the edge,' he said.

They said, 'We are afraid.'

'Come to the edge,' he said.

They came.

He pushed them.

And they flew."

 

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HOW WE BECOME FEARLESS

     AN AMAZING LETTER from a club fearless member in the Czech Republic:

     How I become fearless …Looking at my life in last two years, how it is unfolding - it start one terrible day, when my wife told me, that she is not satisfied with our relationship and that she is moving with my 10 years old son back to her home country 1400 km far out from my house to another man… At the moment I suddenly realized, that I spend all my time somewhere out, working for my company, living in really funny reality of media and busyness. I apologized to her, I help her to move, help with all what is coming along and start going used to, that I can communicate with my growing boy mostly on Skype only.

     I can’t say, it has been great time…at the beginning. But then by happy accident I found HayHouse radio and Michael Neill's shows. I start listening regularly to his great lessons and somehow slowly my mind start shifting. After time, I found many great people, each help to carry my mind forward in new direction. Wayne Dyer, Louise Hay, Richard Bandler, Robert Holden, Poul McKenna, …just some of those.

     I bought lots of audio books and using them in my car, I start being almost addicted to driving. And to my mp3 player at home. I stop killing time watching TV or listening radio. Things start changing. In few Michael's shows I hear him to talk about…."my guru and mentor Steve Chandler …”, so I start to become interested.

     Finally I get a copy of your audio book Reinventing Yourself. I did not manage to go thru for the first time, it was so much different from effortless and easy ways … It was scary real. Then I note, that even my Guru  Michael start shifting in his shows and rather than about acquisition or attraction he talk about creation, rather than about positive thinking and affirmations about taking action(b.t.w. yesterday in his SuperCoach show he said ..”I have not hear about anyone who attract pizza to stop being hungry”  ). I start fighting with ideas in your book against what Michael s Effortless success… and I don’t have success.

     And suddenly, last trip to my sons holiday this February I start in my car your audio book Reinventing Yourself. I listen to it without any break, I have tears in my eyes, I listen to it once again. Then 100 ways to motivate Yourself and then 50 ways to create great relationship and again Reinventing …. I soaks all the knowledge, which I probably have already somewhere deep inside waiting to be acknowledged. After 14 hours of driving I become somehow scared, that I am almost there and the book is not at the End yet, even I listen third time… fortunately I saw my son running to welcome me so I turn your book off.. I spend week in my ex wife’s new family. We become much better friends in last two years than ever before. In these holidays I became member of Club Fearless.

     In last couple of months I note, that I like the idea to help other people to find their way out of “grey dreams” to reality. Beautiful and fearless. I have been dreaming about being coach. So I stop dreaming and while signing up to Fearless, I also sign up for study in ICA – international coaching academy. (To be as excellent coach -or better J- as you.) Things start moving . I did it. Anyhow, anyone would – it’s not easy to listen to you and stay the same. Unchanged. Thank you! I read Fearless gift book– HOW TO GET CLIENTS - I start noticing small things, which make me feel to be really in touch – your hand writing on each envelope, nice CD (not just download mp3), real mail instead of email, life teleclass… I think how much I already get for being in club. And today I got your gift… now you may more understand how much it makes me happy. Next month I am going to see Michael in London - one of my dreams is coming thru. Hope some other day I will have the privilege to see You. In case, you did read this, please, take my apologies for violating English, Thank you, looking forward to hear from club fearless again…

   Click here to learn more about the club so many people are joining as an antidote to the toxic mainstream media. We are about not giving in to fear. We are about rising up.

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