The Karate Kid was one of my favorite 80's movies! You know the story, a new kid moves to a new place, meets a girl who's dating the "jock" and in this case a martial arts expert with a bad attitude and a worse teacher. It's the classic hero's journey.
Daniel, the main character, stumbles upon a teacher that shows him a new style, but more importantly teaches him about life and the importance of discipline, self-respect, and honor. Which in the end helps him defeat his nemesis. Daniel learns that even if you're really the best that life isn't fair and will sweep your legs from under you and try and steal your victory.
However, the student is not ready until he can in fact best his teacher which in my own log winded way is the point. I was having a conversation today with one of my coaching students. We were discussing strategies, approaches, and mindset. Now let me give you a little background here on this person. She's a rocket when it comes to getting things done. Once she sees what she wants it's like BOOM and she's going after it.
So a few days ago I introduced her to a concept that she wasn't familiar with and it opened her mind to so many things she could do with the information and so many directions it was great to hear how excited she was which I have to say is a great feeling as a coach. So in the middle of our conversation, she made this statement "Vernon why haven't you done this yet, You really should have this working for you, what are you waiting on?" Yep, and you guessed it an 80's training montage flashback to the Karate Kid.
Well, at least that's what went through my mind when she said that. She was right I should have been doing what we talked about but I wasn't. Oh and not only had I not executed on this knowledge I had a list of BS reasons why I hadn't - hand to forehead.
Yes, that just happened I'm thinking, and I was so happy that it did! I just learned something from someone I was helping. It's not that I don't look to learn things from others because I do but so often you get wrapped up in what you're doing that you don't pay attention to the things you're missing until someone wonderful that you're helping points it out to you. I'm so grateful to her for saying that and of course, I told her "You're right, and we moved on in the conversation but afterward I reflected on the conversation and thought damn I need to step it up.
Keep your mind open when you're talking to people that you're helping and make sure the advice you're giving and the resources you are suggesting you're taking full advantage of personally. You never know what you are about to learn and who your teacher will be.
Now you may be wondering what strategies were you talking about and what thing did you share with your student? Well, I can tell you but there are only two ways that can happen. One is you're a coaching student and the other one is if you're on the VIP List. Yes if you're on the list I'll share with you in a private email some of the concepts we were discussing today. I can't give the VIP members all the stuff my coaching clients pay for but trust if you're on the list you will learn tons from this info. So if you would like to know more about some pretty cool strategies or if you would like to get other exclusives just click on the VIP List or sign up on the right. Also if you like this post let me know if the comments, on Pinterest, Twitter or Facebook.
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