One of the best feelings that I’ve ever experienced was the sense of accomplishment that happened to me while playing middle school basketball. The position that I played was  point guard and it was my job to bring the ball up court and set up the plays that the coach called. I was the best ball handler on the team and I welcomed any challenge to try and take the ball away from me.

My coach with his trained eye picked up on a glaring weakness in my game, now up to this point it had not been exploited so I’d not seen it myself. So one day coach calls me over after practice and he says to me you need to work on your left hand, I said why? What’s wrong with it? He said to me you favor your right because that’s your strength but any coach worth his title will spot that and try and take it away, which will make you less effective and hurt our chances at winning.

Now mind you I was still very young and quite immature at the time so I didn’t understand the concept until coach and I played a little one on one and he began to cut off my right side and my weakness became apparent even to me at that point.

So from there we began extra practice sessions specifically targeted at making my left hand as potent as my right. It got a little better but he told me my left needed to become more “instinctive” and I still didn’t quite understand, so he asked me to name a couple of my favorite players (now for you youngsters who read this I’m going to date myself a bit with these names) so I gave it some thought and the first name because of his “handles” was Isaiah Thomas then Magic Johnson also Norm Nixon.

So he just happened to have some recorded tapes of a couple of L.A. Laker and Detroit Piston games and what he pointed out to me while watching was how effortlessly these basketball wizards used both hands without thought or hesitation and he further explained how ineffective they would be if they only had the use and comfort of one hand.

It took some very intense practice,  getting used to and a couple of months but I eventually began to see huge progress and I also began to be able to tell when an opposing player had the same weakness that I had previously and I was able to use that to our teams advantage.

Something else I’d like to point out, because my weakness became a strength my anxiety level in that area decreased and I was able to really narrow my focus on the play,  making sure everyone else was on the same page. In times past I would be a bit distracted because I wasn’t as sure or comfortable using my left hand so my focus was split and I wasn’t always as effective but because I had a coach and I WAS COACHABLE , I was able to overcome a weakness and we won some games that we probably would have otherwise lost.

How is this related to business?  In this industry people get paid to “Coach” or “Mentor” because for many who are brand new to the online world the learning curve is huge, the vastness of the internet can be very intimidating and things change very rapidly. So the most efficient way to reduce your tenure in the”Internet School of Hard Knocks” is to have coaches/mentors who have a track record of success and achieved at least the level you would like to achieve yourself.

The benefits of having a coach:

  1. A set of trained eyes that can spot weaknesses that you may not be aware of.

  2. If someone has agreed to be your coach then they see the hidden potential inside of you.

  3. Coaches can push you to your next several levels.

  4. Coaching can help you develop focus.

  5. Leadership and someone to FOLLOW (very important to have an example of what success looks like)

What to look for in a Coach/Mentor:

  1. A great coach will have some jewelry (a championship ring or two, three or four) a proven record of success.

  2. A great coach still has a coach or has been coached/mentored by another great coach and will share that freely.

  3. A great coach has a great team to coach.

  4. Coaches are teachers and will display a passion to teach/train others for success.

  5. Leadership. Are others following this person? If no one is following them then it’s quite possible they are just someone taking a long walk by themselves..lol.

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