Why Do I Invest 6 Figures a Year in Coaching?
The Law Business Secrets e-newsletter is getting out to you a day late because I was traveling yesterday to Scottsdale and I’m at the Phoenician Resort where I’m meeting with my new mentor, Alexandria Brown.
This year I will invest more than 6 figures in business coaching. Yep, you read that right, more than $100,000 this year.
And this is not the first year.
I’ve spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on coaching over the past 8 years.
It all started with my first coach, Mariette.
I almost didn’t hire her because I couldn’t fathom spending the money on myself. Let alone the time I’d need to take each week to work with her.
This was back when I was still at the big law firm and very rarely spent money on myself.
My kids, yes. My husband, yes.
But, not me.
Thank goodness I did though because what Mariette helped me discover is that my unwillingness to invest in myself was keeping me trapped right where I was, unhappily working for someone else.
I might still be there had I not hired a coach to help me see where I was stuck.
I hired my next coach when I was ready to leave the big law firm and open my own office.
I wanted someone who would be there to guide me through the whole process of setting up my office and my systems.
So, I hired a well known coach whose name you would know if I said it, but I won’t because I don’t have great things to say about that experience.
He was a traditionalist in every sense of the word.
When I discussed some of my radical ideas for how I wanted to build and run my law firm, he told me I’d fail, that I should do things the traditional way, the way things were always done.
When I told him I didn’t want to continue coaching with him, he told me I was making a huge mistake, that I didn’t know what I was doing and needed his advice to do things the
right way.
Ick.
Since then, I’ve always had a coach or mentor, often more than one.
Each one has taken me to a new level of business and personal success and happiness.
If you are not working with a mentor or a coach, you should be.
Whether it’s me or someone else, if you want more out of your life and your business than you are experiencing right now, a mentor will help you get there.
If you aren’t sure how to choose in a mentor/coach, here’s what you should look for:
1. Someone who is positive and uplifting and inspires you to stretch outside your comfort zone and go beyond your limits.
2. Someone who has done what you want to do and gone where you want to go and can save you from expensive mistakes.
3. Someone who will encourage your independence by giving fully and not holding back the secrets so you are dependent on him or her forever.
Finding the right mentor will change everything for you. It sure did for me.
If you are nervous about finding the money to invest, consider that you are your very best investment and the investment you make will pay dividends every day for the rest of your life.
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