If Abraham Lincoln Was A Life Coach
Tim Brownson
Coaches come to me when they're sick of the relentless BS about scaling effortlessly to $10k weeks. It's tough being a fully booked coach. Suck it up. Professional coach since 2005.
Abraham Lincoln once said that if he was given six hours to cut down a tree he’d spend the first four sharpening his saw.
Leaving to one side the question of what the hell was he doing with his saw to make it that blunt in the first place? Honest Abe makes a good point.
I regularly get asked how long it takes to build a successful online business and my response usually shocks, and even sometimes, deters people.
If you are ONLY working online and presuming you don’t have a sack of cash to throw at advertising, at least a year, maybe two if you have a full-time job and family.
And that isn’t a year of dicking about with an hour here and an hour there.
That’s a year of probably 20-hour weeks.
Even then it won’t be easy.
But here’s the point.
If we are to think of coaching as a profession (and I do) then we need to approach it with a professional mindset.
Professionals do the grunt work.
Professionals pay for help.
Professionals are committed.
Professionals know that being out on this earth to do whatever it is, is not enough.
And professionals are focussed on the long-game.
If Abraham Lincoln was here today and wanted to be a coach rather than a lumberjack, do you think he’d nail the above five points?
I do.