Are you a Master Coach? Only 10,000 hours to Mastery…how ’bout it?

The story of success can be created in about 10,000 hours.

Yep, thats it. Just 10,000 hours to mastery of just about anything. That’s approximately 4 hours a day, only 5 days a week…every single one of the 52 weeks in the year…for the next 10 years! Wow!

In Malcome Gladwell’s book The Outliers - (outliers -  the people who lie on the outside of ordinary experiences. People who have achieved amazing results.) Gladwell talks about this in his book “The Outliers: The Story of Success”; he references a study done by scientists that discovered that violin students who practiced 3 to 4  hours a day, with increase in hours over 20 years, students who practiced an accumulation of 10,000 where the masterful players, with those students who only played an accumulation of 8,000 hours were merely “really good players”.

He defines failure as “not getting your 10,000 hours in” – doesn’t mean that your not good, but you just need to put more hours into perfecting your passion.

Gladwell talks about the Beatles. Early in their career they played eight hours a night, seven days a week – by the time they hit it big they had performed 1200 times – more than most bands play in their entire careers!

I read that Anthony Robbins wrote in his book Awaken the Giant, writes about how he booked himself 3 times a day to anyone would listen. When other speakers would speak maybe 48 times in a year – Tony would have spoken that many times in two weeks! With the 10,000 hour rule Tony gave him self a decades worth of growth as a motivational speaker in just one year – by comparison to his peers. This practiced catapulted him way ahead of other speakers.

One of my own personal practices is that I am always coaching. When I started my business, and no one was hiring me because I was new and my confidence was not greater than my clients need – I coached for free – in exchange for feedback. This is a powerful business building tool.

• Builds Mastery of your Coaching Method
• Gives you insight into the needs of your ideal prospect
• Exercises your creative problem solving skills
• Increases your intuitive skills
• Boosts your confidence
• Bonus – record and edit your sessions (depending on the nature of the content) and create books, classes, blog posts, articles, and more!

Don’t worry about clients not wanting to pay you – trust me the more you coach – the better you become and your clients will be begging to exchange value with you.

Even now I do what I call “tithe coaching”, that is I give away an hour of no cost, no strings coaching as a gift to my Creator on behalf of the gift He has given me in the passion for coaching. At the end of the session my clients always ask me, “what can I do for You?” Some want to continue and hire me on the spot – everyone turns in to raving evangelists for the value they’ve received.

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