You Do Not Need a Coach

You don’t.

Coaches are expensive – in both time and money.

They are a Luxury.

You haven’t the time. Period.

You are fine.

Sure, work is heavy. There’s a ton on your plate.

A coach can’t help you.

They would never understand your situation.

The challenges you face – doing more and more with less. . . You work to make up the difference.

How could a coach help there?

They can’t understand the complexity of your world or the crushing time lines.

A coach???

You really don’t have the time!

You’ll survive.

You always have.

You are resilient!

And there are evenings, weekends and vacation time to get your head back above the water.

Burnout? Eh.

You’ve been here before.

Yea, this is possibly worse – but you’ll get through it.

You are used to 70, 80 plus hours a week.

That’s normal. That’s how you work.

You don’t need a coach!

And you’re aiming for that next big role – and hiring a coach – well, that would be admitting defeat, wouldn’t it?

You have everything you need to move into that bigger role:

Experience. Education. Intelligence.

Energy s a bit low, but you can drag that up on demand.

Aren’t you the leader you have always wished you had!

Of course you are!

Your team members surely agree!

Yeah, ok, things might be easier if they were “magically” there, proactively stepping up, lightening the load. But, there aren’t enough of them; they don’t have the experience; the quality just isn’t there; it takes longer to bring them up to speed than do it yourself and get it done.

And the leadership team – if they could only appreciate all that you do!

No, Absolutely. You do not need a coach.

You don’t need a lot of things.

You don’t need a gym membership

Or a personal trainer.

. . . that vacation. . .

Who has time?

 But. . .

Wouldn’t it be kinda nice to have someone help you rethink things, or explore ideas?

Or somewhere, a safe space for just an hour or two a month – where you could breathe. Exhale. Decompress. Remove yourself, completely confidentially, from the cracking and fraying edges of resilience?

Would it be, maybe, just kinda nice to have someone in your corner?

Maybe someone who listened to you? Believed in you?

I bet it would be kinda nice not to feel so worn out.

But, of course, a coach wouldn’t get it.

What you really need is a 2nd you.

So let me ask you this.

What’s really, really, REALLY important to you?

You know - that massive thing that is bigger than this week’s work?

What will you look back on – say when you are 80 – with enormous pride?

What would that 80 year old you say to the 8 year old you about the life well lived?

(What would that 8 year old you say to the 80 year old about their dreams and aspirations?)

With whom will you share the stories of those achievements?

You are absolutely correct.

You do not NEED a coach to accomplish your workload.

But wouldn’t it be nice to focus on what’s really, really important?

The stuff that lies beyond today, this week, this month?

You don’t need a coach.

But maybe you might find you benefit with one.

Like that gym membership.

Or the personal trainer.

. . . or even that vacation. . .

Are you worth the investment?