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Importance of Coaching: Why does one need one?

Guest post by: John Bino

Article Overview: When an evil spirit goes out of the person, it travels over dry country looking for a place to rest. If it can't find one, it says to itself ‘I will go back to my house which is clean and all fixed up’. Then it goes out and brings seven other spirits even worse than itself and they come and live there. So when it is all over, that person is in worse shape than at the beginning. - Matthew: 12: 43-45 If you have read this verse before, what was your understanding? Well, let me tell you...

Importance of Coaching: Why does one need one?

When an evil spirit goes out of the person, it travels over dry country looking for a place to rest. If it can't find one, it says to itself ‘I will go back to my house which is clean and all fixed up’. Then it goes out and brings seven other spirits even worse than itself and they come and live there. So when it is all over, that person is in worse shape than at the beginning. - Matthew: 12: 43-45

If you have read this verse before, what was your understanding? Well, let me tell you mine. I have heard this being said probably hundreds of times, since childhood. But I never associated any meaning to it. No one told me what it meant; nor the priests, nor my catechism teachers. This one verse is so powerful, that it can be expanded into multiple lessons. Out of which, I chose to focus on ‘Coaching’ in this article.

Let’s look at weight loss as a classic example. This Bible verse has a direct implication as to why millions of people can’t get to the shape that they want to. Let’s explore why. For my height my ideal weight is 75kgs/165lbs; however I used to hover around the 95kgs/210lbs mark. To bring down my weight I always used to get into an exercise regimen, get down to around 85kgs/185lbs and gain it back again. Every time! I never got it to stick. To make matters worse, every time I used to end up in a worse shape than before. And moreover, with every failed attempt my resilience to fight this disease used to weaken. It got tougher and tougher to start back on a weight loss program. I never used to understand this phenomenon. But after truly understanding this verse I felt ashamed of the fact that the answer was given more than 2000 years back and I didn’t even have a clue.

In this case the ‘evil spirit’ is the ‘excess weight’. And when the ‘excess weight’ is taken out and the body cleaned up, temptations (evil spirit) comes back and whispers ‘Come on, one burger isn’t going to hurt’. Not only that, but the temptations are now multiplied (seven other spirits) and nudge you by saying ‘You don’t need to exercise today, look how tired you are’, ‘Today you can try out the regular coke instead of the diet’, etc. etc. And it’s anybody’s guess as to the result of all these temptations around you.

So what can one do to fight this? Before we get to the answer we need to understand why it becomes difficult to go forward. To get the ‘why’ you need to read between the lines of the verse in question. And that is ‘Seven’. The reason why is becomes difficult is because now instead of one you have 7 others to fend. When it was one is was not as difficult. Remember the time when you went to the gym or started an exercise program the VERY FIRST TIME! I am sure you would have been at it the LONGEST and the HARDEST. And when you stopped exercising and gained back the pounds, things got a bit harder just to get back on the treadmill. Isn’t it so? I am sure it is. At least now you know why.

The easiest way to fight off the ‘seven spirits’ is for you to become MORE THAN ONE. The mistake most people make is to fight SEVEN with ONE. Unless you are that strong, by all odds, you are going down. And the easiest way to become MORE THAN ONE is to team up with persons fighting a similar cause. And who would be that person?? Yes, a COACH! The coach teams up with you to fend the ‘seven spirits’. Now you are two, well, more than two I would say, considering that the coach is quite stronger than you are.

The same can be said for Business Coaching, Real Estate Investment Coaching, etc. I used the ‘weight loss’ example because it is the easiest to understand. It’s no wonder that the saying ‘Professionals have Coaches, and Amateurs don’t’ is so true. I would go on to say that ‘Amateurs BECOME professionals BECAUSE they have coaches’.

Conclusion: IF (underline, boldify & capitalize the ‘IF’) you are serious about reaching your goals, you would be much better off having a coach partnering you along. If you are not serious, you can go along on your own. And where you end up entirely depends on YOU.

Take care and God Bless

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