Who Are You Learning From?
Understand the message you are about to read, and you will transform your life forever.
Perhaps the most valuable profession in the world is teaching. A great teacher can impact the lives of hundreds or thousands of people directly, and countless other indirectly.
What makes a teacher great? Have you ever had a great teacher in your life?
Once we graduate from school, we often never have another “teacher” again in our lives. Except the top 5%, who realize that the teachers they choose can have a greater impact on their success than any other decision they make.
Suppose you decided that you wanted to be an entrepreneur. You could do what most people do and “wing it”. Perhaps that’s the reason that the failure rate in business in the first 3 years is so incredibly high.
But what if you decided to find someone who was already successful in business and asked them to give you guidance and advice? How valuable would it be to have someone who was a proven success at what you wanted to do helping you make the better decisions or at least helping you avoid making bad ones?
Suppose you decided you wanted to reach your full financial potential. How would you go about doing that? If you found someone who was a financial success and was willing to share their secrets with you, and teach you, would you find that of value?
Well, if you truly wanted to reach your full financial potential, your mind would be open to any and all ideas, and in particular, coming from someone of authority and success. If that person was willing to teach you, you would increase your chances for success tremendously.
In every important area of your life, there are highly successful people who are teachers. The more successful people you surround yourself with as teachers, the more successful you will automatically become in many areas of your life.
2 things begin to happen when you start to surround yourself with “teachers” who are proven successes in their areas. First, you will begin to acquire new habits, success habits. Since we are creatures of habit, the more new success habits we acquire, the more naturally and automatically our successes will be. Second, as you begin to see success in one area of life, you begin to gain “momentum”. One success leads to the next, and pretty soon you have more successes happening more frequently.
Another name for a teacher is a coach. In sports, think about the great head coaches. Vince Lombardi didn’t become famous because he was a great football player. He became famous for being a great coach. The same thing for Chuck Noll and Tom Landry.
Some franchises pay huge salaries to attract the best coaches. Why?
Simple.
Some franchises are dedicated to winning. Having a proven, successful head coach improves the team’s chances for success. It doesn’t guarantee it, but the value of a great head coach on a sports franchise cannot be disputed.
A great coach has a winning system. He teaches his system throughout the organization, to the assistant coaches, to the players, to the scouts, to everyone involved. He has a vision of the team he wants to field, and a plan for turning that vision into a reality.
Suppose you were going to hire a head coach for your team. How much would it be worth to you to have someone who could improve the chances of your achieving success?
People who are serious about getting into shape hire a personal fitness trainer/coach. Why? Couldn’t they do the exercises without having a trainer there? They’d save the money too.
That’s exactly loser thinking.
Think about it. A great personal trainer, someone who has studied this field, and works in it daily, is going to know infinitely more about their field than you do.
So you will undoubtedly learn from that trainer.
If you’re meeting your trainer, you have a commitment. Without it, it may be too easy to come up with an excuse to skip working out.
We value something to the extent we have to pay for it. When we pay a trainer, we value the workout more. It means more to us.
It is a proven fact that people who work out with a personal trainer see more success than those who just do it on their own.
Begin to think about all the areas of life that are important to you, and then look for people already successful in those areas. Recruit them as you teachers, and surround yourself with at least a couple of trusted teachers that you admire and respect.
Once you do, you will never be the same person again.
Namaste.
Jeff
Perhaps the most valuable profession in the world is teaching. A great teacher can impact the lives of hundreds or thousands of people directly, and countless other indirectly.
What makes a teacher great? Have you ever had a great teacher in your life?
Once we graduate from school, we often never have another “teacher” again in our lives. Except the top 5%, who realize that the teachers they choose can have a greater impact on their success than any other decision they make.
Suppose you decided that you wanted to be an entrepreneur. You could do what most people do and “wing it”. Perhaps that’s the reason that the failure rate in business in the first 3 years is so incredibly high.
But what if you decided to find someone who was already successful in business and asked them to give you guidance and advice? How valuable would it be to have someone who was a proven success at what you wanted to do helping you make the better decisions or at least helping you avoid making bad ones?
Suppose you decided you wanted to reach your full financial potential. How would you go about doing that? If you found someone who was a financial success and was willing to share their secrets with you, and teach you, would you find that of value?
Well, if you truly wanted to reach your full financial potential, your mind would be open to any and all ideas, and in particular, coming from someone of authority and success. If that person was willing to teach you, you would increase your chances for success tremendously.
In every important area of your life, there are highly successful people who are teachers. The more successful people you surround yourself with as teachers, the more successful you will automatically become in many areas of your life.
2 things begin to happen when you start to surround yourself with “teachers” who are proven successes in their areas. First, you will begin to acquire new habits, success habits. Since we are creatures of habit, the more new success habits we acquire, the more naturally and automatically our successes will be. Second, as you begin to see success in one area of life, you begin to gain “momentum”. One success leads to the next, and pretty soon you have more successes happening more frequently.
Another name for a teacher is a coach. In sports, think about the great head coaches. Vince Lombardi didn’t become famous because he was a great football player. He became famous for being a great coach. The same thing for Chuck Noll and Tom Landry.
Some franchises pay huge salaries to attract the best coaches. Why?
Simple.
Some franchises are dedicated to winning. Having a proven, successful head coach improves the team’s chances for success. It doesn’t guarantee it, but the value of a great head coach on a sports franchise cannot be disputed.
A great coach has a winning system. He teaches his system throughout the organization, to the assistant coaches, to the players, to the scouts, to everyone involved. He has a vision of the team he wants to field, and a plan for turning that vision into a reality.
Suppose you were going to hire a head coach for your team. How much would it be worth to you to have someone who could improve the chances of your achieving success?
People who are serious about getting into shape hire a personal fitness trainer/coach. Why? Couldn’t they do the exercises without having a trainer there? They’d save the money too.
That’s exactly loser thinking.
Think about it. A great personal trainer, someone who has studied this field, and works in it daily, is going to know infinitely more about their field than you do.
So you will undoubtedly learn from that trainer.
If you’re meeting your trainer, you have a commitment. Without it, it may be too easy to come up with an excuse to skip working out.
We value something to the extent we have to pay for it. When we pay a trainer, we value the workout more. It means more to us.
It is a proven fact that people who work out with a personal trainer see more success than those who just do it on their own.
Begin to think about all the areas of life that are important to you, and then look for people already successful in those areas. Recruit them as you teachers, and surround yourself with at least a couple of trusted teachers that you admire and respect.
Once you do, you will never be the same person again.
Namaste.
Jeff
posted by Jeff Fagin at 11:27 PM
3 Comments:
Jeff,
In my previous way of thinking, I was the person that wouldn't ask for help. If I couldn't do it on my own, then I wouldn't do it at all.
That's not the case anymore. If I have to have a hundred coaches, helpers, assistants, pushers, or whatever you want to call them, then I'll do just that.
It's obvious that my old way of thinking didn't do me any favors.
Jeff
When the student is ready the teacher will come..
Larry E.
I ask many of my customer on how they got started. Some of them are lucky or were given the business. The hard working and risk takers do well but the owner who is passonate enough to talk in length with me are the most interesting. they amaze me.
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