AikinenOptimizing the Pieces Together

Date: January 1st, 2019

How and Why Coaching Can Bring out Great Transformation in Your Health, Business, or Executive Skill Set

Professional sports players can play basketball/baseball/football much better than their coaches, so then why again do they have or need coaches?

We see it all the time in the headlines…so and so baseball or basketball or football star signs 100 million dollar contract. We roll our eyes, we wonder why in the hec would any team or company pay one human so much money? We wonder if they are worth it, if they deserve it, if they just got a good deal or they have an awesome contract negotiator. In the end it doesn't matter, they got it..they secured it, they made it happen, somehow, someway.

The bigger question on the table is, if they are making all that money and if they have all that talent, then why are they not the boss? Every player has an business owner/manager to answer to, every player had a group of sports managers to answer to, every player had multiple coaches to answer to. Why? Because the player is blind to their own weaknesses and shortcomings. Because the player is also blind to their untapped potential. Because the player isn't able to push themselves hard and far enough to reach their limits, which is required for every person to grow beyond what they can already do.

We forget sometimes that everything we know, and everything we can do, we learned from scratch when we did not know how to do it at all. That 100 million dollar baseball player at one point never had picked up a bat or ball, and they probably grew up in a neighborhood, and starting playing with the local fellas from the area just for fun. And one thing led to another, and they started to learn, and to grow, and to excel.

But at some point, especially when we are victims of our own success, we stop growing, we stop reaching, we become complacent, resting on our laurels of achievement, we grow too comfortable. Into the picture steps the coach, swinging around his mental baton of motivation, encouragement, training experience and techniques, and fire and brimstone if necessary, to get the player off the laurel bench and out into the training grounds. Pushing and seeing things in that player that no one else can see.

And that player responds, and does the training, and in the end he or she is better off for it. The player is able to improve, after training with the coach in intensive training, and can hit farther, run faster, catch better, and the funny part of the story is that the player is still making 100 times more than the coach, but he needs the coach, because the coach is not trying to play the game, his job is to get the player to play a better game, and everything is as it should be, with each person fulfilling their necessary role, to make the game get better for everyone.

Get a coach, improve your life. Don't put it off, just do it!

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