#47 Are You Coachable?

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Special Report #47

Part of the

“I see you to succeeding"

series.

Are You Coachable?

When it comes to helping people with any endeavor, as professionals, we're limited by how "coachable" a person is...how much help a person will accept and then apply on their own.

When I think of a coachable person, I think of individuals who make up a team. Each person has their own identity, but they are looking to the coach to facilitate the team's successes.

In essence, being coachable means simply doing what the coach says to do and shows you to do..."its a doing thing". One of the greatest obstacles to fat loss success is when people think they have a "choice" to get lean and healthy or not. Ultimately, everyone has a choice...they are autonomous...independent, thinking, feeling beings.

Part of (in my humble opinion) why 80% of the population is overweight is that as a society we have been conditioned to behave as though we can consume whatever food and beverages we want, in whatever quantity we want and there aren't any serious consequences. Essentially, we are conditioned to think that if we do begin to experience side effects of SADCRAP, we can just get a prescription or a surgery to correct the "thing". Its never this easy.

Yes, everyone has a choice, between being healthy or not. To me, that isn't really a choice.

Why would anyone choose to be unhealthy, fat and sick? One of the reasons is that the more fat and unhealthy a person gets, the more "not present" they are in their body...suffering. A common denominator for successfully lean & healthy people is that the turning point is when they can no longer stand how they look and feel to themselves. If a person doesn't get "associated" (present), they aren't likely to change their behaviors of moment-to-moment and cumulative choices, which add up to improving health or ruining health one choice at a time.

Believe it or not, some people insist they would rather be unhealthy and fat, as long as it means being "autonomous" (making decisions for themselves), than accepting help which is likely to improve their health and quality of life, since they would have to accept some instruction.

Currently, in our society, there aren't really any short term downsides to making poor health choices. Much of the side effects of SADCRAP take 10-30 years to kick in....that's what junk food is designed to do....create long term consumers who line up at the feeding trough we know as Mickie D's.

One example, take heart dis-ease for example: The first warning sign of a heart attack in 50% of people is death...no noticeable warning signs. With those who survive the first heart attack, 50% will have a second one within a year. Women are twice as likely to die of a heart attack.

Generally, people don't change until they think they have no other choice but to do so, and often they take what they consider the "easy" route, even if it isn't the healthiest route (diet pills, surgery, etc.). Until people experience the downside to the "easy" route, they don't have a relevant reason to do what seems more difficult, yet provides better long term health outcomes.

So, being coachable means asking for help, but then subsequently following through on the information and instruction that your coach offers you. Simply do what you are shown to do. If you don't fully and completely follow though on the guidance given, then you have no way of for sure knowing what will work and what won't.

Following through allows the truth of your body to surface. Without starting somewhere and following through, there's really no way to establish standards of what is true for your body.

Ideally, if the guidance is correct then you can reasonably expect to burn fat, gain strength, gain lean mass, improve your energy level and stave of the top ten de-generative dis-eases many people are experiencing today.

If you don't have a good coach, then you'll definitely find out what doesn't work! But either way, you'll learn stuff about yourself and how your body works.

Being coachable means taking what is shown and simply following through without making up excuses and reasons why you can't do what the person you asked to help you has suggested.

As Nike says, "Just Do It!"