WHY Get Coaching...?

By Kamila Harkavy

Coaching, like therapy, and forms of self-improvement has it's detractors or skeptics who question the need for coaching and the benefits. In fact, EVERYONE benefits from having a coach because no matter what kind of genius you are at what you do, a coach can offer you perspective, support, advocacy and accountability like no one else. People who get coaching and stick with it are generally more successful and more satisfied with their success, their progress, and their lives than their counterparts who do not receive the same benefits of receiving coaching. I won't bore you with a ton of statistics proving this; suffice it to say that they exist. Not surprising, many of the best coaches have coaches themselves and pay dearly to be coached by top coaches and trained by top trainers.  If you read the biographies of supersuccessful people, you'll find that they had coaches, trainers, mentors and the like.  They were willing to allow someone to help them strengthen their weak areas and become fulfill their potential.

Myself included. Each year I invest thousands of dollars into seminars, coaching programs, retreats, trainings and expert consultants. I once heard a top consultant suggest that one invest at least 3% of their earnings in themselves. I invest more than 3%.

So why do I do that?

1. I am the most important and valued asset I have. I want to be the best I can be, learn as much as I can, and be in a position to offer as much as possible to clients and others in my life so I continually uplevel my awareness, skills, techniques, and knowledge; and I improve my capacity and ability to get out of my own way!

2. I am sure to produce a much more substantial return on investment than any stock, bond or other traditional investment. This is more true today than ever before!  This investment in myself will not only yield more financially, but it also gives me much greater satisfaction, peace, freedom and delight!  Even were I to get the same financial yield on an investment, no one else would benefit besides me. By investing in myself, everyone who comes in contact with me benefits.  My relationships improve both in my business and in my personal life, I'm able and willing to give more and receive more, and I'm able to better fulfill my purpose which, ultimately, benefits all of humanity.

3. I get to meet and hang out with amazing coaches, trainers and others also being coached and trained.  I get to be exposed to their mindset, their energy, and their inspiration and increase my awareness, motivation, and wisdom. Priceless. Gee, sounds like one of those commercials for a credit card.....

I started my career as an architect.  I was so scared that the world didn't see or understand me or my talent, that the world didn't want what I had to offer, and that I'd be judged and rejected.  These fears and beliefs kept me from doing what was needed to get enough exposure and get enough commissions to earn a living.  I was so identified as my work; I thought that I was this architect rather than seeing that I was a person who worked as an architect, that this was one aspect of my life, but not who I was fundamentally.   I was so caught in that identity that if the architect or her work was rejected or not seen, that I was completely devastated.

Life's twists and turns led to me be of service to humanity and apply my talent in creative problem solving in other ways.  I did A LOT of work on myself (with the help of some excellent professionals: coaches, teachers, trainers, etc.), matured some along the way and became much less identified.  This made it much less vulnerable to market my business and my services.  I was aware that I was marketing a service, a service that I provide, but that this was distinctly different than thinking that I was marketing myself!  I won't tell you that there's no vulnerability for me now, but it's tolerable and I don't allow it to be an obstacle.

In addition to being overly identified, I also had personality issues that posed big challenges to effectively executing many aspects of my business.  These had direct implications for my income, my retirement, and my options.  Fortunately, my burning desire to express and manifest the fullness of my potential inspired me to tackle those issues (with the help of some excellent professionals: coaches, teachers, trainers, etc.) and persevere although I wanted to throw in the towel on numerous occasions.  At this point, I've made substantial progress with those issues and I have experiences of ease more and more often.  I am relaxed when I'm working.  I'm seldom tense at the end of a work day.  There's now tremendous purpose, grace and flow to the growth and development of my business.  Stress, relaxation, tension, flow, purpose and grace are great benchmarks by which to gauge oneself.  These are some of the other characteristics in addition to wanting to improve their relationship with money that my clients come to me with.

Money Mastery addresses both the identification and the personality issues (in addition to many other things including stress, relaxation, tension, flow, and grace) and provides a highly accelerated path to more ease, more fulfillment, more fun, more abundance, and more flow and a highly accelerated path to the life YOU are meant to lead. 

If you want to live your best life, a coach can help you to achieve it.

Coaches specialize in a wide array of niches from money to health to creative expression.  Whatever your need or desire, there's a coach for it.

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