Input equations

# Chapter 233

Coaching is a genuine desire to make people better. - Masterminds

It is the most direct path to help people succeed. If. If they can learn. If they are willing to learn. Often there is not even learning to be had, they, we, us have to be willing to simply have input. People can be astonishingly resistant to input! Those that aren’t, are coachable. Those that are resistant are not coachable.

I have four grandsons. Two are very amenable to input and listen and learn quickly. I predict long successful lives for them. One grandson can take input some of the time, and the verdict is out on him. He may succeed or he may fail, we will wait and see. One grandson is highly resistant to input. While he is the most likable of all four, and consequently leans on his charm rather than his coachablity, I predict he will struggle all his life. Charm can’t carry you nearly far enough in life. While these grandsons range in age from 3-15 years old, you can already see the results from their coachability scores evident in all their lives clear as day. I would venture to say that you would need less than one day here with the four of them before you precisely knew which ones were coachable and which ones were not.

I tell this little story to point out that you and I need to be open to input. We need to be coachable. If we aren’t, then our chances of success greatly diminish. In fact I can truthfully say that my life had small possibilities until I learned to accept and implement input from the outside. Once I conquered the input equation, my life has soared beyond my wildest imaginations! Choose.