Faster, Further, Higher

There was a Coaching feature in the papers recently, sports coaching naturally.

All athletes worth their salt have someone who, besides provides training in terms of their game and their skills, also acts as a friend, a mentor, a discliplinarian, and sometimes, even become surrogate parents.

The importance of these people is paramount. Because these are the people who can take someone with innate but raw and unschooled talent, and train them until their rawness unschooled skill turns into the fine practised, precise and consistent play and skill that brings them to the top of their game.

And frankly, I don't envy them their jobs. Because I can imagine the amount of pushing, scolding, training and prodding it involves. But it's their job and they have to do it, even if their ward hates them for the things that they do sometimes.

Tough huh. For the poor guy. AND the Coach as well

Actually, it's not only athletes who need coaches. We all need someone.

Someone to believe in us. To believe that we're worth more than we seem on the outside, more than we think ourselves to be.

Someone who has x-ray vision, who can see see through all our crap to the good stuff within.

Someone to root for us when we don't believe in ourselves.

Someone to drag us out of our little holes of self-pity when we get tired and discouraged and want to throw in the towel.

Someone to tell us to make us give up our comfortable but very bad habits.

Someone to make sure we practise good time and money and relationship management.

Someone who will push us to our limits, in order that we can expand and grow beyond our limits.

Someone to push us to do the things we cannot do because we're so fixated in our mind about our inadequacy.

Someone who can and will help us make a success of our lives.

We all need that someone. And as a boss, a colleague, a friend, a parent, sometimes, we even have to be that someone to somebody else.

It's because we want to see the people we love and care about be a success, to go faster, further, higher than they themselves have imagined.

So if I nag at you, or push you to do something you think you can't do and don't like to do, and force you to change, NOW, you know why.