In their excellent book, Buck Up, Suck Up, and Come Back When You Foul Up, James Carville and Paul Begalia share the following analogy to illustrate the reason why most people fail to achieve the level of success they would like:
Creating results in the world is fairly straightforward. If I want to lose weight, I take in less calories than I burn up, regardless of which diet, eating plan, or “lifestyle choices” I make in order to do it. If I want to accumulate wealth, I spend less money than I create (regardless of how much I create or what I do to create it) and keep the rest.
One of the most interesting things I’ve learned over the past twenty years of coaching clients is how often people’s stated goals are more reflective of their secret fears than their heartfelt desires.
“Please help me,” one recent conversation with a man named Richard began. “I see people all around me who are happy and it seems so unfair. I’m not a bad person. I always try to do my best. Don’t I deserve a bit of happiness in my life too?”
This week, I’ll be sharing the rest of the best of what I heard while facilitating the Six Keys to Becoming a Supercoach teleclass series featuring the core faculty of Supercoach Academy…
