242 Who Do You Think You Are?
arrogant way, but in an effective way. I get to choose what I get to do and
how I do it, so I can feel the 100% satisfaction of my efforts. And that
pretty much sums up in my mind who I am.What event or series of events led you to your discovery?One thing I noticed early on, somewhere between five and seven years
old, is that I didn’t want to be like my brothers and sisters or like my
parents. I’m not exactly sure where that came from, but it has served me
in my life, because most of the rest of my family are blue-collar workers.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Being a white-collar worker
was just important to me, not so much for the white-collar work, but that
I wouldn’t be doing blue-collar work.
So there was something ingrained in me there, and about eight
years ago I was running a business, and the business was doing fair at
best. I wasn’t sure what I should do next. I went on the Internet to see if
there was something that could help me. I actually typed up the word
“consultant” on a search, and what came back was a number of
consultants. At the very top of the list was a company called ABC
Consulting.
When I called the firm and talked to the principle owner, he said,
“You don’t need consulting you need business coaching.” This was the
first I ever heard of coaching. I hired him for a period of about a year-
and-a-half with the thought of bolstering up a failing business. I ended
up selling it for a million dollars.
I had no intention to sell it when I first talked to him. I was
determined to just fix what was broken. Through the process of working
with this coach, he expanded my horizons to even be able to think about
selling it, and since then I’ve been financially free and able to do what I
want to do, which plays into my two core values of freedom and
independence.
After working with him, I thought, “Wow this business coaching
is really cool.” So after I sold the business, I went back to him and he
trained me how to do it. I’ve been coaching people in one capacity or
another ever since. As I did business coaching, more and more things
kept coming up about psychology to the point where I was fascinated by
it. It would just stop me in my tracks when I watched human behavior or
saw shows where people were acting in certain ways, or read a text that
talked about human behavior. I’ve been fascinated with human behaviors
for the last ten or twelve years of my life.