Coaching and Respect

I have the perfect personality for a coach. I enjoy coaching people because I like to see them succeed and I am highly goal oriented. --but those aren't what make me perfect for coaching.

The thing that makes me perfect for coaching is that I bring out people. Whatever their flaws are whatever their strengths are, and whatever their true character is, I WILL BRING IT OUT. I have an uncanny ability to detect Bullshit and strong perception skills for body language and for regular language. I know how to motivate people when the opportune time comes and I know when to chastise and reprimand people.

Maybe I'm a little egotistical, but I love to play with people's egos. If I detect in any way that they think they are better than they really are, or if they're phony with themselves, then I start to test them to see if they hold up. I've found some really amazing people who thought they were good, and they backed it up. It's not pride, it's humility to know just where you fit in life. I've also met a lot of people who think they're good and can't back it up in any way.--those people generally don't like me either because I show them up, or spending time around brings out their flaws and they can't handle it.

I love being this way; I wouldn't change it for anything. Sure I constantly bring out the worst in bad people, but I've grown to handle it. I've also grown to adore people who can stand up in the light, and that's what I really live for.

Whether people want me to coach them or not I do it anyway--some people don't realize that they're growing, and I see them growing, from the interactions they have with me. Others don't need coaching so much as help, and by having this personality I have a way of building relationships with people in which they can be candid with me and they can be upfront about what they really want in life. I love honest people. Honesty is really the first step, because if you aren't honest with yourself and open with others then you're going to have a hard time succeeding.

I would almost say the 2nd step is having respect. If you want to go far in life you have to be respectful of other people, You can't hold yourself up as the highest and best, you have to honor people when they deserve honoring. People who go around life thinking they are better than other people don't realize that until they get over it they aren't going to grow and learn the things that others ARE good at.

This is why coaches demand respect, they demand honesty, and they demand openness. Because although you can trick people into growing, they don't grow as well or as quickly.
That's why God demands the same things. Respect, honesty and openness. Because although you're going to keep growing with or without those attributes, God can make you grow much quicker and in a better way.