Why Coaching is Addictive?
I am sure you know right now camps are going on back to back for children. In addition to what ever camps that got over in India there are four more camps coming up in UAE - Dubai, Sharjah and Abu Dhabi. Obviously I love this period a lot.
Lots of training, lots of coaching, and lots of fun. More than all it is a great feeling of supporting the children to change their lives for ever. Once common question I always hear from coaches is ‘Why Coaching is Addictive?’
Addictive means anything which you cannot stop easily. Anything that you gives you a great feeling when you do, when you get indulged. Anything that you want to do it again and again, where heart takes over the mind.
I have always found two kinds of addictions:
1. Negative addictions - They are the ones that destroys us internally and physically in the long run. Smoking, drinking, uncontrollable time spent on TV / internet, excessive sleeping etc
2. ???????? ????? ????????Positive addictions - They allow us to grow stronger emotionally and show our inner strengths. Coaching is one among those positive addictions.
What creates the addictions in the coaching: Anything that gives you an emotional ‘high’ always turns out to be an addictive behaviour. When you are a coach to somebody you become a roll model for others. People look up to you as a person whom they can trust, whom they can model and whom they can admire. These factors push you to see yourself differently. It helps you to easily come out of some of your lousy patters which you wanted to step out for years together.
Like any new behaviour to set in for the first time always there is a resistance. That is the reason I even see people come back to coach after one or even 2 years from the time they finish the Born to Win program. But the interesting part is once they come in they realise that it is addictive. They keep coming back for coaching. It give an emotional ‘high’. It makes you more disciplined. It shows a new you. It pushes your identity to the next better level. It makes you grow internally. It creates the opportunity to make a difference in others life which for many of the coaches what I have seen is a first time experience.
I love positive addictions. In fact that makes you grow faster. Keep increasing your list of positive addictions and grow stronger internally. Keep coaching….Say I love Coaching.
