Coaching, Unschooling, and Building an Idea Garden
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The Lifelong ROI of Coaches and Mentors
A few months ago I was having a chat with Kingshuk, our content strategist at Unmistakable Creative about revenue and growth of our business. He said something to me that planted the seed for this article.
“When I think about the times I’ve made the most rapid progress in my life, it always has been when I was working with a coach or mentor.”
I thought about how true this was in my own life. When my mentor Greg started working with me in 2013, all of the following happened in the span of 6 months:
- I self-published a book that became a WSJ Bestseller that eventually resulted in a book deal with Penguin.
- We planned and sold out a conference in 2 weeks
- We redesigned our web site and did a massive rebrand.
When my business partner Brian recently hired Jeremy Miner to be his sales coach, he spent more money on a coach than he ever had before. But with Jeremy’s coaching, he made his money back within the first 2 months and continues to reap the rewards of working with Jeremy. He described the experience of working with Jeremy as follows:
These aren’t just skills that I’m going to use in my job today. These are skills that will have a lifetime ROI.
Often we look at hiring people to coach us purely in terms of short-term expense and short-term gain. But what we fail to see is that the ROI will go far beyond our initial work with them. It’s an ROI that will last a lifetime.
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A Survey of Grown Unschoolers: Overview of Findings —
“Unschooling is not schooling. Unschooling parents do not send their children to school and they do not do at home the kinds of things that are done at school. More specifically, they do not establish a curriculum for their children, do not require their children to do particular assignments for the purpose of education, and do not test their children to measure progress. Instead, they allow their children freedom to pursue their own interests and to learn, in their own ways, what they need to know to follow those interests. They may, in various ways, provide an environmental context and environmental support for the child’s learning. In general, unschoolers see life and learning as one.”
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