How Coaching Can Help You to Win

By Elizabeth Campbell

When the stretch between where you are presently and your desired future reality is more than you can imagine, a coach can help you bridge the gap, taking you from “here ” to “there “.

Coaching can help you manage the personal “cant ‘s ” that surface in the form of confusion, doubt, uncertainty and fear, ultimately sabotaging your investment dreams.

If you want to take control of your destiny and formulate your goals, you will need to begin the process of self-assessment by way of defining your preferences, talents, capabilities and motivations.  A coach can help you do this by prompting you to externalize your thoughts and feelings in regards to the goals you are setting.

Working with a coach, you will learn to track your progress, recognize, reinforce and reward each achievement and milestone you reach, moving you closer toward your desired outcome.

Recognizing and defining a clear path, will allow you to work backwards and define each and every one of your next steps, one choice at a time.

Making informed and purposeful choices (sooner rather than later) will be your key to unlocking your success, and aligning you incrementally toward your “right ” path.  Gaining the wisdom and insight to harness and practice the self-discipline and control needed, to not only make, but commit, to choices that align with your path is paramount. 

So how does one make this “right ” choice?

To gain a little clarity, let ‘s look to the root of the word choice.  The definition is as follows: To select freely from a series of alternatives, that which you want.

Unfortunately, it ‘s a highly ambiguous and loaded definition that ultimately insinuates there is no “right ” choice. Fact is: There is only a right choice FOR YOU. The right choice or choices will be the one that lead you to what you most want in life.

So what do you want? Do you even know? Would you like to know?

A coach will help you acknowledge yourself, sort out your aspirations, help you choose what is in your best interest, and embark on your new venture. Besides this, a coach can also encourage you to do better in your life each day. He/ she can also act as a motivational speaker (like the ones found at https://www.motivationdistrict.com/ and similar websites).

Through thought-provoking conversations, a coach will help you gain the insight into defining your own clarity of choice. By way of trusting and engaging yourself in a mentor/mentee relationship, you will be ferried through the murky waters of distraction and fear to find the clarity and inspiration hidden within the definition of your WHY. Get to the bottom of the real and raw reason as to why (or for whom) you are investing in real estate, and the equations in your goal setting algorithm will begin to solve themselves.

Being in total alignment with your best asset (yourself), will create an insurance policy toward you achieving your goals. With a clear INTENTION and WHY motivation, you will suddenly feel  driven and brave, as the emotional drivers behind your WHY will fill you with the courage and purpose needed to JUST DO what needs to be done. 

After all, trying to reach an end result will become an insurmountable quest if you don ‘t know the end destination you are trying to reach, or why you are trying to reach it.

Try getting directions from a navigation system without an end address and you ‘ll find you won ‘t make it far. This is why you need to start with the end in mind, and work backwards.

Working with a coach you will learn to overcome your objections and self-doubts, break through your roadblocks, and ultimately get things done.  Support of oneself, will allow you to cheer on, well …YOU! Your inner confidence grows leaps and bounds as you follow through on your promises to self. With this inner confidence you will realize that you are capable of doing most anything.

Everyone who has ever achieved anything in life has had at least one person whose support was unrelenting. Can you remember a person in your life who believed in you when you no longer believed in yourself? A fundamental key to success is surrounding yourself with people who are smarter, stronger and wiser than you and who also share an unconditional commitment to your success. Your coach will be your greatest personal cheerleader, and will commit to your success no matter what.

So how does a coaching play enter the game of real estate investing?  Well, having an accountability partner, coach, and guide is as relevant to investing as it is to any other field that warrants a coach; in fact, maybe even more so. 

With the complexities and hurdles that are involved in starting, growing and maintaining a real estate portfolio, aligning yourself with a trusted, educated, and trained veteran investor just makes sense. Perhaps you have hit the purchasing wall and need to pursue some creative financing strategies? Perhaps you would like to purchase a multi-family, or explore the world of joint venture partnerships? Perhaps you need some reassurance or confidence in a property analysis or possible purchase? Or PERHAPS you simply want someone to kick your butt on a weekly basis, and ensure you continue to do what you said you would do the week before. ALL are reasons worthy of a coach.

Working with a Real Estate Investment Advisor (REIA), a trained and certified hand selected veteran investor, within the REIN community, can offer just such mentorship and accountability. They will assist you in removing excuses, and creating results.

Projected ROI on COACHING:

Have you ever wondered what happens to the goals that never come to fruition? What happens to your wishes, good intentions and secret dreams on which you never take action? The truth is “no-THING ” will happen. And that is not a good thing. Nothing will happen if you don ‘t create a way for your hopes to become a reality. 

Your dreams are simply sitting dormant waiting for you to wrap your arms around them and breathe life into them. But there is an expiration date, on them and on life. So don ‘t waste your time trying to live someone else ‘s life, and one day be filled with the regrets of missed opportunities and time lost.

Take action on your real estate goals, align with an REIA coach, and make 2015 your most successful investment year EVER!

To get aligned with an REIA Coach of your very own visit: www.reincanada.com/coaching

Elizabeth Campbell is a certified Real Estate Investment Advisor (REIA) who manages the REIN Coaching Program. She is a REALTOR ® by trade, who has successfully invested in Real Estate, in BC, for over 13 years. As co-owner of a construction firm, her primary focus is in fix-and-flip. She can be reached at Elizabeth@reincanada.com

Percentage Sources: ICF Global Coaching Client Study was commissioned by the ICF but conducted independently by PricewaterhouseCoopers.

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