I attended a seminar recently, in Subliminal Tracks Review which business coaching as a profession was discussed, and what results can be had by actually being coached. To prove the point, slides of fast and luxury cars, big houses, expensive trips, first class travel, shiny jewelry and the like were shown.
By doing so, I realised that the presenter had probably lost 30-50% of his audience immediately.
Why? Because for many personality types within the AusIDentities range, "success" is not about garnering expensive goodies at all. Showing these personality types the above mentioned slides to motivate them will generally have the opposite effect....
The issue here is "success" and two critical questions associated with this concept: 1) what does the word "success" really mean to you, and 2) where does success sit on your values list?
Success for the one is obviously not success for the other, but we seem to have some sort of collective consciousness about success. That's the one I was talking about in the beginning. We seem to believe, as a collective, that making lots of money, driving flash cars, living in beautiful homes is the pinnacle of success, and is what we should strive for. Anything less than that would make you less successful, or even unsuccessful.
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