So who is your coach?

Imagine that you have been appointed as the head coach in your life. You have been required to enter the correct competition, come up with a primary game plan, manage the players and build team confidence. It would as an example be pointless to enter your team into the Super 14 if you were only committed to the Currie Cup.

The game plan is important because your team will work best when all the team members you have selected are working together towards the same goal. As the head coach you would want to maximize the strengths of your team while minimizing the weaknesses. In order to do this you have been asked to answer the following questions before accepting the position:

• Can you enter your team into the right competition?
• Do you understand that you need a game plan?
• Are you an excellent listener, and not just everyday listening, but listening at a deep level?
• Are you willing to ask the right questions and know when to ask them?
• Are you willing to accept the answers to the questions?
• Do you love the game of life?
• Do you see potential in yourself and then hold onto that potential and do whatever you can to encourage yourself to reach it?
• Are you responsible for your life – do you know that you have the power and the choices to create the sort of life you want to live?
• Are you willing to bring credibility and resources beginning on day one?
• Are you prepared and prompt? Are you ready to work, and follow an agreed-upon plan?
• Are you willing to walk the kind of life you want to live?
• Are you willing to accept responsibility for the results of the agreements you have entered into?

If you have answered yes to all the above you MAY accept the position.The best companion on the road to a life of significance is someone who is walking that road himself. If you want to be your best companion, then you must be willing to walk the road to a life of significance.

As your own head coach you have the responsibility of entering the right competition, preparing the game plan, selecting and training the team and building team confidence. Although you carry the ultimate responsibility of being your own head coach, make sure that you include in your life people who have great skills as coaches in areas that you want to excel in.