Today I’m gonna tell you a little story about a client of mine. Now, this client is very successful again, and I say again because they were successful many years ago. But the reason I’m telling you this story is because his birthday is actually today. We were talking yesterday about his birthday and what it means to him. What he let me know is a year ago he was a full on drug addict….
The 5 To Thrive is something that I base all my coaching on. I’ve been coaching and doing personal business development for many years. I’ve been doing it since I was in high school and am in my 40s now, so you can do the math.
But, what I’ve learned is there are five key elements to a holistic and successful life.
Today I want to talk about the use of the word because. This is something I learned a long time ago that really opened my eyes. In fact, l would say I learned it almost 15 years ago and really recognized it not only in my own speech patterns and habits but also in those of my clients. Whether they were early on in my career as just a personal trainer, fitness professional, or moving on to what I’m doing now.
So the use of the modifier, the word “because”, think about how it’s typically used.
Today I want to talk to you about two animals that you know very well – the crab and the Buffalo and what’s the difference between the two?
See, oftentimes especially in our daily lives we operate from the place of a crab and what I mean by that is when you put a crab or a series of crabs into a pot what happens is one of the crabs starts to crawl out of the pot because it’s getting hot, and then the other crabs pull them back down.
It’s caused him to get into drug addiction, multiple relationships and pregnancies with women he doesn’t even care about. It’s caused him to destroy relationships. That he actually does care about people he loves. He’s burnt bridges. He’s gone bankrupt. He’s destroyed his business. He’s destroyed his health. He’s destroyed his soul. He’s actively seeking a way of doing this but it comes down to self-worth and when I told him was there’s no amount of tips or tactics or little secrets that I can give him just do this once a day that are going to help him.
