Hi everybody I’m so, so, excited to share with you one of my very favorite books that I read in 2018 for the first time I’ve read this author before but this book hit me in a very profound way and I’m excited to share that story with you. Here is the book High Performance Habits Brendon Burchard, absolutely game-changing book. Anything from him is amazing, but this particular book changed the course of my year.
You need three people in your life
I had just left a job that I absolutely loved and started a company with a partner and I was so, so, excited about that. I was reading this book at the end of July 2018 and in this book, Brendon suggests that you need three people in your life. You need two mentors, people who do what you do know your world that you can bounce ideas off of and that can bring clarity to your situation and your career path.
And you need one other person and that is a coat. This person, in order to be eligible to be your coach, is someone that you pay and someone who has been where you want to go. It’s absolutely essential, if they have not gone where you want to go, they’re not eligible to be your coach. I have wonderful mentors in my life, a great accountability partner, that I absolutely adore. But I didn’t have a coach at this moment. In the past I had one. Now, I knew who I wanted and I only wanted one person.
I wanted Darryl Davis to be my coach. Many of you heard of Darryl. He’s a well renowned speaker, internationally best-selling author and absolutely phenomenal, phenomenal, man. I reached out to him and said “I am ready to take my career to the next level. I want you to be my coach. You’re the only person that I’m talking to. I want you and only you.”
So, we set up a time to talk, 30 minutes to chat and I thought it was going to be 28 minutes of “this is how I roll. This is what I charge, what I expect from you know.” Yea, No!
You need to strip it down and start over
And that was about 45 and 1/2 seconds and he said, “okay, I’m willing to take you on. Here’s the thing. I have looked at your website. I’ve gone through all of your marketing materials and everything you are doing sucks. Your brand sucks. Everything sucks. You need to strip it down to the gas can and start all over again.”
I had a decision to make in that moment. Do I trust him and listen to him and scrap it all, including about $5,000 that I had invested in this situation so far and move forward on a new path, creating a new brand or do I stick with what I was doing? Did I trust him, as my coach to take me where I wanted him to take me? I trusted him and it’s made absolutely all the difference. So, I will talk much more about coaching in other videos, but the purpose of this video is to introduced you to this book. It will absolutely change your life, if you will read it and follow its precepts. Brendon knows what he’s talking about.