Do you remember Blue Peter? Do you remember when they would build a doll's house or a rocket made from a Fairly Liquid bottle? And sometimes you could send away an SAE and get the instructions. Well, when I saw the Action Man Quartermasters Stores, I was hooked! I convinced my mother to part with a 1st class stamp and an envelope, and when that sheet came in I started on my project immediately. Sticky wood-effect paper for the flooring, half a ping pong ball for the light shade, and the rifle rack that I already owned.
But here's the interesting part to this story - for me anyway. While I was building it, I was also teaching an invisible audience how to build it at the same time! I mean, out loud!
In NLP they call this modelling.
At 10 years old I was replicating what I'd just watched the week before - I was building something and teaching an audience how to build it as I went along...
I guess once a Coach, always a Coach.
Many years later I spent 7 years studying martial arts - in particular Lau Gar Kung Fu. Of the 64 of us that enrolled in that first class, after 7 years we were down to one - and it was me! The disadvantage was that I got a lot less personal tuition than the rest of the class - it made sense for the teacher to teach all the other grades and spend what time was left with me. The advantage was I got to teach, and that I really enjoyed. And all of my pupils went on to pass their gradings and win their next belt.
Skip forward to 2007 and I launched The Fully Booked Bootcamp. This was a 12 month programme for people who had an idea for a business, and my job was to teach them how to launch it, market it and make it profitable in year one. We had a room full of students, including Brian Costello, Jackie Walker, Brian Larkin.
Brian Costello launched Headstrong. Jackie went on to become The Divorce Coach. Brian Larkin won a BAFTA.
A couple of years later I did a 6 month "virtual" Bootcamp called The Alchemy Challenge - this was a webinar programme designed to monetise whatever knowledge or skills the students brought to the table. Most of them implemented what I showed them and made money.
The Platinum Challenge came later - this was a follow up to Alchemy, but in particular on how to run your own Teleseminars, the best way to do product launches and a whole training on creating your own profitable membership sites.
After all this, I came to the following conclusion - I'm very good at making other people successful.
Whether its turning around a suicidal client, or Coaching someone into a better career, or helping teachers activate all the training they've ever had, it seems that the more I focus on my clients getting THEIR desired outcome, the better it works.
And before anyone quotes Zig Ziglar, the gist is switching from achieving my own goals to helping others get their's. All the best ideologies teach that principle, and I suppose that's how the principle has shown up in my life.
So its time for the next programme, and I'm gathering data on who needs help with what. if you haven't completed my online [and anonymous] survey yet, please do. Its at
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VD9BF68
Watch this space. Now, where's my double sided sticky tape?
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