Your Success Partner

What do Tiger Woods (champion golfer and winner of the Grand Slam of golf), Roger Clemens (five time winner of baseball's Cy Young Award for the league's best pitcher), and Sarah Hughes (Olympic Gold medallist in figure skating) have in common? All are champions, who are among the very best in their respective sports and who have personal coaches.

Think about that for a moment. These super stars, at the very top of their craft, use personal coaches to help them be the very best that they can be.

Do you have a personal coach? If not, why not? Why would you not avail yourself of someone to help you be the very best that you can be?

The essence of Quantum Leap Leverage is to apply Quantum Leap thinking to your life and to do so with a personal coach. It is the combination of these two elements that will propel you to a life of quantum leaps. Either element, alone, is worthwhile. But it is the combination that will have you routinely creating exciting personal performance breakthroughs.

Because labels are so important, you may prefer to use the term we prefer, "success partner" instead of personal coach. Success partner may better define what to look for in your personal coach.

What will help you to leverage your strengths is someone who (1) has knowledge and skills in the substantive area that is the focus of your vision, (2) understands how to help you be the very best that you can be, and (3) has a passion for your success. The most successful personal coach for you will be someone who you respect, i.e., someone you can see as a "partner." Hence, our use of the term "success partner."

So where does one find a success partner? You can look to the ranks of those who hold themselves out as personal coaches. Alternatively, you can look to those who have good skills and knowledge in the area in which you most need coaching, and try to convince one of these people to take on the challenge of guiding you. A third alternative, which will likely only be successful with individuals with outstanding discipline, is to use books or tapes as guides. This last alternative is better than no assistance, but is not as likely to be successful as where you get the benefit of proactive, objective feedback on a regular basis.

For the kinds of high performers using this site, finding a good success partner will be a challenge. Do not use the fact that it is a challenge as an excuse for not getting started with someone in that role. Better that you try someone in the role than to just sit on the side lines. Get in the game! Select someone to be your success partner, even if just someone who like yourself who has a passion for achieving a quantum leap. If your initial choice does not work out, you will at least have better defined for yourself what you do need to find as a success partner.

Get yourself a success partner. Just do it! Doing so will launch you on the path of even higher levels of success.