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Boost Your Self Help Development
Although the term self help may imply that you work on your own skills and goals by yourself, in reality the biggest improvements always results with the help of others, particularly a coach or mentor. This is true for pretty well any area you want to improve in for your self help development.
Let’s say you want to improve on your conversational skills so that you can have a richer social and possibly business life. Yes, there are many books and maybe even other resources like audio CDs out there on conversational skills but you can only learn the theories rather than really develop the skills.
Conversational skills require that you develop them by observing others who are good at them and then actually trying them out yourself with others. It’s learning by doing.
This is the same with sports. You can read all the books and watch as many videos as you want on golf but unless you are actively doing the activity, you won’t be really learning the skills. And even if you are playing golf, without expert feedback from another set of eyes, your improvement will be marginal.
Self Help Development Always Better With A Coach
That’s why self help development is always better with a coach or mentor around. This person is there to give you that instant feedback that makes all the difference in the world in terms of progress. You just can’t get this from just reading a book.
In my own case this year, I enlisted the help of an internet coach even though I’ve already been online for several years. But within the three month coaching program I was in, my coach made me do many things online that I have never done before and also gave me invaluable feedback on my webpages.
For example, for meeting planners who visit my website to check out my speaking programs, they previously went to a general speaking page and then had to click on another link to get to another webpage that was specific for the audience type they had in mind.
My internet coach recommended that I change my navigation bar so that the various audience types are linked via a drop down menu. This way, the general speaking page is skipped altogether which eliminates a step for the meeting planners to take.
My entire Clint Cora website now has this newer navigational bar with the direct links to each specific audience types and this will make the visits by meeting planners more simple. Give it a run at my website if you haven’t yet done so.
This is just one of the little things I’ve implemented because I had a coach to help me. I wouldn’t have ever even thought of this strategy improvement myself.
In a past episode of Motivational WebTV, I talk about the importance and value of using a coach or mentor to help you significantly improve in anything you want. This advice was added at the end of a report I gave from a reader’s survey. Check this video out at Survey Results & Motivational Tip.
