I thought you might like this analogy of how lots of people apprroach mentoring and coaching. I wrote it to a client who keeps saying that there is nothing there.

If you are driving a car and it is coughing and spluttering, using loads of fuel and only has a top speed of 50 k’s, and all of a sudden a car roars past you making no noise, just purring along at a 100 k’s using hardly any fuel. What do you think? Of course, I want one of them. You meet up with the owner at a gas station and you ask him where to buy that type of car. He tells you that he does not understand you, because his car is the same as yours he just found a unique mechanic that keeps his in order and he cleans it every day.

The only problem is, the mechanic lives on the other side of the hill across a creek and down a dark track. He can tell you how to get there ,but there is a distinct possibility that you will get lost. You take the directions, and over the next few months you make many attempts at finding the mechanic, all to no avail. At this point it all becomes too hard, and you carry on driving the car, accepting its performance as OK and you just forget about the other car and carry on.

This is where you are now! How frustrated were you? when you kept trying to find the mechanic. The choice now is, Do I find the other guy and let him take me to the mechanic, or do you carry on driving the bunky car pretending that all is OK? It is your choice. I have repeatedly told you that it is not easy, and many people consider it too hard. That is your old programming, because you can say, it’s all a load of bunkum, jump in the old car and splutter off into the sunset, totally at peace with yourself, safe in the knowledge that the other car and the mechanic maybe did not really exist.

Do you find yourself looking for answers and then saying that it is all too hard, and just moving on.

My client said, that the guy in the story, originally went in search of the mechanic, because he had evidence of what he was looking for. My answer to him was, that there is so much evidence in support of the law of attraction, but we refuse to look for it. I also commented that the guy in the story, should have gone and found the other driver and asked him to take him to the mechanic.

If you know of someone who has the answers, do not be shy in asking for help. Asking for assistance to find something or getting help to learn about something, is the first major step to success. A good coach will be able to prevent you from making some really basic errors, and dependent on his/her life experiences, there could be a whole lot more information to glean.

GOOD LUCK