Why Entrepreneurs Should Have a Business Coach

I was not always an entrepreneur, in fact up untilwith that adventure, but wasn't sure what else I
7 years ago my only resume included 20 yearscould do. When I started coaching my very first
of real estate sales. Yes you may say that cancall it clicked, this is what I want to do, what a
be considered an entrepreneur because as agreat job! Within in 6 months I was a coach with
Realtor you are self-employed. My definition of anone of the top firms in the country!
entrepreneur is someone that is always seeking,That was the start of my entrepreneurship! I met
open to opportunities and knows which ones toso many incredible people and started surrounding
choose to make a real profit. Most entrepreneursmyself with people doing more than me (just like
are risk takers and with that comes failure, or asmy coach told me) and it was like Pandora box
I like to say, just another way that doesn't workopened up for me. Soon I found myself selling real
and move on.estate, coaching 40 agents all over the US,
Honestly I never knew business coaching, personalinvesting in condo towers in Costa Rica, and
development coaching or entrepreneurial coachingspeaking and training all over Southern California.
even existed until 2004. Before I got a coach IAll this with being a newly single mom with 2 little
was doing a lot of things the hard way. Sure Ikids.
was successful but it took me a lot longer to getI would have never been able to do any of this
there than it should have. I hired my first businessor even think of the possibility of doing something
development coach in 2004. I was selling reallike that without the help of my personal
estate in Los Angeles and had just moved backdevelopment coach. I have used the principles and
from Colorado Springs where I had a veryteaching of my coach and have been paying it
successful career selling 38-42 homes a yearforward with my own style for the past 6 years.
working only 6 hours days 5 days a week. LifeI have personally coached hundreds of Realtors,
was good, but I was homesick and thought Iand now since opening up my own firm in Sept
could easily duplicate what I did in Colorado here in2009, am now coaching life coaches,
LA. Boy was I wrong! I had left a huge databaseentrepreneurs, network marketers, and of course
and now was starting from scratch, dumb ideareal estate agents.
for sure. My business coach starting asking meIf you really want to step it up both personally
questions that honestly I had never even thoughtand professionally and stop worrying about when
of; like where do you see yourself in 5 years?the next time you are going to get paid, if you
Well I tell you it really wasn't selling real estate. Iare going to get paid, and start living your dream
had been selling for 20 years and was really donebusiness and life.