{"id":37,"date":"2012-08-14T18:07:57","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T18:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rustamirani.com\/?p=37"},"modified":"2012-08-14T18:07:57","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T18:07:57","slug":"coaching-kids-and-adults-is-there-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rustamirani.com\/?p=37","title":{"rendered":"Coaching Kids and Adults, is there a difference?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally posted on August 12 2010<\/em><\/p>\n

As some of you know, I am coaching my daughter’s 5 and 6 year old soccer team.\u00a0 I along with Coach Micheal decided to coach our girl’s soccer team this season.\u00a0 As the season is coming to an end, I can honestly say I have truly enjoyed every minute with our kids and believe whole heartedly that being a coach or mentor is one of the most rewarding feelings in life.\u00a0 The interesting thing is, that while I was coaching our kids, I reflected on my years of coaching business owners and found some interesting observations.<\/p>\n

Here are some of the similar observations I have about coaching kids and adults.<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 Those who want to learn……DO!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Every adult and kid who wants to master business or soccer respectively, will listen more attentively and learn quicker.\u00a0 Some of the business owners I coached were anxious to listen andlearn and implement our plans and discussions into practice.\u00a0 Similarly, several of our kids listened attentively to our discussions about the basics of soccer, retained the information and applied it at our game or the next practice.\u00a0 Conversely, the business owners who did not take our meetings seriously, struggled and did not seem interested in what we were doing.\u00a0 They were hoping I would come in and do all of the work and they didn\u2019t really care to improve themselves.\u00a0 I noticed this with our soccer team as well.\u00a0 For example, a few of the kids have learned that when a ball goes out on the sideline<\/span>, it means a throw in and they anxiously run to the ball to throw it in.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0 Others, I notice are looking around to see what everyone else is doing or not even paying attention.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 Those who work or play because they have to, don’t have FUN!<\/strong><\/p>\n

The business owners I worked with that enjoyed our time together, liked what they did, the projects we were working on, and had big goals, also had a lot of FUN.\u00a0 I remember one of my clients who had an IT business, would always come to our meetings with great ideas and enthusiasm about his business and the potential.\u00a0 He enjoyed learning and had FUN doing it.\u00a0 The rewards were equally enjoyable and he saw increases in his revenue and the quality of his clients.<\/p>\n

I know these kids are 5 and 6 and just out to have FUN, but it is easy to envision some of the more attentive and enthusiastic players in years to come.\u00a0 I believe we may have a few great future soccer players. I believe there is a transistion point when a kid decides what they enjoy doing and don’t and then switch.\u00a0 Is it possible when you become an adult?\u00a0 Absolutely, I call this the SWITCH.<\/p>\n

THE SWITCH<\/strong><\/p>\n

I always found it difficult to understand why business owners continue to do work they do not enjoy.\u00a0 What struck me as even more strange was that they were making less money than someone in a corporate environment selling their service or product.\u00a0 I understand sometimes life puts you in certain circumstances and you think you don’t have a choice, but that is absolutely FALSE!\u00a0 Loans can be repaid, bankruptcies happen, and as long as you have the necessities you will survive.\u00a0 You may not be able to flip a switch and sell yourbusiness and get a job, but you can plan to make a change.\u00a0 On average we live 85+ years, which we all agree flies by, so why be miserable?<\/p>\n

THE ARCHITECT and THE SWITCH<\/strong>\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I once consulted with an Architect who had his own business and was struggling to find his niche and make money.\u00a0 We met a few times and through those meetings, we decided that we would try a few different strategies to see if we could increase his revenue and if he could find his niche.\u00a0 Over a 2 month period we tried numerous strategies and realized that he really didn\u2019t want to own a business.\u00a0 After he made this decision, he asked me to meet with him at Starbucks.\u00a0 Surprisingly, he poured out his thanks to me for listening to him and helping him realize he didn\u2019t enjoy having a business and would look into other options and make a SWITCH.<\/p>\n

COACH RUSTAM\u2019s Playbook:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here are some of my SWITCHES:<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0I was once a Pre-Med student at UF and switched to Engineering.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 After 8 monthsquit my first nice salary job to get my MBA.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I quit a great position with an Engineering firm to start a consulting business.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I quit consulting to join a promising business.<\/p>\n

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I am truly blessed with all of my opportunities and challenges and love coaching.\u00a0 The interesting thing I realized after coaching my daughter’s team, is that we have the ability from a very early age to realize weather or not we will really enjoy something or if we will be good at it.\u00a0 This ability is carried with us throughout our whole life, but it becomes more difficult (not impossible) to act on it.\u00a0 I truly believe it is important in our lives, to have mentors, wives, husbands, parents, and friends to coach us to have a healthy, happy and fun life!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Originally posted on August 12 2010 As some of you know, I am coaching my daughter’s 5 and 6 year old soccer team.\u00a0 I along with Coach Micheal decided to coach our girl’s soccer team this season.\u00a0 As the season is coming to an end, I can honestly say I have truly enjoyed every minute […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustamirani.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustamirani.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustamirani.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustamirani.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustamirani.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/rustamirani.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54,"href":"https:\/\/rustamirani.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/54"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustamirani.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustamirani.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustamirani.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}