"All coaching is, is taking a player where he can't take himself"

Bill McCartney, American Football Coach and President of Promise Keepers, b.1940

I have a great coach.

I never really intended to say that because I never thought I'd have a coach (after high school sports, anyway). Let alone the fact that I'm not an athlete and she's not coaching me in athletics!

I've had plenty of teachers and professors along the way and even some curriculum advisors but now, I have a coach.

Here's what I think about the situation: If I'm not perfect, than I'm bound to make an error. That error will either be an error of caution or an error of carelessness... and I may not see it coming.

I can count on my coach to help monitor my progress (forward or backward) and warn me of errors and I know she'll do this because she learns from her vigilance. I like to think we each grow by being there for the other.

I am willing to "give up" any macho resistance to coaching thereby creating a clearing for the possibility of progress beyond what I could do by myself.

Tiger Woods has a coach. Tony Romo has a coach. Dinara Safina has a coach... and so do I.

What about you?