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Hey Overachievers. Yes, that’s YOU!

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Hey Overachivers — yes, you! Congratulations! If you clicked on the link and opened the blog you can consider yourself an overachiever. Why? Because there’s a select few, a small percentage, a minority of people, who actually seek knowledge to improve themselves, and by clicking on this you’re one of them.

I consider myself an overachiever because I bury my heart and soul into what I’m passionate about and never give up. But the thing is I don’t feel like I’ve achieved the level of success that I desire and deserve. Sure, I’m successful in many things I do, but there’s always more to learn and more to do, and finding ways of doing just that is what drives the overachiever.

If you’ve read my previous blog you know that regular exercise is my primary hobby. Having gotten bored with routine workouts and just being physically fit, I have committed to complete 5 triathlons this year — the longest being a half Ironman distance. After my first 2 events this year — both short, sprint distance triathlons — I decided to hire a training coach, someone who has completed and coached others in long distance events.

Now, I’m not new to coaching. After all, I’m a business coach working with clients, and I have a business coach who advises me, and holds me accountable to building my business. So to me, it makes perfect sense to have someone to advise me and hold me accountable to my training goals. As an overachiever, I don’t just want to finish or survive an event, I want to finish with a smile on my face knowing I gave it everything I had.

Talk about deja vu — it’s just the second week working with my coach, but the similarities between my training coach and business coaching are frightening. Since my goals were already set, the next thing we had to do was establish a baseline. In other words, we needed measurements. In business, I call them KPIs — key performance indicators. In endurance sports, it’s all about managing my heart rate. So, I purchased a heart rate monitor and put myself through some tests to establish my level of fitness and ability to recover from high intensity exercise.

The next thing was to prioritize my workout schedule and throw in some new workout routines and strategies. Again, this is awfully familiar with how I work with a business.

So, all you overachievers out there who don’t feel like you’ve achieved the level of success that you desire or deserve, give this coaching thing a try. You might find that having someone advise you and hold you accountable is what it will take to reach that next level.