The Art and Science of Results by Joe Vitale

Author:Joe Vitale [Joe Vitale]
Language: eng
Format: epub

CHAPTER EIGHT

The Fifth Clearing Technique: Mentoring and Coaching

You can’t do it all alone. You need to stretch. You need to learn more about what you’re doing and why you’re doing it. You need to get out of your nest of beliefs.

We’re living out of a belief-driven universe, but we don’t know what our beliefs are, because we think they are reality. We look around, and we see what we see, thinking, “That’s the end of it. That’s the limit of what’s possible.”

When you get a coach or a mentor, when you’re involved with other people, you can begin to see other possibilities. You can begin to question beliefs that you didn’t even know you had. You can begin to dissolve limits that you didn’t know were there. You need a coach, a mentor to see your own limitations and get out of them.

Mentoring, coaching, or mastermind is a little-known but powerful and priceless secret of getting results. (Mastermind is a term coined by Napoleon Hill in Think and Grow Rich. He defines it as a “coordination of knowledge and effort, in a spirit of harmony, between two or more people.”) When I was growing up in the 1950s, the only coaches were the football coach and the coaches on TV. I don’t think personal-development coaches were around at that time, but if they were, I certainly never heard of them.

Now, decades later, lots of people say they’re coaches or mentors, or start mastermind groups. All of this is valuable. One secret to success is to have somebody who believes in you almost more than you believe in yourself.

Throughout my life, I have run into people—in most cases through synchronicity—who saw something in me that I didn’t yet see in myself. Because they saw it and helped develop it, they became coaches and mentors before I even knew what those words meant.

When I was sixteen, I was struggling with whether I wanted to be author, a magician, or a variety of things. At that time there was a famous magician named John Mulholland, who had known Harry Houdini. Although at that point he was up in age, he was still a full-time magician. He had written a number of books and edited a number of magical magazines. He was a very well-known, well-respected man.

I wrote to him out of the blue; this was in 1970, I believe. I typed a letter to him on my Smith Corona electric typewriter and sent it off to an address I had in New York. I told him, “I’m sixteen. This is what I’m struggling with. What kind of advice do you have?”

I still have the two-page letter he wrote back (it has been published in Magic Magazine, because it’s a historical document); he answered all of my questions. He pointed out by being a magician, I would learn a great deal about science, performance, speaking, and entrepreneurship. He also said that by being a magician, I would have many other struggles—getting work, being an independent entrepreneur, getting bookings and gigs, dealing with the competition.

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