Chris Mance II - Mental Skills Coach

Athletes and entrepreneurs are remarkably similar. Both require specialized skills, and advancing in both require the ability to continually jump skill levels. In addition, only the top 1% reach elite levels in both. In other words, many try, most fail.

Correspondingly, there are far more failures than success stories in both, but this does not deter participation at all. Especially because the success stories get extreme media coverage as those who make it to the top become heroes.

As a result of all of this, one other important similarity between athletes and entrepreneurs arises–the importance that private coaching plays in their development. Athletes and entrepreneurs can only get so much help in a group setting with a generic development plan designed for the average Joe.

The fact is, in the age of the Internet, everyone knows what skills they need to perform at an elite level and there are plenty of opportunities to learn those skills in group settings. Unquestionably though, learning skills is not what helps an athlete or entrepreneur break into the top 1%. It’s how you perform those skills that matter. Furthermore, it’s how you perform those skills under stress and against the best competitors that matters even more.

This ability to perform when it counts is a direct by-product of an athlete’s or entrepreneur’s confidence. This is the #1 reason why an athlete or entrepreneur needs private coaching. You can’t teach confidence and you can’t gain confidence using worksheets, lectures, or books. Private coaching gives athletes confidence using processes, not lesson plans and speeches.

My 6 Step Coaching Process to Help Athletes or Entrepreneurs with Confidence

If an athlete or entrepreneur is stuck at a level below where they know they should be, then private coaching is likely the solution they need. I have a 6-step process for helping my clients in situations like this:

1. The process starts with assessing the sources of confidence.
2. Next, I measure those sources of confidence.
3. The process continues by setting goals related to the sources of confidence that have low measurements.
4. Then I work with the athlete or entrepreneur to break those goals down into a measurable progression.
5. After that we establish a routine to execute the progression towards the confidence goals.
6. Finally, the process repeats after several weeks of consistency with the routine by going back to the assessment in step 1.

If you or someone you know is having this problem, let’s talk about how my coaching program can help. Contact me here.