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The world needs better coaches.

Whether you believe it or not, you are a coach. You don't have to be in charge of a sports team or business to earn the title. If you are a parent, teammate, co-worker, or friend, you are a coach in some way to someone else every day.

Unfortunately, like money, marriage, and parenting, coaching someone else doesn't come with a rule book or manual. It is my hope that this short, yet powerful parable in some way becomes one of those manuals for you.

I believe being called a coach is the most honorable title you can earn. When someone calls you “coach,” he or she is handing you the reins to some aspect of their life. They give you control, hoping you are the one who cares enough to show them the way to where it is they want to go.

This book is not about current science or the technical knowledge about running a practice or helping someone win a game. The ideas are much simpler, but also run much deeper. This is the softer side of coaching we know exists, but rarely gets a glimpse in today's arena.

I believe we are all waiting for a person like the old coach in this book to show up and help us fix a number of the problems in our lives. My hope is that after reading this book, instead of continually waiting for that person to magically appear, you go out into the world, use the lessons he had to teach, and become that coach for someone else.

I promise if you just take away the “Golden Rule” from this book and apply it, your life and the lives of others around you will improve. And that is because the real way a coach becomes richer is by enriching the life of someone else.

I also invite you to share your own inspiring coaching stories or how you have used some of the ideas from this book to improve the life of someone else. You can reach me at Martin@CoachingGreatness.com.

How do I know applying what you read in this book can forever change your life? Because it worked for me.

Martin Rooney

Cornelius, NC

2020