What the world needs
February 6, 2009 Leave a comment
What the world needs is more coaches. More mentors. More advisors.
Everyone needs a life coach.
Someone that:
- Instills confidence in us.
- Teaches us.
- Challenges us.
- Encourages us.
- Pulls the potential out of us.
- Trains us thoroughly.
- Asks us good questions.
- Lets us fail.
- Explains things to us.
- Believes in us.
A few years of talking to college students and I’ve noticed a trend. Students that had a great dad that was a mentor or coach to them are making great decisions in life. Most students aren’t which means most students didn’t have a great dad.
I’ve recently told my wife Ashley that maybe we should only have two kids. We’ve always wanted four but I just want to raise my kids right. She doesn’t like that ideas. But will I really have time to adequately train up four kids at once?
I want to raise kids that are leaders on this earth and that live with understanding and that are thoroughly briefed on life issues. I want to have lengthy Q & A sessions with my son on money and sex and go on frequent dates with my daughter and talk about whatever she wants to talk about. I want that so bad because I see so many fatherless 20 yr olds that are lost, confused, and floating around with no direction. No dad. No mentor. No life coach. No one to teach them how to change a tire or about the purpose of dating. No one to break things down and to speak to their potential.
I guess I’m in the right profession. I encourage you to find someone that is fatherless. Invest in them. Speak life into them. Challenge them. Make them think.
The world will be a better place if you do.
