How to Maximize Your Potential

Shawn Sommerkamp • June 11, 2018

Professionals are starting to catch on to something athletes have always known

It's been around a while

Interpersonal coaching has been around for decades. If we trace its roots, however, we find the principles of professional coaching splashed across the pages of the Old and New Testaments.

Perhaps the first coaching session – ever – happened in the Garden as God asked Adam and Eve a question for which He already knew the answer: “Who told you that you were naked?” For Adam and Eve to take responsibility for their own choices and grow, he asked a question. This is the essence of modern day coaching.

Today, companies and businesses use professional coaching to give senior leaders the edge. If you are an executive or business owner, you most certainly have witnessed this. If you aren't, you might be unaware that coaching has been an industry standard for two decades.

Here's the good news

We have now entered an era where anyone can have, and greatly benefit from, their own personal coach.

No longer is coaching only for senior leaders. No longer do you have to hope your manager will take a strong personal interest in your success. You can access professional coaching to profoundly influence your own career outcomes.

In a Forbes Magazine article, November 2013, Steve Siebold writes about the “Five Ways To Be Amazing At Work.” Among the five - find a Coach. He says:

“Corporate America and entrepreneurs are starting to catch on to something that athletes have always known: if you want to maximize your potential in anything, hire a coach.” Full Article Here

Coaching works, is powerful, and is being used across God’s kingdom today. Our goal at DT CONNECT is to provide access to professional coaching insights to all Christians, not just executives or business owners. Our content is designed to provide these insights at no (or very low) cost.

Yes, there are lots of secular coaches out there who can help you ratchet up your life and professional effectiveness. Making God the center of your ambition, however, is not in the cards with secular coaching. Without a vigilant focus on the life of Christ and God’s word, the lure for worldly success can be too great a temptation.

Christian coaching will help keep it all in perspective. Without the gospel, personal wealth is meaningless and deceptive. In the parable of the sower in Mark 4, Jesus warns of this as ‘seed among thorns’. He explained its meaning like this:

19 but the worries of the world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things enter in and choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. - Mark 4:19 (NASB)

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Shawn Sommerkamp is a motivational speaker and Executive Coach with 20+ years of Fortune 100 leadership experience. He founded Motivationeer™ to coach Christian professionals how to bring the power of Christ’s word, as the foundation of career success, into corporate and small business America.

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