The REAL REASON Experts STILL HAVE COACHES

Two weeks ago at Sugar Mountain, my daughter’s boyfriend would disappear.

They’d get off the lift together.

Thirty seconds later, he’d be carving turns halfway down the mountain while she was still cautiously working her way through the top section.

Totally normal. He’s a good skier, and gravity favors confidence. .

But it did make for a funny dynamic: boyfriend waiting at the bottom while she worked her way down the hill.

Fast forward to this week.

We were in Utah, and she spent two days taking lessons at Brighton.

Real coaching.

Someone watching her turns.

Someone correcting the little things she couldn’t see herself doing wrong.

Weight here.

Edge there.

Slow down.

Finish the turn.

Small adjustments.

Yesterday we rode the Sugarloaf lift at Alta and ended up at the top of a black run.

She looked down.

Every skier knows that moment. The slope always looks steeper from the top.

Your brain starts running calculations.

Maybe we should go another way.

Maybe we should warm up more first.

Maybe this was a bad idea.

But she dropped in.

Turn.

Turn.

Turn.

A few minutes later, she was standing at the bottom of her first black run.

In three days.

That’s the power of coaching.

Left to ourselves, we tend to reinforce our mistakes. We keep doing the same thing slightly wrong over and over and wonder why we’re not improving.

A good coach shortcuts that entire process.

They see the one small adjustment that unlocks everything.

That’s why experts still have coaches.

Olympic athletes have coaches.

Professional golfers have coaches.

Even elite skiers have coaches.

Not because they’re beginners.

Because having another set of trained eyes looking at what you’re doing is the fastest way to get better.

Real estate investing is exactly the same way.

Every week, I talk to people trying to piece it together themselves.

They’ve watched some YouTube videos. Listened to a podcast or two. Maybe read a book.

Which is a lot like teaching yourself to ski.

You point the skis downhill and hope for the best.

Sometimes that works.

More often, you just keep making the same mistakes over and over.

The fastest investors I know have almost always learned from someone already doing it.

A coach.

A mentor.

A class.

Someone who could point out the small adjustments that change everything.

Side note: if we’re being honest, the boyfriend might benefit from a little coaching, too.

Not in skiing.

In boyfriend etiquette.

Rule number one: don’t leave your girlfriend halfway up the mountain while you zip to the bottom.

(If he's still around next year, he might get to tag along to Utah. If so, it'll be fun to see if he's figured that out.)

Anyway, yesterday was a good day.

Two weeks ago the boyfriend was waiting at the bottom.

Yesterday she was skiing black runs.

Turns out improvement can happen pretty fast…

…when someone who knows what they’re doing shows you how.