A coach argues that when clients list multiple problems, your job is finding the one core constraint blocking everything else. Fix that first instead of scattering effort across ten things.
Stop whining, start doing. Start doing. This is kind of my motto. It's like, dude, I don't really care about your excuses. Just do this one thing. I'm not going to tell you 3 or 4 things to do. Just do this one thing. Your core constraint is fill in the blank. This is like a doctor, right? When people come to me, when clients come to me for coaching and mentorship, they have all these problems. They'll have 5 or 6 or 7 problems. It's not my job to fix all 6 problems. Not right now. Just what is your core constraint? What is the thing that is hurting you the most? What is holding you back? That's the thing that we need to fix. You cannot simultaneously focus on all of these things. That's a shotgun approach. Instead, you need to be laser-focused. This is my core constraint. Therefore, here is the diagnosis and here is my number one thing, my action set moving forward. And that takes discipline, truly.
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