I’ve had so much first hand experience with this it’s not funny.
It’s the first question I ask every man before taking him on as a coaching client.
“What do you want?”
This usually involves 2 or 3 follow up questions before I’m able to get the father in question to a specific and realistic goal.
It’s not just dads that avoid setting goals.
I think you could ask the vast majority of people “What’s your goal? What are you working towards?”
And most would either have no clue or give you a standard cliche answer that shows that they haven’t taken any time to consider where they’re going.
For the dads I work with I think this is the result of 2 things:
Firstly It’s not something they’ve been brought up to do, so it doesn’t feel natural for them.
The second is fear.
And that’s what we’ll be discussing in today’s episode.
