Yesterday, Nathan and I were interviewed for the Lissome Podcast with Nerida Bint. This was the second time we’ve been interviewed together talking all things Newstrength from how it all began, to what we do and how we work together as business partners.
The amazing thing with doing these sorts of interviews is it really makes us think about what it is that makes things work. It’s easy to get caught in the day to day grind and not realise the underlying principles at play.
Nerida asked us how we complement each other as business partners and it left me thinking for a bit.
What it came down to is really what helped Nathan and I progress as training partners first and foremost before we began working as business partners..
We are both very good at covering each other’s blind spots.
Often, one of us will have an idea of something we’d like to implement whether it will be in a training program, as an event for the gym or various other cases. Our next step has always been to take that idea to the other person and run it by them.
Before you stop me I realise that many people do this but the key here is what you’re looking for out of the interaction.
Everyone has been to a workshop or seminar where there’s that guy asking the speaker what they think about an idea purely so they can tell them their own thoughts not so they can listen (side note, if you’re at a workshop ever… don’t be that guy).
When we run through these ideas together we are looking for the other person to show us what we can’t see from where we are right now…
Sometimes it means we throw out the idea, others it just means it needs some refinement to make it work.
I believe you should do this in everything in life. I do the same with my partner Jess, my Dad and often with many of the coaches I’ve had in business and training over the past few years.
The key here is being able to detach from your idea being right… sometimes you don’t have the whole truth from where you are.
You need someone to show you.
This is one of the biggest reasons why everyone should have a coach or mentor in their lives.
Or at the very least someone who’s willing to tell you how it is..
Who’s watching your blind spot for you?