How ridiculous is it that Life Coaches are an industry?
This is not an indictment of life coaches. This is an indictment of the society that needs them. All a “life coach” does is to teach a coddled soul the skills they would have learned if they had just been raised on a farm. They use modern techniques. They have calm and soothing voices as they guide you through breathing exercises. They are useful and helpful and maybe even necessary to the lives of those who seek them. But they are capitalizing on the fact that masses of people were not raised right. They do a good service, but that service is only compensating for First World offspring. What a Life Coach does is to give skills that an average person would have learned throwing hay, not so many years ago.
What Life Coaches bring to the table is lessons on things like resiliency and perseverance. On a farm, you quickly learn that if you want to eat, you stand up and get the work done. So you feel crappy? The cows still need fed so that you can get milk, or slaughter them later and get beef. How you feel and your desires for an easy rest has nothing to do with the fact that the cows still need fed. And the horses. And the chickens. And the hogs. So you feel like crap? There is something bigger than your comfort at stake, and the animals still need fed. What is that if not resiliency? What is that if not perseverance?
In simpler terms, the concept is simple: Stand the hell up when life knocks you down. Go work on a farm for a summer. You’ll learn to think outside of your own self.
Have you learned to take deep breaths when you’re feeling out of control? When you’re feeling angry, do you need a counselor to talk you off of the ledge of doing or saying something that you will regret later? How about we put that regret forefront in your mind, before you even do the thing? How about you knowing that you will get paid only if you keep up with the team as they throw hay bales? And also knowing that if you don’t get paid, then you don’t eat anything that you can’t hunt and kill?
When you have that incentive – the incentive of being able to eat – you will naturally learn to take deep breaths and calm yourself before you confront those who are affronting you. You will learn very quickly what fight is worth the trouble and what fight is prideful, because if you get it wrong, you don’t get to eat. That is what working on a farm means.
On a farm, your boss doesn’t likely have a college degree. Your boss might not even have a high school diploma or a GED. What you boss has is decades of experience, learned generationally, as to what it takes to make the farm successful. When you want to mouth off to your boss on a farm, you will find yourself booted as quickly as he can strap on his boots. So you learn to take a deep breath and suck down the minor disagreements. Breath coaches? Sure, I guess. For those who never had to work on a farm. Talk to a life coach, or just work on a farm for a summer. Either way, you will learn a life skill. You’ll learn to take deep breaths and drive on. Perseverance.
Let’s bring this to something more pressing and uncontrollable. Are you worried that Yellowstone will erupt and kill us all? Good for you. That might happen tomorrow, but it hasn’t happened today and the pigs still need their slop. Or are you going to let the pigs starve because you fear what might happen? No, you won’t do that. You’ll feed the pigs and the hens and the cattle and the horses. You’ll take care of those animals that depend on you, even if you fear that Yellowstone might erupt any day. You’ll focus on what is. What is here and now. And you will act appropriately, regardless of what you fear might be. That is called “putting it in perspective,” and people are paid a king’s ransom to teach that lesson. But you could get paid to learn that lesson if you just worked on a farm. When lives depend on you, even if those lives are just dogs’ lives, you’ll quickly learn to get rid of all excuses, and you’ll get the job done. You learn that on a farm.
The thought may occur to you to wonder “What if there is a drought?!” Does a possible future drought mean that you do not harvest the corn that is there now? Or does the possible future drought mean that you get your ass of the couch and harvest what is there, and can it and safeguard it for use when it is needed? If you work on a farm, you know that there will be a drought in the future, so you are frugal in ensuring that you’re prepared. Does that take a life coach? Or does that just take life experience?
But what if a coyote eats the chickens? Without chickens, there are no eggs and no cookies or cakes. Breakfasts become more bland. Good thought. When you work on a farm, you have to think about potential risks and mitigate them. Failures to do so, otherwise called mistakes, have real world consequences on your tummy. So you learn and think ahead. So you learn also to go get the eggs that are there, because they might not be there tomorrow. Does that take a life coach? No, it just takes working on a farm.
These skills apply far outside of the farm. Even to a Soldier, these skills are essential. A Soldier may fear for his safety when doing his duty, but Yellowstone hasn’t erupted yet – meaning that he isn’t dead yet – so drive on. Could his parachute fail? Yes, but there could also be a drought. That hasn’t happened yet, so drive on. You learn that on a farm.
Are people shooting at you? Yeah, but there are also coyotes and other predators out there, and you have a flock of sheep to protect. You haven’t been mauled yet, neither have you been shot yet, so you drive on.
People don’t need life coaches. They need life experience. Kudos to those who extend their life experience to the coddled masses. But they and I both know that they are just capitalizing on the fact that many weren’t raised with real challenges, and they’re trying to give crutches to help those people survive. When all those people really need is to go work on a farm for a summer. Then they’d get paid for the lessons they would learn, instead of paying for those lessons.
Instead of working on a farm to learn life skills, too many people farm it out.
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