 Hey, what's up coach welcome back to my channel now today's question this comes from a coach that I recently talked to on a zoom call and I already kind of gave him this advice but I thought this would be good for me to come back to YouTube here and talk about it and Our whole conversation was about you know, he has a high school coaching job He's a high school basketball coach He also does some stuff in the summer with a AU And he is looking to pursue his business and he was like, hey, you know, I want to do my business full-time I know I can generate more income doing that than my Coaching job that I have in high school and in my AU job and he was like is it possible like can I balance all three of those things can I balance the coaching jobs and The training business and I said well, you know, that's a really good question Some people are really good at time management and most people are not All right, I'm gonna say that one more time. Some people are really good at time management Most people are not and when I say most people I do mean 99.9 percent of people are absolutely horrible With managing their time. They don't wake up with intention They just kind of float around like a butterfly right when they wake up And then they figure out what they're gonna do that day, right? And that's most people. That's the average human being right now if you're really really really good at time management and you're like when you wake up you're like All right at this time of doing this at this time. I'm doing this at this time I'm doing these sales calls at this time. I'm doing these sessions like if your Schedule is ironed out that way then absolutely you can balance Right having a coaching job and having your business, but here's where the big problem is right and this is what I talked to this coach about I Said how many hours per week? Are you coaching? He said well, it's every Tuesday Thursday from 6 to 7 30 And that that was like during the summer his his job with a you and I said, okay Well with during the school year like what does that look like how many hours are you coaching and he told me and I said You know, okay. Well, here's how many hours you're coaching, but We haven't even talked about the hours yet where you're going back and forth with parents You are getting there early for practice. You're going on the road for tournaments You're getting ready for games. You're having to check into the hotel like there's so many little different things That coaches of teams do that business owners never do all right and I could say the same thing There's so many little details that business owners do if they're doing it full-time that Coaches for teams will never do right and What what we dug into was the actual amount of time that he was spending coaching his teams and I told him I said look, here's the amount of hours. You're actually spending over here and It was a lot of hours per week and I said, how are you going to have the energy and the bandwidth? to spend time over here in your training business if you're already doing this all the time and We were talking on zoom and he kind of just froze there and he was like Well, I haven't looked at it that way and I was like, well That's the reality. The reality is you're spending so much time over here and you're in your You know your coaching job You want to do this over here in your business, but over here this is where like all of your times being spent So how do you expect to have high quality training sessions when you're dead tired? How do you expect to grow and expand your business when all of your time is being spent over here and your coaching job? And he was like, yeah, you're right He's like, you know, it's been hard to market myself because I just don't really have the time and I was like Well, yeah, that's you know, that's what we're diagnosing right now is you don't have the time over here And Then I kind of mentioned him I said, well, you know, what if you had what if we cut out half the amount of hours? That you have with your coaching job and we put that over here in your business What do you think's gonna happen to your business and He was like, well, yeah, I mean, I'm gonna have way more time to train I'm gonna have way more time to market myself. I'll have more time to take on new clients And I was like, yeah, like but the thing is you need to have time and energy to do that If you don't have time and energy to do that Where you're at with your business right now, it will never change Because the amount of hours that you're working over here in your coaching job That's that's a baseline Right that is a baseline and those numbers probably will increase over time as you get more responsibility with those teams and I said, you know, like the best best piece of advice I ever got and I can I can say this from experience is you can't chase Two rabbits at once. It's impossible. You're not gonna be able to sprint and chase two rabbits You're gonna be chasing one and be chasing the other and you just can't do that All right, it's better and it's best like if you're watching this video and you want to like really pursue your training business I'm not saying just completely stop what you're doing and quit your job and stop your coaching job But the thing is if if you're a head coach, you can bring in an assistant coach in that job Have them do a lot of things that take up a lot of time. So now you can spend more of your time in your business Right. So this is just thinking strategically here. It's how can we find someone who can start to We can start to delegate Some of our responsibilities to so now we have more time over here that we can spend on the training business And then what happens is when you have more time in your training business, you get more confident because you're like, wow, like All I really need to do in this business is spend time learning marketing spend time Closing new clients And if I have the time and energy to do that, I will always grow my business If I don't have the time and energy to do that Then I'm going to be stuck over here in this in this coaching job. And I'm not when I say stuck over here I'm not saying that's a bad career move Right doing coaching for a school like that that can be awesome, right? I don't hate on anyone who does that but my channel is is designed for coaches that Want to have a training business and they want to do that full time Right. And this is why I like to answer the question of you know, should I do both? The answer is long term. It's it's physically impossible Short term, I would have an assistant coach take on some some of the responsibilities then I would start to spend more time in the training business So that way you have more time you have more energy focused on that Because if your focus is on two different things right Both of those things will never grow I know this and and the thing is I can tell you that and like right now I have multiple businesses right, there's like At this point, there's like four different things that I'm involved with right and Three of those things I have never talked about on this channel But four of those things like because I have pieces in place I can be involved in those things like I still have time to shoot these videos every single day And that's because again it comes down to what we talked about I think at the beginning of this video time management right But I'm not sitting here trying to chase four different things at once right You you have to be able to have people in place if you're going to be doing multiple things Right can't do everything by yourself. And that's that's really the whole message here in this video is if you're trying to do two different things can't do those Both can't do both those things at a high level by yourself You're gonna have to find someone who can start to take over some of the responsibility So you can put more focus into the thing that you want to do And if you're watching this right now and and you're like you've been struggling with your time management Well, to me if you fix that that can fix a lot of things and then when you can start to identify Well, who can I bring on that can take on some of this responsibility? Now I can spend more time over here in my training business You'll see your business is going to grow when you put more time into it Like it has to If you gave yourself 10 more hours per week of time over here in your business It's going to grow like unless you're just spending those 10 hours like doing nothing Right, which hopefully that's not the case So I hope that answers the question You know This is where you have to like seriously you just got to take out your calculator and see exactly how much time Am I spending over here in my coaching? And and how am I spending how much time am I spending over here in my training business? They're two completely different thing now. No, thanks. Now the last thing that I will say here Because I was going to make a different video about this, but you know, this is just the facts if you think about The coaching Industry versus you're like versus having a business Two completely different things Right when you coach a high school team, for example, you're going to get paid the same amount Right and the amount that you work that that's really I mean, that's up to you if you have an assistant coach who's helping with stuff or not Um, but the amount that you work that time you're not I don't want to say you're not getting paid for that time But you spend a lot more time coaching and talking and Going back and forth on email and going back and forth on phone and setting up for events driving the bus I mean, there's a lot that you do as a coach in that I'm going to say in that industry over here in your business Like there's zero cap On the amount of income that you can generate Like if you have a lot of focus over here, right? So I hope you can see that there's a big difference between the two And oftentimes coaches don't see that because they're like, well, I could just take on more teams and coach more teams Well, of course you could do that, but Where's all your time going now? Now you have zero time at home Right with your business you have the flexibility to hire people you have the flexibility to Literally work the hours that you want to work, right? If you want if you want to set it up that way So that's it for this video. I hope this helps hope this helped answer your question And uh, you know if you pick one thing you go all in on that When you start to streamline things then you can go and do other things But time management is going to be I think it's one of the most important things that Most coaches just honestly are really bad at and it's not just coaches as most human beings are terrible at managing their time Right when you fix that I think you'll be able to like Be a lot more successful and also you'll have a lot more freedom in your personal life. All right That's it and I'll see you later