ABOUT YOU
Before we read About Nick Hughes Coaching, I figured it would benefit us both if we talked a little about you first. That way, you won’t waste any precious time hanging out on the wrong site.
You’re someone who wants a little guidance and maybe a push to help you achieve your maximum potential. You’ve figured out that all the top athletes and industry titans use coaches, so maybe you should, too.
Whether it’s getting clear, achieving goals, attaining your ideal weight, quitting smoking, or any of the multitude of other things that you feel are holding you back, you’re in the right place.
Are you frustrated watching others make progress while you can’t seem to gain any traction? If so, you’re in the right place.
If you’re a fan of self-help and personal development, you’re in the right place.
ABOUT ME
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
I was first exposed to personal development in the late seventies when Jim Rohn (Tony Robbins’ coach) came to Australia. My older brother, a sole proprietor and bricklayer, attended the seminar. Four years later, he was running a seven-figure company.
I listened to the tapes in his car while we drove around. Not much of it applied to me then because I was teaching karate and working security, but the seed had been planted.
I started reading personal development books (the first one was “The Magic Of Thinking Big” by David Schwarz and soon after opened my own karate school and security company. That led to me heading to Europe to work as a bodyguard and ending up in the French Foreign Legion as a recon diver and commando. I also wrote a best-selling book, “How To Be Your Own Bodyguard.”
THE BODYGUARD YEARS
When I started working with the rich and famous, I began to appreciate what having that level of success could mean. Freedom to go anywhere, anytime with anyone. The best medical care and legal advice. Access granted that’s only available to a few.
I took a hiatus to get married, move to the US, and start a small business. After 9/11, however, I was inundated with calls to put my skills to use, providing security. Being married, I opted to stay put but did start teaching self-defense again.
Over the years, many students have come to me to deal with issues related to why they were learning self-defense. Some had been victims of sexual assault, some were abused as children, some lacked confidence due to bullying. I got fascinated with being able to teach them physical moves and help them mentally using the techniques I’d learned in the Legions’s special forces and from the hundreds of books I’d been devouring on personal development.
COACHING
It was then that I started training in NLP and hypnosis and using exercises from karate about developing internal fortitude. I took elements of that training, began working with students, and achieved stunning results. I also took Jim Rohn’s advice and lessons learned from the rich and famous and applied them to my small businesses. They, too, were successful. That led to me advising clients on how to set up or make their businesses more successful.
While happy to use all that training as an adjunct to my self-defense instruction, recently, I reached a crossroads. Do I keep teaching self-defense, which is getting harder and harder due to a catalog of injuries amassed over the years? Or do I do something more cerebral and go full-on into coaching?
I think I’m going to choose the latter.