BUNTE Magazine - English Translation, Page 2

PICTURE-PERFECT MARRIAGE
Andre Agassi with his Steffi.
Andre also let himself be coached

THE EXPERT
Michael Wiegel, Munich,
works with his "Personal Brandbeat"-Method
as Brand-, Management- and Personality-Trainer.

One who is completely authentic, is like a magnet for other people

Coaching makes you Self Confident

In the USA for celebrities handle mental training as a matter of course. People with self-esteem/self-respect have their their own personal-trainer for the perfect body and their personal coach for optimal self expression. Also here in our country, a lot of people who are in the public eye have a coach. But only a few of them admit this so frankly, like gold-swimmer Britta Steffen or the actress Katharina Abt.

Why do so many of them keep that as a secret?
In our country still the fear exists that you would be to weak to want to bring your Life in order. Or you are depending on some kind of pseudo-psychological trend or on some kind of guru.

Don't you become addicted?
No quite the converse! A good coach makes his/her clients more self confident and less dependant of the opinions and requests of other people.

And all that can be achieved just with positive thinking?
Not at all, that's not how it works. The formerly common method which was very suggestive "Think positive! You will achieve everything, if you just want to! Rah, Rah! could be a admittedly a short-termed motivational push. However in the long run nothing will change, because the fears/anxieties you only have subpressed with that method, will come back massively.

How does your personal training work?
My approach: "Follow your heart and find who you are" - this combines awareness and intuition. Different imagination- and conversation techniques make it possible to lead every person to his/her own deepest power. To allow you to feel the unique power that really lives inside you. This cannot be put into words, because it is a profound experience with all the 'sins' of your original personaility - experiencing is more powerful than understanding.

And what outcome would this experience give you?
If you are authentic, and able to permit and express your whole personality without fear, then you suddenly feel totally alive and happy - independant and free of outside circumstances and your own fears. Then you are radiant and attractive to others. And this leads automatically, without effort, to success and fulfillment in all areas. Career, finances and private life.

This is hard to imagine. Can you give an example?
Yes. The english tenor Paul Potts, whose Telekom commercial became legendary on TV and who is rushing on top of the charts, is a good example of that phenomena. Paul Potts, the plump cellphone salesman with crooked teeth, went trembling into that English casting call. He, without question, wanted to sing because he felt: That's really me, that's my deepest desire and my most beautiful skill. When he starts, feeling pitiful and receiving a condescending grin of the jury, the audience's experience transforms first from astonishment and finally into the deepest sympathy and awe. His voice causes goosebumps and is an undescribable gift. That is this fascinating authenticity that I speak of. It comes out of deepest inner personality, which everyone has and which you can set free with mental training.