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simple - they have a coach. We all have
blind . spots, particularly when it comes to our
business Have you noticed
how easy it is to give advice, but when it comes to your
life you can't see the whole picture? Emotions can get in
the way of making clear decisions.
Who do you turn to when you need answers?
Do you operate your business from the highest level of
thinking and action?
Do you feel you are doing all you can, and yet, it just
isn't enough?
The old model of learning from your mistakes is not
effective. It's too expensive and time consuming. A single mistake can ruin you in today's
fast paced business environment. A coach is an inexpensive
insurance policy. Coaching is a profession that has
synthesized the best from psychology, business,
communication, mentoring, consulting, sports, philosophy,
spirituality, sports and finance. A coach challenges you,
and provides the tools, structure and support you need. A
coach draws the answers out of you and bridges the gap
between where you are and where you want to go.
Why do entrepreneurs turn to coaches?
To get an objective viewpoint from someone who has no hidden
agenda.
To have consistent structure, support and accountability.
To maximize and leverage every action, investment and
opportunity in your life, while minimizing your effort and
risks.
When a business owner hires a coach it demonstrates strength
and a willingness to take responsibility to grow themselves
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Just talking about
your thoughts, emotions, and ideas can generate solutions. Many
business owners who continually churn their businesses in their mind,
drain themselves of the very energy required to run their business
with clarity. Bouncing your concerns and ideas with a coach who sees
things outside the box that you operate from, can provide obvious
solutions.
What is a coach?
Coaching is a profession that has synthesized the best from
psychology, business, communication, mentoring, consulting, sports,
philosophy, spirituality, sports and finance. A coach challenges you,
and provides the tools, structure and support you need. A coach
draws the answers out of you and bridges the gap between where you
are and where you want to go. A coach is like having a personal
trainer for your life and business.
The Seven Secrets To Effortless Success!
1. Identity Your Recipe For Success.
What's the real difference between success and failure? Some people
may argue that it's having a great attitude, money, luck or
perseverance. The real difference is only one thing - It's the
ability to be consistent. You can have a great attitude or
perseverance, but if you only have it one or two days a week your
life will look like a roller coaster. True success is something you
create consistently. What's your recipe for success? Identify the
specifics of your successful days: What are you thinking? How do you
walk? How are you breathing? What kind of people are around you? Are
you taking care of your body? Did you work out today? What types of
food are you putting into your body to fuel you? All of these
components begin the process of
identifying your special recipe for success. Once you have
identified it, duplicate it consistently to maintain an upward
movement of quantifiable results.
2. Eliminate The Hassles Of Life.
Suffering is optional! Stop suffering, tolerating and hoping.
There's a huge addiction in our culture among entrepreneurs that's
rarely recognized. It's the addiction to adrenaline. Adrenaline is a
source of energy. It's not the healthiest source of energy, and yet
people will do anything to get it. Adrenaline is a habit that
creates an unhealthy lifestyle. Here are some symptoms of adrenaline:
Rushing around and juggling as many projects as possible all at
once.
Speeding in your car.
Always looking at the clock.
Filing up your gas tank on empty.
Coffee
Sugar
Messy desk with piles everywhere.
Never saying "no" to projects.
Over promising your results.
Adrenaline addiction runs rampant among entrepreneurs because the
common belief holds that adrenaline equals success. Gordon Bahary,
president of Electric Kingdom Records used to run his life on
adrenaline. "I used to create situations that developed adrenaline.
I would drink coffee, eat sugar, get hyped, angry and excited more
than was necessary. I planned my execution of tasks in an erratic
fashion just to get the adrenaline rush. I was dependent upon
something external pushing me and used adrenaline to get through my
day. Now I'm clear about my real talents and draw genuine energy
from within. I have time to stop and think and gained a love for my
discipline of not running on adrenaline."
The paradox of attraction is - if you want to achieve more, do less.
It's called irresistible attraction. By eliminating adrenaline you
naturally attract success, reduce stress, integrate all aspects of
your life, simplify, and reorient around what makes you the happiest.
What good is increased productivity and profitability if you're not
happy?
3. Get Your Needs Met And Communicate More Effectively.
It's important to be clear about what you need and to communicate it
elegantly. Needs are not optional. It's what you don't know about
you that really runs you. Unmet needs can run your life, until you
identify them and take complete responsibility for fulfilling them
in healthy ways. Have the language you need to handle
confrontations. When people avoid confrontations their lives get
messy. When you have the skills to communicate effectively, you have
quality relationships and restore your integrity. Learn how to come
across better, listen, influence, coach, motivate, inspire and
support others.
4. Create Reserves.
Business owners tend to run their business on the edge. They get so
caught up with their ideas that they invest everything into their
ventures and want to make it happen all now! Business owners tend to
exhaust their reserves quicker and faster than any other group of
people, because they are creative and come up with so many ideas
that require attention. The solution is to create reserves in every
area. You want to have more than enough so that you are always
operating from reserves. When you operate on close to empty you
react to every situation in life. With reserves you respond to life.
When you respond you're always at choice.
How do you build reserves? Begin by creating new standards of
doubling everything, i.e time, money, opportunities, clients,
friends, energy, etc. Fill your gas tank when it's on half a tank
instead of waiting until it's on empty. Buy two boxes of fax paper
versus one. Hold money in separate reserve accounts for new projects.
Say "no" more. Stop over promising and begin to under promise.
Operating with reserves make you more attractive. People will
gravitate to you and seek you out to do business. With reserves
comes fewer errors, space to create the future, time to do complete
work and the ability to maintain integrity.
5. Work "On" Your Business Instead Of "In" It.
Insightful business owner's are wise not to work "IN" their
business, but know that real money and success come from working
"ON" their business. When you work "IN" your business you think like
an employee, do tasks that you can do that others should be doing,
and work really hard. When you work "ON" your business, you
orchestrate the work of others, you step back daily to get a
helicopter view of where you're heading and plan your business for
long term growth.
It's very easy for new business owners to get engrossed and consumed
with their business. While it's important to understand how to run
and operate your business it is equally important to stop and set up
structures and systems so that anyone can do the job the same way.
You're probably worth more than your making. Why charge what you
think you are worth. Charge what others are charging. What other
products and services can you market to your existing client's? Stop
chasing, selling and promoting your business and begin to
effortlessly attract . The key here is to have an extremely
profitable business. Question all your expenses. Leverage your
ability to improve the financial bottom line, make money, add more
value to your customers, and increase productivity. The key is to
have money instead of money having you. Remember the mission and
forget the commission.
6. Get Rid Of All The Stuff In The Way
Eliminate the distractions of problems, incompletions and
tolerations and increase productivity. Everything you tolerate
claims a piece of your creative and physical energy. Tolerations
drain you of the resources required for a successful business. "
Getting rid of my tolerations was the most freeing thing I've ever
done. I never realized how much energy was being drained from
tolerations. Everyday I walked in and got annoyed at my messy desk.
Now my desk is organized, I have more energy to use on more
important things, like growing my business." Says Mike Schneider,
president of Ki Sales.
What are incompletes and tolerations? The piles you have in your
office, projects you plan to start, unfilled tax receipts or forms,
unread magazines, legal matters, the dent on your car, conversations
you need to have, etc. Set up a plan to resolve tolerations and
structure a way to eliminate them permanently. How? Identify and
eliminate the cause of your tolerations, so they don't come up again.
"I constantly look for ways to make my life easier. When issues
comes up I don't just look to resolve them, I look for solutions so
the problems never resurface." Says Pete Fioretti, president of
Mountain Funding.
7. Discover Your Strengths and Orient Your Business Around Them.
What are your strengths? Unfortunately we learn as children to get
good at the things we are not good at. For instance, if you had a
natural talent in art and failed in math, your parents would hire
you a math tutor instead of an art teacher to embellish your innate
strengths. When you spend your life trying to get good at things
that don't come naturally to you, mediocrity is at best what you can
expect. The secret key to effortless success is to identify your
strengths and talents and do only those things.
Jan Guarino, president of Guarino Graphics was struggling with her
growing business. She spent her time wearing every hat in her
company. By the end of the month profits were not growing. She
finally stopped doing what she didn't enjoy. She delegated the
administration, and took control of graphic design and sales, and
her company profits more than doubled.
If you are not certain what your gifts are, it may be difficult to
discover it yourself. How do you discover your strengths? Ask five
people that know you well what they believe your gifts are. In that
dialogue with them you'll discover it.
Are You A Coaching Candidate?
1. Do you spend your day putting out fires?
2. Do you have any concerns about your business running at maximum
profitability?
3. Do you run your business on the edge?
4. Do the same problems continually resurface?
5. Do you have difficulty finding someone you trust who can give you
an objective viewpoint and bounce ideas off of?
6. Is your business running you ?
7. Do you find that you are unable to make the most of all the
opportunities in your life?
8. Do you experience roller coaster highs and lows in your business?
9. Do you have a lone ranger lifestyle?
10. Do you allow your goals and purpose to get sidetracked?
11. Do you lack having a clear, measurable action plan to fulfill
your goals?
12. Do you lack structure?
13. Do you lack inner fulfillment?
14. Do you spend most of your day working "in" your business instead
of "on" it?
15. Are you a workaholic?
16. Are you experiencing a lack of balance in your life and
business?
17. Are you committed to growing yourself and your company?
18. Are you coachable? (Are you willing to hear and act on another's
person's viewpoint?)
19. Do you lack a clear financial plan for your future?
20. Are you willing to be truthful and restore your integrity?
* If you answered yes to more than three of these questions you can
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