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Mar
1
Sales Mastery Interview
March 1, 2013 | 2 Comments
This is an interview I did with Barbara Giamanco for the Sales Mastery Series. There are some great nuggets of wisdom in this interview for sales people, business owners and entrepreneurs looking to double or triple their revenues over the next 12 months.
Listen to the 30 minute interview here:
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Sep
2
50 Best Life Coaches in the World
September 2, 2011 | 19 Comments
There are so many people getting into coaching. It’s such an exciting industry. So many of the coaches I hear about getting into the business are doing it to make a difference.
Here are a list of the 50 best life coaches. These are coaches who have impacted me directly or indirectly to help improve my life and make it better. I respect each and every one of these coaches.
Since the term life coach covers a broad range of topics and areas of interest, I decided to share a list of 50 coaches who cover a broad range of topics from finance, money and business to relationships, spirituality and well being.
Here they are {in no particular order}…
No. 1: Christian Mickelson
Business Coach for “Coaches”
Magic Bullet: Free Sessions that Sell
Website: www.freesessionsthatsell.com
More about Christian: Best Business Coach Ever
No. 2: Susan James
Human Potential Coach
Magic Bullet: Clearing Limiting Beliefs
Website: www.selfdiscoverytechniques.com
More about Susan: How to Quiet the Mind
No. 3: Esther Hicks
Law of Attraction Coach
Magic Bullet: Getting into the Vortex
Website: www.abraham-hicks.com
No. 4: Bob Doyle
Law of Attraction Coach
Magic Bullet: EFT
Website: www.wealthbeyondreason.com
The Real Deal on Attracting Money: Bob Doyle
No. 5: Cheri Huber
Zen Coach
Magic Bullet: Meditation
Website: www.cherihuber.com
My favovorite Cheri Huber quotes
No. 6: Bob Proctor
Money Coach
Magic Bullet: Visualization
Website: www.bobproctor.com
More About Bob: Bob Proctor
No. 7: T Harv Eker
Business/Mindset Coach
Magic Bullet: Financial Blueprint
Website: www.harveker.com
Harv’s Book: Secrets of the Millionaire Mind
No. 8: Monique Gallagher
Cybernetic Transposition Coach
Magic Bullet: Clearing “Blockers”
Website: www.ctcoach.com
More about Monique: Monique Gallagher
No. 9: Anthony Robbins
Peak Performance Coach
Magic Bullet: NLP
Website: www.anthonyrobbins.com
More about Tony: Anthony Robbins
No. 10: John Assaraf
Business/Mindset Coach
Magic Bullet: Neuro Reconditioning
Website: www.johnassaraf.com
I read a great book from John: The Answer
No. 11: Brian Tracy
Business/Sales Coach
Magic Bullet: The Science of Self Confidence
Website: www.briantracy.com
No. 12: Jim Britt
Manifesting Money Coach
Magic Bullet: The Power of Letting Go
Website: www.jimbritt.com
No. 13: Terri Levine Click here to read more…
Jun
20
5 Step Client Getting System
June 20, 2011 | 2 Comments
Published from BloggingforCoaches
The 5 Step Client Getting System is a system I’ve been using to get clients – but not the way you might think. I don’t go to network meetings or training events to meet my clients. To be completely honest, I don’t even leave my house!
The method I’ve been using to get coaching clients is by blogging. And if you look at the way people search for solutions to their problems nowadays, this makes complete sense.
It’s not like it used to be 20 years ago. When someone has a problem and they are looking for solutions, where do they go? Where do they look for solutions to their problems?
They go to Google!
They type keywords into the search engines and that’s EXACTLY what your clients are doing too!
Step 1: Blogging System
So step 1 of the client getting system is to actually setup a blog and get your solution “out there.”
Now some coaches would argue that Facebook or Linkedin are better ways to market their coaching and build their business online. I would also suggest that if those coaches were ever banned from either of these two sites, they would be out of business.
But with a blog that you personally OWN, you minimize the risk to all of your business ASSets – if you get what I mean.
So blogging is an easy way to get started with your coaching business so that you actually own and control your business. I recommend you get started with WordPress: http://wordpress.org
Step 2: Content System
Once you have your blog up and running, you want to add content to your blog. And not just any type of content, but content that is helpful for the type of clients you want to work with.
Giving away helpful content should be at the heart of every successful blog and coaching business. This is the second part of my Client Getting System.
Why is the content so important?
Because a blog with helpful content becomes a TRAFFIC MAGNET. Search engines love blogs and Google loves blogs with great content.
The content on your blog could be in the form of training videos, a free PDF report, a blog post or even an MP3 that you give away. It doesn’t matter what form of medium you use – what really matters is that your content is helpful.
By creating helpful content you build confidence in your readers; not only will they start referring you to their friends, but you’ll also become a trusted source of information for them. And if they trust you and your free information, they are more likely to buy you and your paid-stuff.
Once you have a good content system, you’re in the perfect position to move to step 3.
Step 3: Traffic System
This is the third step, the traffic system. A well designed content system is also your traffic system. Click here to read more…
May
16
3 Tips to Find a Great Coach
May 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment
This the second blog post in response to 101 Reasons Why You Should Have a Coach. In this audio I share 3 tips on how to select a coach that will raise your game and standards in life to a whole new level.
Regardless if you’re looking for a coach or not, this is good stuff ;)
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Want to Double Your Sales? Get a Sales Coach: Double Your Sales Click here to read more…
Jan
12
101 Reasons Why You Should Have a Coach
January 12, 2011 | 4 Comments
Here are some statistics and reasons why you should look at getting yourself a coach. I have two coaches – one is good at spotting my blockages and limiting beliefs while the other one is good at keeping me charged up so that I feel heatlhy and in my optimal state of well being – both provide value to my life. Now coaching isn’t for everyone – especially if would just rather sit on your ass and raise excuses – but if you are interested in real personal growth, in real opportunity and getting real results that will take your life to the next level, here are 101 reasons why you should have a coach:
- Get yourself “unstuck”
- You want to stop re-hashing “stories” and past dramas
- You’re not happy where you are
- You feel depressed and in a ball of emotions
- You feel that life is a struggle
- You have the wrong goals…or;
- You don’t know if you have the right goals… or;
- You don’t have any goals at all
- You want to kick the procrastination habit
- You’re tired of the results you’re getting
- You have an important decision
- You feel that life is pointless
- You feel numb with negative emotions
- You “cover-up” your deeper feelings by abusing drugs and alcohol
- You have trouble asking for help
- You struggle to stay focused
- You easily get distracted
- You self-sabotage your efforts when things are going well
- You suspect others have a hidden agenda
- You need to feel loved and cared for
- You put others needs first while sacrificing your soul
- Your being unconsciously directed by TV and Media
- You feel tired, stressed and overwhelmed
- You walk around on egg-shells with certain people
- You’re only seem happy when others are happy
- You haven’t achieved your Bigger Goals and Bigger Vision
- Coaching gets you to take action
- A good coach empowers you
- Takes you out of your comfort zone
- Gets you through tough and challenging periods
- Helps you make positive changes in your life
- Assists you to smoothly pave through a “mid-life” crisis
- Helps you prioritize important tasks
- Helps you identify time wasters and “busy work”
- Gives you structure so that you’re more productive
- 95% of life coaching sessions take place over the phone
- Over 2/3 of the people who use a life coach are women
- Coaching is alot of fun :) Click here to read more…
Oct
13
Find Your Path of Ease: Release the Struggle
October 13, 2010 | 5 Comments
This is a guest post by Monique Gallagher from ctcoach.com
How many times have you been on fire with a project, enthusiastic, excited, engaged, then proceeded to a procrastination-dead-zone in near record time?
It feels like you are almost two different people one passionately wants to achieve, be more, do more; one is fearful, operating from an agenda that your visionary self didn’t choose. Your forward progress lacks consistency; on good days you take three steps forward and two steps back, but on bad days you move forward and backward at the same time. This is how I would define struggle: doing a lot but getting nowhere.
What’s happening here?
The short answer is that you are out of alignment with your True Self.
First, a quick definition: Your True Self is your inner voice, your intuition, your gut-self. It’s that internal spirit that has an intrinsic ability to know what is for your highest good. When you are in alignment with your core essence, your True Self, you have a source of powerful energy that assists you in creating your vision and has the know-how to craft its’ reality.
However, since birth, your True Self has likely taken some hard knocks. The echoes of your schooled brain – the voices of teachers, parents, siblings, spouse – are in conflict with your True Self. And my message to you is that ALL of your internal struggles come from a failure to align your relationships, your work, and your health choices with what your True Self knows is for your highest good. Your True Self is your cheerleader, your champion, your personal growth teacher, and much more.
Here are six signs of failure to align with your True Self:
- You’re often tired.
- You’ve lost your mojo, your drive and enthusiasm have evaporated.
- You doubt yourself and second-guess your decisions.
- You are extremely self-conscious, constantly wondering what others think of you.
- You procrastinate, putting off projects and decisions
- You tell yourself stories that things aren’t so bad in painful areas of your life.
You need to understand that when you continue to ignore your True Self’s attempt to get your attention, life becomes a consistent struggle. When the above six signs are not addressed the symptoms and the struggle deepens.
Symptoms of Not Living Your True Self
1. The only time you can truly relax is when you are alone. Since you are uncomfortable around new people, you restrict your interactions to familiar individuals. That way, you always know what to expect, so you can safely navigate your limited universe.
2. Your health begins to suffer. You experience digestive problems, insomnia, and/or constant fatigue, which could lead to auto-immune disorders.
3. You suppress your real feelings and become a people pleaser. Since you fear confrontation, you let your own needs go unmet. You continue to stuff your unmet needs. The resulting resentment of others demands eventually leads to explosions, creating conflict at work and at home.
4. You doubt your own abilities, so you follow one guru after another, putting others in the driver’s seat of your business or personal life. You use a mental whip to force yourself past your fears or comply with demands of your life.
5. You know that you want and need to let go and embrace new opportunities, but your schooled brain continues to assert that you must go along to get along. And by all means, don’t trust your gut feelings!
6. You start to micro manage yourself and others to maintain the image you want others to have of you, because you fear what will happen if they see you as the false imposter you really feel you are. You emanate such stress that you drive others away.
All of this sounds pretty grim, doesn’t it?
Let’s take a look at what living could be like when the struggle is released and your True Self is in the drivers seat.
Find Your Path of Ease
When you are listening to your True Self you become aligned with your core nature, you are operating and creating your life from a place of what is natural for you, your place of EASE. You are more in love with your self, your spouse, your children and your work.
Your personal and work reality suit who you are and you become less inclined to respond and react to the harsh taskmaster of your internalized critical parent. The feelings you had as a young child, so in love with life that you bounced out of bed each morning, eager for the days adventures are your constant companion.
That probably sounds like bliss, right? At this point you are probably wondering, “How do I align with my True Self?”
First, bear in mind that you may have been ignoring True Self’s messages for a very long time, and True Self has stopped trusting you to listen. Imagine that you have a friend who calls you, wanting to get together, and you are always unavailable. Call after call, you have no time for your friend. Eventually the calls dry up. If you want to reestablish the friendship, you must pursue it actively.
The same applies to your True Self. After years of tugging at your shirttails, pleading for a voice and being ignored, it no longer believes that you will listen so it has gone silent. You must coax it out again.
3 Ways to Connect with Your True Self
Here are 3 ways to Reconnect with your True Self:
1. For the next week, observe yourself and make a note of the things – the important things – that you aren’t doing (or saying you will do). Literally write out those messages. This process sends a message to your True Self that you are paying attention and want to listen to its voice again.
2. After you complete this exercise, read your notes. Then choose to take action on something you’ve been putting off. This does two things. First it gives you a sense of empowerment over your life AND sends a clear message to True Self you are listening and taking action. Your action can be finishing a project, delegating or releasing a project, clearing some clutter, or having a crucial conversation that is important to your well being.
3. Once you have established some communication with your True Self, take care to spend your time with people who support and motivate you to follow its’ voice. Be aware of (and avoid, if possible) people who sap your energy, dismiss your dreams and/or try to take charge of your life.
These hints will help you to reconnect with who you are at your core and you’ll experience a shift, a result.
However, bear in mind that as long as your critical parent/schooled voice continues to echo, it will drown out the soft voice of your True Self. To silence those echoes you must reconnect with your True Self.
Click here to tap into the deep treasures of your True Self.
Monique Gallagher teaches her clients how to break through their sabotaging mindset blockers, build lives in alignment with their true selves and raise their self worth. You can learn more about Monique on her blog: ctcoach.com
Apr
2
Blogging for Coaches
April 2, 2010 | 1 Comment
If you’re a coach or you would like to be a coach, you’re in the right place. My partner (Hani Mourra) and I have setup a new blog that is specifically designed to help coaches build their businesses online using a blog. It’s called Blogging for Coaches.
This blog is for coaches. It’s for life coaches, health coaches, wellness coaches, business coaches, marketing coaches and sales coaches.
The purpose of this blog is to share strategies, techniques and information that will help coaches market their business online using blogs and blogging. By blogging you can help your business generate more leads and get new coaching clients.
I’ve been wanting to get this project off the ground for quite a while now. I originally came up with the idea more than a year ago. As I shared the idea with Hani we started to get really excited about the possibilities of this project. This helped us crystallize our vision and sculpt the foundation for Blogging for Coaches.
As you’ll remember from when I wrote on the Law of Gender, every seed planted has an incubation period. Blogging for Coaches is one of those seeds and it’s finally come into physical form.
What You Will Learn at Blogging for Coaches
I’m happy to share it openly with coaches who want to build their coaching business online using blogs and blogging. At our new blog, you’ll learn: Click here to read more…
Oct
7
How to Get Life Coaching For Free
October 7, 2009 | 9 Comments
Does it sound too good to be true? Well it’s not as far fetched as you think. To be completely honest, you can’t get coaching without paying anything; at least not from someone who is any good. A good coach charges good money just like a good mechanic will charge a premium dollar to keep your car in tip-top shape.
Imagine this: you pull up to a stop light and suddenly a wheel from your car goes flying down the street? That’s exactly what happened to my dad when he bought his first car in the late 1970′s. It’s funny to think of it now, but at the time he didn’t think so. Apparently, the shop mechanic messed up. He didn’t use the proper torque setting when tightening the bolts on the wheels of the car.
Could you imagine working with a coach who didn’t understand the inner workings – the nuts and bolts of your mind? That could get messy. It takes someone with real skill and intuitive ability to be the right coach for you – and you’re going to have to pay good money for that coaching.
So if it’s going to cost you money, then how do you get life coaching for free?
It’s really not that complicated, but our brains like to mess things up sometimes. In this article I’ll share exactly how I received $1,800 in training and coaching without using any of my own money.
Life Coaching for Free, You Must Be Joking?
Nope. Anyone can do it – even you. There are a few things you’ve got to understand before your get free coaching. There is a strategy.
The first thing to understand is that you must be in a position to receive some sort of training. That way someone else can fetch the bill. This approach works very well for employees.
The reason this is true is because business owners will pay for training that develops their people – because their employees are their greatest asset. Your boss wants to develop you so that you’ll produce – and hopefully in some way increase the overall profits of the company.
And if it’s not money s/he’s looking for, the boss is always willing to spend a few bucks on someone who is really good – a real performer – because they wouldn’t want you to get up, leave and go work for the competition.
How does this get me free life coaching? Click here to read more…
Sep
6
Are you looking to hire a coach?
September 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment
These days you can pretty much find a coach anywhere. It’s a growing industry and more people seem to be stepping up to the plate to offer their experience and expertise.
Just be aware of the coach you decide to work with. If you decide to hire a coach, here are 3 tips to help you find and hire a great coach. Make sure they:
- walk their talk and have demonstrated results with others
- have the skills you’re looking for and are a good fit for you and your goals
- charge for their coaching; great coaches charge good money because they get results
If you are looking for a coach, you might like this article: How to Get Life Coaching for Free
Dec
28
Personal Growth Series: 4 of 5
December 28, 2008 | 2 Comments
I started tutoring in high school in 1996. I volunteered as a math tutor in high school and later at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. I never thought of myself as a teacher before this, but it just seemed to fit. Teaching came naturally to me and I really enjoyed it. It was at this time that I knew teaching was in alignment with my true purpose.
2005, Tutoring as a Business
In 2005, I started my own tutoring business and started working with a few paying clients. This was just a part-time gig while I worked full time as an engineer. The tutoring business lasted about 16 months.
At the time my tutoring business was just starting to ramp up. I had built a name for myself and was getting referrals by word of mouth. Everything was working out great. There was a need for tutoring and I was filling this need. Just give people what they want, right?
Well sort of.
You see in 2005 I got interested in personal development and life coaching. This was a new area for me and I was fascinated with it. I thought this was something I could incorporate into my tutoring business.
I ran my idea by the parents of the students first. Once I got their approval I started doing it. You see I would teach the kids math for 1.5 hours. Then I would spend a half hour coaching the students on their personal goals.
My plan was to convert my math students into coaching clients, but there was one problem. The kids I was tutoring didn’t want coaching. They wanted a math tutor, so what did I do?
I stopped tutoring altogether.
