Sometimes you’re at a dead stop. Maybe it’s just a tough morning to get up. Maybe it’s a tough year. You need to cold start yourself.
It could be a full on depression, a reaction to a disappointment in life or business, or something else.
But the result is the same: you are at a dead stop. No momentum. No energy. No desire to get up and go.
Continue reading “3 Steps to Cold Start Yourself”
There is a certain area of coaching that teaches that your worth is determined by net worth. They tell you that if you don’t have a $10,000 offer, you ain’t nothing. If you’re not bringing in $20,000 a month, you’re a failure.
This mindset derailed my business off of a successful growth path into the doldrums.
Continue reading “High Ticket Coaching Nearly Killed My Business”
Isn’t it strange that so many people find Christmas so stressful. Why would “the most wonderful time of the year” lead people to say they hate December and drive them to work themselves to misery?
I have a thought as to why. Try writing down a list of all the traditions that have been constant in your life from childhood to present which existed before you and which might outlast you.
How long is the list? Does it contain Christmas, Thanksgiving, and the Fourth of July (maybe)? Then you might be a mainstream American.
Continue reading “Christmas Stress for the Holidays”
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I am very excited to have the chance to introduce Jeroen Corthout, the CEO of Salesflare, to you. Salesflare is a CRM system built around the way human salespeople use data, as opposed to the way many other systems are built for what is best for computers.
Jeroen was a salesperson himself, and he found he was quite dissatisfied with the CRM options available, so he set about to fix it with Salesflare.
Since the interview, I have had the opportunity to start using Salesflare, and I have been quite pleased with it. They offer a very innovative kind of trial, and I encourage you to give it a try.
I am also very excited to let you know that Salesflare is a community sponsor of Conference21.
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Bits And Bytes by Claus Appel
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Podcast Guest: Tarletta Williams
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Continuing to interview some of our amazing Conference21 speakers, I am honored to introduce you to Tarletta Williams.
Tarletta Williams is a true entrepreneur working as a business consultant, marketing expert, content creator, bartender, and even occasional model. Where there is opportunity, she is ready to seize it!
In this interview, Tarletta shares her story of how she got into business and well as some fantastic social media strategies that you can put to work immediately in your business.
Learn more about her company at www.blackdragonmarketing.com
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Conference21
Confident, Connected, and Influential Facebook Group
Crush 2021 Motivational Series
Music Credit
Bits And Bytes by Claus Appel
Link: https://filmmusic.io/song/4688-bits-and-bytes
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Theme song produced by Patrick Howard of Four Unicorns Design
Previous Episode: J Bruce Jones, Bruce Jones Design – Podcast Episode 50
Next Episode: Jeroen Corthout, CEO, Salesflare – Podcast Episode 52
A lot of people tell me that they did well making connections in person, but they aren’t sure how to handle networking online in a virtual quarantine world.
The basic process of networking online is quite comparable to networking in person with a few key differences. Let’s start by looking at the steps of making a networking connection.
Continue reading “Networking Online in Covid Quarantine”
If you think about depression, it seems like a very maladaptive trait. Why would our human organism have adapted a mechanism that causes an otherwise functional human to just stop functioning? Wouldn’t that have been bred out of our genes?
Unless there it serves a purpose.
I wondered about this many years ago, and I started looking into it. There is a theory that I read which changed the way I thought about depression and has been very valuable to me.
The theory is that depression exists as a mechanism to force us to stop traveling down the wrong path. Sometimes we get so fixated on a particular course of action, that we ignore all warning signs that we should change course.
According to this theory, depression is a neurological mechanism to force us to stop working and to think about our course, as well as to make it painful enough to pursue a difference course.
This theory changed my life. Once I saw depression as a warning sign, and not some kind of malfunction, I would respond to it by examining my situation and seeing what needed to change. Sure enough, after a bit of a rest, I would execute a new set of actions to change the situation, and the depression would pass.
Consider this the next time you fall into depression. Take a break to reevaluate. There will be aspects of your life that feel unbearable. Change them. Your mind knows what you must do. Listen to it. You possess more inner wisdom than you think.
I’d be open to talking things through with you to get you on the right track. Click here to schedule a call. You are meant to do great things. Let me help you take the first step.
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Meet another one of the fantastic speakers from Conference21 J Bruce Jones.
Bruce is a true expert on self publishing your book and getting it sold. This interview is an absolute gold mine of great tips and strategies for getting attention onto your books and getting them to sell.
If you have written a book or are thinking about it, this is definitely one to listen to.
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Bruce Jones Design
Hoe to Publish Your Book Facebook Group
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The Guy Who Knows A Guy Book
Prepare for 2021 Goal Setting Workshop
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Music Credit
Bits And Bytes by Claus Appel
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Theme song produced by Patrick Howard of Four Unicorns Design
Previous Episode: Jaimie Adler, Sips of the Vine and Bayleaf Communications – Podcast Episode 49
Nex Episode: Tarletta Williams, Black Dragon Marketing – Podcast Episode 51
Unless you are a wizard who controls time, you have the same 24 hours in the day as everyone else. How do you make the most of that time? Time management is about more than blocking time. It’s about prioritizing time.
In a recent group coaching session that I was leading, we discussed how to make the most of limited time resources.
If you can only do a few of the things on your to do list, one way to prioritize is by impact. The highest impact action is that which causes other action to be completed.
For example, if you have a staff member who is waiting for instruction before they can get to work, then your highest priority should be to give them instruction and assignment so they can get to work. Otherwise, they stand idle while you work on something else. Once assigned, now there are two people working instead of just one.
Another high priority is creating resources that facilitate action. If you find that you are explaining the same thing to many people you meet, you could instead create a landing page or web site with that information. Rather than having to explain it next time, you can just share the link.
I created an email sequence that tells people what I do, who I am, and what I offer. When I meet someone on social media, I am able to get their email and share a lot of information with them rather than having to retype my life story for them. This frees us up to have a more productive conversation.
Yesterday, I wrote a motivational article and, because I had created a landing page for my daily motivational message I could just drop that link at the end of it rather than having to explain what it was all about.
All parts of the process are important, but you should prioritize getting the team moving over doing your own work. Prioritize the landing page that you’ll be using for months over the email that will go out once. You should prioritize the automated email sequence over the individal message.
If you fail to create these efficiencies you may find yourself too busy repeating the same explanation to everyone to find the time to write down the explanation one time that you can share with everyone, and that’s just silly.
This topic came up during a recent coaching session of the Skills + Accountability = Success System, where students meet weekly to focus their strategies and burnish their skills to achieve maximum success. Visit the SASS web site to see if any groups are currently open for you to join.
How do you see yourself? What is your self perception?
The other day, I had someone approach me looking for assertiveness training. They felt that they did not stand up for themselves enough, and that people were able to walk all over them.
As it turned out, the lack of assertiveness was not the problem. It was the symptom of the problem.
The problem was that this person saw themselves as a person whose voice did not deserve to be heard. They did not see themselves as a person who had value to give to the world.
They did not believe they were worth the space they took up in the world.
I told them that assertiveness training would not be effective because it would be an act. It would not be authentic. They could not stand up for themselves because they did not believe they should.
All the training in the world would not help because it would feel like a lie, and the same subconsious block would prevent them from acting on the training as was already preventing them from saying what they should.
Rather than paper over the problem with technique, this person needs to delve deep into the causes of their insecurity. They need to sit with themselves to understand the purpose that they were placed on Earth for.
Every one of us is given a particular set of gifts: skills, talents, desires, ambitions, perceptions. These gifts give us the power and potential to be great, to affect the world in great ways, to make a difference.
Since we are given these gifts, we have the obligation to use them and to live in our greatness. To do otherwise would be to spurn God’s generous gifts to us.
So, how do you see yourself? Do you see yourself as one who is blessed by your creator with amazing gifts and an important mission? Or do you not see that?
And what are your gifts? What greatness are you placed on this Earth to achieve?
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If you’d like to talk about your own self perception and what might be holding you back, let’s talk. Click here to schedule a call.