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29 August 2010
How do you know you’ll have a powerful week this week?
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Because you had one last week? Because you haven’t had one in a while and you’re ‘due’?
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Because if you don’t have one, things are going to crash and you’ll be out of a job?
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Because you ‘feel’ it coming?
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Because you’ve just read ‘The Secret’ and will be wishing one in by dint of belief?
Well, any of those answers could be true and any one or all of them could work out and give you exactly what you want but wouldn’t it be nice to have a little more security and say so in the outcome of your week? I thought so . . .
First of all, depending on where you are in your life we need to look at the ‘length’ of your week. I’m still growing my business to the size I want, have both a practical and real face to face coaching with clients and an online ‘empire’ that’s growing and growing, and my usual other projects. Because of that, I know that I am kidding myself if I don’t plan a 40-60 hour week. Sure I’d love to make the same income in only 20 hours a week (or even in 4 Hours) but in this economy and with my agenda ‘to change the world for the better through coaching’ (no kidding!) I need to be able to put in the long hours it takes to play big.
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25 August 2010
Guest Blogger Matt Mansfield: I read this post on Matt's site, Leverage The Web, and instantly asked his permission to reprint it here. In Coaching we talk about managing time and the best use; the internet is certainly a 'rabbit hole' you can disappear down for hours at a time. Matt is a software expert and, since his daily business life is spent on the web, he really, really knows what he's talking about.
3 Tips for Getting Work Done Online
As comfortable as you may be with the Web, the fact remains that getting work done online is a lot different than just surfing around.
Why? Because:
- The Web is a very distracting place which can easily eat up a ton of your valuable time and;
- Finding and selecting the best resources (sites, tools, software and information) is a pretty overwhelming task!
So to help you get started with getting work done online, here are 3 tips to point you in the right direction:
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22 August 2010
This Guest Blogger, Jara Johnson, is someone I met online. He has a new site where he's 'up to something' and that's what I'm always looking for. Please read his article and check out his site. I'd also appreciate any suggestions when you see an article that you think would benefit our followers who are all people taking themselves on, creating the life they want, with full accountability for what they've got and will get.
Success may be one of the most ambiguous terms in all of history. People spend their lives chasing it, but who can really define it? Is there a certain monetary value that once you reach, you have found success? Is it that warm fuzzy feeling that we get when we’ve accomplished something we thought we never could? The amazing thing about success is that it is very adaptable. What would be considered a failure to one person, can be considered a success to another.
Many people have labeled me with the term “successful” along with many others. As a young business and entrepreneurial prodigy, people where amazed that at the tender age of sixteen, I had people with Master’s Degrees contracted under me. However, I never got the feeling that I had achieved success. In fact my view of success was vastly different than that of others around me.
Chances are when you think about success, you think of money. That is just the way our society is wired. Yes, I did make a lot of money, but as I said before I never truly felt successful. Why, you ask; simply because it was never about the money in the first place. It is hard to explain to people the pleasure that comes with build a business with your bare hands if they are not entrepreneurs at heart. People found it difficult to believe that the pleasure of seeing my business blossom far outweighed the joy I got from each pay check.
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06 August 2010
A few weeks ago, or 30 days to be accurate, I began a challenge to write one blog a day for 30 days. I had read about the concept on a coach’s forum and I thought ‘Wow! That would be tough!’ Now if you know me, ‘that would be tough’ is usually followed by ‘let’s do it’. I’m kind of a results junkie; that’s why I’m a coach.
If you read the first blog, Blog Integrity, I explained that announcing this was the way I would ‘put myself out there’ as someone who not only coaches others, but takes risks too. The thing I’d want to avoid, of course, is saying I would post a blog day and then not coming through on my promise; I mean who wants a coach who can’t keep their own word.
But what would have happened if I didn’t post a blog a day, really? Would the world stop turning; would earthquakes shake my house; would blog police take me away . . . No. You see the thing about integrity, doing what you said you would do by when you said you would do it, is that it is sometimes ok to be out of integrity and sometimes it’s preferable! ‘What!?’ you say, ‘A coach saying it’s OK to be out of integrity?!’ So let me explain.
If I said I could do this challenge, and it was safe and easy, then there’d be very little risk and not much growth. If I said, ‘I could do this challenge’, and then a bunch of problems and obstacles came up and I said, ‘I have to withdraw from the challenge’ that would be a different story. If you do what you said you would do NO MATTER WHAT, then you’re getting the value of a challenge. AND sometimes you fail.
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05 August 2010
This is an excerpt, page 209, from my book The Hamlet Secret: a self-directed workbook for living a passionate, joy-filled life.
Today's blog is dedicated to a new friend, Carla at Sanity Journals in thanks and respect for the work and dedication she brings to her mission. Visit her and tell her I sent you..
Breathe. Who knows what else there is?
Do you think you will 'figure it out'? There is no power in the brain that could ever match what the universe, as one collective master teacher, is waiting to whisper in your ear. But you have so much noice going off in your head so often that it's hard to hear the instructions.
Michelangelo, when discussing hte sculpture 'David', said that the form and firgure were already there in the marble before he began his work. all he had to do was chip away the parts that weren't David. So it is with us; we all know all we need to know. We just get in our own way by trying to constantly fill the space with noise.
Need more proof? Sit in silence for even ten minutes a day for just a week. You may develop a habit of it.
The 'rest' comes from silence and the rest-- and that means everything available in the universe-- is contained in the silence. Listen to the 'no-thing'.
That's it. See you again, soon.
