18 posts tagged “life coaching”

Good morning everyone

For those who heard my mentor, Kendall Summerhawk's, teleseminar in July -- she's doing another call TOMORROW, August 13 at 8pm eastern.  For those who missed the first call, you may want to check out this information. She always offers very useful tips and information. If you cannot make the call due to the timeframe, register anyway -- that way you will be able to download the audio and listen when it suits your schedule.

"Shameless Plug" for a teleseminar...

Is There A Formula That Rules How Much Money You'll Make In Business?

Surprisingly, yes! If you've been marketing your buns off, yet find you're not making any more money then, to quote Million Dollar Marketing Coach Kendall SummerHawk, "it's likely you're bumping up against old money 'b.s.' that's keeping you stuck exactly at the income you're at right now."

Kendall knows her stuff, having broken out of frustrating 5-figures to now running a thriving million dollar home-based business. She's working less than she ever has before and making so much more! Now, lest you think she can't relate to the rest of us, let me tell you, Kendall is the "real deal!" All authentic heart and soul and totally devoted to helping women entrepreneurs like us break through our limiting money issues.

That's why you MUST do whatever it takes and come to a free call Kendall is hosting on Thursday, August 13, 2009. She's going to generously reveal "Beyond Mindset: 5 Money Breakthrough Secrets That Will Instantly Transform Your Business Model, Increase Your Credibility and Put More Money in Your Purse in the Next 90 Days than You've Seen All Year."

Ignore these money breakthroughs and trust me, you'll continue to experience the gut-wrenching money roller coaster I know you hate.

This FREE CALL with Kendall is not for the faint of heart! She's going to get pretty personal and tell you the truth - no fluff and no "generalities." These are the PERSONAL money breakthrough secrets she used to go from frustrating 5-figures to gracefully creating a million dollar home-based business in just 3 short years. So this call is perfect for you whether you've just started your business or you've been working at your business several years.

If you know anything about Kendall you can rest assured that this call will be content rich. And, while it is a preview of her brand new Money, Marketing and Soul Intensive: Your Blueprint for a Joyful and Authentic Million Dollar Business LIVE event happening this October 15-18, 2009, she promises you'll get at least 5 MONEY BREAKTHROUGH ideas from this FREE call and her special FREE bonus video series!

You can find out all about it and register at http://www.cartville.com/app/?af=1017796 .

I'll be there for sure so I hope to hear you on the call.

Sue Crutcher, MMSC, PHWC, RRPr, CPTN-CPT

Money, Marketing and Soul Coach

Life Empowerment Mentor

Baby Steps to Success Expert

“Inspiring and empowering Small Business Entrepreneurs to transform their lives to one of amazing success, ease and abundance.”

When you’re ready for the next step … when you are the red tulip practitioner that is doing particularly well … how do you become the yellow tulip?

Approach your business differently than you have traditionally done in the past.

ACTION … Set clear, concise and bold goals – then take consistent baby steps to achieve those goals. Without action a goal is useless and non-existent.

Initially, determining your goals may be one of your biggest challenges. It is uncomfortable to push your boundaries, to do things differently, to be concerned if those around you will approve of what you are doing. In the beginning, you may not know if you personally approve of what you are doing.  It takes time and repetition to be comfortable with change. The more you push your boundaries, the more comfortable you will become doing so. When you are comfortable, it is time to push the boundaries a little further. And so the cycle continues and expands.

ASK YOURSELF: “Who are my favourite, long-term clients? Who are the clients that represent my ‘ideal client’? Which type of clients would I like more of?”

ACTION … Request the above clients complete a very brief survey to help you position yourself better in the marketplace. They will be honoured and happy to do so. After all, if they’re your favourite clients, you are likely their favourite practitioner (or store or consultant).  They like and trust you and so would be pleased to help you and … they would be honest.

The purpose of the survey is to find out what ‘value’ they, as a client, receive from time spent with you.  The number of surveys completed is not nearly as important as the quality … 6-12 surveys should give you a good field of results. There are specific questions you can ask that will help your clients put this rather vague word (value) into context but this is a simpler method for most people to understand:

Question to the client:

“Take a moment to think of how you feel when you are in a session with your practitioner (or consultant, or in your favourite store). List 5 emotion words (peaceful, relieved …) and 5 value (spiritual, honoured, respected …) words that apply in this scenario.”

Include the ‘meaning’ of the word value so they understand in what context you are applying it.

Value val.ue n.

1.      A principle, standard, or quality considered worthwhile or desirable.

Source: The American Heritage® Stedman’s Medical Dictionary

http://dictionary1.classic.reference.com/browse/value

We'll continue ... 

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John Ho's blog today, reminded me of this thought-provoking quote that I keep posted by my desk as a reminder of life's journey and its lessons. I use it as a base for workshops I teach; hand copies out to students and clients; and utilize it in coaching sessions. I hope you enjoy it.

1.                  You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it will be yours for the entire period this time around.

2.                  You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called life. Each day in this school you will have an opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or think them irrelevant and stupid.

3.                  There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial and error and experimentation. The ‘failed’ experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiment that ultimately ‘works’.

4.                  A lesson is repeated until learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can then go on to the next lesson.

5.                  Learning lessons does not end. There is no part of life that does not contain its lessons; if you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.

6.                  ‘There’ is no better than ‘here’. When your ‘there’ has become a ‘here’, you will simply obtain another ‘there’ that will, again, look better than ‘here’.

7.                  Others are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something that you love or hate about yourself.

8.                  What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.

9.                  Your answers lie inside you. The answers to life’s questions lie inside you. All you need to do is look, listen and trust.

10.               You will forget all this.

Dr. Cherie Carter-Scott

Sue Crutcher, Life Empowerment Mentor & Coach

Continuing along yesterday’s vein of adding quotations into your copy…

A well-placed, related quote can reinforce what you are trying to achieve (see John's comment on my blog yesterday). As an example, when we teach our complementary care programs at the Academy, each certification course includes a detailed manual. At the beginning of each chapter in the manual, we place a quote, drawing or cartoon that relates to the upcoming chapter. This serves several purposes: (1) it encourages the students to look forward to the next chapter (suspense), (2) it switches from left brain learning to right brain enjoyment (better learning mode), (3) it lightens the tension by adding humour and, most importantly for the workshop’s purpose, (4) it inspires and motivates.

Following is one of my favourite quotes. I trust you will find it inspiring.

 “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.

Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

We are all meant to shine, as children do.

We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.

It's not just in some of us, it's in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

 

American Author and Lecturer, Marianne Williamson (quote is often credited to Nelson Mandela)

From her book “A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a Course in Miracles”, 1992

Do you have a favourite quote? Please feel free to share it with us. If you don’t have a favourite (yet), perhaps a web search will help you find one that suits you at this time.  Fifteen years ago, I would never have considered the quote above to be my favourite and I certainly looked at it in a different way that I do now. At that time, the quote frightened me at some level. Now, I find it both inspiring and empowering.

Sue Crutcher, Life Empowerment Mentor & Coach

OK. Enough of the personal stuff and ‘filler’ … time to get back on track to the original purpose of this blog which is “Baby Steps to Success”.

I remember as a child waiting impatiently for someone to give us an old copy of a Reader’s Digest magazine.  I couldn’t wait to do the increase your vocabulary page … I so enjoyed trying to get them all correct.  It has continued to this day – I simply love to learn new things and add new words to my vocabulary.  The words seem to flow better when I’m writing than when I’m speaking but, eventually, I’m getting there … as in … having the confidence to incorporate more and more of them verbally in daily conversation.

Your vocabulary is one of many ‘clues’ that people use at a subconscious level to determine: how intelligent they think you are, how trustworthy you are, how knowledgeable you are and how much credibility you deserve.  Just as we are judged very quickly on our choice of clothing and our mannerisms, we are instantly judged when we open our mouth and speak.  How often have you met someone whose image does not match either what they say or how they say it?

One of the easiest ways to increase your vocabulary is to learn a new word on a regular basis … once a day, once a week or once a month … and incorporate it into your life.  Start with easier words that are more recognizable.  Some of my early favourites were: affable, loquacious, peristalsis (as in reverse) and paradiclorobenzene. Make sure you know the meaning as someone will likely ask you ‘what does that word mean?’ and you’ll be able to confidently help them increase their vocabulary as well.

My favourite (at the moment, as the internet is a fleeting thing) site is simply www.dictionary.com and the randomly generated ‘word of the day’ from them: http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/ . Or you could try this one: http://www.wordthink.com/ which has a download for handheld devices.

What’s your word for the week? Post it the next time you’re on the blog so we can all learn it.

PS – if ‘hiatus’ is new to you … use it.

To your enriched vocabulary…

Sue Crutcher, Life Empowerment Mentor

Baby Steps to Success Expert and Certified Personal Trainer

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hi·a·tus     /haɪˈeɪ təs/ Pronunciation Key - [hahy-ey-tuh s]

–noun, plural -tus·es, -tus.

[Origin: 1555–65; < L hiātus opening, gap, equiv. to hiā(re) to gape, open + -tus suffix of v. action ]

—Related forms

hi·a·tal, adjective

—Synonyms 3. break, interval, space.

Excerpt from T Harv Eker’s Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

Rich people believe:

“You can have your cake and eat it too.”

Middle-class people believe:

“Cake is too rich, so I’ll only have a little piece.”

Poor people don’t believe they deserve cake, so they order a doughnut, focus on the hole, and wonder why they have ‘nothing’.

Which category are you in?

Sue Crutcher, Life Empowerment Coach and Mentor

Direct from Secrets of the Millionaire Mind by T Harv Eker (while I get my life organized and set up the next series of blogs) …

“The secret to success is not to try to avoid or get rid of or shrink your problems; the secret is to grow yourself so that you are bigger than any problem.”

Sue Crutcher, Life Empowerment Coach & Mentor

Another concept from the T Harv Eker Millionaire Mind Intensive seminar….

The speaker draws a tree showing the trunk, branches and fruits as well as a line representing the earth and then the roots under the earth.

Broken down as simple as possible:

Your roots create your fruits.

Meaning (continuing with the T-F-A=R idea) whatever is within you (your thoughts and feelings) creates that which is outside you (your actions and, therefore, your results) in life.

You cannot have the roots of an apple tree and expect to magically grow plums or cherries on it.  Or, you cannot expect a computer program to run differently if you do not make changes in the program itself.  You can type a letter with a mistake in it, print it out and the mistake is there.  You can go back as often as you want and change the mistake and print it out – the mistake will continue to be there unless you click ‘save’ before you print.

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The general concept is the same for our minds: unless you change the thought, the thought process and the emotion(s) linked to the thought or process, you cannot expect a different result.  Yet, people do.  They get trapped within loops. This ‘loop’ can make life very frustrating.  We’ve all experienced it.  We all know people who choose not to make changes and we know people, like our group here, who love the challenge of change.

This ‘loop’ is not generally by choice but, rather by lack of knowing there is a choice. Their upbringing, our surroundings, society, culture and many other contributing factors help to create who they become. Often, they simply do not know another way and by not expanding beyond their comfort zone they may be locked in their pattern for a long time.

We only change when we make the choice to do so.  One of the ways to do this is through Life Empowerment Coaching & Mentoring utilizing the ‘Baby Steps to Success’ process.  This allows each person to make individual choices that are simple to implement and not overwhelming.  Over a short time, these little changes become ingrained as part of their lifestyle.

Sue Crutcher, Life Empowerment Coach & Mentor, Baby Steps to Success Expert

PS -- I'll be by everyone's site sometime this weekend for comments. Sorry for the delay ... I've been dealing with poison ivy, sunburn and a couple other issues all at once and, generally, not feeling like doing much.  Better to have to cope all at once though, cuz then they're all over at once too!

This acronym is an excerpt from the book ‘Secrets of the Millionaire Mind’ by T. Harv Eker.  At both the introductory evening (which is free and is often in a city within easy accessibility to your home) and the Millionaire Mind Intensive seminar, the trainer spends a substantial amount of time presenting this concept.  It is an important one that many people do not realize or are simply not aware of its existence.

This acronym is to remind us how our ‘inner world’ is reflected or manifested in our ‘outer world’ or our perceived ‘reality’.   The letters mean:

T      Thoughts

F      Feelings

A      Actions

R      Results

Therefore:

Our THOUGHTS lead to our FEELINGS which lead to our ACTIONS which equal (or produce) our RESULTS.

If you consider this for a moment, you will realize that it is a very simple equation for almost everything we achieve or do not achieve in life in all areas.

Quite often, we are unaware of (or so ingrained in a habitual saying or thought) this continual cycle within us.  We have instananeous, automatic responses – they could be verbal, thoughts, emotions, physical sensation (sick stomach, headache) or a physical reaction that is instant with a specific stimulus.  Examples: someone asks us for money, someone raises their voice to us; how you feel when you must speak in front of a group of people, when you want to ask your boss for a raise.  In each of these examples, each of us would have individual and very different reactions at each level of ourselves.  Perhaps you are a yabut – someone makes a statement, you agree then you automatically say “yeah, but…” (or any other constant verbage: uhhuh, hmmm, uh, but, not really…).

Take a moment to stop and think of your first reaction to each of them. Now, notice that this is an automatic response.  Notice whether it is emotional, physical, another thought or a physical reaction. The noticing or awareness of this automatic response allows us to grow – to step outside ourselves in the instant and consciously determine our response.

In your day-to-day life this week, notice where some of these automatic reactions occur and what the stimuli are to them.  The more we are aware of our patterning, the easier it is to change it.

To your continual growth…

Sue Crutcher, Life Empowerment Coach and Mentor 

PS -- If you buy the book off the internet or sign up for anything through the book or Harv's website, I would greatly appreciate it if you used this tracking number anywhere the site requests where you heard about them or a reference -- #398949 -- it gives me 'points' which count as credit toward a future course for me.

I'll be at Harv T Eker's "Millionaire Mind Intensive" in Toronto today through Monday with a friend -- so I will not have any posts (I just wasn't organized with all the catching up do here before I left).  My apologies.  I've done the course before and it is very interesting and inspiring.  If you have not read his book, you may want to add it to your repertoire.  It approaches finances from a holistic point of view (the only book I'm aware of that does so ... and I have a lot of these books).  It is simple, logical and has easy-to-apply suggestions.  I gave all my nieces and nephews a copy last year for Christmas.

Sue Crutcher, Life Empowerment Coach & Mentor

PS -- a huge THANK YOU to everyone who has been clicking to and through my website ... it has risen another 106,645 this week in the ranking.  I've been to everyone's (and clicked through at least 3 pages if they were available) almost every day in the past week.