Do you, ask for help I mean or do you believe that it’s some sign of weakness upon which you’’ll be judged? Ridiculous thought, but I have been guilty of not asking in the past and I know others just like me. What is it that stops us while at the same time we may be advising others to do just what you won’t do yourself? For me, I believe it’s a mix of things and some of this might just resonate with you. In the early years of coaching I felt that I should have it sussed so be [...]
How to kill your daily dead time
Bearing in mind Sue Ritchie’s guest blogpost the other day, I was interested to come across this and it’s ideas around making the most of your ‘dead’ time. Thanks to Rebecca Burn-Callander at London Loves Business We squander hours each week travelling, being delayed and mis-managing our time. What if you could turn all that dead time into useful enterprise? Dead time. The useless minutes and hours we clock up every working day commuting to the office, delayed at stations and airports, travelling to meetings, and waiting for work to be sent through. These hours really do add up. [...]
Valuing Your Time
One of the things that my clients often wish for is a desire to make somebody else do something, or be another way. An example of this is from a client this week who said, ‘I wish they would respect my time.’ Time is a common issue for business owners. Here’s the thing; you can’t make anybody do anything, or change. Change starts with us. My reply to my client was ‘How would it be if you started respecting your time?’ I challenged her to explore what it would look and feel like to be truly valuing her own time.What [...]
Be Authentic – Are you Being Authentic?
This is Simple Way number 11, to get hold all of all 12,free to you, then please visit my website. In business many of us have specific ideas of how we should act, who we should be and what role we should play. My advice to you is to be yourself. Don’t act it out, don’t do what might not feel right because you think you should, do what feels right for you. Be true to you, be guided by your intuition and speak from your heart because if you do, you can never be wrong. Yes, people may disagree [...]
Ask for testimonials and then use them.
You can tell people about how you can help them, you can share how wonderful you are but there’s nothing more powerful than someone else saying it instead because they have experienced your service or bought your products. Whether on your website, spoken at a meeting or posted on the internet, these words are just so much stronger. They provide the social proof letting potential clients know that you deliver what you say you will and it shows that you are trustworthy. Crazy as it may sound, most business owners need to get batter at gathering and using testimonials. Many [...]
How a simple act of movement saved my sanity
This is very appropriate as when you read this I shall be ‘moving’ in France….. In 1999 I walked the Great Wall of China, not all of it, but five days along parts of this famous monument. This walk, and the nine months training that went before it both saved my sanity and revived my love of walking. Although I loved the training for this challenge, I was not in a good place in my life. My job, which I’d been in for over 8 years, was being ruined by a single individual who had become my boss but who [...]
Invest in building those relationships.
For me, I’d rather have viewer contacts and followers that are all of good quality and who I know and know me than large numbers, many of whom I have very little knowledge of. Many people I know would disagree with what I’ve said and that’s fine because I feel that there’s no right or wrong. It’s down to individual preferences and also perhaps what you are aiming to do, what your goals are and what you are wanting to achieve. For some it’s all about building some kind of relationship with lots of people as it’s a numbers game [...]
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