From the Wisdom Vault…

I know the feeling. One day you’re clipping along at a thrilling pace in your coaching business, in touch with your original passion and vision. Synchronicity abounds. Then suddenly, you feel paralyzed by doubt, unsure if this is the right business, the right time, the right decision. You ask: Do I have what it takes to be successful? The answer is yes, yes, yes! You’ve just had a temporary loss of inspiration.Here’s the first thing to know: you are on the right path. If you weren’t occasionally experiencing doubts, fears, tests and obstacles as you build your coaching business, I’d say you’re probably not on the right path.

Fear is the gateway to the magician archetype - a part in all of us that seeks to know. A magician magically transforms spirit into matter — passion and vision into tangible success. The opportunity of fear and doubt is to expand our knowing.Ask any creator or hero — scientists, inventors, artists, and entrepreneurs — they will all say that their greatest inspirations sprang out of a dark place. Wrestling with fears and doubts is a necessary step to achieve greatness.So, how do you stare down doubt?1. Look at it with compassion.
Be okay with the doubt. The less you resist, the more quickly it will pass.2. Stop and breathe.
Take a break from productivity.3. Give it a voice.
Write down your raw feelings. Or, tell your coach, trusted colleague or friend what you fear most without judgment about it.4. Do a quick risk assessment.
What is really at risk here? Are you willing to take that risk? What will it do for you? What will it cost you if you don’t? What patterns, habits or scarcity thinking can you replace with something more empowering?

Two Roads to Immediate Support

I know this for sure — the only way I’ve transcended obstacles to my own success is through support. Mentors, colleagues and friends help me move to new perspectives and back into meaningful action all along the way.

- The most inexpensive way to get support is to join Prosperous Coach.
- The most personal and direct support system is your own Mentor Coach.

Sue’s Success Secrets
The question of the week is:
What are some suggestions for financing my coaching business?
Prosperous Coach Mentor, Sue Brundege, answers this week’s question.
And, ask your own burning question as well!

To your prosperity!

Rhonda Hess
Founder, Prosperous Coach

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The question of the week is:
What can I do to prepare myself for a fast transition
from my job into full time coaching?
Hear Mentor Sue’s Answer.
And, ask your own burning questions!

From the Wisdom Vault…

I am fresh from a mastermind retreat and brimming with excitement and gratitude. You know how it feels to be energized by your peers and mentors? The rich relationships and collaborative learning are even more valuable when we harvest the gems and use them to transform our mindsets, habits and results.

Reviewing my notes as I jet back home, I notice that what sticks with me most are the powerful questions my colleagues asked me. Have you ever noticed that? The right question can do more to motivate you into playing a bigger game than reading a whole bookshelf of inspirational books or attending several ‘how to’ seminars. Why is that?

Questions, when phrased and timed well, entice us to go inside and look around the many rooms of our heart-mind. We emerge knowing ourselves better than we did before. Tried and True QuestionsSeven great questions asked at this retreat were:
What do you want?
What’s holding you back?
What is it costing you to continue holding back?
How do you want to change your mind’s programming on that topic?
What new habits will you put in place to fortify your new mindset?
What is the most meaningful action you could take now?
What new skills or support systems will ensure your success?

All powerful questions:
- Come from a place of genuine curiosity.
- Are direct, simple and usually open-ended.
- Generate creative thinking and surface underlying information.
- Encourage self reflection.This unattributed quote captures it well: A question is most powerful when neither the asker nor the responder knows the answer, until the question is answered.Think about it. If we can ask ourselves and our clients questions that bring out fresh information, we’ve brought about growth and transformation.Keeping the Inquiry AliveWhat makes the right question even more powerful? Keep asking it. One question may only scratch the surface. If you want to coach in the most masterful way, take the question to its deepest conclusion by asking the simple follow up question: And what else?

From the Wisdom Vault…

Is every single client you have a pure joy to work with?
Do you easily find the time to market for new clients and create new programs?
Are you making the income from coaching that you had in mind?

If you answer ‘no’ to any of these questions, you’re not alone. Most coaches grapple with these interrelated issues throughout their career. That was me just five years ago. I was working very hard and getting by but not having the experience I hoped for.

And here’s why… I’d take on nearly any client, any speaking opportunity, say ‘yes’ to every proposal and leap at all the bright shiny objects — those irresistible distractions that waste time and energy. I figured, any client at any price is better than none and any opportunity available now shouldn’t be passed up. Have you ever thought that?

The bottom line: I was operating from a scarcity mindset.

Eventually, the cost of my poor decisions caught up with me because I was caught in a time/money Catch-22 — I couldn’t find time to make more money. My least ideal clients took more time and made the slowest progress. And most of those ‘golden’ opportunities that dropped into my lap took tremendous energy but were poor returns on my investment.

80% of my energy was tied up in things that paid only 20% of my income.

What finally changed? I did. I gave my business habits a complete makeover. Now I:

1. Make decisions as if my coaching practice is full all the time. 

2. Highly value every hour of my time and charge rates that show that.

3. Hold high standards for the kind of clients I bring into my practice.

4. Run all opportunities through success criteria and only accept the ‘right’ ones instead of just the promising ones. 

When you have a successful business you become picky about who you coach, where you speak publicly, where you network, and how you market. You treat every hour of your time as if it were equal to a large sum of money and make sure that for every effort you’re getting a high return on your investment.

Why not start those good habits now and see what happens?

Once I made these shifts in my habits, I noticed that:

- My satisfaction with my coaching practice increased because all of my clients were ideal.

- My clients stayed longer, made bigger leaps in their progress, and referred more clients.

- The marketing opportunities I said ‘yes’ to put me in front of more of my ideal clients, generating more qualified leads and boosting revenue. 

In short, my income doubled while working less hours, which left me time for more clients and high payoff opportunities.

Is it Time to Makeover Your Coaching Business?

A business makeover is just what you need to correct mis-allocated resources, time wasters and money traps that can keep your business bogged down.

Here are two ways to make over your coaching business right now:

1. Hire a successful mentor coach.

The Prosperous Coach Mentor, Sue Brundege, is ready to coach you through your first makeover moves in a Jump Start Session.

2. Join Prosperous Coach today!

As a member, you have access to resources that will help you move more quickly to your financial and lifestyle goals.

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This week’s question is:
What are the most effective ways that successful coaches market themselves?
Prosperous Coach Mentor, Sue Brundege, answers.

To your prosperity!

Rhonda Hess
Founder, Prosperous Coach

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From the Wisdom Vault…

Are you cycling around to the same stuck place about something? Have you been feeling unmotivated or irritated? Or are things a bit slow in your coaching business?

Sometimes applying reason won’t “solve” these problems. In fact, what’s going on may be more about energy than about logic. If the stream of prosperity isn’t flowing easily, it may be time to clean out the muck.

Prosperity is creative energy. Like any kind of energy, the flow can get blocked. When our immediate environment is in disrepair or in chaos around us, it makes sense that our thoughts and energy would be affected. And then, it feels like we’re moving through molasses towards our goals.

Would you like to get prosperity flowing again in your life?

Take some time over the next few weeks to clean up your environment, and watch how it lightens your thoughts, your mood, and expands your creative energy.

I’m in a clean up mode right now. After just a few hours of clearing detritus out from my office, my closets and my thinking, I feel much better. I’ve eliminated all sorts of things I was tolerating. Everything is beginning to flow abundantly again — ideas, solutions, income. What a relief!

Here are some of the places where cleaning up will lighten you up and shift you back into the flow of prosperity:

1. Clear out your email inbox and vow to keep it that way from now on. Go through email files, chuck what you can. Create templates and set up new folders so it’s easier to find what you’re looking for. 

2. Look around your office. Let go of whatever doesn’t say: I’m a successful coach! Consolidate notes. Update files. Recycle paper, books, old equipment. Put together systems as you clear away what’s obsolete.

3. Go through each room in your home. Dont’ forget your garage and your car. Get your family into it. Lighten your load. Make a repair plan. Put together garage sale items or call one of the dozens of non-profits that will come pick up unwanted items.

As you physically lighten and clean your environment, notice how you feel. Watch for innovative and positive thoughts. It’s almost as if the fog lifts to reveal a vast blue sky.

Did you know?

The Prosperous Coach Wisdom Vault has more than practical business building ideas and solutions for you. It also has life changing articles and audio programs to build your prosperity consciousness.

Here is a fr*ee taste of the whole banquet awaiting you when you become a member of Prosperous Coach.

To your prosperity!

Rhonda Hess
Founder, Prosperous Coach