Year after year, I hung my head in shame. While all the other Girl Scouts earned their cookie-selling badges with ease, I could barely get my Mom to buy a single box. Selling was just not my thing. So, imagine my dismay the day I discovered that to get coaching clients I was supposed to [...]
The momentum is building. You’ve finished your classes, got your first client, and you’re off to a strong start. But like a racehorse that bolts from the gate but quickly falls behind, you wonder if you’ll ever make it to the finish line into full-time coaching success. It doesn’t have to be that way. In [...]
My first business venture failed. I had set up my card table, squeezed the lemons, added a boatload of sugar, and put up my sign. My first-ever entrepreneurial adventure, Kim’s Lemonade Stand, never made it off the ground. And it wasn’t for lack of trying. I lived on a dead-end street. A cemetery was livelier [...]
You are a leader. Whether a formal or informal leader, you have influence over thousands of people over the course of your lifetime. Many of us are formal leaders with a title of authority. All of us are simply everyday leaders in the various areas of our lives. Lets break this down further to identify FIVE main areas of [...]
Listen closely to a client during the coaching session, and chances are you'll hear metaphor, analogy, and fruitful words ripe for harvest. Client-owned words, analogy, and metaphor are not by chance, they are personal fruit, fed from the very roots of their conscious and sub-conscious mind. This fruit, when carefully harvested and repurposed, empowers a [...]
Curiosity: the desire to learn or know more about something or someone; something that is interesting because it is unusual. Intuition: a natural ability or power that makes it possible to know something without any proof or evidence; a feeling that guides a person to act a certain way without fully understanding why. You're the coach [...]
It’s that time of year again. The stream of anxiety-ridden, introverted clients who have concerns about parties and social events is increasing as the holiday draws near. As someone who is on the far end of the introverted continuum, I “get it,” which is a tremendous relief to my clients. But for those of you [...]
“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” ~Michelangelo Vision. Webster's Dictionary states that vision is "a thought, concept, or object formed by the imagination." As coaches, we think of vision as a preferred future. [...]
No matter how good you are as a coach, making a six-figure income isn't easy. As you work to achieve your professional and financial goals, why not consider diversifying and creating multiple streams of income? Diversifying your services and income streams offers many benefits: It increases and stabilizes cash flow. Coaching clients come and go. [...]
“One size fits all,” the sign read. Does it really? I thought to myself. How ridiculous is it to think that a sweater that fits a person who is 5’6” would fit someone who is 5’ 11”? Whether the item is a sweater, a hat, or a pair of gloves, one size does not fit [...]