What Coaching is and what it isn’t
Life or Business Coaching is designed for people that are truly ready, motivated and committed to create a successful life for themselves, or ready to take their business to a new level of success. A life or business coach is skilled in helping you make dramatic improvements every area of your personal or business life and holding you accountable for the changes you say you are committed to making.
Ten years ago, coaching was considered the new “fad” in personal and business development but now everyone from Fortune 500 executives to homemakers and small-business owners are taking advantage of the power in having someone on your team, in your corner…so you don’t sit on the bench.
A Coach is not a therapist. Although many Coaches are consultants, a true Coach is more than a consultant...a Coach is also a friend who can give you the “tough love” you need to make the hard decisions in your personal or business life. A Coach helps you focus on both the big picture and the task at hand so you can reach your end goals in a manageable, organized and methodical way.
A Coach is committed to your success ALMOST as much as you are (Hint: your Coach should NEVER be more committed to your goal than you are!). Your Coach is your personal expert, motivator, mastermind partner and cheerleader to help you realize your full potential!
Most Coaches specialize but many are skilled in a number of areas. For example, a Life Coach may be focused on people in transition in their lives, whether career changes, divorce, loss of a loved one, etc. Business Coaches may be specialists too, perhaps focused on a specific area of business or a specific type of business.
Wherever you are in your life right now, if you are committed to success, whether personal or business, a Coach can help you get to where you want to go, faster, more efficiently, more profitably and with a greater degree of satisfaction.
While there are many ways Coaches work, there are also typically common areas of focus, particularly in setting and achieving goals. Depending on the structure, your Coach may give you homework to complete before the next session. A good Coach will “MasterMind” with you to help come up with ideas that you might not have considered working on your own.
There are entire books written about coaching, so I’m not going to try to cover the entire global subject of coaching in this short article, but I do want to share with you a little bit about how I coach my clients.
MasterMind Life Design Coaching (personal or business or both)
Because I have a broad and varied background and have studied and worked in a number of areas throughout my life, I have a somewhat unique approach to coaching. I can bring insight into many areas, both on a personal, spiritual and business level and because I enjoy variety, I split my coaching time between business and life coaching, with a focus on what I call MasterMind Life Design Coaching.
My typical client is an entrepreneur, or wants to be. This could be a small business or home-based business person (or both). He or she is interested in personal development and improvement. My clients typically have an open mind to new ideas and experiences and are willing to look at ways of creating success that might initially be a bit foreign to them.
Because the entrepreneur typically is in a constant state of balancing their personal and business lives, we spend time together co-creating a program to promote that balance of work and play that is so important in the lives of busy entrepreneurs. A large part of our coaching program is the MasterMind process, which essentially is idea development and execution. When two great minds get together working on solving the same problem, magical things can (and do) happen.
Seven Ways MasterMind Life Design Coaching Can Propel Your Personal or Business Life Forward Faster:
1. Help you to set realistic and achievable goals (Hint: Virtually EVERYTHING is achievable) in your business or personal life
2. Provide an organized structure to get you from where you are to where you want to be
3. MasterMind with you (and your business team, if necessary) to generate new ideas, and organized plans for executing on those ideas
4. Help you develop and automate your marketing and sales efforts for your business
5. Plug you into the MasterMind Network (yours and mine) to expand your contact base and the resources available to you
6. Hold you accountable for your own success
7. Teach you how the Law of Attraction and MasterMind process REALLY works so you can super turbo-charge your life or business by using it properly
I would like to invite you to explore coaching with me and see for yourself if it is a structure that can help propel you forward. And in order to make the process easier for you, I’m going to make you the following offer…
Special Offer for Loyal Blog Readers
FOR THE FIRST SEVEN (yes, only the first seven) PEOPLE WHO CONTACT ME…
…I am going to provide the complete MasterMind Life Design Coaching program for you personally or for your business, or both if you want to combine it…for a full three months, but you only have to pay for the first two! That’s right, commit to a coaching structure for a minimum of three months but only pay for two.
This offer is available to you simply by providing me a comment below (or contact me directly if what you want to tell me is more personal to you) and telling me three things:
• Why you believe MasterMind Life Design Coaching will benefit you
• What you wish to accomplish through the process
• When you are ready to get started
…that’s it…just comment (or message) back with your answers to the above points, and we’ll set up an initial “Exploration Session” to see if we’re a good fit, and then off we go…on the way to creating your Ultimate Dream Life through MasterMind Life Design Coaching!
Because of my current schedule of producing new personal and business development products, speaking, and of course, balancing my own busy personal life (including being the single Dad of three young boys still living at home), I can only commit to 11 coaching clients at any one time…so please respond right now if this interests you because my schedule WILL fill up quickly.
Thanks for taking the time to learn more about MasterMind Life Design Coaching. I look forward to working with you and wish everyone the very best in all you pursue.
Peace and Prosperity,
Jeff
Jeffrey Howard
CEO & Founder
MasterMindMentor.com
Enter The MasterMind
Thursday, August 9, 2007
Friday, August 3, 2007
Passion and Inspiration
Dear Friends,
When we feel lost or disempowered, it is a certain sign that something important to us is missing in our lives. We feel emptiness and a longing for something more. Something deep in our being calls out to us, sometimes with a whisper and sometimes with a scream. This typically happens whenever we are not being true to ourselves, to our mission, to the purpose of our spirit, or what I call "The Passion" inside us.
We all have it, that one thing, or those few things, that truly inspire us to greatness. When we are engaged in THAT process, we feel balance, peace and harmony. Time seems to stand still and we awaken from the process feeling refreshed, rejuvenated and empowered. For some, The Passion comes from playing music or singing, for others, writing, or cooking, or helping special needs children. Whatever it is, experiencing and acting on "The Passion" in you is vital to your very being, to your physical, emotional and mental balance, to virtually every aspect of your life. You must pursue your passion, with passion.
We all have off days. In fact, I'm kind of having an off week this week...it happens. No matter how much personal development or counseling we may have been through. No matter how much success we may have created in our lives, we can still have a day (or a week) that throws us off our game. The key to overcoming this is to find your passion, get yourself back to center again.
Are you having trouble finding inspiration in your life? Feeling a little off your path or lacking in direction? There are many ways to rekindle that inspiration: get out of your normal routine, take in something of divine beauty, like a sunrise or walk in the forest, pick up your guitar and play for awhile, sing your favorite song (even if it is just in the car on the way home from work), just do something that brings your spirit back into alignment.
When I woke up this morning, after experiencing this “off” week I mentioned, I decided I was going to dedicate today to bringing myself back to who I really am. I do this by searching for something inspiring. Usually, that search is not really even a “conscious” thing. In other words, I’m not really sure what I’m searching for…I just “follow the trail” and stay aware until it becomes obvious that I have found what I need in that moment. The Passion for me is writing, playing music, speaking and doing all I can to inspire others. Today, I just had a feeling that music was going to be involved bringing me back to center. And so it was, but not in the “normal” way for me…
In the end, three out of four of my significant “passions” entered into my return to my Self. First, I discovered inspiration and passion in the process of watching a series of four videos about Paul Potts, who was the winner of the U.K television series “Britain’s Got Talent”...here's the first one:
This is the story of a man who knows his passion, but works (worked – past tense - actually) as a cell phone salesman. His passion is singing opera and while I am not a huge opera fan, the Puccini aria called “Nessun Dorma” is one of the most passionate pieces of music ever written, at least in my opinion.
I've included three more videos below documenting Paul's process and transformation. Watch Paul transforming from a meek and mild cell phone salesman with very little confidence to a world-class opera singer who went on to win this competition. If this doesn’t bring tears to your eyes, you should probably check your pulse. I hope this inspires you as much as it did me.
So, today, thank you all for reading this through. I am grateful for the opportunity to have experienced some of my great passions today, through music, through writing (to you…thank you for being there to give me this vehicle) and through doing my part to inspire others.
Please do spend a little time with Paul Potts in the videos below. It will be well worth your time.
In the hope that this helps someone else find their passion today in the way it has helped me come back to a centered place in my own life.
Peace and Prosperity,
Jeff
CEO & Founder
http://www.mastermindmentor.com/
When we feel lost or disempowered, it is a certain sign that something important to us is missing in our lives. We feel emptiness and a longing for something more. Something deep in our being calls out to us, sometimes with a whisper and sometimes with a scream. This typically happens whenever we are not being true to ourselves, to our mission, to the purpose of our spirit, or what I call "The Passion" inside us.
We all have it, that one thing, or those few things, that truly inspire us to greatness. When we are engaged in THAT process, we feel balance, peace and harmony. Time seems to stand still and we awaken from the process feeling refreshed, rejuvenated and empowered. For some, The Passion comes from playing music or singing, for others, writing, or cooking, or helping special needs children. Whatever it is, experiencing and acting on "The Passion" in you is vital to your very being, to your physical, emotional and mental balance, to virtually every aspect of your life. You must pursue your passion, with passion.
We all have off days. In fact, I'm kind of having an off week this week...it happens. No matter how much personal development or counseling we may have been through. No matter how much success we may have created in our lives, we can still have a day (or a week) that throws us off our game. The key to overcoming this is to find your passion, get yourself back to center again.
Are you having trouble finding inspiration in your life? Feeling a little off your path or lacking in direction? There are many ways to rekindle that inspiration: get out of your normal routine, take in something of divine beauty, like a sunrise or walk in the forest, pick up your guitar and play for awhile, sing your favorite song (even if it is just in the car on the way home from work), just do something that brings your spirit back into alignment.
When I woke up this morning, after experiencing this “off” week I mentioned, I decided I was going to dedicate today to bringing myself back to who I really am. I do this by searching for something inspiring. Usually, that search is not really even a “conscious” thing. In other words, I’m not really sure what I’m searching for…I just “follow the trail” and stay aware until it becomes obvious that I have found what I need in that moment. The Passion for me is writing, playing music, speaking and doing all I can to inspire others. Today, I just had a feeling that music was going to be involved bringing me back to center. And so it was, but not in the “normal” way for me…
In the end, three out of four of my significant “passions” entered into my return to my Self. First, I discovered inspiration and passion in the process of watching a series of four videos about Paul Potts, who was the winner of the U.K television series “Britain’s Got Talent”...here's the first one:
This is the story of a man who knows his passion, but works (worked – past tense - actually) as a cell phone salesman. His passion is singing opera and while I am not a huge opera fan, the Puccini aria called “Nessun Dorma” is one of the most passionate pieces of music ever written, at least in my opinion.
I've included three more videos below documenting Paul's process and transformation. Watch Paul transforming from a meek and mild cell phone salesman with very little confidence to a world-class opera singer who went on to win this competition. If this doesn’t bring tears to your eyes, you should probably check your pulse. I hope this inspires you as much as it did me.
So, today, thank you all for reading this through. I am grateful for the opportunity to have experienced some of my great passions today, through music, through writing (to you…thank you for being there to give me this vehicle) and through doing my part to inspire others.
Please do spend a little time with Paul Potts in the videos below. It will be well worth your time.
In the hope that this helps someone else find their passion today in the way it has helped me come back to a centered place in my own life.
Peace and Prosperity,
Jeff
CEO & Founder
http://www.mastermindmentor.com/
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