Your Business is Not Always About Earning Money

This question came up just recently with one of my clients "What if I am not looking to make more money as a result of your coahcing? Will your coaching services still help me?"

It's a great question and though a large percentage of our clients are focused on making more money and building their business, many are also working on more specific non-revenue producing activities or accomplishing dreams. Coaching isn't merely about making more money, it's about you being more successful in the area of your choice. Those areas might include:

• helping you stay on track
• keeping you accountable
• giving you tools to overcome your own barriers
• providing you with a sounding board
• uncovering and resolving obstacles you didn't know existed
• increasing your own confidence
• improving your skills and resources to accomplish your dreams

and one that is often overlooked in goal oriented clients:
UNABASHEDLY CELEBRATING YOUR SUCCESS WHEN YOU REACH YOUR GOAL!

Contagious Coaching isn't always all about helping you make a return on your monetary investment for the service. It also inclues helping you find an ROI for your own investment of time, effort, and energy spent on dreaming those dreams that you've always wanted, but maybe haven't been able to acheive for some reason.

We're here to help whether you're working on dreams, dollars, business, or merely building a better you.

Stay Contagious!
Monica

Girlfriends make poor coaches...

We all have great girlfriends who will take the time to listen to our woes on life, leisure issues, men and career. They will listen intently and empathize and share, but do they challenge us and are they invested enough to give us homework, see us through it and hold us accountable? Most of the time, no. There are exceptions, but they are rare and that is where coaching can become invaluable.

When you hire a coach, they have specific times to meet with you, there are guidelines and a structure, there is usually homework and they hold you accountable to completing it. Girlfriends have their own life and because friendships are give and take, it is innately difficult for a girlfriend to treat you like a client and for you to treat her like a coach.

When you need therapy, you hire a therapist. When you need medical care, you hire a doctor. When you need business guidance or accountability to keep you on track with your success plan, you hire a coach. It is an investment in you and your future success. You want to get well, you go to a doctor or someone with a great deal of expertise in what ails you. You want to DO well, you go to a business coach or someone with a great deal of expertise in what you need, who also is willing to share, willing to help, knows and can articulate the steps you need to get there, and usually charges a fee for such services. Otherwise, the advice from a girlfriend will be kind, help you feel better, but likely will not challenge you to do what you might be fearful of or unable to make happen on your own.

If the above thoughts resonate with you, Contagious Coaching is a service that may be right for you. Now is the time to get ahead so that when the world turns around a bit and the economy is operating even more in our favor, you will be ready to take on the world on your terms. Check out www.contagiouscoaching.com for more information.

Stay contagious!
Monica

How to Keep From Being Your Own Barrier

Why is it that when there are orange cones and Bob’s Barricade signs on the highway, everyone slows to a crawl as if the lane is barely wide enough for them to pass through? Don't we do the same in our own lives - let the smallest of changes or road blocks shut us down or at the very least slow down our progress. You've got to keep moving and avoid being your own worst barrier.

I have seen semi-trucks pass through an automated toll booth faster than most drivers will traverse a highway lane decked out in orange doo-dads. Maybe there is a difference in truck drivers and mere humans; they are on a mission for which they are going to get paid usually by the hour. Hmmm...truck drivers also have guides - a connection to their home office and a GPS. Do you have a guide or some kind of navigation system for your journey? Maybe it's time to consider one as you try to navigate the barriers in your life and work right now.

Well, we are in a nation that is under construction right now and the lanes on all sides of the information, marketing, and industry highway are paved with orange cones. Are you slowing down to go cautious and skeptical of what may lie ahead or are you on a mission for which you are going to get paid? (literally or figuratively)

One simple drive down any city highway these days will remind you of the lessons we can learn from life "on the road" Whether it is "Be Prepared to Stop", "No U-Turn", "Uneven Road Ahead", or "Take Detour", they all apply.

Are you paying attention to them or are you insisting that slow and cautious is the best way to navigate through the construction zones of your world. Drive through a construction zone on the way home tomorrow and remind yourself that you are the one who is in total control of keeping you from being your own worst barrier. Those who prefer to stay in their own way are looking for company – remember the whole misery loves company thing? – and they may tell you to remain cautious and remain slow and stay where you are until the market turns. Maybe they are the drivers that I keep running into.

I thought you were more like those semi truck folks who are on a mission and had an income to earn and business to run. Or maybe you are at just the right place where a contagious coach could be a good guide, a good navigator to help you chart a new course?

Let's talk and if you are in that place, check out: www.contagiouscoaching.com.
Stay contagious!
Monica