Success Coaching Articles

Do you plan to be successful or do you just plan? There is a big difference between the two. Any kind of plan is probably better than no plan at all. But do you know the reason so many plans fail or succeed only as a faded, watered-down version of what they're supposed to be? It could be inadequate information gathering, or a lacklustre vision or poor implementation or non-existent management. All of these things will come into play, whether your intention is to make your business more profitable, advance in your career or re-organise your life.

Do you have a high degree of curiosity? If you don’t you could be missing out on one of the most important keys to success and a fulfilling life. While I’ve written about beginner’s mind before, I am drawn back to the topic of curiosity as I am just finishing the book Curious?: Discover the Missing Ingredient to a Fulfilling Life by Todd Kashdan, Ph.D. This book takes a scientific look at the benefits of having a healthy curiosity in all areas of our life. Do you find yourself bored by the same-old, same-old? Does your career move you to tears?

“To everything, turn, turn, turn. There is a season, turn, turn, turn . . . A time to be born, a time to die. A time to plant, a time to reap. A time to kill, a time to heal. A time to laugh, a time to weep.” Music: isn’t it insightful? Certainly, The Byrds had the right idea. The seasons are changing. Leaves are falling and the air is becoming crisp. What else is changing in your life? Do you have a sense of purpose, and where are you now with that? What’s your next turn

For you - personally - what would you consider a well-lived, full life? Do you know? Or, do you avoid the question altogether and just shuffle through the day to day? This week as I attended my grandmother’s funeral I was reminded once again of how quickly even 89 years can go by. And of course none of us know if we have another 80 years ahead of us or another 8 minutes. So, how do you want to be remembered? What do you want your life to have stood for? Perhaps the ultimate "begin with the end in mind" exercise is the one I am going to share with you today.

Throughout most of history, true heroes and good guys have been associated with the color white. In old westerns from the 1930’s, John Wayne always had a white hat and horse while the villians wore black. The Lone Ranger also wore a white hat and rode a white horse. Even in the Bible, in the ...

If you’re in the business of helping other people look and feel beautiful there’s no reason for you to be a “starving artist”. I’m sure you give your clients/customers great value. You deserve to profit from your passion! We’ve all heard the saying “Pay your dues” but sometimes that means working for FREE, a cycle for some that never ends. In the beginning I think it's important to work for FREE to develop your confidence, sharpen your skills, learn your industry & network.

Life coach, Jill Douka, explains how to deal with conflicts in our work environment more smoothly with the appropriate way of thinking. In 1997, the day it was announced that Athens would host the Olympic Games 2004, I thought “great, I will be a part of these Olympics”. I had no clue in what way I would be involved and what exactly I would be doing, but I was certain that I would participate.

To be outstanding in life, you must be willing to stand out. When all you do is try to fit in, you negate the difference your difference makes. Tall Poppy Courage is not about being better than anyone else, just the best possible version of yourself.

Last week, Marion O’Connor was awarded her Gold Medal at the United States Dressage Federation Convention (USDF). I had the privilege of accompanying her to the glamorous USDF Award Ceremony and am so excited for her. Marion is an inspiration and a role model of hard work – with diligence and persistence, driven by her passion for horses, she achieved more than she thought she can. I also had the privilege in 2015 of sharing Marion’s inspiring journey to achieve the Silver Medal here <http://ulrikeberzau.com/results/charge-results/>.

How do you answer that question? If your customers don’t need you, you’re not relevant. No need means no customers. No customers mean no sales. No sales means no business. It’s as simple as that!

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Classroom learning comes from a combination of textbook information and outside information from the teacher. It is necessary to take notes in class because not all of the information you will learn will come from textbooks. I have had students who tell me "I have a really good memory. I don't ...

Growing up as a child in an abusive home life and living with an alcoholic adopted mother, to say the least was not easy. For many years after I got into my teens and on to my adult years, I was filled with anger and resentment. My inner dialogue was why me. Is there a dark cloud hovering over me? I ran my life in total despair and self-sabotage. It took me a long time to understand that yes, she had serious issues. But as well I had to take accountability for my own actions.

You’re wearing a suit, so you should look good. Right? Maybe not. A suit in the wrong color can be detrimental to your appearance on two levels. First are the results in the mirror. It may not be becoming and may clash with your hair or your skin. Remember George Bush in the pale gray ...

What if, starting today, the word ‘no’ didn’t stop you anymore? n What if every time you heard the word no, you became stronger, more powerful, and more resilient? n What if the greatest success strategy in the world was not to go for yes, but to go for no? n Well, it is. n ...

Watching a nature programme the other day, I was informed that a single walrus can eat 4000 clams in a ten minute dive (Nature’s Great Events, broadcast by BBC, Feb. 11 2009) which seems a tad greedy to me, but then look at the size of a walrus. Are they that big because they eat a lot of clams ...

Learn the Secret of Making People Like You And Trust You n This is not a book that will give you guidelines for “business casual,” “corporate casual” or “casual Friday.” All three are dead, because they do not give you the advantage in business. Business is business and casual is casual. ...

So, you haven’t achieved the level of home based business success you have been hoping for. Should you quit? Sure! Why not! I mean, you bought all those products and they didn’t work for you. You haven’t put your website up because you’re still not sure how to drive traffic. You tried marketing on Twitter but no-one clicks on your affiliate link. You signed up for 5 Network Marketing programs and none of them have earned you a dime!

This line from the Declaration of Independence is one of the most powerful ever penned. "Truth, real truth, can stand on its own. It needs no defense." People have an innate ability to ferret out truth. Like cream on fresh milk, truth has a way of naturally coming to the top. If you give people enough space and room they will consistently spot truth and do the right thing.

Before you know it Thanksgiving will be upon us. We will sit down once again with our families (biological and/or chosen) and gorge upon a feast until we need to unbutton our jeans and snooze on the couch. Thanksgiving officially launches what people refer to as “The Holiday Season” which means it is the beginning of what is often the most stressful time of the year. I’m here to tell you - it doesn’t have to be that way! Consider these top tips and you can enjoy your meal without all the stress and heartburn. Keep It in Perspective

Your Image: Glasses—Tool or Fashion Accessory By Expert Image Consultant Sandy Dumont As an Image Consultant with over 30 years experience, I caution clients not to think of glasses as a functional item, but as a fashion accessory. If eyes are the windows to the soul, glasses are the frame ...

Our views and habits have developed over time and we typically underestimate the power of our ingrained beliefs, the ones deeply rooted in our subconscious mind. They affect how we think, act and ultimately, affect our results. It’s not necessarily all negative. Actually our programming can be very powerful and enable our success; however, it can also limit our ideas of what is possible in life.

MARKETING MIRACLES Dr. Katie-Lynne Garnett Marketing Miracles happen in a number of ways: Step 1: Finding out who you are and what you have to offer. Step 2: Identifying where the integrity lives within who you are and what you have to offer. Step 3: Bringing coherence between who you are, what you have to offer, and ...

I always ask the same question when my son comes home from school. After the hello and how are you the next question is ‘what homework have you got?’ And a couple of weeks ago I got an answer I didn’t expect – ‘We weren’t given any homework because we spent the day remembering my dead friend.’ One of my younger son’s classmates had collapsed and died over the weekend. This was totally unexpected. He was a lovely boy, on the school rugby team and a member of the school orchestra, a great contributor to the world. And only seventeen.

The workplace can be a stressful place. Between personality differences, “one-size-fits-all” working environments (think: introverts hate open office floor plans), and having to always “do more with less” while wondering if your job is really secure, work can pile on stress like no other. According to the article “Making a Business Case for Mindfulness”: “Stress in the workplace is at epidemic levels, costing businesses an estimated $2,800 per employee every year.” Yet there truly are ways to find balance and peace along the journey.

Artists learn to lead the eye exactly where they want it. And not only that, they lead it in a manner that is pleasing, not demanding. For example, picture a country cottage in a wooded setting. It has a straight, diagonal path leading to the door. Now that’s one way to lead the eye to go to the ...

It appears you are having a new product idea. Excellent. You are very knowledgeable about a specific area and there is some revenue you see from it. So what are the next steps... what all can be done? 1. Find somebody who has walked the same path and agrees to mentor you 2. Try various ways as come to mind and use the information available freely to develop your strategies 3. Part with partial rights to the product/revenues to someone who can monetize it properly 4.

Truth, how many times have you read that the world’s most successful sales people are the best closers? Have you ever read about the ‘twenty-three power closes’? Or perhaps the ‘ABC (Always Be Closing) method’? Ok, here’s my one question...do you like to be closed? Really, can you think of any time in your life when you enjoyed someone trying to close you? I think we all know the answer to that question is an emphatic ‘NO!’ So, why are we constantly having some sales guru explain to us that closing is not only the most successful way but really the only way to succeed?

Very successful people are those who think about what matters to them, taking the time to be purposeful, about their actions and vigilant of their emotions. What about you? Are you living today by default or design?

If like me, over the decades you have been a strong advocate of clearing your limitations and replacing them with a new life, new behaviors, and new outcomes using affirmations, but your results have been sketchy at best - perhaps a deeper understanding of how the energy fields and brainwaves actually function can ...

All great truths eventually become self-evident. Once they do, once they become clear, they're often so simple you don't understand why something so obvious eluded you for so long! "Who am I?" The answer to this is one of those self-evident truths you just can't avoid. One way or another, you ...

Picture this scene: Little Johnny's mother places a large piece of chocolate cake on his plate. He's pretty happy with it -- until he glances over at his brother's portion and notices that it's even bigger than his own. Suddenly Johnny is no longer satisfied with what he got. He starts to pout and complain, and may even resort to throwing his cake on the floor. nnSound familiar? If you didn't have this experience growing up, you have surely observed it in others. And it's not

I have been reading a great book by Chip Conley called Peak. Chip is one of the key players in a group of San Francisco based boutique hotels operating under the name Joie de Vivre Hospitality. The company’s name comes from a French term meaning a delight in being alive. Conley has tapped into the intrinsic human need to self- actualize as outlined by Abraham Maslow in his famous hierarchy of needs. Each hotel in the group has a unique personality that allows patrons to experience something beyond the basics of sleep and comfort.

I talk to lots of entrepreneurs who say they don't like selling and they won't acknowledge this important aspect of their business. They figure that people will just gladly offer them money and they won't have to ask for it. Most of these people are also struggling to make ends meet because regardless of what kind of business you have, selling is always a part of the process and although it would be fun, people are very unlikely to chase after you to give you money for your services.

Not many of us knew that in any business you must know effective networking ideas to become successful. We shouldn't let the best of us be paralyzed just because we didn't know what to say at a networking event. I myself am a true introvert. I’d instead stay home rather than going to a networking event or social occasion. My thought of having fun enjoyable isn't getting clammy or perhaps have my body shrink because of fear. This is why it is very important to learn key networking tips.

Big decisions, by their nature, are scary. Decision making is in inexact science and the biggest decisions are usually made with incomplete information. There’s always the potential to know more but you can’t predict what’s around the corner and you want to avoid that ‘if only I had known’ feeling in the future.

Clinical studies have proven the very real link between the emotion of anger and the development of heart disease and numerous other unsavory ailments and illnesses. There's only one way to let go of anger. Do you know what it is? More so, do you know how to do it?!

IF YOU ARE ONE OF THE THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE HAVING PROBLEMS MANIFESTING YOUR DREAMS WITH "THE SECRET".... HELP IS ON THE WAY. My name is Stephen Seretan, and I was a friend and student of Lester Levenson, a physicist who discovered The Secret in 1952 with imminent death from heart disease approaching at 42 years old. I worked and studied with him from 1983 to 1994, when he passed on at the age of 85. He healed himself totally and became an enlightened teacher and multimillionaire. And it only took him three months!

Want an authentic relationship full of truth and humor? Read on… My husband Murray and I both listened to the call of our Muses eight years ago and quit our secure jobs to follow our dreams. I had two children in college and a tenured job with a school district, but I knew my body and soul ...

If you want to live your dreams, not only must you decide what you want, turn your dream into measurable goals, break those goals down into specific action steps, and visualize and affirm your desired outcomes — you must start taking action. I recommend making the commitment to do something ...

He’s a very successful sales manger who craves results. He can’t be bothered with people who don’t produce. They are losers. He always produces the numbers year after year. The question is does he do it through bullying or coaching? nnWhat’s the difference between bullying and coaching? This was one of the questions that ran through our mind when we were talking about Dave.nnCoaching, for us, is making people do what they don’t necessarily want to do in order to ach

College can be both challenging and exciting. For college graduates transitioning into the corporate workplace, the challenges and excitement can turn into outright stress and anxiety. This article will eliminate the anxieties by providing you with the necessary information to ensure a smooth ...

The other day I was talking to one of the strongest women I know and she said, ‘I’m a pansy. I never stand up for myself.” I was shocked. This was the same woman who refused to follow the crowd in high school. You know that one person who always did what she thought was right even as everyone else was trying to convince her otherwise. Not much has changed since then either. She’s easygoing, but if she doesn’t want to do something, she’s not doing it… period!

Achieving success at anything worthwhile does not always come easy but on the other hand that's not to say becoming successful is complicated either! In most cases the successes we experience are the result of learning new skills or increasing our knowledge base. No matter what it seems to take it is clear that the path to success in almost anything is a process and one you must be willing to embrace! In the end it is all about your own personal growth which of course calls f

One Secret of Success What is the glass ceiling? If you look it up online, the generic description will be that it is a metaphor used to describe invisible barriers that prevent women and minorities from advancing to the upper level of management. Did you know that women make up 46.7% of the labor force? Of that, a little over 50% of those women make up management and professional positions. However, only 14% are in executive positions and less than 3% are in a CEO position, according to research done by Catalyst. That is so low that you can almost count them on your two hands.r

I was following up on warm business lead the other day, to which I experienced an unexpected emotional and physical reaction. The woman on the other end thanked me for contacting her, but then concluded with, “We already have what we need, so please remove us from your distribution list.” When I heard this message I immediately got a bit of a knot in my stomach. For a brief moment I felt a little fearful, uncertain, and angry – both with her and with myself. Granted, all these thoughts and feelings were fleeting and not very intense; but they were there. In short, I felt discouraged.

Pop Quiz: Can success be sped up? Is there an antidote to slow outcomes despite arduous planning and actions taken? What is the secret for seeing huge results right now?! I get versions of these questions frequently from people who feel frustrated at sluggish progress in their success journey ...

There is much written about how to improve motivation and hold onto it. Unfortunately, motivation is one of those things that easily elude us. Where does motivation come from? How do we get it and make it stick? Can we really do or say anything to motivate another person if it has to come from within?