How are we doing? What are you getting out of our work together? Anyone in a business or professional practice should be asking clients questions like these on a regular basis. A sincere discussion about your value—and the places where you could give more value—can help you keep the clients you have already and obtain…
“I think I ought to go back to the way I was doing it before,” Tony, an advisor in Nevada, asserted to me in his weekly coaching check-in email. He had just taken advantage of an opportunity to teach a one-session evening class on financial concepts for a local college’s adult education program. One of
“I can’t get any work done,” one of my clients recently complained. “I’m interrupted so many times each day that nothing seems to get finished. I really need your help to manage my time!” “We can’t really manage time,” I told her. “But we can manage our activities.” Then, I gave her three suggestions for
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How many times have you heard some time-management “Guru” say the words above? If you’re like most people, when you hear them, you nod, as if to say, “Yeah, that’s a really great idea!” But you really want to scratch your head and add, “But how do I do that?” People often confuse hard work with struggling.
The results you’re getting right now in your career—and in your life—are exactly the right results…of the systems you’ve created. If you’re not making or saving enough money, if you feel overwhelmed, or if things are just too hard, it is not because YOU are flawed—it’s because the methods you’ve implemented, by which you do your business
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The story below is from an article (by Jay Abraham) that my coach and colleague, Rich Litvin, shared with me just the other day. I’m passing it on to you this week because it’s a great illustration of a concept every professional should understand. ___ A farmer wanted to buy a pony for his little
