Thus Endeth The Rant!

Published on March 17, 2010 in Uncategorized. Comments

Success is a strategy – It is a skill that can be learned by anyone if they are willing to do so.

What this means is that you have to stop defending why it won’t work for you!

The best way I know to bust through any limits is a) Goal Setting and b) follow through and accountability.

When Goals are written down something powerful happens. As you know your RAS searches for what it knows. So by setting your goals down on paper your brain now knows what to seek out for you.

The best thing about this is that the sub-conscious mind doesn’t know the difference between imagined and real, it just knows what you’ve pictured and that’s what it’s going to create.

Change your thinking and your world has to change!

Who do you hang out with? Does your team support you to make it happen? Are you hanging with the people who are doing the things that you want to do? If not, hang out with some other people. Find people who will support you and encourage you in taking the next step and accelerating your business.

It’s a famous saying, I don’t know where it came from, but I got it from Shaz… You are shaped by the people you hang out with, the books you read and the education you get.

To be able to have what you want in life, you must first be able to imagine it. Then believe that you already have it!

Of course the challenge can be our unique ability as humans to know what we don’t want and what we don’t have and not what we DO!

So if we’re 15kg’s overweight and struggling to make ends meet financially then that’ what we’re focusing on .. and by now you know that means all we will get is more of the same.

The ‘Law Of Attraction’ sees to it that our thoughts keep on creating our reality, so be aware of what you focus on and what you dwell on.

If you have done NLP you will be convinced that our unconscious mind can be programmed or directed to search within itself to select, compile, and provide appropriate information, hence the BFO (Blinding Flash of the Obvious) you get when you solve a nagging problem, you’re in the right place at the right time or you happen to say something ‘right’ at a particular time!

Of course this is not a ‘new craze’. It was said that Thomas Edison locked himself in a room and commanded his unconscious mind to “sit for ideas”… Somewhat like meditation me thinks!

So this is how you can unleash the full power of your subconscious mind.

Quite simply, the clearer the picture you hold in your mind of what you want the more activity you generate in your subconscious system to make your financial success a reality!

To Your “Well Imagined” Success

Kim Rowe

National Student Liaison

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We Are Living In A Wealthy World – Get In On The Action

Published on March 12, 2010 in Uncategorized. Comments

How’d you go yesterday with working on your wealthy mindset?

What do you now believe about money and wealth creation? What are you focusing on?

Because you have now changed your thinking, have you also changed your actions?

This is a great time in history to be making money. The internet has literally revolutionised how business can be done. There has never been so many opportunities to make money and to start up businesses for little investment.

Change brings opportunity to those who act. Too many people sit back and notice change, or complain about it, but the few who capitalise on it will succeed. There are already countless millionaires created through online businesses.

Not too long ago it was considered ‘normal’ to work until the age of 60, retire, get bored then well… die.

The days of conforming to such narrow definitions of work are gone. We get to shape our futures for ourselves how we want to.

Is getting rich quick feasible for you?

Our beliefs – or these strategies that we run – are programmed into us from a young age, they can be very detrimental, if only ever ‘worried about’ but never questioned.

If you are in business, particularly sales, you will notice the words “money”, “sales”, and “wealth” create some interesting responses from people.. Imagine if you used them all in the same sentence! :)

What you must do Now is decide that this is for you, I mean really for you. Are you prepared to do the work, to change your limiting beliefs about money, learn different ways of making money…. and actually make the stuff?

Its gonna take FOCUS, COMMITMENT and HARD WORK.

Its like trying to get a 747 off the ground. There is a massive amount of energy required to create the G’s that get that baby off the ground, the pull of gravity that the airplane needs to push through is extraordinary. Yet when it is finally off the ground it can maneouver and change direction easily and effortlessly, air traffic control on the ground guiding it, until it reaches its desired destination.

A little bit like your business really. Lots of energy required at the start, and once the wheels are in motion its easier to change your trajectory because you have momentum.

This is exactly what a “speed wealth system” does.

Work hard in the beginning, launch stage is no walk in the park, push through the tougher stuff, and get to the place where you don’t have to work as hard. You don’t have to do everything to be able to enjoy the rewards of your efforts, kick back and relax…. ahhhhh. :)

So are you Now willing to learn?

To keep an open mind?

Because the enemy of learning is… thinking you already know.

If it’s fear that holds you back just think, it wont be the things you failed that you will regret the most, but the things you never tried.

Stay tuned this rant isn’t finished yet.

To OUR Success

Kim Rowe

National Student Liaison

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Quit Sabotaging Yourself And Get Wealthy!

Published on March 10, 2010 in Business Coaching, Life Coaching, Marketing your coaching, NLP, Personal Development, Procrastination and Uncategorized. Comments Tags: .

I have said it before and I will say it again, I am absolutely convinced that any success you experience is due in the largest part to how you think, and subsequently, any success you fail to attain can be attributed to the way you don’t think!

You can’t deny it, there are some irrefutable laws in the universe, as much as you try to deny, ignore or change them they simply exist.

Gravity, for example, exists regardless of your belief. Unequivocally undeniable despite its invisibility.

There are other laws that are just as invisible and equally as powerful, laws that govern our results and lack of.

Your thinking shapes your reality

Your actions shape your outcomes

Your focus shapes what you can see to exist

Wealth exists – the question is then, do you see it?

The equally intriguing aspect to this last irrefutable law in particular is that there are strategies you run on a consistent basis that will dictate your success in business, life, health and of course wealth.

So if you do not see wealth then you are not running a strategy or mindset that wealthy people are running to see what they see and experience what they are experiencing in good fortune. The question now becomes, how do you develop a wealthy mindset so you can run a wealthy strategy?

First, let me give you the tip – Luck has little to do with it!

Do you expect things to work out as planned? Do you anticipate success and plan for it or do you see all the things that could go wrong, which then makes you hesitant and procrastinate?

I know people who don’t believe that getting rich is possible. I also know there are people who tell you to “be realistic” about what you can achieve, that it takes 2 years to build a business, getting rich quick is hammered by “realistic” people as a “scheme”. If I had believed this – I would not be where I am today.

What we are really doing is applying successful business strategies to get succcessful results.

Which belief suits you better?

It can”only happen to someone else” or “It happens to me fast, it happens easily and it happens for me all the time.”

Food for thought?

Be the person who is curious about how to get results faster than most people think possible.

Become successful, give yourself a wealthy mindset now because you are using strategies that work, even in the face of setbacks.

Model the people that make it happen.

Choose your belief system.

Make decisions on a daily basis that move your forward – Despite Circumstance.

This is not a magic bullet, not a miracle shortcut – It will take some work, there will be some setbacks along the way…

So I put this to you.

One foot in front of the other, step by step, let’s do it together.

You know what you need to do for now.

I’ll catch you tomorrow…

Here’s To Your Success

Kim Rowe

National Student Liaison

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Achieving Success by Expecting Success

Published on March 2, 2010 in Business Coaching, Life Coaching, Marketing your coaching, NLP, Personal Development, Procrastination, Testimonials and Uncategorized. Comments Tags: .

Another day, another installment of wisdom!!!

Here’s an article I read this morning which I thought you might like and was quite apt for today… plus I love Zig Ziglar…

When you plan and prepare carefully, you can legitimately expect to have success in your efforts. When you recognize and develop the winning qualities that you were born with, the winner you were born to be emerges. When you plan and prepare to make a sale, for example, you can legitimately expect to make a sale. Although not all your expectations are going to come to pass, you give yourself an infinitely better chance of succeeding by taking the proper steps. Regardless of your goal—losing weight, making more sales, furthering your education, earning a promotion, saving money for a new home or an exotic vacation—you can expect to achieve your goal if you plan and prepare for it.

Also understand that the path from where you are to where you want to be is not always smooth and straight. The reason for the twists and bumps is simple, and it has nothing to do with you. It has more to do with the fact that not everyone is as interested in your success as you are. Some people may accidentally hinder your efforts; others who are in competition with you and have little or no integrity may try to sabotage your efforts.

Keep in mind, though, that when you hit those roadblocks, your character, commitment and attitude are the determining factors in your success. Carefully review your plan of action, seek wise counsel, and be particularly careful to feed your mind good information. An optimistic, positive mind is far more likely to come up with creative solutions than a mind that dwells on setbacks and difficulties.

Bottom line: expect success and you can achieve it!

by Zig Ziglar

Kind of ties in with the Accelerated results classes I am running for you doesn’t it!

- Review Your plan of action

- Seek wise councel (email me action@thecoachinginstitute.com.au – all your business questions)

- Feed your mind good information (get the answers on your Accelerated Results Classes)

- Together we will come up with creative solutions for your business!!

Check out your class schedule or for more detail email action@thecoachinginstitute.com.au

Enjoy and have one of those ‘extra special’ days!

To YOUR Success

Kim Rowe

National Student Liaison

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My 8 hours with Sharon Pearson and on being Curious to Committed!

Published on March 1, 2010 in Uncategorized. Comments

The idea of sharing a whole day with Sharon was a grand moment and I felt excited, thrilled, eager, even a tad anxious, nervous and apprehensive.  Sharon had made an offer to good to refuse, a day spent with her as an additional and generous bonus to Joe Pane’s Extended DISC workshop.  I was excited!  I hadn’t met Sharon before, or even paid a visit to the TCI Headquarters, so spending a day working with Sharon was a fantastic opportunity. My anticipation of the day was just; the day exposed me to an intelligence of creativity and change.  Here’s a summary of the 3 key themes that were absolute standouts for me.

Connecting and Counting

Straight up, we are into it – awesome content.  Sharon built a bridge around two core fears: that of; will I connect and will I count?  Imagine meeting a prospective client for the first time. Now just consider how they might be thinking, feeling or visualising when you first meet and greet them.  With that in mind, come back to yourself and ask, am I meeting them with a self belief of being able to connect with them? Am I meeting them head on with the idea that I count?  If you choose to meet this situation with the positive intention and anticipation that you will connect and count to them, then you will know that due to that clarity of focus, achieving this outcome is assured.  .

Reflect instead on the very same situation and meeting your prospective client with opposite happening within you.  You feel nervous, self conscious and whatever other limiting self beliefs you may have conjured up for yourself!  Can you imagine what type of impression that would happen to make to some innocent prospective client?

Aside from those two analogies, the real message that Sharon was intending was simply; if you have all those feelings going on for you within, imagine the other person.  In essence, Sharon is implying, greet and meet with the anticipation of eagerly meeting someone for the first time with the belief that you will connect and count to that person, because it is highly likely that this other person is in the same situation feeling all their own self-limiting beliefs.  Therefore if you go in shining and believing that you will make them feel as if they are connected to you and that they count to you, then watch the phenomenon occur.  That person will melt and feel that connection and will just want to be more like you.

The fundamental point of Sharon’s discussion is, these two fears (of not connecting or counting) can be driving us and then reflect for us the very condition we are fearing.  So the key to this message is to pre-suppose that you are connecting and counting with each and every person you meet.  Bring yourself to lead the connection with the other so that the response is just that – connecting and counting.  Remember your client (potential) wants you to be the superstar and magician that they want to be!

When you spend a day with Sharon, you have to play at 100%, there is just no way around it.  If you are not playing at this level, she’ll call you on it.  And that’s just what she did.  We were a courageous group of eleven, intimate enough to get to some real micro messages, but not big enough to escape Sharon’s gaze.  But heck, that’s what we were there to do – be called upon to step up.

The world in beige

In support of the visuals out there, you will understand when I talk about the world being in the colour beige.  For those who are colour blind, I’m not sure what you imagine, I suppose it is something dull and boring.  So go for that image.

Sharon raised the idea of thinking about the world being in the colour of beige. You know the suggestion that in most people’s world the things that are going on are mostly beige, in other words, the majority of people’s worlds are not that colourful, in fact probably rather uninspiring.  And if you could describe it in a colour it could be called beige! I bet most people (like potential clients) would say that their world is pretty bland and may be dull and boring.  As Sharon said, our biggest competitor is the television, and something Joe said, variety for some is; changing the television channel.  That said, how hard would it be to make someone’s world more colourful, for example, bring a rainbow to their world.  I trust the visuals can picture this image, for the audio and kinesthetic, maybe you could pretend to visualize it.  To me, as a visual, its easy, and a big bonus is that where I live, will often see double rainbows right out my front door.  It is always welcome to see such delights and hence believe that something cosmic is going on.  So when Sharon talked about being your clients rainbow – I had a uh uh moment.  I knew in that instant what it felt like to see the rainbow.  So being someone’s rainbow, means that you must be being someone who is pretty awesome.  And let’s face it, how can you not stand out, when everyone else is being beige, how easy is it to be rainbow.  What does it take to be the rainbow in a beige world?  It’s playing at 100%.  It’s being authentic.  It’s connecting and counting – it’s being all that your client wants you to be.  So are you ready to be someone’s rainbow?

At this stage of the game, the day was shaping up to deliver right on time.  Sharon wasn’t pulling any punches; this information is relevant and real.  To be an outstanding coach use these metaphors as awesome tools to bring the story home – to really match our client’s map to their territory.

So, where are we right now?  Where we are is:

  • Connect and count to the people you meet – all of them!
  • Know that mostly, in people’s world, it is beige – therefore be their rainbow!

Ok – the big finale!

My final awesome moment …

Knowing who your Avatar is!

Your avatar is your preferred client and the one you want to be coaching.  The more you know what they like and dislike and what keeps them awake at night, the closer you are to obtaining your ideal client.  Identifying your Avatar is crucial if you want to create a clear picture of who is in your niche market.  When you can identify and describe this – (try brainstorming 50 items that describes your ideal client) – then all you have to do is be that person.  When you can be the person that your client wants to be then you will be attracting your ideal client to you.  And subsequently, you have your Avatar.

Personally, having the knowledge and understanding about who is my Avatar, was like someone handing me the key to Aladdin’s Cave and discovering all the treasure within.  Knowing who your Avatar is a major step to progressing and developing a business that appeals straight to your niche market.  When you know your Avatar, you become that, and then the clients want to become more like you.  Sounds like a winning strategy.

Sharon Styman

13/02/10

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Who Are You Being To Get The Results You’re Getting?

Published on February 27, 2010 in Uncategorized. Comments Tags: .

So I’m sitting in the back of the Foundations Of Coaching Training Weekend in Sydney today and its taken me back what seems like a hundred years to January 2009 when I walked out of my own intake weekend.

Listening to Joe speak again this morning about who we need to BE to be a great and successful coach… brought me straight back to my roots.

That feeling of self asuredness, confidence and motivation; ready to take on the world!

I left my training weekend ‘being’ a different person, I saw the world differently, I felt different, new almost, and I was certainly not telling myself the same old storythat I had done for years…

My RAS was busy seeking out a new reality.

Thing is, because for most of us our old patterns in life are so ingrained that it takes a little bit of time and effort to fully instill our new belief systems. The way you now see the world is a way of life that is often new to us. This is becuase our RAS is seeking to forge new pathways, new opportunites and new ways of ‘being’.  We must work at it. It is not something that is going to come straight away.

Its my belief, from what I have seen in myself and my experience with others that when we go ‘baack to reality’ it can be easy to get caught up in the old and easy day to day that were were so used to. Our mini-me pops up recurringly and we can get so caught up in ourselves, our self talk, and our limiting beliefs that as time goes by that sometimes we forget the feelings of certainty, assuredness and motivation that we experieced the Sunday afternoon after our first weekend training.

So how do we move through this?

We choose our state, which means we manage ‘who and how we are being”.

You know from NLP that we can choose out state at any time. We can choose to be happy, sad, certain or unsure in any moment.

You also know that your physiology creates your psychology. Sit slumped and looking down talk really slowly you will start to feel feelings of ‘being down’. Stand in front of the mirror and stare at your reflection giving the cheesiest grin you can and you will instantly start to feel a happier, lighter ‘being.’

So armed with this information now how can you change who you are being to get the results you want to get?

Re create your reality now. Go back to a time, it may be for you the Sunday of your intake weekend, when you felt the happiest, most excited moment you can remember.

What are you seeing? What do you feel? What are you telling youself? Really go there, back to that space in time; what do you hear?

How you going? Are you there yet? :)

Now sit up straight, put a smile on your dial, clap your hands 3 times and say “I rock, I am a learning Machine!”

Better!?

You see you can absolutely change your state and therefore your results in any moment.

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10 Ways a Facebook Page Helps Your Business!

Published on February 25, 2010 in Uncategorized. Comments

Howdy!

Continuing you on from my passionate rant about the benefits of Social Media for your business on yesterdays ‘Accelerated Results and Group Accountability’ Class, I thought it would be apt today to share with you some of the key reasons Why I am so passionate about this craze we know as Facebook and How you can use it Now to positively imnpact Your Business!!

Facebook is a social network, it is one of the fastest growing social networking platforms of this era with hundreds of thousands of people logging in every minute to check out what’s going on in the world around them.

So why should a business allocate any resources creating and maintaining a Facebook page? Becuase even if your members have no ‘initial’ intention of ‘buying’ anything from you, the relationships you establish, the community you create and the education value you give here in countless ways will mean you have an underlying trust with your audience, and also a strong degree of credibility.

  1. Capture a broader audience and widen your brand exposure
    Creating a Fan Page provides your business and brands with another branding outpost on the Web where prospects, customers, future employees, vendors, and even the media can find information about you and your business and the products and services you provide. Facebook Fan pages are different to your ‘personal profile’ in that they are able to be viewed by every one. This is called ‘public-facing’. This means that your audience or people seeking your services do not need to be logged in to view your fan page -so even more people have access to the information you post.
  2. Drives Traffic to Your Website
    Fan Pages have no restrictions on driving Facebook traffic to websites. In fact, Facebook encourages you to link to your website from your business’s Fan Page. Redirecting even a small portion of Facebook’s huge amount of daily traffic to your website could significantly improve the amount of qualified traffic on your site.

3. Improves your SEO

The more content your provide to your audiece and the world wide web surfers the more Google will reward you. Google loves  content that is updates regulary. So by linking your website and facebook together and updating the 2 regularly with new content you will improve your SEO. Likewise, the more people that visit your website the higher your ranking will be on Google.

4. Stack the Free in Your Business

A Facebook Fan Page is Free! In minutes you can have a branded Fan Page where cutomers can and other brand advocates can post to your wall. You can also share photos and video, ask and answer questions, and interact with your community. The other great thing is that managing discussions on a Fan page is easier that launching and monitoring discussion forums or message boards on your own domain.

5. Facebook gives you a direct connection to your raving fans!

Your Fanpage means you have a direct pipeline from you to your fans. In one minute you can send a message to everyone, or target individuals by a range of demographics. You can also advertise your upcoming events! Using the Events App, you can  schedule upcoming events or promotions you have going. The best news is all this and more is Free to your business!!

6. Strengthens the bond – build the relationship spectrum

By having a presence, creating a community and giving your audience valuable content you can significantly deepen your relationship. 90% of your audience may not go to Facebook with the intention of ’shopping’ however they do expect that businesses and organisations have an online presence they can access. By not selling toyour audience and instead giving them content and contact information, when they are ready to ‘make a purchase’ they will feel comfortable with you becuase you have built a relationship based on high value and trust.

7. Bing on the Brand Evangelists

Facebookers do not want to be sold to. Instead they are after high value information, content and/or entertainment. Furthermore facebookers are more likely to recommend or ‘rave’ about a company, brand or product to their Facebook Friends when they perceive it to be of ‘value’. If oyu establish strong relationships with a number of vocal or influential ‘fans’  who themselves have plenty of connections you can gain valuable brand evangelists who authentically market and sell on your behalf.

8. Listening and observing has the potential to improve your business

Each time a fan interact with your page you are presented with a wealth of information. This is becuase over a social media platform as opposed to face to face, your market is more inclined to share with you information about products and services they like, good and bad experiences they’ve had and their unfulfilled needs. This information is invaluable to your business becuase it means you can gather information and evidence to improve your business its products and services.

9. Analyse your market and become a better business

Facebook provides a lot of tools known as page insights that can be used for market analysis. The Page Insights dashboard can facilitate the analysis of marketing and communication by revealing data related to interactions on your Facebook Fanpage. (Comments, Wall posts, and “Likes”); discussed posts, reviews, and mentions; Fan demographics (gender, ages, geographic location/distribution);etc. These tools mean you can develop custom information for your audience, generate talking points they are actually interested in and support even more your businesses word of mouth growth opportunities.

10. Its Fun!

Still not convinced a Fan Page is worth setting up? Think pof it as an opportunity to learn something new, to challenge and stretch yourself, while providing your audience with even more value and opportunity to connect with you. It free, and its Fun!

One more thing…. think about this, what would be one little piece of action you could take today that would bring you one step closer to Accelerating your business even more? Take an hour to take some action and stake your free claim early to establish your business as the industry leader before the competition has a chance.

To Your Success,

Kim Rowe

National Student Liaison

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Ways To Identify Your Brand!

Published on February 22, 2010 in Uncategorized. Comments Tags: .

A business without a brand is like being lost in the woods without a compass. Developing a compelling brand gives your business focus and direction, and enables you to target your ideal audience.

  1. Your Calling Card Think of a catchy, easy-to-understand name that says something about what you do. Really when naming your business it should incorporate who you are (your character – more on that another time), what you do (your content) and who you service (your community). Your brand is your hook. Are you the friendly fruiterer, the hip startup, the cutting edge guy or the cooking diva? Match your name with what you do.
  2. What makes you memorable? It could be your reliability, great customer service or your friendly attitude. Work to become known for at least one trait.
  3. Define your niche. Who is your target market? What is the value you provide? “Trying to be something to everyone is not the answer. Just like going from the G.P. to the Specialist (I know, you have heard it before!) When you go to a specialist you know what to expect from them in terms of a service, and because they are the expert you are also prepared to wait longer to see them and of course pay more to see them. Marketing to everyone who could possibly buy your products or services, will water down your message, and actually repel potential clients,”  For example, Martha Stewart targets women and homemakers. Steve Jobs? The hip and cool computer user.
  4. Create a customer experience. Your customers will evaluate your brand by the entire experience they have with your business from the first point of contact. What does the experience you create say about your brand?Incorporated in this is your presentation, certainty in your offer, communication, delivery and follow up. Be the person worth recommending!
  5. Determine your unique selling position. What is your compelling argument on why a customer should buy from you? Ideally it should solve a key problem faced by your target market.For example The Coaching Institute is the only NLP based school in Australasia, with the most face to face training, most accreddited and only award winning. Are you getting the picture??

Start with these baby steps and you’re well on your way to identifying your brand!

To hear more answers like this or have your business questions answered check out the Accelerated Results and Group Accountability Classes running TOMORROW 12-1pm and every 2nd Wednesday. Log into your members only area to register for the class!

Email your business questions to action@thecoachinginstitute.com.au

See you on the class tomorrow nicely branded!!

To YOUR Success

Kim Rowe

National Student Liaison

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The Leadership Traits You Can’t Do Without

Published on February 19, 2010 in Business Coaching, Life Coaching, Marketing your coaching, NLP, Personal Development, Procrastination, Testimonials and Uncategorized. Comments Tags: .

I was thinking today about leadership. What is it that attracts us to certain leaders? What is it about them that makes them so charismatic, so appealing? You know the ones, it’s as if they have a magnetic pulling power that keeps us wanting to learn more and more about them and hear more and more of their message.

One thing I’ve noticed is that our affiliation with certain leaders will change during certain times in our life.  Whether we are at a certain point in our personal development, business,  or awareness or are we simply attracting the right people at the right time.  These things play a definite part in a leaders appeal, however, I do believe that there are certain positive traits that  we unconsciously seek in a leader. Positive traits the we should endeavor to embody on our journey to become a leader ourselves.

To me these traits could be the difference between you being a good leader and a great leader…. something to think about…

1. Be a Leader who is accountable to themselves and others. I know from personal experience, that I respect and trust those leaders who do what they say when they say they are going do it.

I also can say that from modeling this trait, my business and personal relationships have gone from strength to strength because they are built on a foundation of trust. People know I say what I mean.  I also believe that the first person we must be accountable to is ourselves!

2. Communicate with Certainty. Powerful communication comes from within. As a leader your audience needs to know that we will be there to support them, guide them, and lead them in moments of darkness. A great leader shows certainty in all they do and within that certainty others find faith.

In order to be able to communicate powerfully through certainty a great leader must be certain within themselves. They back themselves and their actions 100%.

Understanding the power of this makes great leaders because what we say to ourselves on a daily basis is reflected in our actions and the way we communicate with others.  Our certainty in ourselves enables us to know what we want and why we want it, is step one to communicating our wants, desires and goals to others.

3. Transparency and 100% Honest Communication is vital to being a leader. A great leader is one who stays true to their values and beliefs. True leaders are not willing to compromise their principles just to prove a point or to make more money.

4.Great Leaders strive toward Greatness, not Perfection. The saying goes ‘people who aim for perfection actually have no standards’ because who defines perfection? And what is the definition by which it can ever be attained? Perfectionism is a major deterrent for growth and progress because decisions are often delayed and the stagnation means it takes longer to move on when something turns out wrong.

A leader who strives for greatness  understands that decisions need to be made in order to build momentum and drive growth. Leaders striving for greatness are responsive and move swiftly through roadblocks thereby averting bigger roadblocks down the track.

Personally, I want to follow and emulate someone who is going for greatness.  I’m looking to model my success strategies on someone who understands that excellence is a greater success tool than perfection.

5. Great leaders focus on the solution rather than the problem. Leaders that say ‘How can I’ rather than being caught up in the challenge or the obstacle they are faced with are by definition, solution-oriented.  Rather than giving up or becoming frustrated a great leader moves ‘through’ a problem. Being able to think clearly and logically when faced with a challenge is a powerful leadership trait – wise decisions and empowering choices are huge keys to success.

These are the key traits I’m modeling to achieve success in my life, for me, they’ve been the difference that makes the difference.

I would love to hear your thoughts, comments or anything you would like to share. Drop me an email action@thecoachinginstitute.com.au or post a comment below.


To YOUR Leadership Success

Kim Rowe

National Student Liaison

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Action or Self Delusion – It’s your choice…

Published on February 17, 2010 in Business Coaching, Life Coaching, Marketing your coaching, NLP, Personal Development, Procrastination and Testimonials. Comments Tags: .

Knowledge fueled by emotion equals action. Action is the ingredient that ensures results. Only action can cause reaction. Further, only positive action can cause positive reaction.

Action. The whole world loves to watch those who make things happen, and for those who make things happen  it rewards them because that action is causing waves of productivity that stem far beyond your comprehension.

I stress this because today I see many people who are really sold on affirmations. Affirmations are great as a tool to create action and to be a source of inspiration, however “destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for it is a thing to be achieved.”

So affirmations are great when they are repeated to reinforce a disciplined plan, affirmations can help create very strong and positive neural pathways of self belief.

The catch is there is also a very thin line between faith and waiting, wishing and hoping. And you know that these are the three saboteurs of success.  You see, affirmations without action can be the beginnings of self-delusion. And for your well-being, and ultimate success, there is nothing worse than self-delusion.

So the man who dreams of wealth, yet through inaction walks daily toward certain financial disaster, or the woman who wishes for happiness, and yet fails to manage her state and her behavior has a one way ticket toward despair. Both are falling into the trap of false hope that affirmations without actions can create.

Why is this I hear you ask? Because words can sooth, they lull us into a false sense of security therefore complacency. To avoid this remember: To make progress, you must actually get started!

The key is to take a step today.

Whatever the project, start today.

Start clearing out a drawer of your newly organized desk—today. Start setting your first goal—today. Start listening to motivational programs—today (and make sure you are completing the exercises along the way). Start a sensible weight-reduction plan—today.

That’s the easy stuff to get you started…. If you really want to step it up then…

Make that phone call to the touch client you have been putting off—today. Start putting away 10% of your income to save for your financially free future – today. Decide that you will stop pleasing others and finally commit to one thing that makes you happy and fulfilled – today.

Get some momentum going. Motion causes e-motion so through taking little pieces of action you will feel great and you will see the results of your better life because you will have changed your focus to what lies ahead and how you can get there.

How many small pieces of action can you take for you today that will break you away from the downward pull of gravity? Set yourself to full throttle and show yourself that the wishing, waiting and hoping is a thing of the past and that faith with action is the new modern!

It’s a new day, a new beginning for your new life. With discipline, you will be amazed at how much progress you’ll be able to make. What have you got to lose except the guilt and fear of the past?

Now, I offer you this challenge: See how many reference points for success you can collect as you take the little pieces of action towards your most successful future today!

To Your Success

Kim Rowe

National Student Liaison

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