Today I thought I’d share with you something that’s coming up a lot talking with my students. It’s not something I first thought we’d have in the program, but it keeps coming up, so I had to add it.
Entrepreneurs and coaches – what do they have in common?
Lots, as it turns out.
An entrepreneur is going to be blazing trails in the business world and a coach is going to be doing the same for their client. We blaze trails for new possibilities, in life, in relationships and yes, even in their business.
An entrepreneur might even be lucky enough to not sell their time for money. If you’ve hung out with me for any time at all you KNOW this is my big thing! Selling time for money is the same as having a job (read, Just Over Broke) and I want you to not have that problem.
Entrepreneurs are looking for opportunities to improve their business position. Coaches are always looking for ways to improve the client’s position, regardless of whether it’s business or anything else.
A life coach, I figure, has one primary aim – and that’s to give their client the absolute best opportunity to succeed at what they are focusing on.
A life coach gets to be creative, explore new ideas, make connections between ideas that help the client and show the client ways of moving forward that they may never have thought of on their own.
Life coaches, I figure, are definitely entrepreneurs.
So how do you build your entrepreneurial muscle? Easy. Start getting your coaching hours up. I know I say it often but it’s coz it’s true. you’re going to get very creative as a life coach the more practice you get. Because you’ll start to see there are only so many patterns of human behavior (just like we teach you) and as you get good at recognizing the patterns, you get great at showing the client how to change the patterns (for example, you share they procrastinate whenever something seems new) and thus you’re bringing an entrepreneurial mindset to the session.
Trust that wasn’t too heavy!
Anyway, I’m in the midst of training 23 new entrepreneurs. I’ll get some video up of the training as soon as I figure out the I.T. bit. (I’m sure an entrepreneur doesn’t need I.T. skills – that’s what I’m telling myself).
Top ways to build your entrepreneurial muscle:
Coach more
Read books by successful business owners ie Richard Branson
Look for ways to zig, rather than always sagging
Talk to entrepreneurs and ask them questions about how they think about business
Get involved with a networking group that encourages entrepreneurial thinking
Find ways to improve your results that might involve you stretching yourself
Read the E-Myth by Michael Gerber (required reading in the course)
Ask yourself some of the Big Questions like ‘How can this be improved?’ ‘What would happen if we doubled our results here?’
Stop making excuses about why you want to stay the same – you know you’re saying that because you’re in a rut!
Anyways, I’m going back to the training now. I just wanted to share this with you because we were just talking about it in the room, thought you might want to know
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