Monday Mindset: The More You Make, The More You Can Give

Posted on 23 January 2012 by

Some coaches I know have an aversion to making LARGE sums of money. They think it’s not ‘right’, that it’s ‘grasping’ and ‘greedy’ to strive to earn big bucks doing what you do to serve others.

Some coaches have this belief so deeply ingrained that they constantly under charge for their services and programs, or indeed don’t charge at all.

So, today, if that’s you, I’m hoping to change your mindset on this belief by showing you the huge difference you can make when you have this belief instead: ” The more I make, the more I can give.”

For instance, here at JigsawBox, we ran a teleseminar last week that we charged for and that in itself caused some controversy! However, along with all the other reasons that charging for what you do is a good idea (!), that teleseminar meant that those of you who invested in that have now directly impacted on the lives of four young people, who in turn will go on to change the lives of others.

Four children just like Wambua.

Wambua was three years old when he was found sitting beside his mother’s body.  No one knows why she was killed, but Wambua and his younger sister became two more orphans living in the Kibera slum in Nairobi.

After their neighbours had buried their mother, they took in the children and gave them a home – a 5m by 5m room, with mud walls and four iron sheets for a roof.  There is no running water, no electricity, no bathroom.  The toilet for the family of eight is a polythene bag in the corner.

Their rent is $20 a month – hard to find when you have no job, and six children to feed.  The little they make is shared with their own three children and three orphans.

Through their care, Wambua can now speak, read and write in Swahili and in English.  He completed primary school and through his good grades, received an offer of a secondary school place.

 Rubber Ball FoundationAnd that’s where The Red Rubber Ball Foundation (run by one of my colleagues, Neil Kirby) was able to help.

A family in the UK now sponsor Wambua through secondary school.  He works hard and loves football, like children all over the world.  And now he can complete his education.

Thanks to YOUR investment in our paid teleseminar, we’re now able to support four more children to receive an education and make a difference to their community.

That’s just the start of our journey here at JigsawBox in supporting The Red Rubber Ball Foundation. And we can do that because one of the reasons we believe it’s important to get out there and have a big an impact as possible is because “the more we make, the more we can give”.

Doesn’t that shed a whole new light on that limiting belief we started this post with?

Thank you JigsawBoxers and all who have invested with us over the years – we couldn’t do this without you.

You can find out more about The Red Rubber Ball Foundation here: http://www.redrubberball.co.uk/foundation

Monday Mindset: Are you doing 2012 ‘on the cheap’ again?

Posted on 09 January 2012 by

I’ve written this week’s Monday Mindset in direct response to some of the Mindset issues I’m seeing come into our support desk these past few days.

Do you recognize yourself below?

a) Signing up for tens of free teleseminars then never getting round to joining the call or listening to the recordings, or

b) Getting frustrated because although the person you are listening to clearly knows their stuff, they’ve not telling you exactly HOW to do that thing they promised to teach you – well only if you buy into their program of course!

Then you have the ‘I can do this for free’ mindset.

I did this for a good couple of years when I first completed my coach training – I definitely had the ‘I can do this for free’ mindset.

It took a while for the penny to drop yet it’s so obvious when I think about it now with hindsight.

“Duh. You get what you pay for!”

I’ve been promoting my Simple Success Strategies 2012 Call the last few days and we’ve had a few ‘Outraged from Barnsley’ type emails into our support desk.

“How on earth can you charge for a teleseminar when everyone else is offering them for free?”

Well,  here’s my take on it.

When I started to invest in my own learning and development, it suddenly became very clear to me the difference between the implementable information I received when I paid for training, compared to the ‘free teleseminars’ I had previously been attending.

Nowdays I very rarely register for a free teleseminar, unless I know I already want to buy from that person and in that case I’m there to get the link they hand out at the end of the call so that I can pay for the information I REALLY want – the gold dust that NOBODY is giving away for free believe me!

I now have a ‘I want to pay for the best to get me where I want to go quicker and with more ease’ mindset. Quite frankly there are other things in my life that I want to be spending time doing other than scrabbling round the ‘free stuff’ trying to find what I need.

I once heard Lisa Sasevich liken the ‘free teleseminar’ syndrome to standing outside a shop window, peering up against the glass, trying to work out what was going on inside.

Yes, you can try and reverse engineer the success you can see others having, but you’ll never know how it really all works unless you can get inside the door and see the nuts, bolts and specific how-tos.

So, if you want to be a successful coach in 2012, start thinking like one.

Get the ‘I want to pay for the best to get me where I want to go quicker and with more ease’ mindset.

Do you really think I doubled my business in 2010 and then more than doubled it again in 2011 just by listening to free teleseminars?

Successful coaches decide what and who to invest in up front (keeps us away from bright shiny object syndrome!).

So my challenge to you for this Monday Mindset: Decide what to invest in, stop wasting time attending all the free teleseminars you can, and join me as I teach you all my ‘best bits’ that it has cost me thousands and thousands to learn for just $97.

Do you think you’d make the time to listen to this call or replay? You betcha!

No upsell.

No ‘buy my program to find out more’.

Simple down-to-earth advice and templates to help you get what you want out of 2012.

I promise you’ll get your money’s worth.

http://www.jigsawbox.com/webinar/simple-success

Controversial? Maybe! Comments welcome below…..

Monday Mindset: 3 Questions To Reflect On 2011

Posted on 12 December 2011 by

2011 ReflectionsThis week’s Monday Mindset post is short and simple: I want to ask you three questions to help you reflect back on 2011, which in turn will help when we move on in  a couple of weeks to think about 2012.

Take some time to really think on these and make some notes – it’s very easy to dismiss this exercise with an ‘Oh I know the answers’ approach, but I promise you, you will discover some interesting insights if you sit down and really think through your answers.

1. What were your biggest successes of the last 12 months?

2. What were your biggest lessons learned?

3. If you had known on 1 Jan 2011 what you know now, how would you have approached the last 12 months differently?

Post some of your answers – let’s see what you got!

Is the Right Mindset Enough?

Posted on 05 December 2011 by

I was watching the BBC documentary about Money and Wealth training seminars last night.  It was carefully put together to leave the viewer in no doubt that the only people getting rich from wealth training are the people providing the training.  There was lots of footage that made me squirm, of young people who had gone into debt to attend the seminars, totally ‘believed’ that they were going to get rich and yet had not made a single penny.

Clearly, this is not the only possible outcome.  There are lots of people who attend such seminars and implement what they learn to get good results.  At least I hope there are, although I’m not sure I actually know any personally.

The thing that really made me uncomfortable was the sight of people reciting affirmations about their ability to manage money, and in some cases about their (non-existent) wealth.  This was all in the name of cultivating the right mindset.

So what’s the problem?  One is that no amount of affirming something that you absolutely know to be untrue (such as “I am a millionaire”) will make it true.  And the cognitive dissonance that results from such an activity might be what leads to the total belief we saw on the documentary.  Total belief in something that had no evidence to support it.

Now, I’m a great believer in the power of the mind, as you know.  But what creates wealth (or indeed any desired result) is not blind faith, it’s purposeful activity and making the most of opportunities.  I’m all for working on your mindset, as long as it’s not the only thing you work on.

I also think it might be more honest to acknowledge, that as well as having the right information, the right mindset and the motivation to implement what you have learned there is something else that’s needed to make money.  It’s the intelligence to make the right decisions.

In the anyone-can-do-it atmosphere of personal development seminars, there seems to be no account taken of the varying ability of people to assimilate complex information, keep multiple ideas in mind at once or logically predict the outcome of their actions.  You may not need a string of academic qualifications to make money, but you do need intelligence in its broadest sense.

I’m beginning to think that in the pursuit of equality of opportunity we’re losing sight of the actual inequality of capability.

Time to shut up before I say something that offends someone…

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Guest blog post – written by:

Dianne Lowther
Master Trainer of NLP
Dianne Lowther is a Master Trainer of NLP and Principal of Brilliant Minds. She specialises in applications of NLP for leadership and business results.