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/
Controversial? Maybe! Comments welcome below…..
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