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!

Monday Mindset: If a Thing’s Worth Doing…

Posted on 21 November 2011 by

Success - Grab ItSomeone once asked me, “What would you do if you knew you couldn’t fail?” It’s a great question and for someone with a fear of failure it can open up possibilities that might not have previously been accessible to conscious awareness. For me, that question tends to steer my thinking into big, long-term projects. Today I’ve got something more mundane in mind.

What’s currently on your ‘to-do’ list that’s not getting done because you’re scared of screwing it up? Is there something that you tell yourself you need to be in a certain mood to achieve? (for example, writing an article, report or book) Is there a task where so much is at stake, that you want to get it right first time? (for example, following up a sales lead, preparing a big speech or presentation, tackling someone about a problem)

If not, you needn’t read the rest of this. Have a great day!

If there IS something that you’re not getting round to doing because you’re afraid of making a mess of it, read on.

If a thing’s worth doing, it’s worth doing badly.

So said Sahar Hashemi, founder of Coffee Republic, when I heard her tell her story at a conference some years back. It stuck in my mind, because it horrified my perfectionist little soul so much I couldn’t think about anything else for days!

So, I invite you to think about it too. If a thing’s worth doing, it’s worth doing badly.

After much contemplation, I decided to add two words:

If a thing’s worth doing, it’s worth doing badly – at first.

If something is so important that you want to get it right, it’s better to get started and have a go than not do it at all. If you’re worried about messing it up, good. Maybe you haven’t done your ‘homework’ yet, so use that anxiety to motivate you to get started on that research, frame an outcome, create a strategy and then to take action.

It’s rare that you only have one chance to get it right. There will always be other opportunities. The important thing is to make full use of today’s opportunities so that they don’t clutter up tomorrow.
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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.

72 Hours To Do It – Money Talks

Posted on 05 October 2011 by

So we are needing YOUR help! (And we KNOW you can do it!)

Join our 72 hour challenge and help meet our goal of £4,000.00 for an amazing charity, The Spirit of Enniskillen Trust.

What we have done is create a fantastic new product called, “Money Talks – Tips & Strategies From 11 Successful Entrepreneurs”. It is an amazing 44 minutes of the MOST valuable Tips and Strategies from some of the most successful entrepreneurs today and for the next 72 hours, WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT!

All you need do is go to http://bit.ly/72hourstodoit and purchase these strategies and tips immediately. All proceeds go directly to The Spirit of Enniskillen Trust.

We know that you want to help and being successful means helping others along the way. I encourage you to go now, don’t hesitate, and tell everyone you know to do the same. Pay it forward!

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The Spirit of Enniskillen Trust is an organisation founded in 1989 by the late Senator Gordon Wilson after the death of his daughter, Marie, in the 1987 Enniskillen bombing.

Today, the Trust is committed to developing the capacity of young people to make a positive contribution in their community by leading change, engaging in open and honest dialogue and respecting the identity and human rights of all.

To learn more about them, please go to: http://www.soetrust.org/.

 

Thank You,

Nicola