Professional Success Coach, Writer and Speaker Nancy M. Powers

It is my experience that home-based entrepreneurs who utilize coaches are more

successful than those who don’t. I know what you’re thinking. “I don’t have time to find

a coach, and I have no idea how I can work sessions into my schedule.” The truth is you

cannot afford not to have a coach.

I have found seven reasons why a coach can give you the edge to succeed:

1. Money Coaches help you increase your business

Put simply, they help you make and keep more money. You’re probably worth

more than you’re making. Why charge what you think you are worth? You

should charge what others are charging.

Coaches can help you identify all the hidden assets in your business. For

example, what other products or services can you market to your existing client

base? What other companies are marketing to your clients? How do you set up

joint venture arrangements so you and your partners market to each other’s

clients?

Coaches will help you build your business on a foundation of multiple profit

sources. Coaches help clients improve their bottom line by helping them add

value tot heir products and services, price and what they sell properly, and

improve their productivity.

2. Production Coaches help you get more done in less time

A lack of structure is one of the things that hold entrepreneurs back. Structure

is like an insurance policy against all the things that can and usually do come up

in life. With the proper structures in place you can weather any storm. The

objective in coaching is to set up structures in every area of your life and

business. A structure for your goals, attracting clients, maintaining your self-care

etc.

Entrepreneurs resist structure. They feel suffocated by it. The irony is that

with the right structure they are freer to create. In fact they can hire people and

services to handle many of their business and personal needs.

Most entrepreneurs do better when they are fully supported. What would

happen to your business if you were not bale to be there for six months? Would

your business thrive and survive? The more structure that is in place the freer

your business is to run without you.

You should request that all employees create a training manual for their

current position and create accountability for their actions. A suggestion: Get

daily and weekly reports that tell you worthwhile measurable so you can make

confident decisions about the future of your company.

3. Communication Coaches help you communicate much more effectively

It is important for entrepreneurs to be clear about what they need and

communicate it elegantly to the people around them. Coaches help you with the

language you need to handle confrontation. People who tend to avoid

confrontations usually have very messy lives.

When you have the right skills to be able to communicate effectively you

open yourself to having quality relationships. In fact, you’ll be much more

effective and influential with others. Coaches are expert communicators and can

train clients on how to come across better, relate well with others, listen,

influence, coach, motivate, inspire and support others.

One of the most useful communication tools is speaking in “charge neutral”.

When you learn how to use charge neutral you can say anything to anyone at

any time. Charge neutral is very simple. You say the words without any charge or

intonation in your voice. Say the same sentence twice: Once with a lot of

intonation and the second time without any edge or charge in your voice.

When you speak in charge neutral, you allow the other person to simply hear

your words without any opinion or judgment.

4. Honesty Coaches are important because they have no hidden agenda

A coach has no emotional involvement and can see things much more clearly.

People tend to give you advice based on how it will affect their relationship with

you. It’s human nature. Because a coach has no hidden agenda, you always get

the straight truth.

Entrepreneurs need to know someone is listening to them. When you feel

heard, it creates an environment for wisdom and truth to flow naturally. For

some people, a coach is the only person who makes them feel validated, listened

to and gives them plenty of attention and recognition.

5. Simplicity

You’ll find hiring a coach will simplify your life. In fact, you’ll have a better life,

not just a better lifestyle. The term “quality of life” has become overused in the

past few years, but the number of Americans seeking to create a much better life

for themselves is accelerating.

People are re-examining what they had assumed the “good life” was and are

now designing their life. They are willing to break the rules and turn their backs

on conventional wisdom in the process. Simplify means to reduce the number of

roles, commitments, goals and projects etc.

A coach can help you shape and design your life exactly the way you want.

6. Effectiveness Coaches can definitely help you become extremely effective

A highly effective person is someone who gets the smart thing done in hours,

not months. An extremely effective person can get the same thing done in

seconds. The more you can feel, see, hear and experience, the more effective

you are.

A coach will increase your awareness by removing the blocks to your natural

awareness. Some of the things that may be in your way include old paradigms,

false assumptions and your own limiting beliefs.

One of the key components in effectiveness is to move your self care up to

first class. In order to be effective, you need to maintain high standards of

health. If you are not healthy it is impossible to be effective.

Another contributing factor to being effective is to recognise and eliminate

and high hidden “life costs” These are things that may look like an opportunity,

but the hidden cost of that opportunity may affect you in the other areas of your

life. For example, I will not coach someone who really needs therapy. The

opportunity to coach that person may cause an emotional drain on me that

would affect my other clients.

The cost far outweighs the opportunity. A coach will help you be more

effective both personally and professionally.

7. Focus

It’s time to get rid of all the stuff in the way of your success. That may mean

simplifying; completing old stuff, getting rid of changing beliefs, habits, people,

stuff, etc.

One of the greatest ways to attract success is to be very clear about what you

want and stay focussed on your outcome. People become so blind to what is

blocking them in their environment. A coach looks at your environment with a

fresh pair of eyes and helps detect what’s been in your way so you can be free to

attract your ideal vision of success.

Could You Use A Coach?

Nancy Power’s believes that people that are interested in a coach should ask themselves

the following questions:

• Do you spend your day putting out fires?

• Do you have any concerns about your business running at maximum

profitability?

• Do you run your business on the edge?

• Do the same problems continually resurface?

• Do you have difficulty finding someone you can trust who can give you an

objective viewpoint and bounce ideas off?

• Is your business running you?

• Do you find you are unable to make the most of all the opportunities in your

life?

• Do you experience roller coaster highs and lows in your business?

• Do you have a lone ranger lifestyle?

• Do you allow your goals and purpose to get side-tracked?

• Do you lack having a clear, measurable action plan to fulfil your goals?

• Do you lack structure?

• Do you lack inner fulfilment?

• Do you spend most of your day working “in” your business instead of “on” it?

• Are you a workaholic?

• Are you experiencing a lack of balance in your life and business?

• Are you committed to growing yourself and your company?

• Are you coachable? (Are you willing to hear and act on another person’s

viewpoint?)

• Do you lack a clear financial plan for your future?

• Are you willing to be truthful and restore your integrity?

If you answered “Yes” to more than three of these questions you can benefit from a

coach.

For your complimentary “Abundant Life” coaching session contact us NOW:

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