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Eliminating One Thing for a Major Breakthrough

One of the most effective ways to have a major breakthrough in your business is to eliminate the one thing that is holding you back the most.

Stop right there.  Hit the rewind button.  Let that scene play out one more time before you enjoy the rest of the movie.  It’s that important.  We’re talking Oscar-worthy stuff…

One of the most effective ways to have a major breakthrough in your business is to eliminate the one thing that is holding you back the most.

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Learning to Persuade and Be Effective

You’re not going to get very far as a coach if you can’t first persuade people to hire you. Then, once you do get people to hire you, you have to persuade them to take action even when they couldn’t before.

Some people seem to be more persuasive than others. What’s their secret? The first “secret” is that you can fairly easily become more persuasive— both to convince people to hire you in the first place and convince them to take action after they hire you.

Many of your clients will be very familiar with the coaching process already. Some of them will have hired coaches in the past with varying results. Your goal, of course, is to stand out as the best of the best. That means being able to motivate and persuade people to take action in new and exciting ways.

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3 Ways to Defeat Time Draining Distractions

Everyone has distractions.  Phone calls.  Alerts.  Doorbells.  Email chimes.  People.  They come in every shape and size.  They come often.  And they usually come right when we really don’t need them to do so.

Yet, some people seem to be able to thrive in spite of things that might otherwise lead them away from a focused activity.  What’s the secret?

The productive person knows how to defeat distractions.

It’s not that productive people don’t face distractions, it’s that they know how to properly deal with them so their productivity isn’t significantly affected.

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