Is Your Business a Jalopy or a Jaguar?

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If you could define your business as a vehicle what do you think would be the most accurate description?

What kind of condition is the body in? Are there a few dents and scrapes? Has the paint faded or chipped? Any rusty patches underneath? Do you like the color and did you choose it for yourself or did it just happen to be available?

What about the interior; are the seats vinyl, cloth or leather? What grade of leather? What color? Are they clean or worn? Any signs of duct tape holding the seams together? Is the dashboard hard plastic, leather, vinyl? Are there any special features like inlaid wood, GPS, or a spectacular stereo system?

What about the mechanics of your vehicle; when you start the engine does it sputter and cough, rumble or snort? Or does it engage so smoothly you wonder if it is even on? How about when you accelerate on the highway; does your vehicle sound like a wind-up airplane trying to get off the ground, does it roar and backfire or does it purr like a sleek cat, happy to be alive?

Finally, is your vehicle a sedan, convertible, SUV, station wagon, cross-over, sports car, antique, classic, practical, sexy, cute, hatch-back, rugged, economical, rare, high maintenance, reliable, cool or smart?

What kind of business do you want to drive?

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Embodying the Heart and Soul of Your Business

By Lisa Murrell and Schelli Whitehouse

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As our world and our human consciousness evolve more and more, people are seeking ways to build soulful and heart-based businesses.   Their business building steps often take them down the wrong pathway when they try to build their businesses from traditional, linear based marketing techniques–most of which are built on very different values than the values needed to build and sustain these new soul-centered businesses.

 

Building a soul-centered business from a traditional place is at best not using all of your resources, and arguably, not using your most powerful resources!

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Today, we need new information and a new marketing plan that are congruent with our new services.  We need to begin to embody our businesses in everything; branding, content, our relationship with our customers, and the way we interact with making money.  To create a vibrant business out of our passions, we need to authentically ‘be’ and express that ‘being-ness’.

To embody something, for the purpose of this article, means to feel and know it with your entire body.  It means using your body as a sensory device and an organ of perception that connects with your cognitive processing in a way that creates meaning—meaning that informs powerful action because it is coming from all of you; mind, heart and soul.`

How do we embody the heart and soul of our business?

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Business Building Event Strategies

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“Milk those Business Building Events & Programs for Everything They’ve Got and Leap to the Next Highest Version of Your Business!”

  

If you’ve ever attended a business building seminar, weekend or tele-summit with multiple presenters sharing their savvy success secrets then you will be familiar with what I have to share with you.

You know the old riddle, “How do you eat an elephant?”

The answer is, “One bite at a time, of course!”

The elephant I’m referring to is the 2-tons of information you receive by attending business building workshops and seminars. The last event I attended I noticed so many beautiful soul-o-preneurs begin to shake with apprehension at the magnitude of what was before them with regards to creating a “successful” business.

There was a feast of excellent information, strategies and resources provided. But like any feast, it’s easy to pile our plates so high we lose the distinction between the individual helpings.

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Phenomenal Women Business Coaches

(for Men too!)

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Did you ever see the movie “Phenomenon” with John Travolta? One night after celebrating his 37th birthday his character, George Malley walks out of his favorite pub and looks up into a star-filled sky. While he’s marveling at the magnificence he sees a ball of light hurtling toward him, growing in intensity as it gets closer until it seems to completely envelop him in a flash of blinding white which causes him to double over and reel from the intensity of it.

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George quickly begins to realize that he has phenomenal learning powers that he hadn’t possessed before. He can suddenly read any ‘how-to’ book or manual and be completely competent in that subject. He learned to speak fluent Portuguese in 20 minutes! His understanding of the Universe expands exponentially every day until he is literally performing tele-kinetic miracles as simply as reciting the alphabet.

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I remember being totally mesmerized by this movie. My heart was racing the whole time as I watched him evolve into a voracious student of life. How can he comprehend and implement so much so rapidly and so accurately? Can anyone do that if they want to?

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The Possible Client Vs. The Probable Client…

The Possible Client Vs. The Probable Client…

If you are afraid of leaving income on the table by excluding ‘possible’ clients then I have to tell you, that you are actually turning your back on a whole lot more income by not directly connecting with your most ‘probable’ clients!

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Money, Heart and Soul

Money, Heart and Soul

 

Lead Your Business to

 Heart & Soul Success!

 

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Get out of your head and into the heart of your business

 

Lead With Your Heart.

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Expand your circle of influence. I’m not talking about just making more contacts with customers and clients. I’m talking about expanding the awareness of your heart. Your heart is a magnificent center of intelligence with a magnetic resonance 5000 times greater than your brain! Your heart is receiving energetic information from your surroundings (and beyond) long before your brain (intellect) begins its processing and sorting duties. When you can passionately and purposefully support your clients from your heart first, then the words or marketing materials you share with others will automatically be an authentic expression of who you really are. Because honestly, nobody really cares about how much you ‘know’ until they know how much you ‘care’.

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Essay Contest

Essay Contest

 

Congratulations!

 

This is the final step in completing your entry for the first annual Free-Ride Scholarship for the “Attract the Perfect Client Through the Way of the Horse!” 2010 program.

Please share the insights, “aha’s”, and breakththroughs you may have experienced as a result of participating in the process of writing your essay, answering the application questions or anything else you’ve encountered throughout the process that has helped you to define or refine the vision for the Next Highest Version of Your Business for 2010?

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Attracting the Perfect Clients with Authenticity & Leadership

Attracting the Perfect Clients with Authenticity & Leadership

A little Wisdom from the Way of the Horse

Illumination

In order for a horse to accept you as the leader of your relationship they require that we are congruent with our thoughts our feelings and our actions. Horses are the ultimate authenticity barometers.

As the leader of your own business you will continuously bump up against challenges, concerns, growing pains, vulnerability and flat out fear! Your ability (and agility) to recognize your own emotional response, experience it and witness it with an eye of curiosity will move you into authentic alignment with right action quickly and effectively.

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Attracting the Perfect Clients with Authenticity & Leadership

A little Wisdom from the Way of the Horse

Illumination
 

In order for a horse to accept you as the leader of your relationship they require that we are congruent with our thoughts our feelings and our actions. Horses are the ultimate authenticity barometers.

As the leader of your own business you will continuously bump up against challenges, concerns, growing pains, vulnerability and flat out fear! Your ability (and agility) to recognize your own emotional response, experience it and witness it with an eye of curiosity will move you into authentic alignment with right action quickly and effectively.

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Tips from the Edge Part II

Tips from the Edge Part II

 

More insights from The Coaches Edge Extravaganza last week where I was one of the expert presenters on the topic of choosing and championing a viable coaching market.

There were 80 professional coaches gathered at this event with a wealth of experience and business savvy to share, yet there were 3 giant elephants in the room that stood out as obstacles to building a thriving practice. One of those obstacles was never even addressed and it happens to be the exact topic for the next “Attract the Perfect Client Through the Way of the Horse” tele-call!

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