Free Digital Coaching Time Of My Life
September 9, 2009 by Simon · Leave a Comment
I’m having the time of my life with the Free Digital Coaching offer.
I’m thankful for this Free Digital Coaching Journey and it is a privilege which helps both of us to meet and exceed our goals.
Both of us you say?
Yes, both of us.
Participation in the Free Digital Coaching offer provides me with the inspiration to create and develop new material and systems so all of us gain from the participant’s investment.
From the Questionnaires, Personal & Professional Goals and Weekly Work Out Logs that I have received so far, I have created a summary of Participant Issues.
Participant Issues
- Client Communication E-Mails / Letters
- Conflict In Office / With Partners
- Focusing On Trying To Survive
- Focusing On What You Don’t Know, Versus What You Do Know
- No Budget Cash Flow
- No Business Plan
- No Client Relationship Management System
- No Customer Service Plan
- No Marketing Plan
- No Personal Or Professional Goals / Goals Are Not Specific Enough / Goals Are Lack Luster
- No Project Follow Up Plan
- Not Getting That One Is An Extrovert/Introvert – You Can’t Be Extroverted All The Time
- No Written Prospect Script
- Moonlighting
- Not Asking For Referrals
- Overwhelm
- Procrastination / Emotionally Retired
- Time Management, Time Blocking, Majoring In Minor Things
- Transition
- Weak Boundaries – Say Yes, When Should Learn No Is A Complete Sentence
- Work/Life Balance
Happy New Year!
September 8, 2009 by Simon · Leave a Comment
Happy New Year you say?
Yes, Happy New Year!
In my mind this is the first working day of the financial advisors or the investment advisors year after the lazy days of summer and it is game on until next summer!
What if I told you that your destiny was in reach and all you have to do was to put pen to paper / fingers to keys and write out / type out your Vision and Goals.
Would you do it?
A better question is; What prevents you from doing it?
It is because of your past experience of The Law Of Attraction.
The Law Of Attraction is absolute; “You will Attract what you focus on”.
Has your Attraction in the past been based on The Unmet Needs Disease?
Here is and example of The Unmet Needs Disease; The Unmet Need of Worthiness generates a Negative Belief like “I am not good enough” and a Negative Emotion like despair.
The Unmet Need fuels the Negative Belief and the Negative Emotion and you are fooled into thinking your Vision and Goals are too much for you which makes you fearful of accepting and writing out your true capacity.
Once again The Unmet Need of Worthiness generates a Negative Belief like “I am not good enough” and a Negative Emotion like despair.
Failing to write your Vision and Goals keeps you locked into the Unmet Need of Safety which becomes your jailer and in a state of fear that you may be transformed.
Playing it Safe is a habit and most give up when they see what can be realized and few will accept the burden of their own victory.
FREE 30 Day Digital Coaching Offer
August 26, 2009 by Simon · Leave a Comment
I’ve created a brand new FREE 30 Day Digital Coaching Offer that will help you to get September off to strong start.
We launched it on Wednesday, August 26th to all of my E-Newsletter readers and I am limiting the offer to twenty people.
I want to give you the first opportunity as blog reader.
Please note that offer includes helping you to set your goals to December 31, 2009 with e-coaching to help you to get there.
If you want to read more please click; FREE 30 Day Digital Coaching Offer
Free Digital Coaching
August 24, 2009 by Simon · Leave a Comment
Every industry that becomes digital eventually becomes free”. – Chris Anderson, Editor Wired Magazine, Author of The Long Tail and Free.
We are launching an experiment this week offering Free Digital Financial Advisor Coaching and Free Digital Investment Advisor Coaching for 30-Days, first come first served to 20 successful financial advisors or investment advisors.
We have already been offering Free Digital Coaching through components of our marketing funnel that include;
Web Site
E-Newsletter
Blog
Speaking
Articles
First Three Chapters Of Curing The Unmet Needs Disease
The Free 30-Day Digital Coaching includes;
- unlimited email access to Simon Reilly
- a weekly email progress report (automated)
- access to my intellectual property, audio lessons, articles, e-lessons, forms
- a private on-line forum
- telephone access to Simon Reilly (if you have an emergency and must talk on the phone or if I feel that a phone call is warranted – all 5 – 10 minute calls booked through Laura Reilly)
What is the difference between “one on one business coaching” and “digital business coaching”?
Imagine you are going on a journey and you are taking an “on-line digital business coach” with you along the way and you are provided with the following:
- Maps
- Compass
- GPS
- On Star
- Roadside Assistance
- Emergency Kit
- Emergency Repairs
The only thing that is really different between “one on one business coaching” and “digital business coaching” is that you get a lot more Fuel in the form of my time through “one on one business coaching”.
Stay tuned for this week’s launch of Free Digital Financial Advisor and Free Digital Investment Advisor Coaching.
Is This All There Is?
August 20, 2009 by Simon · Leave a Comment
One requires inspiration to lead and manage others to enable them to meet and exceed their goals for without this inspiration, the team will smell that the inspiration is not there and they will not follow … to this end, you must remanufacture your inspiration because I suspect that is has been based on recognition and the acquisition of the material things that comes with it … at the end of the day leaving you feeling flat with the underlying expression “is this all there is”.
For more on this read; Are You Emotionally Retired?
What does the coaching give you?
- Perspective – The coach provides fresh or different ways of looking at a situation, context.
- Validation – The coach validates via encouragement and acknowledgement.
- Message – The coach shares fitting knowledge, opinions, or wisdom.
- Energy - The coach provides energy and support as needed.
- Solution – The coach shares a solution to a problem or issue.
- Plan – The coach co-develops a plan of action with the client.
- Structure – The coach provides support and a check-in structure for the client.
- Resource – The coach suggests/refers client to experts, books, tools, assessments.
- Options – The coach expands the number of options the client thought they had.
- Caring – The coach cares via listening, patience, safety and love.
- Training – The coach trains clients in personal and business skills.
- Advice – The coach provides advice via recommendations and suggestions.
- Strategy – The coach develops or co-develops a personal or business strategy.
- Feedback – The coach offers feedback, observations, insights, ideas and opinions.
- Challenge – The coach provides a challenge to the client to stretch or make a change
Fizziology
August 17, 2009 by Simon · Leave a Comment
This story about employees at a Japanese Rail Company checking their grins using a Smile Meter reminds me of a Phone Power Course that I took back in 1987. All the participants received a mirror that they could put on the top of their desk to remind them to smile when they are on the phone.
My franchise days with Anthony Robbins & Associates taught me to take it a step further and to stand up during prospecting calls because;
- Words represent 7% of Communication
- Tonality represents 38% of Communication
- Fizziology represents 55% of Communication
Energy is contagious and your communication will be magnified ten fold when you remember to stand up and smile when you are on the phone. Looking at it another way, you could be losing as much as 55% of your communication slouched over your desk.
Time Management Re-Visited Part 2
August 14, 2009 by Simon · 1 Comment
13 Simple Steps to Time Management – Part 2
7. Eliminate Busy Work
People are often too busy with busy work and this creates a huge distraction from paying attention and focusing on goal achieving actions.
Instead of taking action on their specific goal at a specified time they fill their time with what they justify as things that are routine versus what is important.
What they are saying is, “I haven’t created the discipline of stopping myself periodically throughout the day and asking if this is the most effective way to spend my time.”
This is the time to get one of those alarms on your watch or computer to keep you on track when you have made a decision to work on a specific goal at a certain time.
If you get distracted;
- Stop doing it
- Find someone else to do it
- Record it on a list to schedule for future action
- Forget it
8. Schedule Time In Advance and Ask What Is Going To Distract Me?
It’s that time of the week again and it is coming time to write my newsletter. In fact the time is scheduled. Well in advance I ask myself, is there anything that I need to do that is going to distract me from writing the e-newsletter?
A variation of the above is;
- Record it on a list to schedule for future action
- Find someone else to do it
- Stop doing it
- Forget it
You will find that as you get more and more into the habit of focusing on action steps towards your goals, the minor things will not be that important anymore. I think that it was Tony Robbins that said, ‘People major in minor things’.
9. Form Time Boundaries
As a business owner, I am fortunate enough to be in charge of my own time and it is not that often that I must accommodate the schedule of others.
There are many people that are not totally in charge of their our own time and they are accountable to; partners, associates, employers, family members and friends.
We are often interrupted by other people’s priorities.
The next time that you are interrupted by someone making a request for you to do something …
Ask yourself (not them), is this life and death? If the answer is Yes then take action. If the answer is No then I suggest the following.
Person Requesting You To Do Something: I want your help to do _____________.
Your Reply: I am happy to help you, right now I’m in the middle of a project and need 100% concentration to complete it. Would you like me to stop what I am doing? What is the deadline that you need your task done by?
(You may find that by forming a boundary on your time the person that is making a request may realize that you are busy with something that is more important than what it is they are asking you to do. If the person replies with the deadline, then let’s assume that they still want your help.)
Person Requesting You To Do Something: I need it by 10 am tomorrow.
Your Reply: Great I’ll schedule it in for tomorrow morning and I’ll have it ready for you.
(This simple system leaves you with time boundaries and gives you the feeling that you are in charge of your own time versus being a victim. I will expand on time boundaries in forthcoming issues.)
10. You Say You Have No Time – Then Where Is Your Time Going?
To answer the question of where is your time going, start tracking and logging your time daily for a least a week. Track your time by writing down the exact time that you begin each activity, write a few words about what the activity is about and write down the exact time that you end each activity. I suggest that you write down everything. If you begin an activity and in the middle of it, you decide to answer e-mails or the telephone, then write down the exact time that you began and ended the e-mails or the telephone calls. This requires you to be 100% honest about what you are spending your time on. If you take 8 minutes to make a cup of coffee then write down 8 minutes. Forget about being perfect writing down your time in 15 minute increments.
11. Review and Summarize Your Time
At the end of the week, review your time records and summarize your activities and the amount of time spent on each. Create your activity categories and you can have anywhere from 6 – 20 categories. They should be meaningful to you. Examples of Business categories are; Planning, Administration, Clients, Computer, Financing, Marketing, Office, Product Development, Sales, Team & Training. Examples of Personal categories are; Planning, Auto, Clothing, Home, Storage, Financial, Health, Hobby, Intellectual, Family, Friends, Spouse, Spirit & Travel. Next summarize how much time you spent on each activity on a daily and weekly basis and determine the percentage of time that you are spending on each activity. The key is to become aware about where you are spending your time.
12. Start Time Blocking
With your newfound time awareness in mind and taking your priority activities into consideration, start to schedule your major activities into the highest energy, productive parts of your day. For me, early mornings are my best and that is when I write my e-newsletter. Take a look at all the similar activities that you do and group them into time blocks. For me the e-newsletter falls into the category of writing so this includes; web site edits and additions, e-newsletters, blog and product development. You can start to time block your e-mails and phone time together. What about errands? How about meetings so that you block them into time when you are out of the office. What about e-mailing people that you have to have a meeting with and requesting a telephone meeting and letting them know that you can talk with them on the phone at either 3pm or 5pm? The key here is that you will be empowered because you will be in charge of your time.
13. Your Daily Calendar / To Do List
I believe in writing out my daily calendar so that it is a page at a glance. There is something powerful about the power of the written word. The power of the written word causes me to commit.
On an 8 1/2 by 11 sheet of paper I divide the page into 3 equal columns.
The first column is my daily schedule from 5 am – 10 pm to schedule the live and telephone appointments that I have committed to.
The second column is for what I must do that day. I group the activities into similar activities, estimate the time required and then schedule.
The third column is for what I would want to do that day. These are miscellaneous items that are still a priority that will only take a few minutes to follow up on. I often do these while traveling or waiting for appointments.
One thing to remember. Do not block out 100% of your time. Leave 1 – 2 hours of buffer time so that you can still handle those inevitable interruptions.
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Planned books:
- Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
- The Book Of Air And Shadows: A Novel by Michael Gruber
Current books:
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The Brave: A Novel by Nicholas Evans
Recent books:
- The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway
- The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
- Shadow Of The Wind by Carlos Zafon
- The Outlander by Gil Adamson
- The Book Of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
