In last week’s blog post, Your Expectations Will be Reflected in the World Around You, I talked about what happens when you have disempowering expectations running in the background of your sales calls. This week, let’s continue the conversation about sales calls with the intention of really understanding what the …
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Your Expectations Will Be Reflected in the World Around You
“Expectations are resentments under construction.” – Anne Lamott Expectations are a really interesting thing. In a sense, they can be really unhelpful: when we expect something to happen and it doesn’t, we may become angry and resentful of it. At the same time, there’s another way of seeing expectations that’s …
Getting Tired of Ourselves
As humans, we must have some kind of motivation for change. Otherwise we’ll stay on the same path that we’re on right now. Often, that motivation is financial: when we have a particular need for money or when we see a drop in our income, we can move mountains to …
Investing in Yourself vs. “Spending Money”
When I hired my first business coach, it was a huge amount of money for me at the time. It scared me. It terrified me, actually, to invest that kind of money in myself. I’d never done anything like it before! What paying that much for coaching gave me, though, …
The Role of a Coach: More than a Mirror
I recently hired a new coach. We’ve worked together several times so far, and I’m really enjoying our process because she offers new insights into the way the world perceives me that I hadn’t previously realized and she relates to me as the greatest version of myself. I’ve heard people …
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The 3 Pieces of a Traumatic Event
Expectations and perceptions are so important. They can lift us up or hold us back, and we’re creating them all the time as we go through life. I talk to my clients a lot about specific events that have affected their perceptions and expectations of themselves and the world around …
Celebrate Your Strengths
Through my work with female entrepreneurs, it’s not uncommon to discover an underlying sense of “stuck” in any particular area. The feeling of being “stuck” is something to which everyone can relate at some point in their life; it’s the sense that you don’t know what to do next, how …
Stop Running from Your Own Success
For most of us, the thing we’re running from is almost always the pathway to our biggest growth and the doorway to deeper peace. Gaining perspective on what’s blocking your way to success can be difficult and it’s normal for some unpleasant stuff to come up along the way. When …
Honor Yourself and What You’ve Created
As entrepreneurs, it’s so easy for us to think that everyone knows what we know and that what seems basic to us is basic to our clients. We lose sight of the natural gifts we possess or exactly how much time and energy we’ve put into becoming the best at …
Just Because You Feel It Doesn’t Mean It’s the “Capital T” Truth
One of my clients said something during a recent session that really struck me. He told me that he was finding himself moving away from his routine of safely doing what needs to be done to get what he needs to have. Instead, he said, he was starting to allow …