Steve Keough's (a.k.a.Coach Steve's) Blog

100 Day Challenge!

2009-06-14T14:33:00.000-07:00

Did you know it can take a moving oil tanker (the huge ones) more than 3 miles to come to a complete stop?
It's true.
Have you ever had a day where you felt sluggish...and just didn't get much done? Your brain is like the oil tanker. Once you get it moving in a certain direction. It's hard to change it.
However you can use this fact to double your productivity.

Here's how:
What you want to do is move yourself in the direction of getting things done...and build momentum.

So start the day and say, "I'm going to clean my desk". And clean it. Don't let anything stop you.
Just do it. Just do it. Just do IT!

You'll feel good now. You actually finished something. Woohoo!

Now move onto something simple again.

I'm going to brew this pot of coffee. And do it. Don't let anything distract you. No emails...no phone calls.
Just do it. Just do it. Just do IT!
The more distractions you get the harder it is to build precious momentum.

Then move onto a project you're working on such as I'm going to come up with three ways to improve my business sales. Then do it.

Listen: This may seem simple to you, and it is. Just get a taste of the focus and productivity you'll own if you try this. Do it! When you find this works for you, then you'll love what my business coaching program can do for you too!

One of its main jobs is make this kind of focus and productivity A Habit in you. A habit you can't change. I'm wondering if you realize how much bigger would your business be if you could get twice as much done each day.

Think about it. If you'd pay $6 a day to double your productivity GUARANTEED ...then you should read this http://www.coachsteve.com/sp/100DayChallenge/ ...and NOW...Act on it!

Warmly,

Coach Steve

Life Coaching, Business Coaching, Health and Wellness Coaching

Coach Steve's 100 Day Business Coaching Challenge

2009-05-15T09:13:00.000-07:00

Don't think about being rich. Don't think about reading your bank statement showing you have $1,000,000 in your balance.

Did I get you?

You know, when you tell someone (or yourself) NOT TO DO something, for their brain to process what you said they have to picture themselves doing what you told them not to do!

http://www.coachsteve.com/LinkHub/l/?e=71&p=25&id=333999&t=/mme

When you ask a small child to bring a drink from the fridge you should ask them to keep the beer (I mean water) in the bottle. Avoid saying "Do not spill it" because they instantly think of
spilling.

Anyhow, What does this have to do with teaching you how to make money?

Simple: Our brain is nature's most marvelous invention. It's a curse and a blessing. You
can't simply tell your brain, let's get rich.

No.

So how do you get the brain on track with this?

How do you switch it from keeping you poor to making you rich?

I've got an audio program I recorded called "Money Made Easy" where I reveal how! Absorb it. Act on it.

Download and prosper here...
http://www.coachsteve.com/LinkHub/l/?e=71&p=25&id=333999&t=/mme

If you want your brain wired for money then read my story here on how to do it.
http://www.coachsteve.com/LinkHub/l/?e=71&p=25&id=333999&t=/biz100

The Business Success Ladder - STRAIGHT Up!

2008-12-15T08:32:00.000-08:00

The Ladder Up

By

Steven L. Keough a.k.a. Coach Steve (MC², MBA)

Have you heard of the ladder of success right, so how do we go straight UP!

Learn how to master the eight steps on the ladder of business success! This will help you run your business more effectively and grow your business faster, plus you will have fun doing it too!

First understand why you are in business. A business is a commercial vehicle or enterprise setup up to make profits, and the profits generally make someone or a group wealthy. Ideally it should work without you in it otherwise it may not be sellable, as nobody wants to buy you. Without profits all there are is a hodge podge of people and actions, but nothing of value, so understanding the ladder of success and how to go straight up is pretty critical really. It's there to be a repeatable process that creates profits. A money making machine that prints money all day long.

You must learn to master the basic levels of business before you can ascend the ladder or ascend (rise) as a great and profitable business. And if you are in business you MUST be clearly focused on two main things: Marketing and Selling! Just like sports when you win it hurts a lot less, well in business, when you have sales from marketing efforts that work, nothing hurts as much.

Here's the bottom line, you business must produce the following, AND you need to know the numbers every step of this way. 1. You MUST have leads so your marketing better be creating responders. 2. Your conversion rates (turning prospects into customers) better be above average or you'll just be average. 3. You systems better keep your customers happy and your questions from them to a minimum (or you are wasting precious energy).4. The number of transactions you do is critical and you should always want to either be increasing that number of transactions, the amount of the transaction or better BOTH! 5. The average dollar sale, as I mentioned, either add on, catch a referral making it two sales or make the average number go up by adding on another item(s) 6. Total revenue for the company, which is either going up-good, going down - not good or staying the same - flat and not so good. 7. Margins on your products or services are critical and should also be healthy. I don't touch a thing that doesn't make me at least 30% and finally (but not least - it is priority 1) PROFIT and is something every business owner needs more of. These are the eight steps or rungs on your ladder that will ultimately make you profits and successful (not successful and profitable).

Setup a tracking mechanism at your business that monitors these eight items. Start with a month of baselining, where you determine what the norms are (or if seasonal - one season) and from there you plan how to increase all these items. If you succeeded at four you'd be doing great, but if you succeed at them all you'll be killing it. One does affect the other, so if you are having good results with one, the others should follow.

I gave you them in sort of an order, meaning that if number 1. above is improving, number 2. above should improve and all the way through number 8. However, not everyone is good at everything so some may be working and others may not be. Outsource the ones you are not so good at, that's what I do. The costs is in relationship to the AF factor. The aggravation factor because I may not enjoy to do one of the items. Outsourcing it (for a reasonable fee) gets it done with me "getting any of that on me."

Having been in sales and a sales trainer for so many years I actually like all the topics, but not everyone does. Hiring the expertise is also an option, but outsourcing is much cleaner, if they don't work out: next! With employees, you have all the drama and emotions and all - yuck!

In your planning sessions (weekly is best) ask yourself "With the business model I have now, how will I increase X" and go right through all eight factors. If you have clear answers, put those into action. No clear answers, or confusion either in your head or amongst team members, then it's back to the drawing board until you come up with a clear cut winning strategy for each item.

And I don't want to hear "I can't x." YES, you can, so knock off the crap and figure it out. "Those who have no vision will perish", it's in the bible, so have a vision of improvement and a critical eye for the best way possible to get these eight accomplished. In business, what else have you got? What else would you be spending your time on and is that a comfortable distraction?

If you are too comfortable, that could be the very reason you are where you are. There is no resting in business, you keep driving and driving, and you rest when you retire. Nobody needs an on the job retiree, especially if it is you. Others are watching your example. Model the best behavior in your organization to drive these eight critical business categories. Just do this...

1. Create a bigger number of leads or responders to marketing campaigns by making your ad copy compelling and creating emotion to buy 2. Raise your conversion rate by being diligent using a sales system such as our Octo-Gone 3. Turn one time customers into repeat buying clients by adding value and servicing the heck out of them ASAP 4. Increase the number of transactions by adding an upsell line item to every order or a second offer (if you buy 20 the second 10 are 50% off) 5. increase the average ticket price by raising your prices or suggesting the additional of a sister item for best results 6. Increase revenue by focusing on selling more and by driving marketing to create more and more responders 7. streamline your business so you retain more margin (by reducing your costs) and obsess on process improvement and finally 8. To increase profit raise prices, cut expenses, streamline operations or add a product or service line. That's my advice. If you need assistance, check out the offer below.

Finally, Ask your self two questions: 1. Who could buy a lot (think out of the box for this answer) and 2. Who could buy often (who would consume your stuff fast buy repeat rapidly) answering these two may solve the other eight.

To Your Greater Success!

Thanx…Coach Steve

A Unique Opportunity

How can we help with this? As you may know, I have set up a worldwide organization of coaches to assist people with the most persistent of challenges. These coaches have been hand picked by me, personally trained by myself as well and are held to the highest possible standards of delivery. You don’t have to go it alone and you don’t need to be ashamed or embarrassed about these challenges. We all face challenges! The question is “What will you do about it?” And we are here to help make sure you are Happier, Healthier and Financially FREE!

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Don’t tolerate this in your life! Our certified and extremely experienced coaches are masters at helping folks just like you. They deliver our coaching system consistently and with ease. You won’t even recognize yourself after being coached with us. We expect you will be happier, healthier and on your way to becoming financially free once you start your journey with us. And the only thing holding you back right now is you!

So, here is an offer that we think even you would say “I’d have to be absolutely crazy not to take you up on this offer and solve this challenge in my life once and for all.

So what’s the lesson here? The lesson is you don’t have to tolerate this any longer! Please, learn from other people’s failures by leveraging their painful lessons to your advantage so you don’t have to endure this hardship for another second. You can avoid many of the common mistakes almost every single person makes by having a coach nearby to help you navigate life.
You are at a crossroad if you have read down this far. Don’t bail on yourself now. Take Action!

About Coach Steve

Steven L. Keough or Coach Steve as he prefers is the Founder & CEO of his coaching company Straight Forward Coaching, an Internationally recognized coaching enterprise. Coach Steve operates four very busy companies: of course Straight Forward Coaching, CoachingProducts.org (North America), CoachingProductsInternational.org (Overseas Operations and Non-English Speaking Products), and finally Business Coach Alliance for the training of coaches to be better certified coaches. Yes, we actually train many of the coaches that most organizations will hire.

Steve is also a multiple book Author (5 at this time), Handbook Author (24 at this time), Home Learning Course Creator (4 at this time), Speaker, Trainer and Master Certified Coach himself, a product of the product, and most proud to be a Coaching Curriculum Developer, changing thousands, if not millions, of lives for the better with his materials. He has coaches people for nearly two decades and has amassed over 20,000 hours of coaching individuals and businesses!

Certified in 12 different coaching distinctions, Coach Steve’s books are best-sellers and his materials have been translated into multiple languages and are available in over 100 countries!

Visit Coach Steve at www.stevekeough.com or call 1-888-341-Coach (2622).

"It's Not My Fault"

2008-12-08T11:29:00.000-08:00

"It's Not My Fault"

By

Steven L. Keough a.k.a. Coach Steve (MC², MBA)

If it not your fault, who's is it then?

If you were to stop your questioning of who's fault thing are and channel that energy back into your life, your interests, your passions and your happiness, what could be produced?

I hear so many times "It's not my fault" or worse the up yours words "Oh well, it's not my fault."

These words are a retreat from responsibility. They are the common language or vernacular of children from ages five to fifteen, the very same years that these kids really, are receiving "ALL" the programming for life. All the lessons, influences, opinions, and other things that shape a person from ages 15 throughout the rest of their life. What gets learned after age 15 on on is wisdom. Wisdom to apply this programming from birth to age 15 to all your life's situations.

It's been said that the formative years are from age birth to age 7ish and there is an intense uptick in the programming of ones mind from ages 7ish through 15ish. But once the forming of the mind, the creation of all this programming is complete, your mental map or personality is formed.

Why that is important to understand is that many people go through life as though they are still fifteen, and some as a five year old. Don't get me wrong, the best part of being five is to have fun while not having a care in the world. In fact, I often write about and encourage people to let their five year old come back out to play to have some fun in their lives, but that's for fun.

A five year old hardly could be successful in business or in life or in hardly anything requiring adult programming. What is programming? Programming are all the traits, characteristics, lessons, hurts, etc. that as we are "growing up" we experience that have an impact on who we are (at the core) and what our life will be shaped by, because our programming is in our mind.

Example: Expectancy, expectancy for a young person (5 to 15) who grows up in Greenwich, CT (very affluent area) vs. that of a child who grows up in East LA (the barrio) is a vastly different experience, yet each of them from ages birth to fifteen, will still have "formative" years and big growth from ages 7 to 15 (and look at gangs who recruit at 8, 9 and 10 years old).

Understanding this framework helps us to look at the statement "It's not my fault" from the perspective of responsibility or accountability. Especially in one's own life. I'm not suggesting we should look at birth to 15 and judge these kids, I'm suggesting we look at adults who make the very same claim of "it's not my fault." At best the statement in juvenile or childish. Perhaps as adults (18, 21 or whatever number you believe) this type of statement limits us completely.

If by habit (words) you can hide behind "It's not my fault" there are at least two things going on here. First, you are NOT being responsible. Second, if you look at this from the adult ONLY viewpoint, who is responsible for you, your life and your situations? Not me, not Uncle Willie, so it must be YOU (Your Own Understanding). If you can grasp the understanding, your own understanding, that what happen when you say "It's not my fault" is that first you are avoiding your own responsibility, as saying "it's not my fault" is simply a deflection of responsibility and there is a payoff for you, by the way a NON-monetary pay off usually.

A payoff is something you get from an avoidance behavior. So by saying "It's not my fault" what you are REALLY getting is the payoff old being completely irresponsible. If your room wasn't clean as a kid after a guest came over and you said "it's not my fault, my friend dirtied my room." You'd be accurate, but still irresponsible. And to worsen it, and enabling parent might say "Okay, Tommy I'll clean your room this time." You have been just been taught how to manipulate and "be" irresponsible. And it always comes back to "who you are being."

As a teenager, you asked to "get a job" but when asked by your parents you say "it's not my fault, nobody will hire me." and you are let to do that too, then your enablers have taught you that you don't have to work (or earn your keep) and that avoidance behavior has you learning nothing about work, or future work (what you like or dislike in terms of jobs) and the payoff is you don't need to work (again be responsible). You see it almost always comes back to not "being" responsible. Look at where these payoffs meet irresponsibility before you really suffer.

Then as a young adult, you don't a career path chosen, and choose not to go to college (or can't because your grades are suspect) and you find yourself in a crappy job (like 58% of the world's population) and claiming "It's not my fault I can't earn a decent living, no one ever helped me choose my career." Again, 100% irresponsible and now we are advancing into justifying too. But the bottom line is no good job or career path and you are limiting yourself on many fronts.

By ages 35 to 55, we find you coming into our coaching programs to get help to turn things around and we are blessed and honored to be able to do this work as it is a necessary service, and what we'll do is have you take a look at the very things you've been avoiding all along; you ability to be 100% accountable (fancy word for responsible as an adult). You see we can't ask children and adolesents to be "accountable" yet, only responsible. We say "Your BEING irresponsible", we don't say to a ten year old you are BEING unaccountable, they don't get that.

But you are an adult and you are reading this and you DO GET IT, you are BEING unaccountable, or lacking accountability and all of this stems from past programing sure, but continued bad choices. Choice, perhaps from old habits (which die hard) to be irresponsible rather than accountable. And BEING accountable is one thing and BEING 100% ACCOUNTABLE is another. It's the highest level of self truth available and many need a coaches, or coaches, to accomplish this. I assure you though, when you do, your life will be changed forever.

That to "Your life will not be the same" or "Your life will be changed forever" is now an overused buzzword. I'm saying when you do the work, you and only you (not blaming others that "It's not your fault") will benefit from the added responsibility you shift TOWARD your life rather than the deflection (Away From) your life, it will make you more successful (perhaps eventually) and to do that your accountability (what you say you will do) will need to increase as well and that;s where the coaching comes in. Your life coach ends up as your accountability partner, insuring you do all that you say you are going to do, helping you to win and succeed.

There are three life options: succeed, fail and something in the middle, mediocre perhaps. Which do you want? Duh, succeed. Okay, then "It's not my fault cannot exist in your vocabulary any longer. All the defeat est language has to go, starting with "no." Are you ready to take on your life (remember no is now gone) so it's yes or some wishy washy other answer (maybe, perhaps, sort of, etc.), And that will hold you right there, exactly where you are at, like taxes to the middle class (designed to oppress you, hold you back and keep you paying the highest percentage of taxes) against your will or not. They don't care, they like you right there: trapped. But you can stay there ("it's not my fault that there are taxes to the middle class - get out of the middle).

Hmm, like the credit card companies who are all too happy for you to pay your minimum balance while paying fees that are pure profit to them (they've no extra work to earn these fees - they've added no additional value to you) such as over the limit $35, on a $200 minimum payment on a big balance your interest could be $187 (and a whopping $13 comes off your balance - except the $35 over fee has you $22 under water, but you pay the minimum) and they love you for it! It's not my fault, I couldn't pay more (then charge less or not at all - these are your choices).

And for all choices there are consequences, good and bad. Good choices good consequences, bad choices bad consequences, so you must choose wisely. There are NO RICH VICTIMS! And victims NEVER say "It's not my fault" they say Crap that was totally my fault, I missed that, but here's how we can fix that. In other words they take on their responsibilities and their word (their integrity to themselves) is golden, so they are very highly accountable and what's their payoff? A real payoff, possible financial freedom, certainly they're at least on the path to it.

Your call now, It's not my fault" or you "TAKE ON YOUR LIFE" whichever you do there will be evidence, clues of your results good or bad, but evidence yet. Enough! Take you action NOW!

To Your Greater Success!

Thanx…Coach Steve

A Unique Opportunity

How can we help with this? As you may know, I have set up a worldwide organization of coaches to assist people with the most persistent of challenges. These coaches have been hand picked by me, personally trained by myself as well and are held to the highest possible standards of delivery. You don’t have to go it alone and you don’t need to be ashamed or embarrassed about these challenges. We all face challenges! The question is “What will you do about it?” And we are here to help make sure you are Happier, Healthier and Financially FREE!

A Special Offer

So, here is an offer that we think even you would say “I’d have to be absolutely crazy not to take you up on this offer and solve this challenge in my life once and for all.

About Coach Steve

Steven L. Keough or Coach Steve as he prefers is the Founder & CEO of his coaching company Straight Forward Coaching, an Internationally recognized coaching enterprise. Coach Steve operates four very busy companies: of course Straight Forward Coaching, CoachingProducts.org (North America), CoachingProductsInternational.org (Overseas Operations and Non-English Speaking Products), and finally Business Coach Alliance for the training of coaches to be better certified coaches. Yes, we actually train many of the coaches that most organizations will hire.

Steve is also a multiple book Author (5 at this time), Handbook Author (24 at this time), Home Learning Course Creator (4 at this time), Speaker, Trainer and Master Certified Coach himself, a product of the product, and most proud to be a Coaching Curriculum Developer, changing thousands, if not millions, of lives for the better with his materials. He has coaches people for nearly two decades and has amassed over 20,000 hours of coaching individuals and businesses!
Certified in 12 different coaching distinctions, Coach Steve’s books are best-sellers and his materials have been translated into multiple languages and are available in over 100 countries!

Visit Coach Steve at www.stevekeough.com or call 1-888-341-Coach (2622).

I Got a Flu Shot and GOT the Flu???

2008-11-24T11:21:00.000-08:00

I Got a Flu Shot and GOT the Flu???

Steven L. Keough a.k.a. Coach Steve (MC², MBA)

How could I have gotten a flue shot to protect against the flu and got it right away?

Simple; What you Focus on EXPANDS!

Hi All, it's been a while since my last blog post, sorry I was traveling on a mini-book tour and had spotty Internet access at best, but now I am back, so here goes...

We've been saying for years now "What YOU focus on expands!" If you focus on good things, you get more good things. If you focus on bad things you get more bad things. If you focus on no thing (nothing) you get more no things (more of nothing), so you have to be really careful with what you put out into the universe (if it stays in your head, meaning you just think about it briefly, nothing outbound happens. If you do dwell on it though, that does go outbound).

It's a bit like the old line "Careful what you wish for." Because in a universe where "Universal Laws" have a place, and an affect, you have to be careful to use this leverage carefully. You know some people poo-hoo the universe stuff. I'm not all naive or woo-woo about it, but there's too many circumstances that have occurred in my life or the lives of my clients not to believe in some form of universal law or presence. I'm sure you've seen things happen too.

Some call it fate or faith, when something occurs that is beneficial yet unexplainable, and we know it comes from somewhere, some higher power, but we don't exactly know for sure. We may not think about it long, so I'm simply asking you to take a look at it this way. It's an opportunity for you, that's all. Another look at something from a different view or perspective.

Now whether you believe it or not I'll leave up to you, however, when a guy like my friend Bob Proctor, who's been at this for a long time now (40+ years) writes a book about it (Born Rich - Out of Print now) I pay attention to it and him, I look into it a little bit, and I want to see what is going on with it and how it can help me/us. We now know that what goes out into the universe are vibrations, or electrical charges from our bodies (both positive and negative charges) and through the Law of Reciprocity, we get back what we send out. In others words, what you focus on expands. It's the result of a fundamental universal law at work in the world and in your life!

If you had the opportunity to take advantage of this universal law, why wouldn't you? What have you got to lose? Might you not want to talk about it so you can continue to "look good?" How about you are not certain about this, so to bring it up in your life or in your circles you might not "be right?" Or maybe you won't look cool because your inner circle may criticize your involvement with "voo-doo science?" In any case, for WHATEVER reason, you will miss out?

Some of us are more interested in being right about everything, or looking good "at all costs." Is that you? You can't bring yourself to look at these universal laws that have been around for a long time? There are 28 of these Laws, not just this one, that when used or leveraged properly, they could have a huge impact on your life. Are you missing out on things by not tapping in?

I said "at all costs", what are your costs. Where aren't you happy? Where aren't you healthy? Where are finances a mess so you are not free, or secure, or at least financially stable? Where?

Would you rather look a little silly (maybe) and be really, really rich, or would you rather look cool (or so YOU think) and be really, really broke - STILL? Or maybe you are the opposite of what we teach, perhaps you are UNhappy, UNhealthy and NOT Financially Free??? Are you happy? Are you healthy? Are you financially free, or at least on the path to that freedom? No?

Then you absolutely have to take either another look, or a different look at these possibilities. Do you see them as possibilities or woo-woo stuff? Have you tried it? If you haven't, maybe you should. If you have, but didn't believe then perhaps you didn't get the result, and that fostered your negative feelings or woo-woo feelings. Either way, ask yourself, "Are others benefiting from the power of the universe? If you answered yes, then don't give up, figure out how to get yours.

Maybe you were just doing something wrong because you didn't have all the information, or the conviction to really believe in it, maybe you went about it with caution, rather than reckless abandon, to see what could be different? If you are focused on what you've always done, guess what, you'll get more of what you've always got (because what you have focused on expended).

I've had it both ways, TRUST ME, life is much better with money! I shoot for "Abundance" and "Opulence" for all my clients, but they have to believe and they have to do the work, not me. I've done it for me already. My job now, it is open up your mind, to provoke you into something you otherwise might have missed, to get you to look at many things from another perspective.

You've heard me say in the past (many time probably) "Conventional Wisdom Sucks!" It's even more true today than yesterday. I asked my Doctor "Why do I need a Flu shot?" He said to prevent the flu now that you are at 50 (or over 50). I said "Okay, but don't you get the flu from it?" What did he say? "No, you don't get the flu." Conventional wisdom, guess what he was wrong. I got the flu! I focused on what, "the Flu", so I got what I focused on "the Flu", period!

I hardly ever get sick, and when conventional wisdom said "get a flu shot" I knew better (but I was thinking now at 50, maybe there's a few things I don't know) so I took my doctor's advice. But I got exactly what I didn't want because I focused on it. I asked him to explain, and the doctor said, predictably, "It was a coincidence." Bull Crap. I got what I wanted: The Flu!

What are you focusing on? Is it for your happiness? Is it for better health? If it for Financial Freedom? If it is not (like my flu) you may be getting the result that the universe thinks it has heard from you. But perhaps there is mystification because you believe you asked for something altogether different? That would indicate a time for a coach to get involved, to help find clarity.

When you have a crystal clear visions, supported by 10 to 12 rock solid commitments, you will get everything you despite or want from life, after, ONLY AFTER you out everything you've got into it! But until then, whatever eludes you exists in the universe, but just not for you? Why?

That's the question? Why does it elude YOU? Why does it exist for others? What is needed?

Perhaps a different view or perspective is needed, and something from you is missing. In the world of spirituality, rarely can you put one over on the universe, as it is all wise and all reading, reading the energies that you put out. Your mouth may say one thing, or you may trick yourself through rationalization, but the universe knows better and reads your vibrational energy and cannot be fooled. That's where coach comes in, by bridging the gap between where you are, and where you want to be, and by harnessing the power of all 28 Universal Laws in your life.

To Your Greater Success!

Thanx…Coach Steve

A Unique Opportunity

A Special Offer

So, here is an offer that we think even you would say “I’d have to be absolutely crazy not to take you up on this offer and solve this challenge in my life once and for all.

About Coach Steve

Steven L. Keough or Coach Steve as he prefers is the Founder & CEO of his coaching company Straight Forward Coaching, an Internationally recognized coaching enterprise. Coach Steve operates four very busy companies: of course Straight Forward Coaching, CoachingProducts.org (North America), CoachingProductsInternational.org (Overseas Operations and Non-English Speaking Products), and finally Business Coach Alliance for the training of coaches to be better certified coaches. Yes, we actually train many of the coaches that most organizations will hire.

Steve is also a multiple book Author (5 at this time), Handbook Author (24 at this time), Home Learning Course Creator (4 at this time), Speaker, Trainer and Master Certified Coach himself, a product of the product, and most proud to be a Coaching Curriculum Developer, changing thousands, if not millions, of lives for the better with his materials. He has coaches people for nearly two decades and has amassed over 20,000 hours of coaching individuals and businesses!

Certified in 12 different coaching distinctions, Coach Steve’s books are best-sellers and his materials have been translated into multiple languages and are available in over 100 countries! Visit Coach Steve at www.stevekeough.com or call 1-888-341-Coach (2622).

Spirit of Cooperation!

2008-10-20T16:47:00.000-07:00

Spirit of Cooperation

By

Steven L. Keough a.k.a. Coach Steve (MC², MBA)

Are you surrounded by people in your life that create a "Spirit of Cooperation" second to none? Do you wish you had those people in your life? Does your team offer this or not?

Building Your Team, whether in your life or in your business, is a huge undertaking. How do you know who you need, what they need to know, where they can help, why they'd want to be involved, how they can assist you, how much they can help or how often? Is the spirit of cooperation present, or ARE YOU ONE YOUR OWN?

A Life coach, a personal coach, a business coach or an executive coach, all of them should be able to create not only community in a hurry, but also they should be able to create the spirit of cooperation too. They get people to play together without all the sandbox activities of infighting, backstabbing, gossiping and acting out. That would not be the spirit needed to succeed or even try. Leadership is needed, charisma is needed, you authentic self is needed and your true friend needs to show up for you and rise to the (your) occasion. Are they? Why not? Where are they?

You know what the problem is as well as I do. Your relationships are lacking, aren't connected tightly, or are at a distance, and a distance that won't allow you and your best supporters to lock arms in a human chain that cannot be broken - EVER! That's what we are doing, we are building a Human Chain around this planet, a chain that despite the darker forces of evil and or terror threats, this group stands strong, connected and determined to succeed in spite of ANY threat. The force of enlightenment (the light) and empowerment cannot be stopped, its the momentum I speak about that you get you contribute and pay forward too.

Is that the spirit we are looking for, you betchya, and where is it for you and your team, or your friends, family members, coworkers and associates. Are they offering themselves up to help you because it is you and the vision you are creating is just a bonus. Or are they driven only by the vision and you are just a participant? Both of those are fine, but you are going to need the spirit of cooperation not only to succeed at life and in business, but for pretty much any endeavour you go after. Nothing good comes without a price, so its best to use "ALL" your resources.

That of course includes all your network, but also could include your personal coach, business consulting, free coaching, training-coaching, coaching products, self help books, and seminars or workshops. This could include the famous folks like Les Brown, Harv Eker and even yours truly Steve Keough (not steve kehoe, not steve keheo, not steve keyo and not steve keogh either). You may need staight forward coaching, how appropriate. Perhaps you need a business coach alliance, or help from one of my top coaches, such as Francisco Dao of Inc.com, or from SuccessTracs or Peak Potentials Training or other seminar sales support companies or people.

Well that's what you get, a spirit of cooperation when you work with any of my companies such as SLK Enterprises, Inc. a.k.a CoachingProducts.org here in North America or Straight Forward Coaching, or CoachingProductsInternational.org. You may need a mastermind coach from WABC (World Association of Business Coaches), or The Action Coach. or Business Coaches. You may get it elsewhere, but you DEFINITELY get it here!

If you are not seeing the Spirit of Cooperation to the degree that you know you will need to be ultra-successful and create wealth and amazing teamwork to get things done, you may be in the market for an experienced and certified coach. Heck, if you are mildly successful and want me to kick your butt, try my Top Gun Program, you'll never recognize yourself again in a short time! This kick butt coaching started right after my TV appearance with Mr. William Shatner on his show The Heartbeat of America, and it's been insane ever since with both life coaching skills and business coaching clients, even some career coaching too.

Thanks to GoDaddy we are getting the message out all over the world, so thanks godaddy, we couldn't get it done without your slid technology platform. Where do you go from here if your spirit is missing in YOU or your personal network or business associates, who do you turn too now? This is no get rich quick scheme, you are going to have to work. Hard! But the benefits will be there for you, and after a short time coaching you'll see the results and your spirit will rise to the challenge. If not take my NEW program: called "Coach Steve's 100 Day Challenge."

When your spirit rises, the spirits around you will rise as well. Your energy for the good of yourself and mankind either infects are affects other people. All negative energy "infects", but all your positive energy "affects" those around you, creating momentum and then as your spirit begins to soar like the majestic bald eagle (a symbol of courage and success) then those around you too will start to soar. Go ahead: Fly Like an Eagle!

What's the benefit of this Spirit of Cooperation? The direct benefit is ease of getting things done and also your peace of mind while doing it with your team. How's that sound? It sure beats the heck out of what is typical for many of our clients before they join our coaching programs.

To Your Greater Success!

Thanx… Coach Steve

A Unique Opportunity

A Special Offer

So, here is an offer that we think even you would say “I’d have to be absolutely crazy not to take you up on this offer and solve this challenge in my life once and for all.

About Coach Steve

Steven L. Keough or Coach Steve as he prefers is the Founder & CEO of his coaching company Straight Forward Coaching, an Internationally recognized coaching enterprise. Coach Steve operates four very busy companies: of course Straight Forward Coaching, CoachingProducts.org (North America), CoachingProductsInternational.org (Overseas Operations and Non-English Speaking Products), and finally Business Coach Alliance for the training of coaches to be better certified coaches. Yes, we actually train many of the coaches that most organizations will hire.

Steve is also a multiple book Author (5 at this time), Handbook Author (24 at this time), Home Learning Course Creator (4 at this time), Speaker, Trainer and Master Certified Coach himself, a product of the product, and most proud to be a Coaching Curriculum Developer, changing thousands, if not millions, of lives for the better with his materials. He has coaches people for nearly two decades and has amassed over 20,000 hours of coaching individuals and businesses! Certified in 12 different coaching distinctions, Coach Steve’s books are best-sellers and his materials have been translated into multiple languages and are available in over 100 countries!

Visit Coach Steve at www.stevekeough.com or call 1-888-341-Coach (2622).

Insider Infomation

2008-10-13T10:29:00.000-07:00

Insider Information

By

Steven L. Keough a.k.a. Coach Steve (MC², MBA)

Have you ever wondered why some people progress so fast while others languish?

If you knew what they knew you'd be on the fast track to success too!

Let's get right to the point. Is it "Insider Information", are they lucky or are they just in the right place at the right time? Answer: Yes! Yes to all three in fact!

The have inside information, everyone is lucky (even while most state they are not) and they purposely put themselves in the right place at the right time. Let me explain. Insider Information is the key to this blog because we are all lucky from time to time, proving we are in fact lucky. After you realize you have been lucky in the past, then you can create you own luck in the future, at will, whenever you need it. It's been said that luck is nothing more than perspiration meeting preparation and if that is true and we believe it is, then yes, you can create your own luck, and you can create it at your own, on demand so to speak!

As far as being in the right place at the right time, do you believe in fate, faith, karma, any of those? Most of us do in some form. Great, then you'd have to admit that we are all in the right place at the right time, at least in the moment. So again, if you have been in the right place before, you can purposely put yourself in the right place at the right time (your time) in the future. If that is true, and we believe that it is, then you can put your focus on the Insider Information. Before we look at that for the rest of this blog, just realize that for you to put yourself in the "right place" at the "right time", you have to know what you want and then, and only then, will the planets align for you to start creating opportunity, and the kind you want!

What happens here then, why are we in search of these right places and luck? That's not a very good ROE (return on Energy). If you knew what you were passionate about and you knew what your vision what your life was (if you do great, if not pretend you do for just a moment) then my guess is that you would want to be known as an expert in that field of endeavour. So what's the secret? And why don't you have it yet? What have you been doing instead (lack of focus)? Who's been derailing you (you)? Why do you let this continue (Not sure what to do)? How long have you been this way? How long will you let this hold you back?

We have hundreds of coaches available to help you in these areas and with our Grants for business owners and Rebates for individuals or families there's no longer a good reason to wait!

Is it good to have Insider Information? Is it good to know secrets? Is it helpful to have cheat sheets? Is it good to bust myths? In our society the way these questions are asked, combined with the past conditioning we have for the way these are portrayed (as bad), then we believe, or at least think, that insider information is a bad thing. The term Insider Information was made most negative in the context of the Stock Market when brokers or agents let out confidential stock tips of selling or possible sales of stock leaked before other should know.

Sorry, cal it what you will, right or wrong many people get VERY rich with this insider trading information. Do I condone that? No, but to illustrate why the information is such strong LEVERAGE I felt compelled to relate it to my story. Now lets get to the real point of this article.

If you are a interested in improving your life, being financially free (at least financially stable)a life-long learner, a student of enlightenment, interested in self-help, self-improvement or transformation, then you DEFINITELY want the insider information. Let me explain.

I've been involved with transformational learning, experiential learning, coaching people and using the power of the positive human spirit for the betterment of people and families for almost two full decades, 17 years to be exact. Now let me ask you, would you want all my insider information, OR would you rather slog it out yourself spending years and thousands to learn what I have learned only to end up in the exact same spot as I am, but it would be 17 years later in your life? Why RE-CREATE the wheel? I've committed my entire life to be the expert in this field, honestly so you don't have to be, and so YOU can benefit from my life's work.

That's Insider Info I wish I had in 1990 when I started, but it didn't exist back then. There was very little enlightenting information back then (there was the bible - but no transformational detailed information) but there is an abundance of that info today, too much now in fact. Why I say too much is because the purveyors of this information are not packaging it very well at all.

We are overrun with the information, theoretically, but few are offering practical "How To" apply this material information. And when they do, it is NOT very systematic at all. It's lumped together in a hodge-podge of cliche quotes and ideas, but it is NOT often packaged in a methodical way, a from here to there assembly of facts and defacto standards of how to take FULL ADVANTAGE of the materials available. That's where coaching comes in!

Even with coaching, there are many wannabe's that just hang a shingle in this unregulated industry. As long as they are one step ahead of you they feel that they are qualified to coach you. How spooky given the wreck of a life that many of them are entangled in. What to do now?

There are two paths that will get you there, wherever there is for you. The first is the conventional path, and if you know me then by now you know I think conventional wisdom SUCKS! The conventional way is exactly the way my mentor Brian Tracy put it: "Read for just 15 minutes a day and with just five years you will be an expert in your fiend and for ten years and you will be a world renowned expert in your field." Brian is right, and his wisdom is profound and proven, and in this case, the Insider Information will cut the time down DRAMATICALLY.

The second way is to have a mentor or coach and LEVERAGE everything they have learned to your advantage. In my nearly 20 years of learning, there are probably a dozen, maybe a dozen and a half of actual teachings that I use personally, build into ALL my coaching programs because they are so profound and impactful, but it took all those years to learn, plus tens of thousands of dollars! Why not take advantage of that insider information and use it to your advantage ASAP, instead of it costing years of effort and $20,000 or more?

Many of our clients, past and present, speak about one of the greatest values and benefits of coaching is to get what they want faster! What better way then to suck the brains dry of every coach, master coach, speaker, trainer and curriculum developer you can find? And because I am recognized as one of the best at this in coaching, you get to take full advantage of me by getting involved with our coaching programs. It was my choice to make this my career and passion for my life, so I strongly suggest you take full advantage of that and me and get every bit of leverage you can, take all the inside information you can get from me, my team and my coaches!

To Your Greater Success!

Thanx…Coach Steve
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Don’t tolerate this in your life! Our certified and extremely experienced coaches are masters at helping folks just like you. They deliver our coaching system consistently and with ease. You won’t even recognize yourself after being coached with us. We expect you will be happier, healthier and on your way to becoming financially free once you start your journey with us. And the only thing holding you back right now is you!

So, here is an offer that we think even you would say “I’d have to be absolutely crazy not to take you up on this offer and solve this challenge in my life once and for all.

About Coach Steve

Steve is also a multiple book Author (5 at this time), Handbook Author (24 at this time), Home Learning Course Creator (4 at this time), Speaker, Trainer and Master Certified Coach himself, a product of the product, and most proud to be a Coaching Curriculum Developer, changing thousands, if not millions, of lives for the better with his materials. He has coaches people for nearly two decades and has amassed over 20,000 hours of coaching individuals and businesses!

Certified in 12 different coaching distinctions, Coach Steve’s books are best-sellers and his materials have been translated into multiple languages and are available in over 100 countries!

Visit Coach Steve at www.stevekeough.com or call 1-888-341-Coach (2622).

Enrollment AND Registration

2008-10-06T10:05:00.000-07:00

Enrollment AND Registration

By

Steven L. Keough a.k.a. Coach Steve (MC², MBA)

Wouldn't it be cool to be able to get help with anything?

After you read this blog post that is exactly what will be possible for you!

Have you ever wished that you could get help from the people you know to get some things done? Whether they are small tasks like getting book pages edited, or having your Virtual Assistant deal with your book Publisher or as huge as accomplishing parts of your vision for your life, wouldn't it just be nice to have a little help? Well you can get that help after you read this entire blog posting, but first what is Enrollment and Registration?

The first thing to notice is that it is a TWO PART process. You cannot complete the enrollment process with someone unless you enroll them AND register them too. But registration is just the transactional part of the process. What that means is securing someone to help you requires them to be "enrolled" in what you are up to, and then the registration process could be as simple as them saying yes or something more sophisticated.

In the case of coaching (life coaching, business coaching, executive coaching or career coaching) someone must sign up for membership and that is the registration portion of coaching, but first they have to be interested/motivated. That interest or motivation or a thousand other words for it is the enrollment portion of it. Enrollment is a nice word, it sounds good and it indicates a pleasureful experience. Webster's say to enroll is "to become a member of." So if I asked you to help me rake my huge back yard (enrollment) and you said yes (registration) the process would be complete. I'd be psyched that yard would be done too!

That was an easy example, not too much at risk other than a blister or two and maybe a sore back. But what if I asked 320 people to join (enroll) us as GAP's (Global Affiliate Partners), then there would be much more to it and I'd have to explain the program, the tools, the support, etc, then ask if they were interested and if yes (registration) they would take action, in this case complete a GAP Application and send it off to our Straight Forward Coaching Affiliate Manager for approval. The bigger the game the more that is involved with registrations.

Why doesn't that usually happen for you?

Well, one reason could be in the way you are asking (or being) and the other could be, that unknown to you, you've been labeled "A Taker". In other words, your friends family members, co-workers and associates think "all you ever do" is take, take, take! Not too cool.

And/or, they are tired of you and don't want to participate in anything you do anymore, and in extreme cases not only don't want to hear about it, but under their breath they may actually hope you fail. That's so you'll stop bothering (taking) from them. Ouch, what does that say about you? In two words "selfish taker", but we want and need to remain as selfless givers, so then how do we get our needs met and how do others help us? All of us know takers in our lives and none of us really like them too much, do we? So why would you think then if you were a taker that the opposite would happen and people would ALWAYS want to help and you EXPECT it. That is YOUR ego hard at work my friends.

Life is lonely without: a loving relationship in the form of a significant other, supportive family members, great friends and many friends, or at least a really committed inner circle of friends and because we are human; coworkers, occasional friends and associates. Why this often occurs is that you are overdosing YOURSELF on pride (not the best of traits) rather than being humble. Humility is one of the best traits, values or characteristics of humanity, but sadly most are NOT really good at it, or even understand it's true impact on your life. Lose the pride!

Have you heard the phrase "You catch more bees with honey." Of course you have, but the inference here is that by being humble (definition: not proud, not assertive, to lessen or obliterate pride, to show your defects) rather than full "being"of pride (definition: an overly high opinion of self, arrogance, best of class, contempt for others). Your "beingness", while not really a true word, but in coaching we use it as a verb; they way you are being. Based on the two definitions provided a sentence or two ago, which would you rather be? In the well know coaching model of "be, do have" it all starts with "be" or "being", which is what we call YOUR beingness. If you are being prideful (above) it won't further your cause(s) while other avoid you. However, if you are being humble, others will get what you are up too and possibly want in.

Your Vision for your life is the best example. Let me explain. Your requests of them (friends, family, etc.) have to be bigger than you yourself. I'm very clear that if I ask my team for my selfish things they likely won't help me either, and worse they will feel that I am lazy and or out of integrity and say "NO" because this is self serving. But if they see the request is for a client being coached, or an animal in distress that our SPCA donation could help, or that a 5 year old in Haiti will have clean water, before I'm even done enrolling and or registering they ask "How can I help?". It's magical! Enrollment AND Registration are powerful tools in one's life.

If this seems foreign or possibly tough to learn or convert your evil ways so to speak, then you may need your own personal and private coach to help you do this life altering, profound work. An offer will be made to you at the end, so for now stay focused on the topic and keep reading on please. The offer will be there, so this is no time to thin about joining coaching.

Relationships are critical for success. EVERYTHING you need or want from life is going to come to you from SOMEONE ELSE! How will you get help, expand on the help, broaden your horizons, and in the end succeed by yourself? It's not possible really, at least if you want to be satisfied with life too. Sure you could be a lone ranger and get "rich" (meaning only the money part), but your life can't get rich (not the money) or wealthy (not the money) when you only stay in your own cave (by yourself) and don't fully interact with others in life.

So your vision is best if it is bigger than you. Such as our Contribution to the world in the form of supporting and financially helping the SPCA or Drinking Water for Kids foundations. Anyone that may get emotional or be emotional about those causes in naturally inspired to ask "How can I help?" And so you wan to create natural enrollments by people asking how can I help in the ways in which would help your cause(s). They act natural and gravitate toward you when they are either inspired, emotionally moved about a cause or touched in some way. Touched, moved or inspired by the cause or vision to correct something, an injustice maybe, and naturally motivated to want to help, so the enrollment is easy and the registration is painless.

If you are struggling to enroll people then you simply are not pushing their emotional buttons, you are not touching, not moving or not inspiring them at all. It's possible this happens due to a lack of authenticity or forced authenticity. When you inspire from the heart to the heart it is automatic. When you force it, it doesn't work. So the best thing to do is to create your vision and tell everyone (attempt to enroll everyone) and for those who feel it is a fit, they will allow you to enroll them or they'll enroll themselves by asking "How can I help?" And in either case you will register them. If your message doesn't resonate they won't enroll themselves or perhaps at all and that is okay too. Our stuff is not for everyone.

And, don't be surprised at the lengths that some people will go to heckle you or your messages in a selfish attempt to derail you that comes from their upsetness or anger that you are the chosen one, that you are succeeding, or that you are courageous enough o take the stand that they would if they had a spine. And in some cases they will trash your name, drag you through the mud and attempt to distract you from your successes - IF YOU LET THEM! So, don't and remember small people play small games and their insecurities make their results mediocre. You don't want to be hanging around in that crowd, even if it is a family member. Move on!

Whatever your idea, your vision, your passion, or your cause, take the stretch exercise and go out and enroll 10 people in what you are up to. And whatever the percentage, say 70% (7 of 10) will follow your journey, then expect that at 100, 1000 and 1,000,000! Take the challenge enroll and register 10 people in what you are up to and let us know how you make out!! Be well.

To Your Greater Success!

Coach Steve

A Unique Opportunity

A Special Offer

Don’t tolerate this in your life! Our certified and extremely experienced coaches are masters at helping folks just like you. They deliver our coaching system consistently and with ease. You won’t even recognize yourself after being coached with us. We expect you will be happier, healthier and on your way to becoming financially free once you start your journey with us. And the only thing holding you back right now is you!

So, here is an offer that we think even you would say “I’d have to be absolutely crazy not to take you up on this offer and solve this challenge in my life once and for all.

About Coach Steve

Steven L. Keough or Coach Steve as he prefers is the Founder & CEO of his coaching company Straight Forward Coaching, an Internationally recognized coaching enterprise. Coach Steve operates four very busy companies: of course Straight Forward Coaching, CoachingProducts.org (North America), CoachingProductsInternational.org (Overseas Operations and Non-English Speaking Products), and finally Business Coach Alliance for the training of coaches to be better certified coaches. Yes, we actually train many of the coaches that most organizations will hire.

Steve is also a multiple book Author (5 at this time), Handbook Author (24 at this time), Home Learning Course Creator (4 at this time), Speaker, Trainer and Master Certified Coach himself, a product of the product, and most proud to be a Coaching Curriculum Developer, changing thousands, if not millions, of lives for the better with his materials. He has coaches people for nearly two decades and has amassed over 20,000 hours of coaching individuals and businesses!

Certified in 12 different coaching distinctions, Coach Steve’s books are best-sellers and his materials have been translated into multiple languages and are available in over 100 countries!

Visit Coach Steve at http://www.stevekeough.com/ or call 1-888-341-Coach (2622).

What No Money in the World?

2008-09-29T12:50:00.000-07:00

A World with NO MONEY??? (aka "the United States near banking failure")

By

Steven L. Keough a.k.a. Coach Steve (MC², MBA)

In a world with no money, what would people strive for, what would be their goal?

Purity: Pure Joy and Happiness!

Assume for a moment that barter or trading is out too in addition to no money exchange. In fact the whole transaction or exchanging of goods or services is removed for just a moment to investigate what's at the bottom of people's motives if pursuit of the almighty dollar isn't life?

Then what would people's search for be? My guess would be the search for happiness. Or the search for tranquility. Or the search for peace, joy and harmony, however you would use the term "Happiness." Wouldn't you agree that the search for "true meaning" would be the search for personal satisfaction, personal joy, personal love and personal pleasure or Happiness!

But isn't that what life should be even with money, "The Pursuit of Happiness"? Yes the pursuit of happiness WITHOUT the agony of defeat as ABC Sports declared on EVERY sporting event it televised for about a decade, so it got burned into our memories. Or maybe being "Healthy, Wealthy and Wise." Notice that Healthy is first, not stressed out as so many people are over money and many other things too. Next is wealthy. but not necessarily money wealthy, but overall wealthy, as in "A Wealth of Knowledge." and after you have those two, then you are wise? Interesting Healthy is first. It's pretty hard to be happy without being healthy isn't it? And what makes us healthy? A perfect balance of many, many things in life.

In any case, call it what you will but it seems most people want a "Balanced Life." I say it for branding purposes as Happy, Healthy and Financially Free at Straight Forward Coaching, we truly believe we can advance our clients on all three fronts on every single coaching session. It could be personal coaching, life coaching, business coaching or free coaching!

But without money, how would people get rich? Well that is a subjective word too. Rich in money or a "rich life"? A Rich Life could include money and wealth and financial freedom, but doesn't require it. Without money to chase, what would you commit to, promise or set as goals? Exactly, to be happy. With money out of the way it becomes painfully obvious that happiness is what is NORMAL. A Life Coach, a Business Coach, a Career Coach or an Executive Coach all face this topic with clients at one stage or another. And the seminar companies like Peak Potentials Training nicely blend elements of life such as happiness, confidence, joy, peacefulness, etc. into their programs too.

Les Brown speaks about being happy all the time when he tells his stories as a motivational speaker through the coaching world. We have many a business coach alliance with these kind of joint ventures and we hardly, if ever, talk about money, we talk about changing the world. Being in service to others, making a difference, and the money happens as a result of the efforts. It's our vision because it makes us happy, or makes me happy.

If coaching would improve the chances of your being more happy, you should look into it. Very often our clients complete their coaching happier than when they started, and many also end up healthier and wiser too. Some even end up with more money, but we're not supposed to be talking about that just yet, remember money doesn't exist for this article! But the fact is that coaching produces results, amazing results, that you may not have attained otherwise. That' the job of the coach, delivering on your desires, the things that you want now.

I often as my clients "If you had all the time and money in the world, what would you do?"So for this exchange, I'll ask "If you had all the time in the world what would you do?", remembering money doesn't exist. I can hear you all saying "I'd do whatever makes me happy." Good, what is that? Aren't you asking yourself that anyway? What makes you happy? Make your list NOW!

What makes you happy?

Others in your life may not be happy, so ask them, "What makes you happy Tim?" What makes you happy Linda? What makes you happy kids? What makes you happy Dad? Spread the love, ask the tough question. Start with you though. If you can't answer the fundamental question about what makes you happy, you may never be happy, or you'll be happy less because you are not focused on you and your happiness, perhaps you are focused on someone else and what will make them happy? Maybe they are hardly ever happy, then how could you possibly be happy?

Take 30 minutes for yourself, look inside, make your lists or get the help of a great coach!

To Your Greater Success!

Thanx…SLK

A Unique Opportunity

How can we help with this? As you may know, I have set up a worldwide organization of coaches to assist people with the most persistent of challenges. These coaches have been hand picked by me, personally trained by myself as well and are held to the highest possible standards of delivery. You don’t have to go it alone and you don’t need to be ashamed or embarrassed about these challenges. We all face challenges! The question is “What will you do about it?” And we are here to help make sure you are Happier, Healthier and Financially FREE!

A Special Offer

So, here is an offer that we think even you would say “I’d have to be absolutely crazy not to take you up on this offer and solve this challenge in my life once and for all.

About Coach Steve

Steven L. Keough or Coach Steve as he prefers is the Founder & CEO of his coaching company Straight Forward Coaching, an Internationally recognized coaching enterprise. Coach Steve operates four very busy companies: of course Straight Forward Coaching, CoachingProducts.org (North America), CoachingProductsInternational.org (Overseas Operations and Non-English Speaking Products), and finally Business Coach Alliance for the training of coaches to be better certified coaches. Yes, we actually train many of the coaches that most organizations will hire.

Steve is also a multiple book Author (5 at this time), Handbook Author (24 at this time), Home Learning Course Creator (4 at this time), Speaker, Trainer and Master Certified Coach himself, a product of the product, and most proud to be a Coaching Curriculum Developer, changing thousands, if not millions, of lives for the better with his materials. He has coaches people for nearly two decades and has amassed over 20,000 hours of coaching individuals and businesses!

Certified in 12 different coaching distinctions, Coach Steve’s books are best-sellers and his materials have been translated into multiple languages and are available in over 100 countries! He'll take your questions at coachsteve@stevekeough.com and answer every one.

Visit Coach Steve at www.stevekeough.com or call 1-888-341-Coach (2622).

Recession Proofing or Recession Free?

2008-09-22T17:01:00.000-07:00

Recession Proofing or Recession Free?

By

Steven L. Keough a.k.a. Coach Steve (MC², MBA)

With the United States Economy in turmoil, affecting the world economy, should you be recession proofing or recession free? What do I mean by that? Well, in my lifetime (now I know I'm getting old by saying that) there have been three sets of economic upticks and downturns.

What have I learned about the three sets? First, they come in sets of "ups" and "downs". So the good news there is every time there has been bad times they have been followed by good times, so no need to worry. Second, all three have centered around major election years so it a coincidence or a conspiracy. Well I think it is a coinkydink, but all the while the politicians are so full of crap, talking about what "they" will do. What they'll do when elected is ride it out, then claim they made a HUGE difference, what a load of horseh**. Then what can you do, what is the only true solution?

Ultimately it is to be recession free. How do you accomplish that? Well to be financially free, meaning to have enough money that the skyrocketing costs of gas, food and utilities catch your attention (on the news or in the papers) but they don't make a dramatic impact on you or your life. It's like when you go to a very fancy restaurant, there are no prices, just the entrees. If you price looked to decide what to eat, you'd eat chicken every day, the same with gas and utilities. If you are focused on the three and there prices you are not focused on something else and besides, that is living the life of scarcity. Rather, there is gas, there is food and there are utilities I can purchase, so to make my life more comfortable or opulent, I'm buying them regardless of cost.

Forget recession proofing, that's a sales tactic, it's already here upon you (if you believe in that). Rather, make your life recession free. In other words, you create your own economy that won't be affected by a world power's recession, threat thereof, or impact from it. There's only one thing that solves a recession anyway and that's consumer confidence and spending.

Plain and simple, when consumer confidence is high, we buy more junk. When we buy more the economy benefits from the added buying in taxes, jobs, and more confidence, so people buy even more and bigger ticket items or junk. Plain and simple we the people are the economy!

You are a "people", yes? So if the people create the economy, create your own economics. Be a leader, and don't follow what the Hippocratic politicians would like you to believe it so they can secure your vote with fear, if you are American. Don't be worrying about things that are not going to happen. Stay focused on creating your own life, your own passive income, your own multiple income streams which all ends up being your own economic security.

The first place to start is by getting your finances under control, then creating your financial security or stability plan, then the march toward financial freedom. The problem is that most people never take step one: getting your finances under control and that's where a coach comes in to help. Perhaps even a Financial Coach may be needed if the debt load is big ($10K to 40K) or even a credit counselor if you are $50K or worse in the hole with short term debts like many credit cards. What's your personal economy like if you have 9 credit cards (the average these day) with and average balance of $8,546 on each card or -$76,914 (ouch).

If you are living on your cards you are killing your economy and may never dig out. The interest alone on that balance at even as low as 6% (which nobody can get these days) is $4,614, a killer number for many. Can you see that this will NEVER work? Good, then stop being a victim and start thinking about how to change this mess and move forward and if you are tunnel-visioned now on only the eminent doom ahead, especially now that filing for bankruptcy is so much harder, then you'll need assistance from a personal coach, business coach or financial coach. Someone you can trust to help you create the disciplines necessary to stop the bleeding.

The pressures that get created when an individual sabotages their own finances affects EVERY area of your life in a negative way. It affects your happiness, your relationships, your fun, your attitude, your confidence, your children, your friends, EVERYONE and EVERY THING! So get help from a coach who can get you corrected and back on track. It's possible and has been done before but you will need to reach down deep and alter the bad habits that somehow got created.

There's no time for delays or research. Every day is you have debt it gets deeper, harder to climb out underneath from and the interest rates are killing you. And the worst part is your bank and or credit card vendors want you right there - that's their sweet spot. Have you noticed the profits these guys pull down? It's in the Billions with a "B"! So they know EXACTLY what they are doing, how to get you in that spot, and worse KEEP YOU THERE!

Enough isn't it? You must now take the first bold step in creating your won economics! That starts with Phase I: Getting your spending under control, only investing in things that you can't do yourself or get yourself and those things should appreciate in value or money, creating more money for you in the end. You have a choice in the matter of investing in yourself and your future or not. So:

Invest wisely!

To Your Greater Success!

Thanx… Coach Steve

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So what’s the lesson here? The lesson is you don’t have to tolerate this any longer! Please, learn from other people’s failures by leveraging their painful lessons to your advantage so you don’t have to endure this hardship for another second. You can avoid many of the common mistakes almost every single person makes by having a coach nearby to help you navigate life. You are at a crossroad if you have read down this far. Don’t bail on yourself now. Take Action!

About Coach Steve

Steven L. Keough or Coach Steve as he prefers is the Founder & CEO of his coaching company Straight Forward Coaching, an Internationally recognized coaching enterprise. Coach Steve operates four very busy companies: of course Straight Forward Coaching, CoachingProducts.org (North America), CoachingProductsInternational.org (Overseas Operations and Non-English Speaking Products), and finally Business Coach Alliance for the training of coaches to be better certified coaches. Yes, we actually train many of the coaches that most organizations will hire.

Steve is also a multiple book Author (5 at this time), Handbook Author (24 at this time), Home Learning Course Creator (4 at this time), Speaker, Trainer and Master Certified Coach himself, a product of the product, and most proud to be a Coaching Curriculum Developer, changing thousands, if not millions, of lives for the better with his materials. He has coaches people for nearly two decades and has amassed over 20,000 hours of coaching individuals and businesses!
Certified in 12 different coaching distinctions, Coach Steve’s books are best-sellers and his materials have been translated into multiple languages and are available in over 100 countries!

Visit Coach Steve at www.stevekeough.com or call 1-888-341-Coach (2622).

Decisions - Decisions!

2008-09-15T11:28:00.000-07:00

Decisions - Decisions!

By

Steven L. Keough a.k.a. Coach Steve (MC², MBA)

What's the power of "a" decision and does it matter?

I would venture to say that if you made really smart decisions in your life, that your life would go from good to great, would you agree? If you answered "yes", lets get started. If you answered less than yes, perhaps "maybe" or "no", you made need the assistance of a coach in your life. This is no time to procrastinate about what life has in store for you, time is wasting!

Recently I wrote about questions and how questions are critical to the success of our lives. For coaches, the questions are the path to understanding. We drill down on almost everything our clients say searching for meaning, hidden meaning and false meaning (cover ups). I cautioned those who might not be asking the right questions (playing too small) who come up with the right answers to those "wrong" (limiting) questions. On the other hand, playing bigger and asking really tough questions, and answering those, has you in the driver seat of a fun life! Our goal of course is for you to be happier, healthier and financially free too!

When you read about questions, it may have seemed like we were dealing in the world of the micro (small picture), however, we were actually dealing in the world of the macro (big picture) as it relates to decisions or choices. Decisions now assuming the world of the macro (could have many choices inside of the decision) vs. the micro, looking at choices in our lives. Let's look!

Here's where a get a bit philosophical. Life is nothing more than thousands and thousands of choices. That's all it is. I said thousands and thousands but it could be millions and millions or zillions and zillions, there's really no end to it. But those choices, added together to form a life, could have and likely have had some major impact on your life, where you are TODAY and most importantly where YOU are headed TOMORROW. Wouldn't you agree? (that's a choice)

Let's look at that statement. If you CHOSE yes and agreed there would be one outcome. And, oppositely, if you disagreed there would be another outcome wouldn't there? And that is the power of choice. Choice is huge in our lives, even though most of them are macro. Two examples I observed from just yesterday of other people (I love to watch other people make choices). To me it is fascinating how unconscious people are with their own lives and what goes on around them. Read these two and be sure that you are not unconscious walking through life!

Most of you know, I reside outside Vancouver, and yesterday I went to Ambleside Park in the affluent community of West Vancouver to be part of the annual SPCA walk to raise money to prevent the cruelty to animals. Just so happened I watched a woman and her family do the walk, regular people I guess, husband, wife, two kids, two dogs, pretty typical. While some were walking I took the beach route and noticed hundreds of big, beautiful purple starfish on the beach and others noticed too because that's not that common of an occurrence. You see them here and there, but not hundreds all clustered together. See the picture in your head please.

Well after the walk, the very same woman who was walking to prevent cruelty came into the adjacent coffee shop and in her husband's ball cap she had two of the purple starfish from the shore. Now I love the oceans and I have over 350 scuba dives under my belt, so I couldn't conceive of the same person walking to save one animal and unconsciously killing another at the very same time. Unconscious or selfish choice?

It's West Van, go buy your own starfish! Anyway, I have a sneaking suspicion that the underlying cause of her selfishness was caused by abundance, perhaps what she saw as over abundance, and further thought well "taking" one or two of a thousand starfish who cares? Well the starfish for one (our two)? Had that been the only purple starfish on the beach and everyone looked at it in marvel, would she have taken it? Then what "entitled" her to be so selfish?

The true answer will never be known, but that was a choice she made. She also taught her kids that ending life and robbing the ocean is okay, and that was her choice too. She lived with a man who allowed it too, it's like that was her choice too if you know what I mean. And she had no remorse obviously for her selfishness, which of course too was a choice. I understand this is very judgmental of me, and that is my choice in all of this. I chose my choice to relate to you, and my filters could be all wrong too. She could have a monster fish tank at home and they might be better off there? I just struggled with the duality of raises money for one and killing the other.

That choice could be life (to the monster tank) or death (dry them out for decorations). But whatever the end result, do you see the power of her choice good or bad? I'm most certain you do. Now another short example. This one's a factoid or a "Did you know" kind of example.

Did you know that if there were a fire in a building and people yelled "Help!" that almost nobody would help them. And in a fire if someone yells "Fire!" almost everyone runs to the rescue? Why is that? It's because we, as people, don't want to get "involved." If you need help, there could be drama, and as a former associate of mine would say "You don't want to get any of that on you."

So what's the bottom line here, that if you are in a fire yell "Fire!" Well............ Ya, but there's obviously more to this blog than that. So what is choice? Many of you that know me know I am a dictionary freak and often look meanings up. In a world full of mutual mystification, I want to be certain that I am clear and understood. So without further ado, Webster's says its: 1. a selection, 2. the power to choose, 3. a person or thing chosen, 4. the best part, 5. a variety from which to choose and 6. an alternative. Well you pick what works best for you, I choose #2 for this blog.

Imagine that, even the choice of what choice means is a choice, huh. You may be asking yourself "So where are you going with this Coach Steve?" Well I wanted to point out that some choices are little like Ketchup or Mustard on your hot dog, and some are really, really important and far reaching. Like Scarcity or Abundance in YOUR Life? I'm not so concerned about your hot dog, so let's look at some tough dualities such as Happy or Not, Rich or Not, Healthy or Not, Committed or Not, Respected or Not, Integrity or Not, Career or Not, Relationship or Not, Children or Not, Passion or Not, Big Dreams or Not, Meaningful Work or Not, Travel or Not, you get the point.

Now I could have said Happy or Sad, Rich or Broke, Healthy or Fat, Committed or Lazy, Respected or Hated, Integrity or Lies, Career or Unsuccessful, Relationship or Alone, Children or Lonely, Passion or Passivity, Big Dreams or No Dreams, Meaningful work or lousy job, Travel or Stay Home. Why didn't I? Because everything is available to you in life as it is to me too!

You don't go for it! You play it safe. You may be in comfort zone. You don't dream. You think you aren't worthy. You play smaller than you know you can. You know you can, but you choose NOT. In the first example, such as Happy or Not, YOU keep choosing "Not" which makes you sad, but you are doing it to yourself, because you keep choosing "Not", or scarcity vs abundance.

That is the POWER of choice and the dramatic impact one wrong choice can have!

If you feel stuck or stooped in these basic choice groups, you MUST get yourself a coach to move you off that position, which you must already know does not server you or your family well at all.

Let's turn to positive. Imagine the choices some people have; Harvard or Stanford? Beachfront or High rise Condo? Mercedes or BMW? Cruise or Vacation? Greece or Spain? What are their choices like? What have they done different than you to "get to" make these choices (other than marry up)? Do you think they are lazy, unmotivated, stuck, angry, depressed, stopped, blaming, or that they even here or listen to the word "no" in their lives? Maybe, but I seriously doubt it.

What can you do inside your choices that would guarantee your success? Do you believe that whatever you put your mind to will occur? If yes, then what are you putting your mind too? If no, another vote for a coach. Because as Henry Ford whether you believe you will be a success or not, the answer is true, because we live into our belief system. That's why it is so important to examine our beliefs. If you belief was "Yes I can" vs "Not sure, or no I can't" then your choices would be a whole lot different now wouldn't they? Let me give you an example.

I most ALWAYS make my clients start with "declaring their Vision." Why? Because a huge percentage of us don't have one, and without one, then any direction will do. Do you think Warren Buffet would be where he was today with a vision of what he wanted to get from the Stock Market (the most volatile choices on the planet)? How about Bill Gates without direction, or Colin Powell without plans, or Oprah? Be serious will you, these are example of street smart people, not scholars who charted a course, albeit an uncharted course in the beginning, and now they look like heroes and some are, and it all started from their choices, pivotal choices.

They all had great reasons to quit, but they didn't. And you have great reasons to quit too. How do I know? Because we all have great reasons to quit, but your choices will either make you a fighter or a flighter, a dreamer or a doer, a winner or a loser, successful or mediocre, financially free or worried about the price of gas, food and utilities. This is your choice as it was theres'.

Are you looking at your choices (not your options), are you paying attention to whether your choices get you closer to or further from what you want? If they aren't good choices, make different choices, that's the beauty of choice, you can choose again, and again and again until you get it right, if you know how to get it right. If you don't again, you may need assistance. In coaching we realize that you are the expert of your life, but we are the expert of the process and when we marry the two you get the benefit of both, which adds up to an amazing life and all of that comes from a choice. A choice to be coached or a choice to avoid being coached.

It's your call now. It's up to you! You've read about choice and choices, and your time to act is now and the moment is here to make the best choice. Ready, set...

To Your Greater Success!

Thanx…SLK

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So, here is an offer that we think even you would say “I’d have to be absolutely crazy not to take you up on this offer and solve this challenge in my life once and for all.

About Coach Steve

Steven L. Keough or Coach Steve as he prefers is the Founder & CEO of his coaching company Straight Forward Coaching, an Internationally recognized coaching enterprise. Coach Steve operates four very busy companies: of course Straight Forward Coaching, CoachingProducts.org (North America), CoachingProductsInternational.org (Overseas Operations and Non-English Speaking Products), and finally Business Coach Alliance for the training of coaches to be better certified coaches. Yes, we actually train many of the coaches that most organizations will hire.

Steve is also a multiple book Author (5 at this time), Handbook Author (24 at this time), Home Learning Course Creator (4 at this time), Speaker, Trainer and Master Certified Coach himself, a product of the product, and most proud to be a Coaching Curriculum Developer, changing thousands, if not millions, of lives for the better with his materials. He has coaches people for nearly two decades and has amassed over 20,000 hours of coaching individuals and businesses! Certified in 12 different coaching distinctions, Coach Steve’s books are best-sellers and his materials have been translated into multiple languages and are available in over 100 countries!

Visit Coach Steve at www.stevekeough.com or call 1-888-341-Coach (2622).

The Right Questions

2008-09-08T10:31:00.000-07:00

The Right Questions

By

Steven L. Keough a.k.a. Coach Steve (MC², MBA)

Who is challenging you with the "right" questions?

With a Life Coach (Personal Coaching) or Business Coach (Executive Coaching) on your side, I guarantee that you would be challenged by the "RIGHT" questions that a personal coach would be asking you. If I, Steve Keough, were your coach, as in my Top Gun Program, you would be extremely challenged! Top Guns are the top 1% of the people in our coach program.

The "right" questions concern me when it comes to people achieving "ALL" that they want from life. The reason for that is because most people, a full 90%, under-achieve. It's not intentional for most of us, it's just a proven fact (by the scientific community) that we only produce about 10% of what we are capable of producing, but why is that? It's because of the questions we ask. They demand answers that don't really stretch us to be all we can be.

Most of us are "playing to small", meaning there are both bigger and better things we could be achieving, but because we self govern in our freedom based society we play it safe and shoot for comfortable little accomplishments. And the worst part is that your very own brain plays a part in this. Your brain is hard-wired to protect you and keep you right where you are - in your comfort zone. So the brain panics when it thinks about stretching, especially really big stretches.

It's easy to play is safe and let your centurion (your brain) talk you out of certain things. For instance bungee jumping. That's a huge stretch for most, but you may first think either a. that is exciting or b. that's friggin nuts! In either case, you are willing to entertain the possibility of doing the jump. This is very significant too. Because how you do anything is how you do everything, so if you are completely shut off to doing it, that tells me you are limiting yourself in other areas too. And the part of your brain that rationalizes, right now is saying "He is nuts."

Perhaps I am, but I am very happy, very healthy and financially free, how about you? Now I'm not being sarcastic or braggadocios, because I wasn't always H,H&FF. There were many stretches over my eight year working on self span that I said "No way I'm doing that" then did every one. I wasn't crazy about all of them either, but I grew immensely from them all.

So what's this really about this questions trickery? It's about YOU being all you can be and YOU getting EVERYTHING you want from life, realizing nobody is going to hand it to you, YOU are going to have to do the work. And that work starts with the RIGHT questions. Now these questions are different for everyone, because each person is their own individual, so we put people through a series of steps (curriculum) of training-coaching, that opens them up to something different, something bigger, something bolder, something that will stretch YOU!

A "Stretch" as they are called is meaningless if it is too small. A stretch is designed to get you out of your comfort zone (or death zone as I call it) and have you play at a different level. You see once you stretch yourself, however you stretch, you can't go back to the old you because know YOU KNOW you are capable of more, so the trick is to find the next stretch.

We should always be stretching, but that's a challenge too, because again your centurion wants you to stay on the coach in comfort (and watch the world go by). So you may have to "Trick Yourself into Success." My good friend and fellow coach Peter Kraus (he coached me for a while too) explained why this brain trickery was so necessary. In short, because we are hard-wired to stay small and protected, we have to fake our brain out in order to move past most mediocrity. We have to conciously beat the system, by taking bold and courageous steps.

Because the brain cannot tell the different between the truth or a lie, you can lie to it as a measure of getting what you want, or trickery. But it will mess with you - that protective brain.

For instance, you think well I don't really want to Bungee Jump, but I've played it safe my whole life, so damn it, I'm gonna jump. The night before the jump you might not sleep because your brain is working overtime to stop (limit) you. The morning of, the brain involves the body and you shake nervously a little bit, then when you pull in to the Bungee site your stomach sinks and you think I must be nuts to do this. And trust me, when you look down from that platform your brain will want you to crap a coconut! But your at a critical point in your life then, jump or don't?

Will you back down like you always have, the centurion wins, and you are jailed to a life of 10% and mediocrity or jump, scare the shat out of your brain and grow like never before? Your choice! Use it wisely. I use an extreme example like a bungee jump to get you to understand and see what I mean, but the brain does not know the difference between the stretch of jumping or the stretch of leaving a boring, uninspiring job (but the centurion still wants no changes for you).

Because we "Self-Govern" in this free world (other than breaking laws) we have "choices" so the only thing that can hold us back in this world is us. We are too smart for ourselves sometimes. The brain always sees everything as a risk and tolerates low level risks like crossing the street and messes with your head on supposed high level risks such as airplane travel. But the brain doesn't have all the facts in its irrational limiting of your life. For instance, on a typical long (3-day) weekend 50 people are killed in motor vehicle accidents, EVERY long weekend. In that same long weekend, airplanes have crashed only ONCE ever. But your brain worries more about a flight, or worse, creates FEAR (false evidence appearing real) where some wont even get on the plane at all. Yes I've had to go on a flight with some of my clients as life skills coaching!

You brain thinks it's better to keep going to your lousy job and paying the existing bills (which data shows 60% of people are over their heads in debt). Is that a trap or what? To me that is jail! But it is jail with bars only right in front of you, there is nothing to either side or the back, yet you sit imprisoned by your brain (doubts, worries & fears). As my good friend Cliff Yaguchi would say "Step Left." Yes, step around it and continue your life, or sit in prison indefinitely.

What are the best questions? Well too many for a blog for sure, but I can tell you this, we know that anyone and everyone who goes though our system has to navigate what I can the "21 Building Blocks of Success" and if you would like a copy of the handout for this, simply email me for a complimentary copy. When you have navigated all 21 building blocks, you will have asked yourselves hundreds of questions, the right questions, and some many times over. But at the end of the day, you are a step closer to the life of your dreams rather than behind the self-imposed bars or brain imposed bars. It's tough to do without help and support.

It is not easy to trick yourself into success because it takes a whole new level of discipline and many people who come into our coaching programs don't have any level of discipline, never mind a whole new, stronger level of conviction, designed to trick their brains into shattering the limits.

You may need an action coach, or a career coach or a life skills coach for this. Perhaps a free coaching session could help you? Or maybe a few coaching products or self help books to get that straight forward coaching you desire. I'd be remiss if I didn't remind you that Grants are available for businesses and Rebates are available for individuals and families. It's not likely you get rich quick, an executive business coaching program may be needed or life coaching may be needed to help you break through to the next level and leave the jail bars behind. Choose!

Imagine all the ways that you could benefit if you were able to control your brain in such a way that you could shut it off on demand as needed, not permanently, because there are times when you need it to protect you and you don't want to lose that safety. But at certain times, such as when you are making promises to yourself, making commitments to others and setting stretch goals for your life, those would be the ideal to put the brain machinery into neutral.

So I ask you again. "Who will ask you the RIGHT questions?" You see the way you are going now, you may answer all the wrong questions correctly rather than asking all the right (more difficult) questions of yourself. It's not likely you'll do that by yourself at all, and even if you did, you likely wont get it right as this is a practice that requires guidance and familiarity to get it right. So who will help you? Who will stretch you to the NEXT level? Who knows the right questions to ask? Who will hold you to the answers after you are questioned, especially when your brain gets involved and starts making everything safe and secure, limiting the heck out of everything you want from life. Are you capable of more? I'd venture to say yes. Do you care? Who will hold you 100% Accountable and not tolreate excuses or BS?

That only you can answer, However, if you answered YES, then you realize there is more to life than you have experienced and there is more to life that you desire. How will you get all that? You may benefit from coaching, but if you answered yes, you must try something different. The last thing you want to be haunted with is a life of regrets. That is a jail sentence.

We all have "life-long intentions", things we have always wanted to do and if you have done ALL of them great, but if you haven't you may regret that later. If you are living a life of happiness, health and financial freedom and that is your result CONSISTENTLY, you may have unlocked these lessons and are applying them to you life. Congratulations! If you haven't yet and your result is a mediocre existence, a little bit of money and infrequent moments of happiness, or worse a memory of happiness, not such great health and you are still pretty far away from financial freedom you absolutely must take action, then I would encourage you to now "step left!"

To Your Greater Success!

All the Best to YOU and your families…Coach SLK

ps.... Visit my website at www.stevekeough.com to request your copy of the 21 Building Blocks of Success.

Mind, Body & Spirit

2008-09-02T08:44:00.000-07:00

Mind, Body and Spirit
By
Steven L. Keough a.k.a. Coach Steve (MC², MBA)

Did You Rest, Relax and Rejuvenate over the Long Weekend?

Once you understand how important that is for your mind, body and spirit, and after some coaching perhaps, you'd learn to take a three day weekend EVERY weekend.

What would life be like if you were to work just Tuesday, Wednesday and half of Thursday, that's what I do! Why? The connection of the mind, body and spirit are so critically important to being happy that you have to do all that you can to feed your brain positive messages to STAY happier, healthier and financially free!

The connection between mind, body and spirit and rest, relax and rejuvenate is very interesting. The mind needs to rest, especially to continue to be creative. The body needs to relax for greater health and the spirit needs to rejuvenate, perhaps with a walk near a beach or in the woods, but you have to have time for that and not just work-work-work.

Let's first look at the mind and the rest. If you are in a business or work, such as mine, where the mind is used constantly thinking and creating, you must create environments of peace and tranquility to rest the mind. This is why so many writers head off to cabins to do their writings. I personally prefer the beach, but it is the lapping of the waves for me that gets me creating. Whether it is a cabin or the beach, the point here is that the restful environment is the space to create. Given you may not be a writer, your mind still needs rest for whatever you exercise it from in the course of a week, month and quarter to avoid burnout.

The burnout "feeling" comes from doing unfulfilling work, or non stop work, which both create pressure and the lack of fulfillment has you constantly asking why, taxing you brain and putting your mind into overwhelm, and then it screams for a break or rest.

The body acts similarly when you don't relax it properly. You get body aches for no reason, your joints aren't as limber and in some cases stiffen up, or you get mild cramping. This is your body calling out to you for a break. In extreme cases anxiety attacks and mild heart attacks can occur and in the worst case scenario a stroke could occur, which could be devastating. Bottom line; your body needs a break. This is why we are advised to only workout 4 or 5 days a week, to add some RECOVERY time into the mix. That is in essence what I mean when I say relax.

Some people go straight from working long and hard at work, to working on the yard, or working with the kids, or working a second job, or even third job??? I hope you have a plan for the cash from job two and or job three, otherwise that cash will be gone and you are killing yourself too!

Why do this? Why put your mind and your body through the turmoil? Wouldn't it make more sense to figure out a better or different way? Eventually your body will show you the signs of stopping this madness before your mind will. Your mind is just a machine that supports you along the way, it just runs with what you tell it to do, it doesn't know yes from no, do it don't do it, right from wrong. It just processes the info you give it and stores certain things away for later usage into your protective memory so it can be your guardian or centurion later.

The body however will "break down." It will work for you for so long and then rather than all out quit on you, it signals you to "slow down" as some people call it. Really it is saying relax, take a break, I need a break. And if you listen and in fact relax, you get to use it again, usually even stronger than before the relaxation, but if you don't relax, well that is another story isn't it.

And now spirit. Spirit or spirituality for me is co-creating. I believe in God (you could believe in Buddha or The Big Bang Theory or whatever you believe) so their is a higher power, the creator of my world. But I get to co-create! Why? Not in a Godlike way, but in a "this is my life" kind of way. I get to create my future but I am unable to do that with the best judgment and discernment unless I frequently rejuvenate my spirit. I have a happy go lucky spirit and when I don't take the time to rejuvenate, that happy go lucky spirit gets tired and sees negative things it otherwise doesn't see. Instead of seeing the forest and the trees, I might see the pine beetle devastation. Instead of seeing crystal clear streams, I see the trash on the banks, instead of looking out over the beach's horizon line, I see the smoke pollution from a boat's gas engine. I star to see the wrong things, the wrong orientation, which throws my spirit completely off.

Over this long FORCED weekend, I was conscious of all three things: resting, relaxing and rejuvenating. So what did I do? It doesn't have to be some doctor approved plan, just a variance in the work routines. For the rest portion I slept til 9 or 10am all three days instead of getting up at 530am as I usually do. The extra sleep does wonders for everything: body, mind, cells, skin, bones, organs, everything. That little adjustment was enough to get the added rest that I need. And how do I know? I woke up feeling stronger and stronger each day and today, Tuesday, I feel like Hercules, ready for any challenge; mental or physical, I am 100% ready to go!

How about relaxation? Well after about 20 hours on PS3 games, I also watched a few movies, had a bottle of wine with my sweetheart both Saturday and Sunday, went in the hot-tub each day and played with the dogs (three English Setters) and raked the dog run. All very much fun!

And for rejuvenation? When you are in the intellectual property business and you are the creator of the "property" the best thing you can do for your creativity is to walk away. So other than two emails I sent (because I don't even look at email during the 4.5 day weekends) which took maybe four minutes, I didn't work or think at all. And again I feel good about my first work task after the holiday, writing this blog post.

Many years of transformational work on myself (about eight actually) finally taught me what works for me and what doesn't. All of this is possible for you to as well. So either you learn this stuff on your own (which takes forever), or a coach leads you to it (thank God) or you suffer for a lifetime of work-work-work, no rest - no relaxation - no rejuvenation, and what suffers is your mind (not happy), your body (not healthy) and your spirit (you are not free in ANY way). This is far what we teach, having a life of abundance and opulent life. Get the coach you need to help you! Don't forget grants and rebates are available for individuals and businesses to pay for it.

How can you benefits from this lesson? Are you resting properly and frequently enough? Are you relaxing your body so both your body and your mind get strong again? Are you ready for the next challenge because you are rejuvenated and ready to begin a new and exciting endeavor?

Are you on the path to freedom? That path being to start the journey to be happier, healthier and financially free in your life? Is abundance possible? Is opulent comfort with reach? The answer to all of these is yes if you choose them, but they won't come easy and they won't show up on their own either. A long weekend is an opportunity to reflect. Did you? Particularly on Labor Day! The idea is to recognize and acknowledge labor, but not to work!

There are four months left to your 2008, have you created your plan to start living the life you dreamed of or are you saying "Holy crap it is September already, where did this year go?" If you said that and are not on the path to freedom, you could be wasting you life away. I'd like to create URGENCY in you and your life RIGHT NOW!!! Accidents happen, people die, and if you are just puttering through life as though you will be here forever, you are DEAD wrong!!!

You mind, body and spirit call out to you for rest, relation and rejuvenation, this is one time that you want to listen to that little voice in your head. It';s a warning sign that you need to TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF and everything else will just have to wait. And it will. Trust me, it will be there waiting for your return. But you will return stronger to face it, and in the face of that, with your new found strength, the things that seemed to large and insurmountable are reduced to tiny tasks with little or know thought because you are rested, relaxed and rejuvenated - How Cool!!!

To Your Greater Success!

Thanx…SLK

A Unique Opportunity

How can we help with this? As you may know, I have set up a worldwide organization of coaches to assist people with the most persistent of challenges. These coaches have been hand picked by me, personally trained by myself as well and are held to the highest possible standards of delivery. You don’t have to go it alone and you don’t need to be ashamed or embarrassed about these challenges. We all face challenges! The question is “What will you do about it?” And we are here to help make sure you are Happier, Healthier and Financially FREE!

A Special Offer

Don’t tolerate this in your life! Our certified and extremely experienced coaches are masters at helping folks just like you. They deliver our coaching system consistently and with ease. You won’t even recognize yourself after being coached with us. We expect you will be happier, healthier and on your way to becoming financially free once you start your journey with us. And the only thing holding you back right now is you!

So, here is an offer that we think even you would say “I’d have to be absolutely crazy not to take you up on this offer and solve this challenge in my life once and for all.

About Coach Steve

Steven L. Keough or Coach Steve as he prefers is the Founder & CEO of his coaching company Straight Forward Coaching, an Internationally recognized coaching enterprise. Coach Steve operates four very busy companies: of course Straight Forward Coaching, CoachingProducts.org (North America), CoachingProductsInternational.org (Overseas Operations and Non-English Speaking Products), and finally Business Coach Alliance for the training of coaches to be better certified coaches. Yes, we actually train many of the coaches that most organizations will hire.

Steve is also a multiple book Author (5 at this time), Handbook Author (24 at this time), Home Learning Course Creator (4 at this time), Speaker, Trainer and Master Certified Coach himself, a product of the product, and most proud to be a Coaching Curriculum Developer, changing thousands, if not millions, of lives for the better with his materials. He has coaches people for nearly two decades and has amassed over 20,000 hours of coaching individuals and businesses!
Certified in 12 different coaching distinctions, Coach Steve’s books are best-sellers and his materials have been translated into multiple languages and are available in over 100 countries!

Visit Coach Steve at www.stevekeough.com or call 1-888-341-Coach (2622).

Relationships, Charisma and YOU!

2008-08-25T09:10:00.000-07:00

Relationships, Charisma and YOU!

By

Steven L. Keough a.k.a. Coach Steve (MC², MBA)

Question: Where does everything you want to get out of life come from?

Answer: Everyone else!

Many times at events people will come up to me after being on stage and teaching/training and say "Wow, you make that look so easy up there, isn't it hard and how do I get charisma like that?" Of course I'm flattered by that acknowledgement, but honestly I wasn't always like that. You can ask my personal coach from about ten years ago. I was a bit numb, still a little angry over my second divorce and not really interested in hearing the relationship mumbo jumbo.

But then I listened to her and realized I was not where I wanted to be and maybe, just maybe she was right, I wasn't connecting with people, maybe I didn't have any relatedness. I had to go into discover mode for myself. Could it be that I was a cold hearted a#@hole? In a word: yup!

Ouch, "How did that happen?"

You see that is what we do, our little voice wants the answer, but it doesn't really matter how or when, etc. I never did figure out when, but I DEFINITELY figured out how to fix it. And that little adjustment came from personal coaching, from my life coach! Otherwise I'd likely still be floundering, because I had spoken before you know, but no one every came up to me after???

I couldn't have learned that lesson from my business coach or executive coaching. I probably could have from a relationship coach or even a self help book if I could have spotted it. But I couldn't spot it, it was a blind spot, and it required life skills coaching to uncover. Once my coach got me crystal clear how important relationships were in life and business I woke up and started working very hard on it.

You can too! My life coach asked me "Do you know Anthony Hopkins?" you know, from Silence of the Lambs, and I said "Of course!" She said "That man walks into a room and I 'm telling you Steve you feel his presence, you need to be like him." And I thought, she's friggin crazy, but I'll try anything. So I studied him, and to my shocking surprise she was right. She then gave me a little free coaching, she said I want you to somehow meet Anthony Hopkins face to face.

I was living in LA then so it was pretty possible, so I took on the training-coaching challenge and went to the Magic Castle where I found out he was making a cameo appearance. When I saw him, without any fear at all (and that is how you do things when you want something) I walked right up to him and said "Mr. Hopkins, it's my pleasure to meet you sir, my name is Steve Keough!" He waited for a second (which seemed like an hour) and said "Thank you Mr. Keough, but Steve I must tell you the pleasure is all mine." in his British accent. Now follow me here, I'm a man's man and I love women, but if I ever thought about switching sides, it would have been right then, this man was utterly amazing. In 15 words had me falling all over myself. It was incredible and never would have happened without my coach challenging me. She's amazing!

After I met him I took on the work, I watched tons of film of men being gentlemen, gentle, vulnerable, open, sensitive, all the kinds that we were told as kids (after age 5) that we weren't supposed to be. Now as an adult I realize that all I'm trying to do is get back to that peaceful, pure and innocent 5 year old who could do no wrong and saw the world as a huge playground.

That's likely you too. You can have amazing relationships, in fact you must. If you don't you'll have few friends, a tiny inner circle, perhaps family members who don't talk to you, or in my case my own daughter wouldn't talk to me (the only thing more painful than that must be the loss of a child to death), your world is incredibly small, coworkers don't relate to you, you don't do a whole lot other than work, you wish others might notice you, involve you or comfort you when you need it. You wish someone would hold you and hug you tight, bring you flowers, caress your neck, do one of your chores for you, wash your car, you know what I mean here.

So what are you waiting for? Let's look at business, there are trillions of dollars changing hands daily and your share is a good indicator of who is trusting you. You broke? I'll bet your relationships suck too then. You happy? I'll bet you aren't broke and your relationships are at least mediocre if not good. Remember, EVERYTHING you get in this world comes from somebody else. You absolutely MUST have GREAT relationships and the only way to get those is to know how and work it every single day, all the time, but the secret is doing it naturally.

Later there will be a special offer to try or experience coaching, which may be your very first newly trusted relationship (because you can't BS your coach-at least a great one). If your relationships suck, your life sucks, so I urge you to look at relationship coaching. I wish I did, it would have saved me years of struggles and I would have been happy soooooo much sooner!

Since I met Sir Anthony, I have gone on, as a challenge to meet others such as Eddie Murphy, Keanu Reeves, Yvanna Trump, Christie Brinkley and Anderson Cooper, then after the Hollywierd crown I went to meet the speaker circuit; Brian Tracy, Tony Robbins, Les Brown, Marshall Silver and many more and then to interesting people like showgirls, stuntmen, a karate champion, pro athlete's agents, and then to regular people at events when I worked for T. Harv Eker at Peak Potentials, many people would come up and talk to me when I got off stage of the Millionaire Mind Intensive stage.

Then Mr. William Shatner of Star Trek Fame (now the characters are cartoon figures???) approached me about The Heartbeat of America show and I met Francisco Dao of Inc.com and together we forged a great business, a ton of success, and an abundance of happiness and it all came from the same place, these relationships that I had with these new people in my life.

You can have that too! You can benefit from LEARNING how to deal with people in general, and ATTRACTING them to you like a magnet. It can be a learned skill and the lucky have it naturally, but most of us don't. We need action coaches, career coaches, business coaches, life coaches or relationship coaches to get it learned, so we can benefit from it. Benefits come many ways: with loving relationships, with charisma, in business deals, forging new partnerships, joint ventures, dating, finding the love of your life, finding what you are passionate about, tons of things benefit from be open, caring, connected and free. Look into it, give it a try, and watch how the caterpillar (numb and cold hearted) TRANSFORMS into the butterfly (caring, connected & free). This could be the best thing that ever happens to you, don't wait - ACT ON THIS NOW!!!

To Your Greater Success!

Much Love to YOU and your family…Coach Steve

ps... If you would like to meet with one of my relationship coaching team members to see in more detail how deep relationships can help you in your life, then contact our office as we have a special offer for you. Don't wait any longer, make Sir Anthony Hopkins proud. Welcome...

A Unique Opportunity

How can we help with this? As you may know, I have set up a worldwide organization of coaches to assist people with the most persistent of challenges. These coaches have been hand picked by me, personally trained by myself as well and are held to the highest possible standards of delivery. You don’t have to go it alone and you don’t need to be ashamed or embarrassed about these challenges. We all face challenges! The question is “What will you do about it?” And we are here to help make sure you are Happier, Healthier and Financially FREE!

A Special Offer

Don’t tolerate this in your life! Our certified and extremely experienced coaches are masters at helping folks just like you. They deliver our coaching system consistently and with ease. You won’t even recognize yourself after being coached with us. We expect you will be happier, healthier and on your way to becoming financially free once you start your journey with us. And the only thing holding you back right now is you!

So, here is an offer that we think even you would say “I’d have to be absolutely crazy not to take you up on this offer and solve this challenge in my life once and for all."

So what’s the lesson here? The lesson is you don’t have to tolerate this any longer! Please, learn from other people’s failures by leveraging their painful lessons to your advantage so you don’t have to endure this hardship for another second. You can avoid many of the common mistakes almost every single person makes by having a coach nearby to help you navigate life.
You are at a crossroad if you have read down this far. Don’t bail on yourself now. Take Action!

About Coach Steve

Steven L. Keough or Coach Steve as he prefers is the Founder & CEO of his coaching company Straight Forward Coaching, an Internationally recognized coaching enterprise. Coach Steve operates four very busy companies: of course Straight Forward Coaching, CoachingProducts.org (North America), CoachingProductsInternational.org (Overseas Operations and Non-English Speaking Products), and finally Business Coach Alliance for the training of coaches to be better certified coaches. Yes, we actually train many of the coaches that most organizations will hire.

Steve is also a multiple book Author (5 at this time), Handbook Author (24 at this time), Home Learning Course Creator (4 at this time), Speaker, Trainer and Master Certified Coach himself, a product of the product, and most proud to be a Coaching Curriculum Developer, changing thousands, if not millions, of lives for the better with his materials. He has coaches people for nearly two decades and has amassed over 20,000 hours of coaching individuals and businesses! Certified in 12 different coaching distinctions, Coach Steve’s books are best-sellers and his materials have been translated into multiple languages and are available in over 100 countries!

Visit Coach Steve at www.stevekeough.com or call 1-888-341-Coach (2622).

Overwhealm vs Balance

2008-08-18T10:00:00.000-07:00

Steven L. Keough a.k.a. Coach Steve (MC², MBA)

If you are not in overwhelm what are you in? Are you perfectly balanced?

The very last thing you want is a life of "overwhelm" and this blog posting will help clear that up for YOU!

I've always found it fascinating that in the dictionary, at least mine, there is no term of "whelm" or "under-whelm", there is only overwhelm. Interesting to notice that the scholars immediately jump to overwhelm as it relates to the word and describing it in our everyday lives. Most people, based on my 17 years of coaching them, are suffering from some form of overwhelm when I take them on as a client. The normal complaint is "too much to do and not enough time to do it."

That same dictionary defines overwhelm as "to crush, to overpower and to bury beneath." OUCH! If anyone is living a life like that they need help and they need it NOW! Here's how my clients have defined it. I'm "tired, exhausted, have too much to do, have no free time, can't bear the thought of it, I'm frozen, paralyzed, stuck, and on and on. "How did this happen to me?"

A better definition might be "being out of balance with time". You see, overwhelm seems to always be associated with time, time use, time planning, time, time, time! This is why I stress to my clients that time is MORE valuable than money, because if you are out of balance and you burn time, you NEVER get it back. Feeling that deficit in your makeup you try to cram more into the day, creating your own chaos, and then feeling a bigger deficit, so you cram more, and so on.

Honestly, it is just a bad habit that his lived way too long in your life and needs to be replaced.

Is there really not enough time? How does someone, other than you, get so much done? Is it possible they know something you don't know? Do they have a system for it? Is there a secret?

The secret is YOU are allowing it to happen to YOU! Most people I know don't protect their boundaries very well. They are afraid they will offend somebody by saying "No", "Not Yet" or "Not Now." But in that process of having the "image" of being a nice person, you are driving yourself toward overwhelm rather than to ??? Oh, there is no whelm or underwhelm, so um driving yourself toward......... the frickin nut house. That image is killing you. Yes, you are a "nice person" on the outside, but you're a mess on the inside. I'm not saying to be a jerk, just gently learn to say No, Not Yet or Not now. Can't do it? Then you are doomed to a life of more overwhelm, simple as that. Do you really wish to live that way? Of course not, so the question becomes how to get off the exercise wheel, to stop running from thing to thing to thing?

This is a habit that likely took a long time to create and there could be some underlying factors connected to this such as low self-respect (boundary holding) or a need to please others, but whatever it may be, you can get balance back in your life! How can you do this, easy with a coach helping you to see what today might be a blind spot for you due to all your running around.

Not to sound self-serving, however take myself for instance. How can I run four companies, internationally, write my articles, books, handbooks, blogs, etc. and NOT feel overwhelmed? I have balance! I have a system. And I'm not very disciplined of a person, I just know my system. I know that it works so I stick to it, and know that I'm not interested in any other or new systems. Now I must admit, over the years I have tried a zillion systems until I created this one about 15 or 18 years ago, and now I am happier, healthier and able to do so much more to maintain my freedom, especially my financial freedom which comes from wealth building. I HAVE TO have that time to wealth build or I'll have the opposite; wealth depletion time (overwhelm) where we sit around and do nothing, or numb out watching TV, or sleep our lives away. Or worse, start to worry or doubt, which eventually lets fear creep into my existence.

None of us want or need any of that. What we need is a good guide to follow to stay in balance and remain powerful and in control of our days, and our lives. You very own private and personal coach is there to support you to knock out the overwhelm and get you back in balance.

What can be done for you to eliminate overwhelm? How can you eradicate it once and for all from your life? Can you do it alone? I think not and that's why I spent so much time covering this with my coaches recently. I, and they now too, completely understand what it is like "trying" to live life in the "fast lane." It's too crazy, you "feel" out of control and eventually you shut down. That shut down is your brain (protective device) and your body (mentally induced exhaustion) saying enough! But through a series of exercises and reinforcement of a newly structured system for balance creation and strengthening you to politely say "no, not now and not yet" you gain control of things and the "feeling" of overwhelm gets replaced with another feeling, whatever that may be.

In summary, your bad habit gets replaced with a good habit and your bad feelings get replaced with new feelings. Sound good? Sure, so look below and perhaps take advantage of our coaching offer for this blog posting.

To Your Greater Success!

Thanx…SLK

A Unique Opportunity

How can we help with this? As you may know, I have set up a worldwide organization of coaches to assist people with the most persistent of challenges. These coaches have been hand picked by me, personally trained by myself as well and are held to the highest possible standards of delivery. You don’t have to go it alone and you don’t need to be ashamed or embarrassed about these challenges. We all face challenges! The question is “What will you do about it?” And we are here to help make sure you are Happier, Healthier and Financially FREE!

A Special Offer

So, here is an offer that we think even you would say “I’d have to be absolutely crazy not to take you up on this offer and solve this challenge in my life once and for all. We are offering you two months of coaching for the price of one (BOGO) and that is unheard of in this industry, but we want you to get a jump start at getting that overwhelm under control. Normally our fee for that month would be $597 for one month, and with that BOGO that we be for two months, but I said crazy so I'm dropping the price to $297 or 50% off the one month, but I'll be giving you two! And I'm not done yet either. For taking action you'll also receive my audio workshop called "What's Holding You Back?" as it is the most downloaded of all my materials. And to make it completely ridiculous, my Office Manager is going to kill me but, You can make it in two payments of $148.50 each. I can't make it any easier than that, so take advantage of me and go for it, of course you always have our 30 day Money Back Guarantee to eliminate risk!

You are at a crossroad if you have read down this far. Don’t bail on yourself now. Take Action!

To take advantage of today's offer, contact HQ at 888-341-2622 or 778-278-2622!

About Coach Steve

Steven L. Keough or Coach Steve as he prefers is the Founder & CEO of his coaching company Straight Forward Coaching, an Internationally recognized coaching enterprise. Coach Steve operates four very busy companies: of course Straight Forward Coaching, CoachingProducts.org (North America), CoachingProductsInternational.org (Overseas Operations and Non-English Speaking Products), and finally Business Coach Alliance for the training of coaches to be better certified coaches. Yes, we actually train many of the coaches that most organizations will hire.
Steve is also a multiple book Author (5 at this time), Handbook Author (24 at this time), Home Learning Course Creator (4 at this time), Speaker, Trainer and Master Certified Coach himself, a product of the product, and most proud to be a Coaching Curriculum Developer, changing thousands, if not millions, of lives for the better with his materials. He has coaches people for nearly two decades and has amassed over 20,000 hours of coaching individuals and businesses!
Certified in 12 different coaching distinctions, Coach Steve’s books are best-sellers and his materials have been translated into multiple languages and are available in over 100 countries! Visit Coach Steve at www.stevekeough.com or call 1-888-341-Coach (2622).

Business 101

2008-07-28T11:04:00.000-07:00

Hi All;

Well most of you know me well enough by now that I cut right to the chase and rarely mince my words, so here goes regarding business. Business success requires three simple steps: 1. Get more cleints, 2. Get them to buy more when they buy and 3. Get them to buy more often!

That's it - Do those three and you are successful!!! I should stop right here, it IS that basic.

But my experience is that we (humans) over-complicate this simplicity with our businesses. Partly because our "feelings and emotions" get invloved in the business making us do strange things, or worry, we have doubts and generally question everything we do as to whether it is "smart" or "right" to do in the first place.

I have many formulas for success on a variety of different topics that have come 90% from my life experiences, meaning failures, and business is that way too. In business use the familiar 80/20 Rule (Pareto's Law" Wilfredo Pareto-circo 1880) which, said my way, is spend a full 80% of your time Marketing (finding and creating prospective buyers) and 20% of your time on EVERYTHING else! Simple; follow that and you'll bank some ching! Don't follow that and you'll be subject to your past patterns of worry, doubt, fear, yada-yada!

My Friend T. Harv Eker is a "Marketing Genius" and he revoluntionaized the seminar industry and he did all that because Harv is a Marketing Machine. He taught me, Steve you have to focus on Marketing, Marketing, Marketing! With that focus comes energy, a buzz about your business, and the universe definately gets invloved to open doors and clear paths that all but were blocked when I focused on everything BUT marketing. There are tons of little things to tinker with in business, that create distractions and suck the time of day away very easily.

There are a thousand distractions in business and this is where the Lion's share of the day goes for most people. Whether it is tinkering with computers or websites (most people's favorite side hobby) or training, or banking or operations, you are taking your eye of the ball and that is the whole game! Take your eye off the incoming pitch and how do you knock it out of the park?

All the Marketing Guru's including Jay Abraham take you back to the basics of 1. Targeting, 2. Your USP (Unique Selling Proposition), 3. The Message and 4. Creating Responses. Great! There you go, the perfect business plan, or marketing plan or success plan. The only pre-requisite would be a Competition Analysis to know who the enemy is and how to conquer them.

How much time have you worked in Marketing lately? A lot, we'll see. Last week, how many hours on Marketing? It should have been 32 hours, yup a full 80% of your 40 hour week, but I'll bet you spent less than 8 (20%) and some of you didn't spend any time on Marketing at all last week???

You say "I don't know anything at all about Marketing."Untrue! I just told you two paragraphs ago everything you'll ever need to know about Marketing and saved you $25,000, unless you want to call Jay yourself for 25 large to have him tell you what I just blogged to you: FREE!

The biggest reason that businesses fail is that NOT ENOUGH MARKETING FOR NEW BUSINESS IS DONE ON A CONSISTENT BASIS - EVERY WEEK! Sorry for the shouting, but it is that friggin simple. If you spend little or no time casting your net, you catch nothing. If you spend a significant time casting your net(S), the possibility of catching comething exists. There are no guarantees but just casting your nets (more than one), but worst case you'd at least learn from last weeks's mishaps, and you'd fish better this week, wouldn't you? Of course.

The reason you claim you know nothing about Marketing is you put no effort into Marketing that is A. consistent B. A System C. that works without you and D. works on auto-pilot! Get that in place and you'll have no time to tinker, no boredom to go create another business that has nothing to do with your core business, and you'll be busy as hell too!

I ofetn use the exercise called "Add a Zero", so for most small businesses 100 active clients keeps them afloat and for say an commodity business 1000 customers keeps them alive, now add a zero! 1000 clients for the same small business and 10,000 customers for the product house, what do you think would happen? Right, you'd be as I said "busy as hell", but isn't that what you "say" you want? So where is the dilema then? What's stopping you now buddy?

Okay, if you must, go out and buy four Marketing books for $100 and read for the next two months, or go to one or two Hotel based Marketing Seminars or Workshops for a couple of grand each, but the bottom line will be the same, you are better educated, but you still don't spend any time Marketing. I mean in the dirt, nitty-gritty Marketing to reach your existing customers and clients, get tons of referrals and create some new excitement in the form of new prospects.

New Prospects heal whatever ails you! If you think you are "suffering" from all the BS excuses like to US Recession, Gas Prices, The Sub-Prime Real Esate Scandal you are full of crap, get off you butt and start Marketing. And you don't need to spend thousands of dollars either, that is a total myth. I can tell you 10 ways to Market your business in 30 seconds that cost nearly zero.

If you business had an influx of say 25 new prospects right now, how would you feel? That's right; GREAT! And you'd be spending all your time, effort and energy to close those deals rather than worry about gas, real estate and other victimlike distractions. But what about "everything else" in the 80% Marketing and 20% everything else formula. Do you really believe that you are needed for all the other minutia? Be serious, it's non-money making crap that a chimp could do!

Here's my advice 80% Marketing and 20% delegating the rest and holding ONE PERSON 100% accountable, only because if you spent 100% Marketing the wheels would fall of the rest because you weren't delegating or holding peple accountable.

You get it - Marketing is the key to it all.

Business 101 and the formula for creating business growth and profits is..........

MARKETING, MARKETING, MARKETING!!!

Later...SLK

Trust Your Intuition

2008-07-21T08:41:00.000-07:00

Do You Trust Your Intuition or Do You Miss Out on Opportunities?

It's a question that comes up a lot when I've coached people over the years. They gets these "feelings" or "thoughts" that the say "I'm not sure what to make about __________?" In other words, their intuition is receiving a message from their spirituality (within you) and they are not sure whether to trust it , question it, think it is a hoax, or cautiously believe it (in their brain).

Why is that?

That happens because people, when not at the top of their "mental inner game" question EVERYTHING. They feel the next ripoff of scam is just about to happen to them from this thought and tell themselves "Don't believe that.". They are living (not really living - just surviving) in a "cynical" world. I mean that their "come from", the place where they make decisions or judgments, is coming from a cynical place. It's tough to live that way and be happy.

Let me first let you know why you ALWAYS trust your intuition, and then we'll go on to why this happens and what can be done about it. First, your intuition is like a sixth sense. It is spiritual in nature because your intuition dwells inside you, it creations come from your thoughts and that is at your cellular level, so it is always pure in nature. When YOUR intuition speaks to you, it is ALWAYS pure, beautiful and creating for the best interests for your life.

What changes then?

Your intuition however can be manipulated. The thought is pure but then it can be FILTERED by your cognitive thoughts (negative or positive) and that is what changes the dynamic of the initial intuitive thought, morphing it into something else, perhaps something not so pure, not so beautiful or not in the best interest of your life. But that was YOU that morphed it, not your intuition! So rather than filtering or judging your pure intuition, negatively or positively, simply learn how to trust your pure intuition, observe what might be possible, and go for it!

I have had so many great opportunities by learning to trust my intuition, having filtered it in the past myself, and why I feel we can help you. Some of them have been small and some of them have been huge! Many of my lessons have been learned through coaching as I am a product of the product and know for a fact the impact coaching has on many people's lives!

In my nearly two decades (17 years) now of coaching people, what I have come to learn is that the folks who trust their intuition (and get the opportunities too) are those that are winning what I call the "Inner Game" or mental battle and those not trusting their intuition, and not trusting many other things for that matter, are those struggling to win the Inner Game of solid emotional maturity (at least for now). The good news is that struggle can be turned around for you to win. These conditions so often bring people to a stand-still in their lives. They're stuck. I highly doubt you'll be able to do this on your own, as the habit may be deeply en grained inside you and will require assistance to help you eliminate your negative orientation.

How?

First you must elevate your Inner Game. Your self-confidence, self-respect and self-esteem must be very high and your self-doubt must be low or non-existent! Ouch, I know, that's why I said you may not be able to do this on your own. A full 50% of our work surrounds the Inner Game and getting people back on track with life, trusting their intuition, and many other trust related topics as well. There is a mathematical formula that we share with our coaching clients that has the light bulb go off about this, but it is too long for me to share in the small space of a blog. If you are interested in knowing more about this then go to my website and start by taking our complimentary self-esteem assessment and single coaching session and we'll cover that with you. There are many other tools and tips there too! My site is www.stevekeough.com.

Without fully understanding the interrelations of self-confidence, self-respect and self-esteem really deeply you could be languishing with this for a long time. Once you understand the formula, poof, it is handled and handled quickly. It's been said "If the mighty oak tree were human it would only grow to be 10 feet tall." That's because humans are the only species on the planet that consciously limit themselves (It's almost that we are too smart for ourselves).

Again I ask why is that?

That has to do with a self-worth discussions, meaning that many people really believe "They are not worthy" to receive _______________. Again, this is a deeply seeded emotionally misunderstanding that once we help you get past it and you again have permission to pursue all your dreams your life will completely alter, and you'll start taking the steps to not only winning the Inner Game, but chasing all those things you dreamed about will begin to become possibilities again for you. You'll be free again as though you were 5 years old all over again! Living with scarcity in a world of abundance makes no sense to me, so don't!

Have the courage to take the first step of getting everything you want from life by learning the lessons you haven't yet, getting the information that may be missing for you that would make a huge difference and turn your life around. By asking yourself the "right" questions that move you forward, closer to your dreams, rather than doubting everything, including your own intuition. We'll help you get back on the fast track to living happy, healthy and free again!

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