Author: The Strategic Coach Team
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Tip Of The Week: Your Front Stage Experience
Let your competitors exhaust themselves trying to be everything to everyone. Let them race to the bottom in price wars. All you need to be concerned with is how to be more and more useful to the people who’ve already proven—in the form of checks—that they appreciate what you do for them. You aren’t concerned…
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Quotable Coach: Avoid “The Excellence Trap”
One of the biggest dangers for entrepreneurs is “The Excellence Trap”: Because you can do something better than others, you keep doing it, even if you don’t particularly enjoy that activity. This prevents you from doing more of what you love most, do best, and get the biggest rewards from. Unique Ability, by contrast, gives…
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Tip Of The Week: How Are You Being A Hero To Others?
Most of us were taught to work on our weaknesses, but, frankly, that’s a waste of your time and talents. You’ll make your greatest contribution and reap the biggest rewards for doing what you’re passionate about for the audience you most want to be a hero to. You’re the expert at being you — so…
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Quotable Coach: The Secret To The Universe
The news media are in the Chicken Little business. Ignore the fear-mongering, because you can never be creative from a place of reaction. If you really want to future-proof yourself, start where you are, with your own talents, interests, wisdom, and relationships. No matter what’s going on around you, these will be your tools for…
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Who’s At Coach: David Braithwaite
My name is: David Braithwaite I’m an entrepreneur with a specialty in: Financial Planning My company is: Citrus Financial Management Ltd. What we do is: We advise on pensions, investments, and mortgages and motivate clients to take positive action with their finances. I was born in: Tenterden, Kent, UK. I currently reside in: A small…
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Tip Of The Week: A Sure-Fire Method To Build Abundance
As Dan Sullivan says, “What you appreciate appreciates.” In other words, there’s nothing like gratitude to make you aware of all the valuable resources and relationships around you — and that awareness gives you a chance to nourish them and increase their value. What do you appreciate in this moment? Tell us in the comments!
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Quotable Coach: Consumption Is Not Creativity
It’s nice to have nice things and rich experiences — we’re not against that. Just don’t mistake them for an identity. The things that really distinguish you from the rest of the world came factory-installed and will always lead to your most significant and rewarding achievements.
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Tip Of The Week: The Solution To Irritability
The “low battery” warning on our smartphones is pretty obvious, but your brain gives you some pretty clear signals too — like irritability, fogginess, and a stubborn refusal to offer up any good ideas. Even if your inside voice shouts at you for being lazy, just stop when you’re feeling tired. Get up, go for…
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Quotable Coach: How To Get Team Members To Step Up For You
It’s been proven time and again that team members respond to appreciation and opportunities much more than to financial rewards. And providing someone with a paycheck isn’t carte blanche to treat them any old way you like. When you regard your team members as unique, talented partners — guess what! That’s how they’ll show up…
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Virtual Team Building Comes Into Its Own
We invited Adrienne Duffy, a long-time Strategic Coach associate coach and successful entrepreneur, to guest blog for us. Adrienne has a passion for helping others to grow, which shows up in her business, Big Futures Inc., where she helps entrepreneurs and their teams work together to grow their revenue exponentially. Since 1995, she has coached…