Entrepreneur…Cobbler With No Shoes Or Plain Old Excuse Maker?
In my work as a business coach and marketing consultant I have had the pleasure of working with some truly wonderful and brilliant clients and some who were…well, less so.
Everyone knows the story about the cobbler with no shoes right? The local cobbler works hard all day to make shoes for everyone in the village but then his kids have no shoes. And, coaches and consultants often explain why they don’t do everything they tell their clients to do by citing this story. “I’m so busy doing work for my clients that I don’t have time to do my own work or my own marketing.”
While that may be partially true, over the past couple of years I have actually found something else to be the bigger why.
Tags: business coach, Cobbler with no shoes, marketing, mindset
Don’t Tolerate Life
Being a tolerant person is great…in one respect. It means you can put up with others and you’re generally happy with a “live and let live” mindset. In the bigger picture of your life, being tolerant will make dealing with all of the differences and idiosyncrasies of people much easier. However, when it starts to feel like much of your time is spent tolerating people, behaviors, etc., you’ll find success slipping away from your fingers.
Tags: mindset, positive energy, stress, tolerant person
Your Mindset, Your Story
One of most important things you can do for yourself is to open your mind and not only trust that attracting exactly what you want is in fact possible and more importantly inevitable when your mind and attention are in the right place. Your life story should be about becoming bold, courageous and irresistible to [...]
From Poverty to Wealth
To put myself in the wealthy mindset that I really wanted, I had to change my script and the emotions that went along with it. I spent so much of my life doing many of the same things I do now: teaching, coaching and counseling – but getting paid very little for it, that it [...]
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