by George Purdy

You don’t get a business coach because you need one. No one really needs a coach, but industry leaders decide to hire one because they understand that a coach’s help can increase their productivity and give them a competitive edge.

If you own your own company, you have the perfect place to utilize the counsel and guidance your business coach provides you. Maybe you are considering expanding your firm, but you need help in getting started. Maybe you are one of those people who prefer employment as business managers. Maybe you feel like you’re drowning in dozens of little details and you need assistance with establishing your priorities. An experienced and trustworthy business coach can help you to identify your personal goals and can guide you towards reaching them.

Poise and confidence are necessary to business success. Business coaching can show you what you’re doing wrong and help you correct your mistakes. A good business coach can help you learn new habits and feel more positive about yourself and the way you’re running your business, giving you the self-assurance you need to succeed.

A business coach brings a fresh perspective to your business, one that can offer impartial advice without a hidden agenda. Coaches aren’t compensated according to a balance sheet, so they aren’t going to fire your valued employees or implement Draconian cost-cutting measures. Helping you achieve your goals is their only concern. Coaching is a joint venture. Your coach will help you set goals and give you the help you need to achieve them.

Some coaches will only work with a business owner for a few weeks, if the business owner just needs a specific services such as devising a marketing plan. However, many business coaches are hired for months or even years. The length of a coach’s contract should depend on how you intend to work with the coach, the goals you have in mind, and the frequency of meetings with your coach. You will want to work together with your coach for a longer period of time if your goals are expansive than if your goals are fairly modest.

You are the only one who can decide if getting a coach for your business is the right decision. Coaching is a collaborative effort, with the coach teaching you to assess both your strengths and weaknesses and giving you advice to take your business to its maximum potential. A small investment could be a wise choice for your business with all the training, motivation, guidance and mentoring you will receive from a professional business coach. Thus we can state that business coaching can have a positive impact on financial companies.

When you own your own business, a business coach is a valuable asset; he or she will be able to enable you to reach your goals. Business coaches help individuals to become good business managers by teaching business expansion tactics, providing sound advice and guidance, and by aiding you in prioritizing. If you do not believe in yourself, you are certain to fail in the corporate world. However, quality business coaching can identify your weak spots and improve your strong points. The end result is an individual that can deal with any situation that might arise. The effect of coaching on financial companies is unquestionably a positive one.

About the Author:

George Purdy is an acknowledged expert on business coaching. He wrote many articles on this subject and is a well-known public speaker. Look for more great articles and resources at coaching.

by Lorelei Fenton

Every day we hear claims that we can have anything we want- wealth, abundance, happiness, lasting and fulfilling love- just by opening our minds to it, and using our brains more fully. We endeavor to cram our brains full of information in this the age of information. But still we can’t seem to unlock that more than 70% of our brain’s capacity that we don’t use.  Often the task of doing this seems to elude us.

If you are interested in the power of the mind you can access a lot of tools to help you on your way. You can buy cards and mini-books created by famed affirmation-ist Louise Haye, and read them daily. You can join a 12-step program, such as Alanon (if you have or know someone who has an addiction.) If not, you can at least read the 12-step books and use the slogans daily. You can do meditations, and yoga, and a myriad of body-mind-spirit practices that will help you unlock the power of the mind by going within the body. All of these are valid and very beneficial.

How often have you gone to a party in this, the’ new age of enlightenment’ and heard someone talk about ‘mind over matter’ or a way to increase mental power. If you’re like me you nodded your head yes to the person across from you, while also thinking “Well, you can say it- but can you do it?” Or more to the point, you thought ‘But can I really do it.” And there may have been some frustration because you’d been working on that skill for a long time already. And if you’re like me, you were probably not acknowledging your successes- but only how far you seemed to be from your goals.

The Landmark Forum is a life-changing course that you can take if you want to get a good look at how the mind operates. In that course you will look at what it means to be human, and how your very ’self’ is created at a young age. You will be able to then dissect the process to re-create aspects of yourself and cause yourself to be any way that you want to be. For instance if you are very shy- you can re-create yourself as outgoing. And do it naturally, with no struggle. One of the quintessential things you will do in this work is look at how the brain operates. You will find it often empowers you- but just as often does the opposite.

It has been said that the mind is a machine. It is a machine very much like a computer. When you input information into the mind’s machine, the mind comes up with an answer. Unfortunately, sometimes what you put in the machine is intrinsically flawed information. Life gives the mind a scarring experience. Life gives it other people’s words that cause pain. Life gives the mind physical and emotional trauma. Usually these events are not the average. They are not happening every day. But by their very oddity the machine that is the mind singles them out, and makes special note of them. It then outputs some negative thought into your brain that will stick with you for life- and may sometimes be so intrinsic that you can’t even see it.

I have often wondered, is it truly possible that the mind can speak to the very cells in your body? Is it true that the mind can heal cancerous cells, cause you to lose weight, whether or not you diet, and allow you to become masterful at some task that even if you believe yourself to have no skill in that direction. I have wondered if this were the true meaning of the biblical term that ‘faith can move a mountain.’ Perhaps truly believing does cause miracles. Or perhaps the truly believing is the miracle.

How would it be, I wonder, if we could skip over the hard work of constant bathroom affirmations, cards, and readers? What would it be like to just lay there and listen to a tape or CD- then fall to sleep and allow the magic to work on you the next day and into the future. Experts say this method, called brain entrainment, is entirely possible- and even works very well. I am also told does not involve any scary ’subliminal messages.’ This is such a fascination for me- this thought that I really can train my brain without working so hard- that I am inclined to try this method and let you know how it works.

It is said that we can increase our mental power and access the power of our minds through brain entrainment. I am sure this is very true. But the true test for me will be will I do it steadily, every day, until the learning sinks in? Or perhaps I need to first buy the entrainment CD that will train me to do that.

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