Everybody on the internet wants to give you their “free” advice and then try to sell you something. I don’t want to add to the “noise”. You’re probably on information overload already. Instead, I want to share the specific strategies I used to grow several small businesses while traveling the world, helping my favorite social-change and green causes, and goofing off way more than the average 9-to-5′er. I started many small businesses and a non-profit in my teens, twenties, and early thirties and have been gainfully self-employed my entire life. In 2003 I began coaching hundreds of clients to achieve uncommon success in business and life.
I had to laugh when I saw a cartoon in the San Francisco Chronicle of a panhandler holding up a cardboard sign that said “Life Coaching”. Unfortunately, some of the “coaches” out there give my profession a bad rap. I have a track record. I am both a business coach and a life coach. I’ve had great results with both and you will find dozens of client success stories on my web page. I’ve discovered some key principles, strategies, and resources that consistently lead to breakthrough results. You can read about them on this blog. It’s about working smarter, not harder.
I have noticed an obvious pattern in my work with hundreds of business and life coaching clients over the last five years - my clients who make the strongest commitment to their goals are far more successful than those who don't. Commitment may be the most critical shortcut to success. If you want a recipe ...
Have you heard the saying, "Attitude Is Everything"? While attitude might not really be "everything", it is the single most significant determining factor of success in many situations. Here's how it works: Change your attitude and you automatically change: your perspective the way you interpret things the decisions you make the actions you take the results you get Changing your ...
Do you set goals? Goal setting is one of the most powerful things you can do to chart the course of your future and increase your success. Many people don't set goals because they've tried it before and been disillusioned. Perhaps you tried setting a goal and something didn't work out and you decided ...
I just finished reading You Call the Shots, Succeed Your Way - and Live the Life You Want- with the 19 Essential Secrets of Entrepreneurship. It was written by one the youngest successful entrepreneurs in the world, Cameron Johnson. What I like about Cameron is that he’s very down to earth, humble, and practical. Most ...
These are some of my favorite resources for growing and running a business, including outsourcing, web conferencing, file transfer software, printing, taxes, business plans, legal, SEO, marketing, etc. I'd love to hear about your favorite resources so I can add them to the list. Outsourcing Elance - Outsourcing to programmers, copywriters, graphic designers and consultants who ...
Have you ever heard of the 80/20 rule? It says that 80% of the results come from 20% of the actions you take, while 20% of results are produced by 80% of the actions you take. If you tracked it for a while, you would probably find this to be true for most of the ...
Many of you know that I am a huge fan of David Allen an his book "Getting Things Done - The Art of Stress Free Productivity". I did a little hunting and found some free downloads from his web page that I thought you might find useful. I especially like the "Workflow Chart", ...
Thomas Leonard, Founder of "Coach University" and widely considered the grandfather of the coaching movement, said it is a good idea to become "incredibly selfish". Creating your ideal business and living your ideal lifestyle are selfish acts, however, as you will soon see, the type of "selfishness" that I am referring to will ultimately empower you ...
Get ready to clarify your priorities! "The unexamined life is not worth living" - Socrates "Life moves pretty fast, if you don't stop and take a look around sometimes you might miss it." - Ferris Bueller The topic of this post is not for everyone. This is for people who want to live and work with a high level ...
I just filmed these two videos recently. Neither of them are perfect and I will probably shoot a third video eventually. However, I'm going to use one of these in the meantime, and put it on my home page at www.ryaneliason.com I discovered that it's not easy to make a good video. You're talking to an ...
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