Being an Entrepreneurial Coach

Are you getting by or living into a new possibility?

As humans we always have the capcity to live into a new possibility. Declaring a new possibility is one of our often forgotten freedoms. But so often we get sucked into the everyday hustle and bustle of our busy lives that we loose sight of any new possibilities.

Keeping our possibility in sight tends to integrate our life, make our living more conscious, vital and awake. When we keep new possibilities in sight, we shift into a mood from which it is easier to build a new future for ourselves and our loved ones.

Loosing sight of our possibility tends to fragment and dull our life, making our life feel more burdensome than it really is. We drift and aim to get by.

When I coach, one of the most powerful aspects of the coaching is helping the client to always keep their new possibility - a possibility that moves, touches, and inspires them - always in sight.

What possibility are you living into? You aren't limited to one. But it helps to have focus as you begin to work with this practice. As a guide to your reflection on this question, consider the following domains of life. What possibilities are you living into in each?

• Health and well-being
• Education
• Play and aesthetics
• Career and work
• Friends and family
• Community
• Spirituality

Do you want to loose weight or become stronger? Do you want to get a new degree or certificate? Do you want to enjoy nature more this year? Or perhaps to spend more time playing with your kids each week? Perhaps you want to transition to a new career or start a new coaching business? Or cultivate more community in your life?

We can declare new possibilities in any or all of these domains. How will you keep your new possibilities in sight? Post them as sticky notes to your computer or refrigerator? Set up a daily schedule of practices (e.g., yoga, tai chi, qigong, meditation) that will be a daily recommitment to making your new possibilities a reality? How will you return to your possibility when the inevitable busyness of your life takes over? How will you create the network of support you need to stay focused on making your possibilities a reality?

Love,

-Steve

How can a coach be an entrepreneur?

Being an entrepreneurial coach means being an entrepreneur first and a coach second.

What is being an entrepreneur like? Being an entrepreneur is like being a coach for a whole market. Whereas a coach works 1-on-1 with a coaching client to co-create new ways to live, an entrepreneur works 1-to-many, with a whole market, to bring them new ways to live.

A coach develops a powerful way to listen to their client's unique ambitions and breakdowns. An entrepreneur develops a powerful way to listen to their target market's unique ambitions and breakdowns.

A coach offers their clients new language and new practices that open up new possibilities for effective and fulfilling action. An entrepreneur offers their market new language and new practices that open up new possibilities for renewing their life often creating new kinds of freedom.

Both coaches and entrepreneurs improve the quality of life for the people the serve.

Being an entrepreneur first and a coach second means that you first relate to your target market. You work, as an entrepreneur to listen to their typical ambitions, unmet needs, and breakdowns. You build powerful entrepreneurial offers that create unique value by helping your clients fulfill their ambitions, meet their needs, and resolve their breakdowns. And how you fulfill on those offers is by coaching. This is how an entrepreneurial coach operates in a nut shell.

So, as a coach, you have tons of skills that translate into being an entrepreneur. However, working with a target market does bring some challenges that coaches don't face. The parallel isn't perfect.

Take care,

-Steve