5 Things Successful People Do Before 8 a.m.

What do you get done before 8am?

Best work from home opportunity.

Most life coaches that I know choose to work from home as it makes sense from both a practical and financial perspective.

It is true that there are relatively few traditional employment opportunities for life coaches and some would say this is what drives them to set up their own practices and work from home.

However, I am inclined to argue the reverse cause and effect.

In other words, the vast majority of life coaches shun traditional employment, preferring the flexibility that comes from running their own coaching practices. As a consequence any corporate opportunities tend to be contracted out rather than serviced in house.

“Wherever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”

-Peter F. Drucker

 
Until fairly recently, the main disadvantage of being a work-from-home life coach would be the constraints on the number of clients one could attract and consequently one’s potential income, particularly if you lived in a smaller town or rural area with fewer people and less disposable income.

Nowadays, not only is this disadvantage rapidly disappearing but the main advantages of working from home as a life coach are becoming more pronounced.

Advances in digital and communications technology are swiftly overcoming the practical hurdles that have until now been associated with working from home.

The advent of the Internet, increasingly high speed broadband connectivity to the home, wireless network facilities and smart mobile devices are giving us the ability to create virtual face-to-face relationships with people even if we exist at opposite ends of the earth!

Just the other day, I hired someone in Sri Lanka to design a simple software programme to search, highlight and then remove duplicates from a large database. It took about 30 minutes on a skype video call for me to share my computer screen, show him the database and explain what I wanted.

Two days later he had done the job for a very reasonable fee and popped the software application into my Dropbox. Minutes after checking it out I paid by simply clicking a button on a website.

Just a few years ago this would not have been possible.

In a similar way, life coaches are now able to coach people living hundreds or even thousands of miles away, by using free technologies such as Skype, FaceTime and Google Hangouts for example. The only limitations on who you can coach in this way are suitable payment mechanisms (easy to overcome for most people), time differences and possible language barriers.

Journal coaching, where coach and client interact purely using the written word via an online journaling platform, is becoming increasingly popular.

It ideally requires dedicated training to coach effectively in this way but the great thing is you don’t have to be online when your client is online. You respond to journals at your own convenience. You charge less because there’s a lot less work – but you can service an awful lot more clients in this way!

Not everyone wants to coach – or be coached – remotely (those that try it are often bowled over by just how convenient and effective it is) but the fact remains that there is still a vast potential market.

Of course if you live in a country where the cost of living is relatively low and you coach people in a country with a stronger currency you have a big advantage.

Because of this and the fact that good life coaching skills are universally applicable (helping people transform their lives is a skill that transcends geographical boundaries) life coaching is arguably one of the best home business opportunities available to people who love working with people.

Life coaching is what I would term a ‘lifestyle business’ or a business for people who value being able to dictate their own lifestyle rather than having one that is dictated to them – as is the case with most regular jobs or careers in employment!

Life coaches can choose the number of hours they want to work each day, each week and each month. A coach can schedule coaching sessions to suit his or her lifestyle.

Obviously, more time spent coaching means more income at the end of the day but the coach has the ability to find his or her own ideal ‘balance point’ in this regard.

And the setting up and running of a life coaching practice from home can be done with a minimal investment and low overheads, so your income goes a long way!

Is this the best work from home opportunity?

Food for thought, perhaps.

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How To Stay Focused

Have you got your 'focus' together?

What Is Mentoring?

What is mentoring? Mentoring is the process of having a particular person, or group of people, relegated to teach, motivate and guide you toward a certain goal. 

The internet marketing world lends itself perfectly to having a mentor. Just about every successful internet marketer I know or have heard about started their road to success by having a mentor. With all of the loads of information being thrown at you while trying to become a successful online marketer, it is very hard to sort through it all and figure out what is relevant and what is just fluff. 

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Even after finding out which information is relevant to your cause it can be frustrating trying to figure out where to begin. A mentor can be the perfect person to help you comb through all of that information and find what is really important while at the same time helping you understand the best starting point to help you achieve your goals. This way you are getting tips from someone who has been through it all, knows the ins and outs of the industry and has overcome all of the obstacles to become successful. It is like getting advice on your golf swing from Tiger Woods.

Mentors are especially plentiful in the internet marketing niche due to the high demand for people that are "in the know" on this subject and can teach others how to be successful online. 

It is extremely difficult to succeed as an internet marketer without someone to show you the ropes and point you in the right direction. Despite all the online affiliate marketing advertisements that claim you can start making thousands of dollars a day immediately with hardly any work at all, it IS very hard to be successful at affiliate marketing. These advertisements are designed to get you into a state of mind where you start to believe these exaggerated claims of instant success because they trick your mind by making it look easy and showing you all of the great things you will have like cars and mansions and beautiful women.

You need to know how to look past all of that and at what they are really selling. A mentor has already learned all of the tricks of the trade and endured all of the bumps along the way that you will never have to endure if you have a mentor. This way, you will not make the same mistakes that they did at first or that they may have avoided by having a mentor themselves.

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Strive for the Mountain Top

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Don't walk where everybody else walks, it's a reason it's called the beaten path. There will be many that will offer you their advice as to what is good for you. You separate the good information from the bad. The process is called discernment. 

I advise you to first listen to your self. Welcome change with open arms. Resistance to change will hinder your advancement. Nothing avoids change. Your values should never be compromised but enhanced. Your character should be of the utmost but open minded. Your conviction should be strong but also willing. 

Our perception of what life is about is based in our values our experiences and our ideology. Some will tell you accepting defeat in some situations is acceptable. You will live to fight another day is a very true and exacting statement. Though this statement is true I disagree with accepting defeat. Life is a learning process and every situation is an opportunity to improve upon that situation. When you settle for defeat that is exactly what you get. 

The substances of self consist of experiences beliefs and situations. The substance is invaluable significant and distinctive. How we manage those situations events and circumstances is vital.

Your opportunities to succeed are larger than your opportunities to fail. The magnificent gift of life is a gift that is given only by one. The gift is the reason we all are here. There is no gift bigger than the gift of life. It is not to be wasted or unappreciated. When we strive to make the best of our selves we also strive to make the world better. The pursuit of a better life is measured by the road travel not by arriving at destination. 

We will discover who we are by not conforming to others opinions of who are but by conforming to the gifts given to us. The better we manage the lane given to us the wider the lane gets. The more we guard what we say what we do and what we hear the sharper we become. The inner ear is a true source for knowledge. It will never tell you anything but what is good for you. We just have to be willing to listen. The more we listen the more we gain. The more we appreciate our selves the more we appreciate others. The drive to succeed has to be fueled from what's inside you. It will give you conviction a necessary building block needed to reach your pinnacle.

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When we transform instead conform we allow the gifts of life to be utilized. When a gift comes upon and you and you are not ready for it, it will pass you by. Spiritual and fiscal responsibility prepares you for a gift that has already been bestowed upon you. 

To most this statement is grammatically incorrect. It talks of the past tense giving to the future tense. It also describes faith. If you truly believe something it will convict you. Conviction is a substance to build upon. When we truly embrace the gifts given to us our perceptions of what matters will change. Your shortcoming will become opportunities. 

Once you realize who you are and what you are the opportunities will become more abundant. Your gifts were set aside for you before you ever knew or realized who or what you are. Where there is cause there is effect. When you put forth the effort there will be an effect. The effect is dependent on your effort. The effect of believing in your self raises your expectations that you have for your self. In order to get to the top there has to be more than believing in your self.

Believing in self is good but sometimes self can get in the way. You need to be guided by faith. Opportunities build character and endurance. With intellect you can get through anything if applied correctly. Apply faith and it will produce. Allow your gifts to work for you and you will never fail.

LaMont Campbell of St. Louis, MO has sought to mentor and motivate the under served communities throughout the St.Louis, MO metropolitan area since 2005. He is founder of Stl Empowerment Group Inc. It was established to provide support for the disempowered by offering assistance through empowering others and partnering with social service organizations that serve the particular needs of individuals and groups that offer programs that strive for the betterment of everyone.

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