October 2017 « Confidence Coach

Move Forward From Your Limiting Beliefs

Every business owner in the world, every day, has to tackle their own personal limiting beliefs about themselves and their business. What are the beliefs that are holding you back? Are they beliefs about the world? Are they beliefs about yourself? Are they beliefs about your customers or employees? Are they beliefs about the future? Are they beliefs about your past and your perceived failures? Or maybe it’s a belief about today that has become your biggest struggle?

Let me ask you a question after all those questions: What thoughts could move you forward from those beliefs? Reach out to us, send us an email, and give us your answers. I guarantee I will respond to what you have to say. As an executive coach, I’ve heard it all before — and I’m here to help.

What we believe becomes our reality. Changing it can be as difficult as brain surgery — but just as powerful.

by Scott Ballard , October 29, 2017

Is Procrastination The Secret To Your Success?

My name is Scott Ballard, and I’m a procrastinator. I’ve been a procrastinator for 58 years. For all those years, in school and in business, I’ve been told that procrastination is a problem. That I should feel bad about it; that it makes me less of a leader or executive — that I should feel guilty. And that it’s somehow heaped a bunch of stress and strain on me and on my business. But I want to talk to you today about a different way of looking at procrastination, and maybe give you an idea that you’ve never considered: maybe your procrastination is actually embedded in the genius of your mind.

Maybe procrastination is actually telling you something important: that you need more info, or that this isn’t the right time, or that it’s not the right business venture to get into, or that’s not the right person to promote. Have you ever thought that your procrastination is actually working for you? Have you ever stopped and asked yourself, Why am I procrastinating about this? Perhaps your procrastination is actually your secret weapon.

What if you sat down at the end of your work day and you honestly said, What are the three things that I’m procrastinating on the most in my business? If you clearly identified those three things, and resolved that tomorrow, no matter what happened, you would take the next step on each of them — what would you be doing? Maybe procrastination is a bad habit. But maybe it’s your compass.

Procrastination: Good or bad? You decide.

by Scott Ballard , October 22, 2017

On Clarity

Love me or hate me — there’s no money in the middle.

The biggest question for you as a business owner to consider is: What do you stand for?

What do you believe? What are your priorities for your life and your business? How do you make decisions? How do you connect with your customers and your employees? Are those connection points getting you the results, time, and money that you want? Not everybody’s gonna love you or what you do with your business. But that’s okay! Because your product or service isn’t for the whole world — it’s for those people who will get the greatest value from it. And that’s the beauty of clarity when you can answer these questions — you know what you’re doing, what you’re about, and who you’re for. If you want help answering those questions, reach out to us. This type of training is what we do best.

Love me or hate me — there’s no money in the middle.

by Scott Ballard , October 15, 2017

Let’s Talk About Customers

What is your customer’s biggest problem? Have you asked them? Have you asked them, and asked WHY that’s a problem? Have you sat down and listened? Have you earned the right for them to be honest with you? Can you take the truth? Or is it like that famous movie line: “You can’t handle the truth!” What are you gonna do about it?

You want an unfair advantage in your business? Start asking your customers what their biggest problems are, and start creating solutions for them. Let’s work together on what that might look like.

Then, watch your business take off.

by Scott Ballard , October 8, 2017

Is It Payday Tomorrow?

As you get ready for payday, ask yourself a question: Has every minute that you’ve invested and purchased through your payroll gotten the maximum return of profit to your business in the last two weeks? Are you uncertain about the answer?

Well, if you’re like most business owners, this is just an uneasy gut feeling. You know you didn’t get the maximum return you paid for, but you’re not sure why. So what are you going to do differently the next time around? How can you look at your company and start to get a greater return? What choices and decisions have to be made? What do your people need to know? What’s possible if you answered those questions?

This is the key to your bigger future. It’s a payroll investment for the greatest return in your business. It starts every two weeks. Do something about it today. Interested in a free 3-Step program for exactly that? Sign up today.

by Scott Ballard , October 1, 2017