February 2018 « Confidence Coach

The Power of Choice

As we look at our businesses and what they are doing, sometimes we can fall into the trap of saying that we don’t have any choice in making a change that will take our business to the next level.

But you always have a choice.

Sometimes that choice is simply in how you respond or react to change, adversity or a particular situation.

And so, the first choice that we’re talking about today is to have a mindset to look at situations, difficulties, challenges, obstacles, barriers in your business as opportunities. The bigger, more difficult and the more challenging the situation or problem is, this can be the greatest opportunity for you to build the biggest and best future for you and your team in your business.

One of the ways we do this is to get really clear.

Identify. Get out of your mind and onto a piece of paper exactly what this obstacle, barrier or challenge is.
What’s in the way. Decide what are all of the things around it that are preventing you from moving past it or finding a solution to go around it.
List them out. List each obstacle out or situation out so that you can break them down. Ask yourself the question for each one: What is a simple, basic thought to transform that barrier or obstacle?
First Step. What is a simple first solution or first step that would take us past, through or over the top of that obstacle?

A lot of our coaching is “thinking about your thinking” and being aware of how you’re reacting to challenges and problems in your company, business or corporation.

We work with people on this all the time, so I’d be curious to hear from you what currently is the biggest obstacle you’re facing in your business that you feel is keeping you from the next level.

What’s in the way?

Because if we can identify and work on that — we can also get clear about solutions and next steps. We can also get clear about the team (or group) and the resources, and what we need to do in order to get past this.

Today’s all about the choice, but you have to first choose that you’re going to think about these obstacles, barriers and problems in a whole new way. That’s the challenge today — think about what’s in your way. Let us know what that is and/or schedule a free consultation and let us take you through this little exercise and help you turn your obstacles into opportunities.

Make it a great day!

by Scott Ballard , February 25, 2018

The 5 Questions You Want to Ask Before You Do Anything in Your Business

There are five questions you want to ask before you do anything in your business, and here’s why it’s so important to you. If you were to go into your business today and ask these five questions, by the end of the day your business would be transformed! Not only transformed in and of itself, but transformed in the way that it produces a result for you both financially and time wise.

So today we’re going to talk about these five questions.

First of all, think about one task that happens in your business every day that’s repetitive. This is a task that you are doing or perhaps a bunch of people in your company are doing every day. Then ask yourself these questions:

Can this task be eliminated?
Can this task be delegated to somebody else?
Can this task be automated?
Can this task be outsourced?
Can this task simply be done in a more efficient way?

By asking these questions and looking at every task that you, your team or your employees are doing, you will be transforming your company.

We do this with businesses all the time and are amazed at what we find in efficiencies, gains, time saving and profit making by just simply going through every little task and repurposing it and putting it through this process — we call the time filter.

This is just a little tip we’d love you to try today. Let us know how it works. If you’d like to learn more about it you can reach us email or by scheduling a free consultation.

by Scott Ballard , February 18, 2018

The Time Solution

The Time Solution is a coaching process that we use with our clients. It is basically used to address the one thing that 90% of businesses have never accounted for in their business and that is:

How, why and where are they using their time.

By having an actual audit or accounting system of time, you can make sure everybody in the business is aware that time is actually of more value than the money or the capital that’s being invested in the business.

We’ve created this process to teach and coach people how to capitalize on their time. In our process, we show that by saving 15 minutes a day, an average company over the next couple of years, can reinvest that time into profit making time and actually turn that into a million dollars for the business owner. It’s a transformational process, and it’s a process that only takes 90 days to do. It makes you look at time like you look at your checkbook — like you look at your financial statement — like you look at all the other investments you make. It also teaches, trains and helps everyone on your team to look at time and evaluate it in the way that it should be valued. If we use our time wisely, and we use it better and more effectively than our competitors, then we have an unfair advantage over everyone else in our industry.

Yet time is the one thing that nobody accounts for. Everybody’s always talking about saving money in their business, company or corporation, but nobody ever sits down and talks about how they can save time. Time actually equals, if repurposed, into the most profitable activity you can do. So sit down and have this conversation. Look at the process. Ask the difficult questions and actually start to get a phenomenal 10x return on your time.

If you’re interested in an introduction to The Time Solution, you can have a 60 minute free consultation with us at Confidence Coach to learn more.

by Scott Ballard , February 11, 2018

Time as a Tool

Have you ever thought about time as a tool just like you? You have tools in your business – computers, machines, trucks, etc. — all different kinds of things that you have in your business that are tools that help you be more productive. They help you create an experience or a product for your clients.

I’ll ask you again — Have you thought about your time as a tool? If you have a tool, you know you want that tool to operate at its optimum capacity, and if time is your greatest tool, are you connecting your time and the most productivity? In other words, what’s the most productivity you can get from your time? How can you maximize the tool of time that you have in order for you to get the results that you want from your life, from your business, from your relationships?

Because time ultimately is the greatest leverage.

It is the greatest tool that we have in our life and in our business as business owners, entrepreneurs and CEOs.

Stop and pause and ask yourself, “Okay, am I thinking about time as a tool? And if it is a tool, how am I leveraging my time in order that it gets the greatest result for what I want out of my life? And how am I investing in this tool so that I can be where I want to be a year from now or three years from now in order to be at my best and have a bigger better future.”

So time is a tool.

We would love to talk to you about this. We do a lot of of coaching around time. Time is the greatest asset for every company, every business, every entrepreneur, every person. Just reach out to us.

by Scott Ballard , February 4, 2018