Separating the contenders from the pretenders
Cus D'Amato, the legendary boxing trainer who took Mike Tyson off the streets and turned him into a world champion, had a unique way of determining who was a contender and worthy of his time. In Tyson's book about his trainer, called "Iron Ambition", he shared a story...
This would give Grant Cardone a stroke, but Mark Batterson would approve
When I started my coaching business, I thought I had to keep my calendar open as much as possible. Grant Cardone said that "White space is the devil", and I was determined to not have any white space on there. I had available bookings 7 days a week, including evenings...
The dangers of “over-batching”
A client of mine once asked for my opinion on something: He planned to bunker down in his house like a hermit for a few weeks straight and create one full year's worth of content for his business (emails to his list, social media posts, podcast episodes). During that...
A special 3 year anniversary issue of Secret Coach Club
Content creation is a challenge for a lot of coaches. I'm often asked how to consistently create content when so much time has to already be spent on other tasks like calls, servicing clients, etc. Believe it or not, there is a way to create content consistently...
From Idaho to The Jungle
The Coaching Jungle Facebook group has some really interesting members, and one of them is Shelly Yorgesen … The first thing I heard about Shelly is that she rented a cool castle in Ireland last year for a networking event she hosted. As we had other chats and I got...
Letting the genie out of the group coaching bottle
A brand new episode of Natural Born Coaches was just released, and Milana Leshinksy from Group Coaching Genie is my guest. In this episode, you'll learn: Why group coaching is such a great way to leverage your expertiseThe reasons this type of coaching can offer more...
Virtual networking experience in The Coaching Jungle
One of my big focuses in 2020 is on making The Coaching Jungle Facebook group as active, engaged, and helpful to the members as possible. There's a lot going on in there (about 30,000 posts and comments every month), but to throw gasoline on the fire we're doing...
The Napoleon Hill of today?
One of my favourite books is Napoleon Hill's "Think and Grow Rich". It was the first self-help one that I ever read, after stumbling across it in high school, and it led to my lifelong fascination with personal development. Part of the reason Hill's book was (and...
Weekends
It's Friday, and it reminds me of a story that I once read about Eddie Van Halen and how he spent his weekends. When Eddie was a teenager, his brother always tried to get him to go out with him and his friends on Friday and Saturday nights. But Eddie wanted to become...
Making business a piece of cake
Let's talk about baking cakes. If you tried to make one that requires six ingredients, but you only include two or three of them, chances are it wouldn't taste very good. You'd probably chuck it in the garbage (or do what I do, run to Dairy Queen and get one of their...