Posts Tagged ‘excuses’
Top 5 Excuses to Stay Stuck (Which One Is Yours?)
As a life and business coach, I hear a lot of excuses from my potential clients. Why they won’t start a business. Why they want to play small. Why they won’t raise their prices. Why they want to throw in the towel and hide under the covers forever. All those excuses have one thing in…
Read MoreIf You’d Do It For Your Best Friend, Do It For YOU!
Let’s do a visualization exercise that I lead my clients through when they’re falling into bad habits and giving in to their excuses. Imagine your best friend (someone who doesn’t live with you) is standing at your front door. Her house just burned down, and she only has the clothes on her back. Her kids…
Read MoreHow to Stop Making Excuses and Do the Work | What If You Really Tried?
One of my favorite films is the Disney-Pixar movie Soul, where a man named Joe Gardner unexpectedly dies and must help an apathetic soul named 22 find her purpose if he has any chance to return to Earth and live again. In a wacky turn of events, Joe and 22 wind up in the human world,…
Read MoreNever Say “I Can’t Afford It!” | The Truth About Money
In today’s video, I’m introducing you to the love of my life. She’s blonde, brown-eyed, super sweet, and about 2 feet tall. It’s my dog Skyla! While I probably don’t need an excuse to share pictures of my baby dog (c’mon, she’s beautiful!), but I do have a point . . . and it has…
Read MoreI Made This When I Was Mad (Tough Love Time!)
A few years after starting my coaching business, I began noticing my clients saying the same excuses as to why they haven’t started a business. And they all had to do with time management. “I wish I could start a business but I have no time.” “I have a day job, and I’m too exhausted by the…
Read MoreRevitalize Your Business in 10 Minutes or Less | Simple, Quick Marketing Tips
We all have excuses for why we don’t reach our goals. “I don’t have enough money to pursue my dreams.” “I’m not smart enough to do that.” “My dog ate my homework.” And then there’s the tricky excuse that pops up time and time again when I meet with my clients . . . “I don’t…
Read MorePrioritize and Plan Your Life With a Time Budget
I’m a bit of a nerd, and you’ll often find me curled up on the couch watching some fantasy movie like The Lord of the Rings. There’s a great line from the first movie where the wizard Gandalf is talking with the hobbit Bilbo about why the one ring must be destroyed. After some arguing between…
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