Focus on the vision not the weeds-Ep:72

Welcome to she coaches coaches. I'm your host,

Kandi motsek. And I'm going to help you find the clarity,

confidence and courage to become the coach that you are meant to

be. If you're a new coach, or if you've always wanted to be a

life coach, then this is the place for you. We're going to

talk all about mindset and strategies and how to, because

step by step only works when you have the clarity, courage and

confidence to take action. Let's get started. Hi, friend, and

welcome to this episode. I'm so glad you're here. So let me ask

you this question. Are you a problem solver? Do you find that

you spend a lot of time thinking about your problems? dissecting

them, analyzing them considering ways to solve them? You might be

thinking, I don't know what my niches or I can't start signing

clients until I know who I help write? Or how will I get

clients? Like how specifically will I get them? Or where

exactly do I start? Like, how do I do this? Now, you may pride

yourself on being a deep thinker, or super analytical.

And that is an amazing skill for you to be able to use your brain

in that way. But I want to lend you another perspective here as

well. Now back in episode 33, called Grow your coaching

business like a garden, I spoke about how it helps to think of

your coaching business like a garden, you want to create a

good foundation, good nutritious soil, carefully plant those

seeds, water and nurture those little seedlings. And reminding

you that the aim is to create a garden or a coaching practice,

filled with all kinds of amazing vegetables and fruit that you

will harvest in good time. And those are all the amazing

clients that are going to come and work with you in good time.

So let's think about problems. And every time I think about a

problem, sometimes it has this feeling of a little bit of

nervousness, a problem could be a little pocket of fear. Now,

fear in and of itself is not a problem. It's a completely

natural emotion, and we listen to it. And then we can choose

the best course of action, sometimes may, why we might want

to hang back. Sometimes we might just acknowledge that we're

feeling the firt fear and do it anyway. Now, some of these fears

are the way your brain tries to keep you safe from moving

forward, right? If your brain says, Oh, you must have a niche

completely figured out. Before you can have clients, then

you're going to spend a lot of time focusing on finding your

niche. Instead of getting out there and coaching people and

letting your niche find you. The more you coach, the more you're

going to find your groove. And then you're going to discover

what you like to coach on most. And voila, you will have

discovered your niche. But if you allow your fear to hold you

back, you'll never discover it in the same way. Makes sense,

right?

I'd like to go back to this metaphor of the garden.

Sometimes your brain wants to keep you tangled up in fear and

all the busyness and it's like it's taken seeds, weed seeds,

like a package of weed seeds and sprinkle them all over your

magnificent garden. And as those weeds sprout, here's you here's

me sometimes to looking down at the ground, looking away from

your plants that are growing. And you're tempted to start

plucking every single little weed. And in the middle of doing

that, plucking every weed looking everywhere where you

might find one looking down at the ground, you're forgetting

that you're actually growing a magnificent garden, and that the

aim is to grow a garden and harvest it and not to be on your

hands and knees in the weeds. So when you're intently focused on

pulling all those little weed seedlings, you're not tending to

the plants that you planted intentionally. You're not

pruning them. You're not harvesting the fruit. You're not

being thankful for the veggies that are already growing. You're

stuck at the level of the weeds. You're lost in those little

problems. And for God that your vision is to grow a crop, a

harvest of a Raising vegetables. Now, of course, every garden is

going to have weeds. But where are you looking? Are you looking

at the problems, the weeds? Or are you looking at your vision,

your dream, the amazing crop of vegetables that you're growing,

of course, you do need to solve some problems and keep the weeds

under control, but not at the expense of tending to your

harvest. Focus on the solution on the goal on your vision of a

magnificent garden, instead of always being down on your hands

and knees, trying to pick up every single microscopic weed.

Now, if you're listening, and you realize that maybe, just

maybe you sometimes get stuck in the weeds, and you're not sure

how to get out, here's what I recommend. Stand up. Yeah,

literally, if you can, right now physically stand up and take a

deep breath, get grounded and centered in your body. Focus and

feel your feet on the ground, feel the energy moving through

your body. And remember why you're doing this. Why is this

important? If you're like most of the amazing people that I

know, you want to make a difference and make money. You

want to have a positive impact on the world and feel free. You

want to coach you want clients and you know that this is what

you're meant to be doing. So connect with your vision. And if

you're still in doubt, the first step for any coach, whether

you're a brand new coach just starting out, or you're a coach

has been here for a while and you're getting a little bit

stalled in your growth. The first step is always to coach.

Yeah, I want you to coach and coach and coach some more, get

great at your craft, find people invite them to coach with you.

If it needs to be free to start out with fine. If you only want

to charge a small amount, that's fine to just start coaching

real, live humans, help them, show up for them, hold space for

them and start making a difference. And you're going to

find pretty soon that some of those little problem, weeds are

just going to solve themselves. And then you'll also be

surprised to find out that some of those weeds don't even

matter. As you create clients and you're focused on helping

your clients, pretty soon, you're going to have more demand

for your service than you have space. And once you've created

demand, then you can begin to raise your rates. And that's why

I don't worry that if you decide to start for free or a small

amount, I know that once you start to fill your calendar, you

can always raise your rates. Hey, I appreciate that you guys

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