[OWWL Success Tip] Do you eat the crumbs?
In working with my business, weight, and coach certification clients, I often find that they are settling for crumbs.
O.W.W.L. Success Tip: Don’t eat the crumbs when you can have the whole banquet (the “whole enchilada” in New Mexico terms)!
Why are you eating just crumbs? Do you think you don’t deserve to have it all? Or do you think you have to take what you can get? Do you ask for what you want? Or do you hope that someone else will toss you a morsel?
A relationship counselor told me once that I could list the qualities I wanted in a relationship, but I couldn’t have them all. I fired him. I thought I deserved to have it all.
My life coach client didn’t think she deserved more, so she settled for a man who criticized her and drained her energy. He had some good qualities in the mix too so she tolerated the criticism. I told her, “Love doesn’t hurt. The man who loves you wants to uplift and uphold you, not bring you down.” Yes, this client can have a man who respects and cherishes her for exactly who she is. She doesn’t have to settle for the crumbs. (And he is a crumb.)
My coach certification client didn’t think she could succeed, so from desperation she attracted a client who was late to coaching sessions, wouldn’t do assignments, and paid late. I asked her, “Why do you put up with this? Our ideal clients empower us as coaches and work with us as a team.” This crumb was NOT an ideal client. This coach was settling for crumbs.
An advanced coach training client doubted her abilities to grow her business, so she charged way too little and over delivered way too much. When I asked her to quiz her clients about the value she provided to them, their answers proved that she had been settling for the crumbs.
It’s our mindset that causes us to settle for less than we really want. Our beliefs get in our own way. In what ways are you compromising yourself by settling for only the crumbs? What are the disempowering mindsets or beliefs about yourself that allow it to happen? What is one thing you can do right now to change your mindset? What is one crumb that you will no longer settle for so that you may enjoy the full banquet?
Sincerely,
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Success Story
Janis is one of the most powerful coaches I know and has had incredible success with her O.W.L. program. Women actually lose weight and keep it off, not to mention all of the myriad of other benefits and breakthroughs they have.
Norah Edelstein, Topanga, CA, Ontological Life Coach
[Success Tip] Why you need to learn from the best Mastery Level Coaches
I was at a Mastery Level Coaches training last year along with many of my colleagues, as we up leveled ourselves and our businesses with great educational content plus wonderful networking and sharing of ideas. It occurred to me that this is really a great success tip for all of us:
Success Tip: Invest in yourself by investing in top-notch training and coaching.
First, obviously when we continue our professional education, we stay current and sharp with the knowledge part of it. But even more, investing in yourself sends two powerful messages:
- The message to yourself that you are worth investing in and that you value yourself and your business. This boosts your confidence and power.
- The message to your clients that as a wise leader in your business, continually learning and growing, that you are worth their investment in themselves as well. This boosts their confidence in you and also in their decision to hire you.
What is the next place you can up level yourself through investing in your business, yourself, and your future?
Warm wishes for your success,
P. S. Coming Soon…my new book is in it’s revision stages: ‘Lose Weight for Life: 9 Unconscious Reasons You Can’t Keep the Weight Off and What to Do About It’. I’ll keep you posted when it’s done!
Success Story
Janis is a wonderful coach with real life experience to stand behind. Because Janis has been there, she understands the challenges and excuses that arise for everyone; thus she is able to motivate, encourage and guide her clients through their obstacles.
And somehow she always knows the right questions to ask in order to get to the real issue that keeps her clients in bondage to their addiction(s) and/or behaviors.
I am forever grateful to Janis for her commitment to sowing into my life and helping me reach my weight loss goal of 50+ pounds. I couldn’t have done it without her.
Thank you,
~ Melinda
[OWWL Success Tip] Is your definition of success killing your business and maybe killing you?
Do you often feel stressed or overburdened? Does your life feel like it’s too jam-packed with to-dos and not enough purpose? Have you created a lifestyle that leaves you anxious, frustrated, or burned out? This lifestyle could be killing your business – or even you! Instead, how would you like to thrive, be successful, and create a life of well-being, wisdom, and wonder?
In our O.W.L. programs we teach that well-being is one of the pillars of success. So you can imagine my delight to learn of Arianna Huffington, Greek-American author and syndicated columnist. She is best known for her news website The Huffington Post. She was also named as number 12 in Forbes’ first-ever list of the “Most Influential Women In Media.” Her platform includes helping women redefine success for themselves.
O.W.W.L. Success Tip: Thrive, don’t just survive.
To help you do just that, Arianna Huffington, wrote the book Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder. It offers a number of strategies you can use to bridge the gap between knowing what you could be doing to thrive, and actually doing it rather than just agreeing with but not implementing these principles in your own life. In addition to making sure you’re getting sufficient amounts of high-quality sleep, Arianna recommends incorporating the following strategies in your day-to-day life:
- Meditation. It can be as short as five minutes to start. Simply allow your thoughts to come and go, returning your focus to your breath without getting caught up in your mind’s meanderings. The purpose of mindfulness meditation is to simply be “fully present” in the moment. This is where you can notice how you really feel, and connect with who you really are, deep down.
- Sweeping your mental corridors. She also suggests making the conscious decision to drop negative or judgmental thoughts and anxieties at the end of each day. If the thought or feeling does not serve you, let it go.
- Practice gratitude. Keeping a daily gratitude list of the many little blessings in your life can help you shift your focus to how good your life is instead of dwelling on the challenges. “If we can redirect our mind to focus on the blessings, I find that I feel much more joyful and much more filled with energy,” Arianna says.
- Connect with others face-to-face. Start making personal connections with people you come across every day that you might have taken for granted – it could be the cleaning crew in your office, the checkout clerk, or the barista in the coffee shop. Connecting with people face-to-face will allow you to become more present in the moment, and more connected with the rest of humanity. It also helps you tap into empathy and compassion—two emotions that often fall by the wayside when you’re too stressed and disconnected to even notice the world around you.
- Do one thing at a time. Multitasking is an illusion. Research shows that multitasking is actually task-switching, and it’s very stressful. It also promotes anxiety. If you can walk down the street, and really just walk, without texting or talking on the phone, it will connect you with the moment. You will be able to notice the sunset, a flower, the design features of a building, or the smiling face of a baby.
My wish, as Arianna’s, is for all of us is to live a life of Well-being, Wisdom, and Wonder AT THE SAME TIME WE ACHIEVE SUCCESS.
What is one thing on her list that you could do today toward this end?
Sincerely,
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P. S. S. 2014 Coach Certification & Training Program begins this week. For new coaches or experienced ones, we cover all the four essential elements of a successful coaching business in depth:
- Shifting the 9 unconscious sabotage patterns that keep us from success, for both you and your clients
- An authentic way to market and grow your business
- A healthy relationship with money
- Coaching support to help you be a courageous and powerful force in your business
P. S. S. S. NOW AVAILABLE: 9-Week Weight Loss Coach Training Intensive Home Study Course, “Become the Ultimate Weight Loss Coach: Unconscious sabotages every coach needs to know so clients can drop the weight forever.” This course solves the problem that even though weight loss coaches can help their clients with the nutrition and exercise and with short term motivation, they don’t usually know how to help their clients identify and overcome the unconscious sabotages that result in weight loss plateaus or, worse, regaining the weight their clients lost and more!
Success Stories:
Janis is one of the most powerful coaches I know and has had incredible success with her O.W.L. program. Women actually lose weight and keep it off, not to mention all of the myriad of other benefits and breakthroughs they have.
Norah Edelstein, Topanga, CA, Ontological Life Coach
[Current O.W.W.L. Journey] Changing careers in the last third of my life
I remember a few years ago when I was frustrated with my career. I had been a CPA and also a Mary Kay Senior Sales Director. Neither of them were satisfying to me. I felt called to do something more and to discover what my real purpose was. I heard about life coaching, and I investigated it. This was perfect as a new career, because I could make what I wanted, have a flexible schedule, work virtually, and help other people. I became who you know me today, Executive Mastery Coach specializing in Wealth, Weight, and Leadership. And now? I would love, love, love for you to work with me and do what I do. I would also love, love, love to teach you how to do it!
Many of us have a career we love or at least it is comfortable and familiar. But like me, some of us need more. Is this you? Maybe you think you’re too old or stuck. Maybe you’re scared to consider any other options such as part time work or changing careers altogether. Maybe you think you just don’t have the time or energy to consider something else. But if you’re like me and know there is more for you, please consider this.
If you are like me and want to bring in more money, have flexible hours, work live or virtually, have unlimited income, and help others, let’s talk! I will help you. I will train you. Please check out this link, and be sure to read the testimonials from people just like you that I have helped.
The early bird savings ends this week, so please don’t wait. Here is the link for all the details including those testimonials: www.owlweightloss.com/programs/certificationtrainingprogram/
I look forward to having a private talk with you to discover if this is for you.
Sincerely,
Success Stories
Janis loves you into results. She believes in you and does not let you be less than magnificent. The work is deep, and yet she makes it fun. O.W.L is about weight loss and also a way of being. I have not only lost the weight I wanted to lose, I have also learned to make powerful requests, to take a stand for myself, and to celebrate my life.
Cathy, California
The O.W.L. program has changed my life forever. I have never felt such deep love from anyone including myself. Janis is the best at making you realize things about yourself that you never knew were there. She will embrace you with her words and love you for who you are and whatever you bring to share. O.W.L. is a program that will last forever. It goes past the diet to the real reason that you are overweight. If I had not started this program I would be 50lbs heavier or more and sleeping every day, eating things that I do not love. I would be on my way to death at an early age. This program teaches you the importance of taking care of all of you, not just your body, but your mind, your being, and your spirit. Janis is one of the most important persons in my life because she has helped me save my life. I am happier loved by others and I love myself and realize my purpose in life. From my every being I thank Janis for the opportunity for change.
Danielle, Nevada
[O.W.W.L. Success Tip] How to survive email marketing
Have you been wondering why people are marketing so much through email, and are you wishing it would all stop! Well, it won’t stop, and in this article I’m sharing some empowering tips to handle it all.
O.W.W.L. Success Tip: Resistance if Futile!
We have always been exposed to sales and marketing, even from the moment our mom tried to get us to take the bottle or breast and later when she urged us to eat our broccoli. In my cosmetic sales business we learned you could use telephone, telegraph, or tell-a –woman to share new products.
When something is wonderful, we want to share it with as many people as possible, and we share with whatever means of communication we have at our disposal. Through the evolution of communication, sales and marketing techniques have evolved. Snail mail campaigns and brochures have evolved to email campaigns and websites. Paper catalogs are now on line. Written word has evolved to include audio and video.
Most of us are now online, and our in-boxes get a daily workout. Here are my recommendations for handling all of this:
- Don’t resist; just know that online marketing is now a normal part of our culture.
- If you don’t want to read something, don’t read it.
- If you enjoy the style and/or the informative messages/training from someone who is doing email marketing, don’t unsubscribe when the program or product launch emails arrive. If you do, you will miss out on the other valuable support. Simply delete the emails that you don’t wish to read, or perhaps read those that could be passed along to someone else.
- If you don’t like the style and/or the informative messages/training from someone, then by all means unsubscribe to their list. Just know that they can’t send you anything else after that, not even the good stuff, unless you re-subscribe yourself.
The main point I want to underscore is that this is not negative; it’s how people share with other people.
To those of you who have stuck with me as I learn how to navigate this area, thank you! And if you unsubscribe from my emails, I will try not to feel rejected! 🙂
Warmly,
P. S. “Become the Ultimate Coach: Unconscious Sabotage Patterns every coach needs to know” has begun. Upon request, we have chosen to not close registration, since all calls are recorded to listen at your convenience. If you know a coach or health professional who wants to get better results for clients and understanding the 9 unconscious sabotage patterns every client has, please have them visit my “Become the Ultimate Coach” page on my website for more information and contact us for questions at Janis@JanisPullen.com.
Success Story
I just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate you. I have thoroughly enjoyed the O.W.L. Coach Certification and Training program and listening to the calls again. I continue enjoying your wisdom and your being an inspiration to me and a great model that I continue to follow.
~Kristen Owen, Kristen Owen Coaching, Toronto, Canada, O.W.L. Weight Loss Certified Coach
Success Story
I am a successful graduate of the Ontological Weight Loss Program. I have lost almost 100 pounds and have been living the O.W.L. program for three years, I have been there and done it and I know it works. I know that O.W.L. program works on the head, heart, body and spirit and that you can’t lose weight with just the facilitative work. (Well, you can, but you won’t change your lifestyle or keep it off.) This is where the ontological work comes in, giving you the ability to change your life to change your lifestyle.
~Dr. Lisa Orick-Martinez, O.W.L. weight loss graduate and O.W.L. Weight Loss Certified Coach
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