Monday, October 20, 2008

Spirit of Cooperation!

Spirit of Cooperation

By

Steven L. Keough a.k.a. Coach Steve (MC², MBA)

Are you surrounded by people in your life that create a "Spirit of Cooperation" second to none? Do you wish you had those people in your life? Does your team offer this or not?

Building Your Team, whether in your life or in your business, is a huge undertaking. How do you know who you need, what they need to know, where they can help, why they'd want to be involved, how they can assist you, how much they can help or how often? Is the spirit of cooperation present, or ARE YOU ONE YOUR OWN?
A Life coach, a personal coach, a business coach or an executive coach, all of them should be able to create not only community in a hurry, but also they should be able to create the spirit of cooperation too. They get people to play together without all the sandbox activities of infighting, backstabbing, gossiping and acting out. That would not be the spirit needed to succeed or even try. Leadership is needed, charisma is needed, you authentic self is needed and your true friend needs to show up for you and rise to the (your) occasion. Are they? Why not? Where are they?
You know what the problem is as well as I do. Your relationships are lacking, aren't connected tightly, or are at a distance, and a distance that won't allow you and your best supporters to lock arms in a human chain that cannot be broken - EVER! That's what we are doing, we are building a Human Chain around this planet, a chain that despite the darker forces of evil and or terror threats, this group stands strong, connected and determined to succeed in spite of ANY threat. The force of enlightenment (the light) and empowerment cannot be stopped, its the momentum I speak about that you get you contribute and pay forward too.
Is that the spirit we are looking for, you betchya, and where is it for you and your team, or your friends, family members, coworkers and associates. Are they offering themselves up to help you because it is you and the vision you are creating is just a bonus. Or are they driven only by the vision and you are just a participant? Both of those are fine, but you are going to need the spirit of cooperation not only to succeed at life and in business, but for pretty much any endeavour you go after. Nothing good comes without a price, so its best to use "ALL" your resources.
That of course includes all your network, but also could include your personal coach, business consulting, free coaching, training-coaching, coaching products, self help books, and seminars or workshops. This could include the famous folks like Les Brown, Harv Eker and even yours truly Steve Keough (not steve kehoe, not steve keheo, not steve keyo and not steve keogh either). You may need staight forward coaching, how appropriate. Perhaps you need a business coach alliance, or help from one of my top coaches, such as Francisco Dao of Inc.com, or from SuccessTracs or Peak Potentials Training or other seminar sales support companies or people.
Well that's what you get, a spirit of cooperation when you work with any of my companies such as SLK Enterprises, Inc. a.k.a CoachingProducts.org here in North America or Straight Forward Coaching, or CoachingProductsInternational.org. You may need a mastermind coach from WABC (World Association of Business Coaches), or The Action Coach. or Business Coaches. You may get it elsewhere, but you DEFINITELY get it here!


If you are not seeing the Spirit of Cooperation to the degree that you know you will need to be ultra-successful and create wealth and amazing teamwork to get things done, you may be in the market for an experienced and certified coach. Heck, if you are mildly successful and want me to kick your butt, try my Top Gun Program, you'll never recognize yourself again in a short time! This kick butt coaching started right after my TV appearance with Mr. William Shatner on his show The Heartbeat of America, and it's been insane ever since with both life coaching skills and business coaching clients, even some career coaching too.
Thanks to GoDaddy we are getting the message out all over the world, so thanks godaddy, we couldn't get it done without your slid technology platform. Where do you go from here if your spirit is missing in YOU or your personal network or business associates, who do you turn too now? This is no get rich quick scheme, you are going to have to work. Hard! But the benefits will be there for you, and after a short time coaching you'll see the results and your spirit will rise to the challenge. If not take my NEW program: called "Coach Steve's 100 Day Challenge."
When your spirit rises, the spirits around you will rise as well. Your energy for the good of yourself and mankind either infects are affects other people. All negative energy "infects", but all your positive energy "affects" those around you, creating momentum and then as your spirit begins to soar like the majestic bald eagle (a symbol of courage and success) then those around you too will start to soar. Go ahead: Fly Like an Eagle!

What's the benefit of this Spirit of Cooperation? The direct benefit is ease of getting things done and also your peace of mind while doing it with your team. How's that sound? It sure beats the heck out of what is typical for many of our clients before they join our coaching programs.

To Your Greater Success!
Thanx… Coach Steve


A Unique Opportunity

How can we help with this? As you may know, I have set up a worldwide organization of coaches to assist people with the most persistent of challenges. These coaches have been hand picked by me, personally trained by myself as well and are held to the highest possible standards of delivery. You don’t have to go it alone and you don’t need to be ashamed or embarrassed about these challenges. We all face challenges! The question is “What will you do about it?” And we are here to help make sure you are Happier, Healthier and Financially FREE!
A Special Offer

Don’t tolerate this in your life! Our certified and extremely experienced coaches are masters at helping folks just like you. They deliver our coaching system consistently and with ease. You won’t even recognize yourself after being coached with us. We expect you will be happier, healthier and on your way to becoming financially free once you start your journey with us. And the only thing holding you back right now is you!

So, here is an offer that we think even you would say “I’d have to be absolutely crazy not to take you up on this offer and solve this challenge in my life once and for all.

So what’s the lesson here? The lesson is you don’t have to tolerate this any longer! Please, learn from other people’s failures by leveraging their painful lessons to your advantage so you don’t have to endure this hardship for another second. You can avoid many of the common mistakes almost every single person makes by having a coach nearby to help you navigate life.
You are at a crossroad if you have read down this far. Don’t bail on yourself now. Take Action!
About Coach Steve

Steven L. Keough or Coach Steve as he prefers is the Founder & CEO of his coaching company Straight Forward Coaching, an Internationally recognized coaching enterprise. Coach Steve operates four very busy companies: of course Straight Forward Coaching, CoachingProducts.org (North America), CoachingProductsInternational.org (Overseas Operations and Non-English Speaking Products), and finally Business Coach Alliance for the training of coaches to be better certified coaches. Yes, we actually train many of the coaches that most organizations will hire.

Steve is also a multiple book Author (5 at this time), Handbook Author (24 at this time), Home Learning Course Creator (4 at this time), Speaker, Trainer and Master Certified Coach himself, a product of the product, and most proud to be a Coaching Curriculum Developer, changing thousands, if not millions, of lives for the better with his materials. He has coaches people for nearly two decades and has amassed over 20,000 hours of coaching individuals and businesses! Certified in 12 different coaching distinctions, Coach Steve’s books are best-sellers and his materials have been translated into multiple languages and are available in over 100 countries!
Visit Coach Steve at www.stevekeough.com or call 1-888-341-Coach (2622).

Monday, October 13, 2008

Insider Infomation

Insider Information

By

Steven L. Keough a.k.a. Coach Steve (MC², MBA)

Have you ever wondered why some people progress so fast while others languish?

If you knew what they knew you'd be on the fast track to success too!

Let's get right to the point. Is it "Insider Information", are they lucky or are they just in the right place at the right time? Answer: Yes! Yes to all three in fact!

The have inside information, everyone is lucky (even while most state they are not) and they purposely put themselves in the right place at the right time. Let me explain. Insider Information is the key to this blog because we are all lucky from time to time, proving we are in fact lucky. After you realize you have been lucky in the past, then you can create you own luck in the future, at will, whenever you need it. It's been said that luck is nothing more than perspiration meeting preparation and if that is true and we believe it is, then yes, you can create your own luck, and you can create it at your own, on demand so to speak!
As far as being in the right place at the right time, do you believe in fate, faith, karma, any of those? Most of us do in some form. Great, then you'd have to admit that we are all in the right place at the right time, at least in the moment. So again, if you have been in the right place before, you can purposely put yourself in the right place at the right time (your time) in the future. If that is true, and we believe that it is, then you can put your focus on the Insider Information. Before we look at that for the rest of this blog, just realize that for you to put yourself in the "right place" at the "right time", you have to know what you want and then, and only then, will the planets align for you to start creating opportunity, and the kind you want!

What happens here then, why are we in search of these right places and luck? That's not a very good ROE (return on Energy). If you knew what you were passionate about and you knew what your vision what your life was (if you do great, if not pretend you do for just a moment) then my guess is that you would want to be known as an expert in that field of endeavour. So what's the secret? And why don't you have it yet? What have you been doing instead (lack of focus)? Who's been derailing you (you)? Why do you let this continue (Not sure what to do)? How long have you been this way? How long will you let this hold you back?
We have hundreds of coaches available to help you in these areas and with our Grants for business owners and Rebates for individuals or families there's no longer a good reason to wait!
Is it good to have Insider Information? Is it good to know secrets? Is it helpful to have cheat sheets? Is it good to bust myths? In our society the way these questions are asked, combined with the past conditioning we have for the way these are portrayed (as bad), then we believe, or at least think, that insider information is a bad thing. The term Insider Information was made most negative in the context of the Stock Market when brokers or agents let out confidential stock tips of selling or possible sales of stock leaked before other should know.
Sorry, cal it what you will, right or wrong many people get VERY rich with this insider trading information. Do I condone that? No, but to illustrate why the information is such strong LEVERAGE I felt compelled to relate it to my story. Now lets get to the real point of this article.
If you are a interested in improving your life, being financially free (at least financially stable)a life-long learner, a student of enlightenment, interested in self-help, self-improvement or transformation, then you DEFINITELY want the insider information. Let me explain.
I've been involved with transformational learning, experiential learning, coaching people and using the power of the positive human spirit for the betterment of people and families for almost two full decades, 17 years to be exact. Now let me ask you, would you want all my insider information, OR would you rather slog it out yourself spending years and thousands to learn what I have learned only to end up in the exact same spot as I am, but it would be 17 years later in your life? Why RE-CREATE the wheel? I've committed my entire life to be the expert in this field, honestly so you don't have to be, and so YOU can benefit from my life's work.
That's Insider Info I wish I had in 1990 when I started, but it didn't exist back then. There was very little enlightenting information back then (there was the bible - but no transformational detailed information) but there is an abundance of that info today, too much now in fact. Why I say too much is because the purveyors of this information are not packaging it very well at all.
We are overrun with the information, theoretically, but few are offering practical "How To" apply this material information. And when they do, it is NOT very systematic at all. It's lumped together in a hodge-podge of cliche quotes and ideas, but it is NOT often packaged in a methodical way, a from here to there assembly of facts and defacto standards of how to take FULL ADVANTAGE of the materials available. That's where coaching comes in!
Even with coaching, there are many wannabe's that just hang a shingle in this unregulated industry. As long as they are one step ahead of you they feel that they are qualified to coach you. How spooky given the wreck of a life that many of them are entangled in. What to do now?
There are two paths that will get you there, wherever there is for you. The first is the conventional path, and if you know me then by now you know I think conventional wisdom SUCKS! The conventional way is exactly the way my mentor Brian Tracy put it: "Read for just 15 minutes a day and with just five years you will be an expert in your fiend and for ten years and you will be a world renowned expert in your field." Brian is right, and his wisdom is profound and proven, and in this case, the Insider Information will cut the time down DRAMATICALLY.
The second way is to have a mentor or coach and LEVERAGE everything they have learned to your advantage. In my nearly 20 years of learning, there are probably a dozen, maybe a dozen and a half of actual teachings that I use personally, build into ALL my coaching programs because they are so profound and impactful, but it took all those years to learn, plus tens of thousands of dollars! Why not take advantage of that insider information and use it to your advantage ASAP, instead of it costing years of effort and $20,000 or more?
Many of our clients, past and present, speak about one of the greatest values and benefits of coaching is to get what they want faster! What better way then to suck the brains dry of every coach, master coach, speaker, trainer and curriculum developer you can find? And because I am recognized as one of the best at this in coaching, you get to take full advantage of me by getting involved with our coaching programs. It was my choice to make this my career and passion for my life, so I strongly suggest you take full advantage of that and me and get every bit of leverage you can, take all the inside information you can get from me, my team and my coaches!

To Your Greater Success!
Thanx…Coach Steve
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A Unique Opportunity

How can we help with this? As you may know, I have set up a worldwide organization of coaches to assist people with the most persistent of challenges. These coaches have been hand picked by me, personally trained by myself as well and are held to the highest possible standards of delivery. You don’t have to go it alone and you don’t need to be ashamed or embarrassed about these challenges. We all face challenges! The question is “What will you do about it?” And we are here to help make sure you are Happier, Healthier and Financially FREE!

A Special Offer

Don’t tolerate this in your life! Our certified and extremely experienced coaches are masters at helping folks just like you. They deliver our coaching system consistently and with ease. You won’t even recognize yourself after being coached with us. We expect you will be happier, healthier and on your way to becoming financially free once you start your journey with us. And the only thing holding you back right now is you!

So, here is an offer that we think even you would say “I’d have to be absolutely crazy not to take you up on this offer and solve this challenge in my life once and for all.

So what’s the lesson here? The lesson is you don’t have to tolerate this any longer! Please, learn from other people’s failures by leveraging their painful lessons to your advantage so you don’t have to endure this hardship for another second. You can avoid many of the common mistakes almost every single person makes by having a coach nearby to help you navigate life.
You are at a crossroad if you have read down this far. Don’t bail on yourself now. Take Action!
About Coach Steve

Steven L. Keough or Coach Steve as he prefers is the Founder & CEO of his coaching company Straight Forward Coaching, an Internationally recognized coaching enterprise. Coach Steve operates four very busy companies: of course Straight Forward Coaching, CoachingProducts.org (North America), CoachingProductsInternational.org (Overseas Operations and Non-English Speaking Products), and finally Business Coach Alliance for the training of coaches to be better certified coaches. Yes, we actually train many of the coaches that most organizations will hire.

Steve is also a multiple book Author (5 at this time), Handbook Author (24 at this time), Home Learning Course Creator (4 at this time), Speaker, Trainer and Master Certified Coach himself, a product of the product, and most proud to be a Coaching Curriculum Developer, changing thousands, if not millions, of lives for the better with his materials. He has coaches people for nearly two decades and has amassed over 20,000 hours of coaching individuals and businesses!

Certified in 12 different coaching distinctions, Coach Steve’s books are best-sellers and his materials have been translated into multiple languages and are available in over 100 countries!
Visit Coach Steve at www.stevekeough.com or call 1-888-341-Coach (2622).

Monday, October 6, 2008

Enrollment AND Registration

Enrollment AND Registration


By


Steven L. Keough a.k.a. Coach Steve (MC², MBA)



Wouldn't it be cool to be able to get help with anything?



After you read this blog post that is exactly what will be possible for you!


Have you ever wished that you could get help from the people you know to get some things done? Whether they are small tasks like getting book pages edited, or having your Virtual Assistant deal with your book Publisher or as huge as accomplishing parts of your vision for your life, wouldn't it just be nice to have a little help? Well you can get that help after you read this entire blog posting, but first what is Enrollment and Registration?

The first thing to notice is that it is a TWO PART process. You cannot complete the enrollment process with someone unless you enroll them AND register them too. But registration is just the transactional part of the process. What that means is securing someone to help you requires them to be "enrolled" in what you are up to, and then the registration process could be as simple as them saying yes or something more sophisticated.


In the case of coaching (life coaching, business coaching, executive coaching or career coaching) someone must sign up for membership and that is the registration portion of coaching, but first they have to be interested/motivated. That interest or motivation or a thousand other words for it is the enrollment portion of it. Enrollment is a nice word, it sounds good and it indicates a pleasureful experience. Webster's say to enroll is "to become a member of." So if I asked you to help me rake my huge back yard (enrollment) and you said yes (registration) the process would be complete. I'd be psyched that yard would be done too!


That was an easy example, not too much at risk other than a blister or two and maybe a sore back. But what if I asked 320 people to join (enroll) us as GAP's (Global Affiliate Partners), then there would be much more to it and I'd have to explain the program, the tools, the support, etc, then ask if they were interested and if yes (registration) they would take action, in this case complete a GAP Application and send it off to our Straight Forward Coaching Affiliate Manager for approval. The bigger the game the more that is involved with registrations.


Why doesn't that usually happen for you?


Well, one reason could be in the way you are asking (or being) and the other could be, that unknown to you, you've been labeled "A Taker". In other words, your friends family members, co-workers and associates think "all you ever do" is take, take, take! Not too cool.


And/or, they are tired of you and don't want to participate in anything you do anymore, and in extreme cases not only don't want to hear about it, but under their breath they may actually hope you fail. That's so you'll stop bothering (taking) from them. Ouch, what does that say about you? In two words "selfish taker", but we want and need to remain as selfless givers, so then how do we get our needs met and how do others help us? All of us know takers in our lives and none of us really like them too much, do we? So why would you think then if you were a taker that the opposite would happen and people would ALWAYS want to help and you EXPECT it. That is YOUR ego hard at work my friends.


Life is lonely without: a loving relationship in the form of a significant other, supportive family members, great friends and many friends, or at least a really committed inner circle of friends and because we are human; coworkers, occasional friends and associates. Why this often occurs is that you are overdosing YOURSELF on pride (not the best of traits) rather than being humble. Humility is one of the best traits, values or characteristics of humanity, but sadly most are NOT really good at it, or even understand it's true impact on your life. Lose the pride!


Have you heard the phrase "You catch more bees with honey." Of course you have, but the inference here is that by being humble (definition: not proud, not assertive, to lessen or obliterate pride, to show your defects) rather than full "being"of pride (definition: an overly high opinion of self, arrogance, best of class, contempt for others). Your "beingness", while not really a true word, but in coaching we use it as a verb; they way you are being. Based on the two definitions provided a sentence or two ago, which would you rather be? In the well know coaching model of "be, do have" it all starts with "be" or "being", which is what we call YOUR beingness. If you are being prideful (above) it won't further your cause(s) while other avoid you. However, if you are being humble, others will get what you are up too and possibly want in.
Your Vision for your life is the best example. Let me explain. Your requests of them (friends, family, etc.) have to be bigger than you yourself. I'm very clear that if I ask my team for my selfish things they likely won't help me either, and worse they will feel that I am lazy and or out of integrity and say "NO" because this is self serving. But if they see the request is for a client being coached, or an animal in distress that our SPCA donation could help, or that a 5 year old in Haiti will have clean water, before I'm even done enrolling and or registering they ask "How can I help?". It's magical! Enrollment AND Registration are powerful tools in one's life.
If this seems foreign or possibly tough to learn or convert your evil ways so to speak, then you may need your own personal and private coach to help you do this life altering, profound work. An offer will be made to you at the end, so for now stay focused on the topic and keep reading on please. The offer will be there, so this is no time to thin about joining coaching.

Relationships are critical for success. EVERYTHING you need or want from life is going to come to you from SOMEONE ELSE! How will you get help, expand on the help, broaden your horizons, and in the end succeed by yourself? It's not possible really, at least if you want to be satisfied with life too. Sure you could be a lone ranger and get "rich" (meaning only the money part), but your life can't get rich (not the money) or wealthy (not the money) when you only stay in your own cave (by yourself) and don't fully interact with others in life.

So your vision is best if it is bigger than you. Such as our Contribution to the world in the form of supporting and financially helping the SPCA or Drinking Water for Kids foundations. Anyone that may get emotional or be emotional about those causes in naturally inspired to ask "How can I help?" And so you wan to create natural enrollments by people asking how can I help in the ways in which would help your cause(s). They act natural and gravitate toward you when they are either inspired, emotionally moved about a cause or touched in some way. Touched, moved or inspired by the cause or vision to correct something, an injustice maybe, and naturally motivated to want to help, so the enrollment is easy and the registration is painless.
If you are struggling to enroll people then you simply are not pushing their emotional buttons, you are not touching, not moving or not inspiring them at all. It's possible this happens due to a lack of authenticity or forced authenticity. When you inspire from the heart to the heart it is automatic. When you force it, it doesn't work. So the best thing to do is to create your vision and tell everyone (attempt to enroll everyone) and for those who feel it is a fit, they will allow you to enroll them or they'll enroll themselves by asking "How can I help?" And in either case you will register them. If your message doesn't resonate they won't enroll themselves or perhaps at all and that is okay too. Our stuff is not for everyone.
And, don't be surprised at the lengths that some people will go to heckle you or your messages in a selfish attempt to derail you that comes from their upsetness or anger that you are the chosen one, that you are succeeding, or that you are courageous enough o take the stand that they would if they had a spine. And in some cases they will trash your name, drag you through the mud and attempt to distract you from your successes - IF YOU LET THEM! So, don't and remember small people play small games and their insecurities make their results mediocre. You don't want to be hanging around in that crowd, even if it is a family member. Move on!

Whatever your idea, your vision, your passion, or your cause, take the stretch exercise and go out and enroll 10 people in what you are up to. And whatever the percentage, say 70% (7 of 10) will follow your journey, then expect that at 100, 1000 and 1,000,000! Take the challenge enroll and register 10 people in what you are up to and let us know how you make out!! Be well.

To Your Greater Success!

Coach Steve


A Unique Opportunity

How can we help with this? As you may know, I have set up a worldwide organization of coaches to assist people with the most persistent of challenges. These coaches have been hand picked by me, personally trained by myself as well and are held to the highest possible standards of delivery. You don’t have to go it alone and you don’t need to be ashamed or embarrassed about these challenges. We all face challenges! The question is “What will you do about it?” And we are here to help make sure you are Happier, Healthier and Financially FREE!

A Special Offer

Don’t tolerate this in your life! Our certified and extremely experienced coaches are masters at helping folks just like you. They deliver our coaching system consistently and with ease. You won’t even recognize yourself after being coached with us. We expect you will be happier, healthier and on your way to becoming financially free once you start your journey with us. And the only thing holding you back right now is you!

So, here is an offer that we think even you would say “I’d have to be absolutely crazy not to take you up on this offer and solve this challenge in my life once and for all.

So what’s the lesson here? The lesson is you don’t have to tolerate this any longer! Please, learn from other people’s failures by leveraging their painful lessons to your advantage so you don’t have to endure this hardship for another second. You can avoid many of the common mistakes almost every single person makes by having a coach nearby to help you navigate life.
You are at a crossroad if you have read down this far. Don’t bail on yourself now. Take Action!
About Coach Steve

Steven L. Keough or Coach Steve as he prefers is the Founder & CEO of his coaching company Straight Forward Coaching, an Internationally recognized coaching enterprise. Coach Steve operates four very busy companies: of course Straight Forward Coaching, CoachingProducts.org (North America), CoachingProductsInternational.org (Overseas Operations and Non-English Speaking Products), and finally Business Coach Alliance for the training of coaches to be better certified coaches. Yes, we actually train many of the coaches that most organizations will hire.

Steve is also a multiple book Author (5 at this time), Handbook Author (24 at this time), Home Learning Course Creator (4 at this time), Speaker, Trainer and Master Certified Coach himself, a product of the product, and most proud to be a Coaching Curriculum Developer, changing thousands, if not millions, of lives for the better with his materials. He has coaches people for nearly two decades and has amassed over 20,000 hours of coaching individuals and businesses!

Certified in 12 different coaching distinctions, Coach Steve’s books are best-sellers and his materials have been translated into multiple languages and are available in over 100 countries!
Visit Coach Steve at http://www.stevekeough.com/ or call 1-888-341-Coach (2622).