A Course About People | 5 Little Things You Want To Know

Here are 5-snippet wisdoms for this week, from a collection by Thomas Leonard, and compiled with the help of his R&D team. Whether they’re obvious or profound, either way, perhaps they’ll make you stop for a moment and think.  Once in a while, you may find an item that sticks like a splinter in your brain (only not as painful as the real thing) and is useful for when you’re interacting with folk.

Check out the 5-snippets for this week:

• People would like to have more time for themselves but feel guilty when they make it.
• People haven’t realized that basically everyone is faced with the same problems.
• People have secrets in their family history.
• People tend to bury their own greatness under a belief system of mediocrity.
• People are empowered when they switch from a perspective of “I can’t” to “How can I?”

We’re broadcasting these weekly now, no charge, just for the fun of it.  If you’d like to receive your personal copy of these in your email inbox…all you need do is sign up at www.ThoughtsByEmail.com.

Whatcha think of these ones, anyhow? Anything stick, or stick out?

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advanced strategies for Multiple Streams?

Since holding the Open House call on ‘Advanced Strategies to Multiple Streams of Coaching Income’ in December 2008, we’ve  had a slew of lovely emails all asking the same question:

“The advanced strategies are ahead of the curve and so spot on, but help! What do I do next?”

If you haven’t yet listened to the call, the recording and notes are available at the blog along with comments (more than 40 so far.)  There have been so many advancements in technology, it’s important to stay ahead with advanced thinking…

http://tinyurl.com/d28a5u <— call recording is here

Based on MANY requests, I’ve decided to put together a very tightly-focused set of recordings that goes deeper into each of the 5 strategies originally covered on the Open House Call.  In these recordings I provide how-to steps for you to apply to the particular set of circumstances in your business.  Examples, links to tools you can analyze and reverse engineer for your own use. 

Remember: these are advanced strategies so they will take time to think through and implement, but with a little more grounding you can prevent a bunch of trial and error. 

Additionally, if you felt lost at all during the Open Call, these added recordings will make things more explicit. 

I’m inviting you to pre-purchase the set of 5 MP3s at a very special pre-launch price.  The recordings will be edited in the next week and after the spit and polish, the Advanced Strategies Set will retail for $247.  (Less than one hour of 1-on-1 coaching with me, a truly great value.)

Because of time constraints, I’m not going to create a web page for the recordings yet, nor a pretty graphical cover for the product either.  I just want to get these done and out to you so I have a good answer to your ‘what do I do next?’ questions! 

Until Friday, February 6th, go to this link to purchase your recordings for just $97.

http://tinyurl.com/bwdeuw

Because each strategy is covered rapid-fire in 40 minutes you will be able to easily schedule time to listen to one call at a time, and then begin implementing.  The call tempo is intense and there is a lot of ground covered so be prepared to relisten if needed – just remember that these
Advanced Strategies are the very same ones I’ve been covering for years in one-on-one coaching.  To cover the equivalent content in slow-but-steady individual coaching, it would probably take 3-6 months or $2000 to 4000 worth of coaching fees, for real. My clients tell me it’s worth every penny, especially when they go from high 5-figures or low 6-figures and built to quarter of a million in gross income and more.  

Needless to say, I hope you’ll take advantage of the pre-purchase link at an easy one-time fee of $97.  And even more so I hope you’ll take advantage of this chance to get ahead – way ahead – of your goals for multiple streams of coaching income.  

Buy Now at:

http://tinyurl.com/bwdeuw  <— your VIP pre-launch link for one payment of $97

Once we release the retail product at $247, this link will expire as it’s only fair to others.  So don’t forget to grab it before Friday, February 6th.

What’s So Great About Coaching | This Week’s 5 Real-Life Comments

Here’s what the following people are saying about coaching:

“Inside every successful business person is an even more ambitious one trying to get out. He or she just needs a little help.” - Australian Financial Review

“Coaching is an action-oriented partnership that, unlike psychotherapy which delves into patterns of the past, concentrates on where you are today and how you can reach your goals.” - Time

“What exactly is a coach? Part personal consultant, part sounding board, part manager. Yes, manager. Remember him? That person whose job used to be to advise, motivate, and train – but whose nose is now mostly stuck in e-mail? For a surprising number of people, it is now the coach – not the boss – who pushes them to hire, to fire, to fine-tune a sales pitch, to stretch.” - Fortune

“As a result of coaching, clients set better goals, take more action, make better decisions, and more fully use their natural strengths.” - Sausalito.net

“Coaches can help entrepreneurs get their personal lives in order, which can go a long way toward solving what may have looked like purely business problems.” - Dale D. Bliss, Nation’s Business

For 5 real-life comments about coaching by real-life clients, the media, other coaches and even naysayers, go to www.ThoughtsByEmail.com and subscribe to the Why Coaching? mini ezine. You’ll get one issue with 5 statements, just like the above, each week.

What do you think about this week’s quotes?

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Best of Multiple Streams | Thought for the Week

This is our weekly excerpt from Multiple Streams of Coaching Income, the book that helps you think out of the box and consider more than coaching 1-on-1.  Without further ado, how’s this for today:

“Some spectacular weather is happening…. the ‘Convergence of Coaching with Internet and Direct Marketing.’”

What happens when these things overlap? What has been happening already, that you can see? Are there places in your business where you could take more advantage of this convergence?

To sign up for more nuggets like this each week, delivered to your very own email inbox, visit www.ThoughtsByEmail.com. To dive into the mother-ship of these thoughts, you can also purchase the book itself here.  Do what’s right for you, okay?

Life’s Precious Potpourri

As I write this, my first-ever canine companion, Chili Pepper, rests his 11-year old bones easily, clear-eyed and gazing, no doubt wondering what the heck I’m tap tap tapping about.  Just over a week ago, he’d taken a turn for the very worst, and the vet’s medication had us racing headlong toward that final cliff.  But two days later, it turns out there’s toothpaste left in that old tube yet, and we’re squeezing out the pleasure of every day. 

Life is precious, and I hope you’re enjoying it too, wherever you are in the world.

May I add just one note about the eye-popping greatness of the new White House website? I mean, really, is it OK that I gush about this?  There’s so much here in the way of “Gosh, why hasn’t it always been like this!?” If you don’t believe me, check out old versions of the site at www.archive.org.

Click the screenshot to go visit. But be forewarned, they might just report your click-through in a future web stats report, that’s how transparent they’re aspiring to be.  Go web 2.0!

Setting Up Your ‘I’m Away’ Email

Tech Tip From Tina Forsyth

This is a slight pet peeve of mine, so forgive me if I come across a bit ranty.

I get so annoyed when I continue to receive the same ‘I’m out of the office’ or ‘I’m checking email twice a day’ email every time I send a message to certain people. It becomes just one more thing filling up my inbox, and we all know that we don’t need that!

Don’t get me wrong, I know these emails are important. I do want to know if you are out of the office on vacation or if you only check email at certain times. Then of course I know when to expect a reply.

What annoys me is the fact that I’m getting this same email over and over again, especially when it’s someone I email multiple times a day. To protect the not-so-innocent, notice how I’m refraining from naming names.

So here’s the tech tip.  Most of us set up an autoresponder in our email hosting plan. This sends out an email in response to every new email – indiscriminately.  The autoresponder isn’t smart enough to know if the same person has sent 10 emails or even 20. 

The alternative – much friendlier – is one you can set up using a Gmail account.

Guess what? Gmail is much smarter than your average ordinary email autoresponder.  It knows to send out your automated message just once every 4 days to each individual that emails you. Translation? It doesn’t matter how many emails a particular individual sends you in a short space of time, your ‘I’m away’  reply will be sent just once every 4 days. Love it!

How to set this up for yourself?

If you already use Gmail as your main email service, you simply need to turn on the Vacation responder setting. To do this:

• Click ‘Settings’ at top of page. You will be on the ‘General’ tab.
• Page down a bit and you will see the Vacation Responder section
• Put in the message you want to send out and set the Vacation Responder to on

If you don’t use Gmail as your main email service, for example, you collect your email in Outlook, or in webmail or something else, there are a couple of extra steps.

(This is what I do as I’m an Outlook fan, which may make some of you cringe, but hey, it works.)

• Setup a Gmail account for yourself, or if you have one already dust it off.
• Set your regular email account to forward to the Gmail account.
• Repeat the steps above. Forwarding your email on to Gmail causes Gmail to do its job with your ‘I’m away’ message. 

Done! Just that easy…and don’t forget to send an email to yourself to test it and make sure it works.

Get Certified As An Online Business Manager (OBM)

Calling All Online Business Managers (And Those Who Want One)

Internet-based businesses continue to thrive and proliferate, and no wonder! The web-based entrepreneur continues to represent the dream for many: high profit margins, low risk, and the work-from-anywhere lifestyle.  As these businesses mature however, their need for reliable and dedicated management grows too.  

If you’re a business owner who’s nodding “Yes! Yes, my business needs more than what a Virtual Assistant (VA) can provide,” congratulations on your growth. Same goes if you’re an online support professional looking for career advancement and earnings potential.  In both cases, you’ll be interested in the launch of the International Association of Online Business Managers (IAOBM).

When my business partner Tina released her book Becoming an Online Business Manager last fall, it was as if water had been poured on a patch of desert.  Business owners have shown an incredible hunger to hire the few OBMs that are currently qualified and available, and VAs are chomping at the bit to meet the need.

Suffice to say, in over 5 years of business coaching, I can personally vouch for the great leaps forward that occur when entrepreneurs find the right key player.  OBMs can be one of the most significant keys to unlock your earnings from six-figures, to seven.  How do I know for sure? I’m in that category myself.

The mission of the IAOBM is first, to train, certify and support Online Business Managers and second, to support the business owners in hiring them.  If this seems intriguing, I invite you to visit the freshly-launched website – I’m told the paint is dry, but only just!

Of course, as a reader of Creating What Matters, I’m always pleased to offer a special gift.  If the IAOBM is right for you and you decide to join, the first 100 new members will receive a very special ‘unadvertised’ gift – they will get the popular recording ‘Hiring an Online Business Manager to Take Your Business (and your profits) to the Next Level’ sent direct to them on CD. Check it out here. 

A Course About People | 5 Little Things You Want To Know

These little 5-snippet wisdoms are from a collection by Thomas Leonard.  He compiled them with the help of his R&D team. The statements can be obvious or profound, but either way the point is to make you stop for a moment and think.  Once in a while, you may find an item that sticks like a splinter in your brain (only not as painful as the real thing) and is useful for when you’re interacting with folk.

Check out the 5-snippets for this week:

• People think being selfish is a bad thing.
• People would like to know how to make their lives easier.
• People think that if they could make more money, they would be happier.
• People find it difficult to confront.
• People are not knowledgeable about how to set good boundaries.

We’re broadcasting these weekly now, no charge, just for the fun of it.  If you’d like to receive your personal copy of these in your email inbox…all you need do is sign up at www.ThoughtsByEmail.com.

Whatcha think of these ones, anyhow? Anything stick, or stick out?

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Plans For The Works of Thomas Leonard Are Coming – Be The First To Hear

Join the Thomas Leonard Early Announcement & Inner Circle List

It is a profound honor for us at Thought Partners International to be charged with bringing Thomas Leonard’s work to today’s readers: that’s you, and we hope a multitude of others both within and beyond the coaching family.

To be the first to hear news, share ideas*, participate in launches (both no-fee and f’ree) and receive invitations (yes, some with gifts) simply fill in the brief form below, and…you know the drill.

You will become part of our Thomas Leonard Early Announcement and Inner Circle List and will receive emails from me on an un-scheduled basis, sometimes infrequently, sometimes rather often, all depending on what is going on. Your unsubscribe option is a given, and I welcome you to utilize it with impunity according to how well we serve you. If we do well in our capacity of shepherds of this work, you may choose to invite others; if we should become irrelevant, you vote by unsubscribing.

I promise to be in touch very soon with what’s coming first!

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*For those familiar with Thomas’ R&D team concepts, this Inner Circle List is not technically that, although I will periodically ask your opinion about things. There is a lot to a full-blown R&D team that can now be deployed using new tools Thomas never knew, and the original R&D team idea set is definitely part of the big plan. For now, please consider this a simple ‘First to Know and Be Involved’ group of like-minded people – people like you and I who are interested in and passionate about Thomas.

Your Life, Your Movie | Life Lessons From The Movies

The Scene From The Movies:

It’s night. T-800 (the terminator – a killing machine) has just randomly shot and seriously wounded a thug who young John was teasing in the parking lot of a bar.

John: You can’t just go around killing people!

T-800: Why?

John: What do you mean why? Cause you can’t.

T-800: Why?

John: Because you can’t, okay? Trust me on this.

The Thought For Your Life:

When you are a hammer, everything looks like a nail, even a flower. If you’re tired of ‘nailing flowers’ and getting the opposite results to what you’re after, next time you encounter a nail try using your screwdriver.

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These short life lessons from the movies are available once a week from www.ThoughtsByEmail.com.  They’re a great way to keep yourself awake and thinking about life, but not too seriously.  There’s no charge to get your weekly copy in your email inbox. Why not go to the website and sign up?

Any other Life Lessons From The Movies you can think of? Add yours by posting below.

Groundbreaking or Ground-breaking, which is it? For Tagline for Thought Partners International

A bright wish to you for 2009. It doesn’t look like it’s going to be a dull one, does it?

This year marks the beginning of something new. The back office paperwork is complete and I am operating under a new company name. You heard it here first, all official-like:

Thought Partners International (TPI) Ltd.
Groundbreaking Content, Concepts and The Leaders Behind Them

Do you think ground-breaking should have a hyphen, by the way? We have votes for both with no definitive winner. I’d love your thoughts – hyphen or no? While you’re at it, what do you think of the new company name altogether?  Please comment below.

Thanks!

What’s So Great About Coaching | This Week’s 5 Real-Life Comments

Here’s what the following people are saying about coaching:

“Who, exactly, seeks out a coach? Winners who want even more out of life.” - Chicago Tribune

“Part therapist, part consultant, part motivational expert, part professional organizer, part friend, part nag – the personal coach seeks to do for your life what a personal trainer does for your body.” - Kim Palmer, Minneapolis-St. Paul Star-Tribune

“Got a nagging feeling that your life could be more fulfilling? Want to change direction but aren’t sure how to do it? Here’s how to jump start your new life today…Hire a personal coach.” - Modern Maturity

“Increasingly nonprofit executives and managers are finding coaches a terrific sounding board and source of help in a demanding and complex job.” - Nonprofit World

“Coaching can certainly help you strengthen your sense of self worth, focus on your goals – and get there, fast.” - The London Daily Telegraph

For 5 real-life comments about coaching by real-life clients, the media, other coaches and even naysayers, go to www.ThoughtsByEmail.com and subscribe to the Why Coaching? mini ezine.  You’ll get one issue with 5 statements, just like the above, each week.

Thoughts about what the above folk had to say? Post below.

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Best of Multiple Streams | Thought for the Week

“Thomas Leonard impacted hundreds of thousands of people
…but not through one-on-one coaching.”

Your thoughts?

To sign up for more nuggets like this each week, delivered to your very own email inbox, visit www.ThoughtsByEmail.com.

“In Case of Emergency, Ask Question” by Lable Braun

What I’m about to share is, I know, going to be a highlight of the year, and here it is only the 12th of January. 

A new book has come into the world, and that in and of itself is nothing special. There’s many a book that’s born that never meets its mark, barely even ripples the surface of our attention, a waste of paper and ink.

This particular book is a short one, just shy of 100 sweet pages, and it’s the first print book by my friend and colleague Lable Braun.  It’s title is “In Case of Emergency, Ask Question: Finding Your Path in Life’s Most Challenging Moments.”  Now why might this warrant your attention? See if any of these pass your litmus test:

• It is a uniquely wise book.

Lable is one of those writers who you read and then wonder, is this person 130 years old, his writing has so much simple and enjoyable depth.  When in conversation with him, I often feel as though he’s read all of Greek mythology in the original, a ton of sociology, science (all the schools) and of course, the mandatory philosophy, just so he can apply the collective reading to what we’re talking about.  He’ll be embarassed by this, but it is heartfelt.  I see him as a personal Google that – bless him – thinks on humanity’s behalf, except that in this book, he **gives** us just one central question, rather than demanding we ask a dozen before giving us what we seek. 

• Lable has chosen to release this to the coaching community first.

Lable’s gifts aren’t widely known yet, which makes this a rather exciting offering for coaching, doesn’t it?  The questions and stories within the book are very fresh, and all the more powerful as tools to communicate with our clients.  Once his work becomes more mainstream, which it undoubtedly will, your clients may say ‘oh yes, I’ve heard of The Tree of Questions’ and ‘I know which branch needs attention.’  While it is our goal to make that the case, there is something delicious about being first to break the material, I feel.  Purchase the print paperback in singles or packages of 5 or 10, the better to send as gifts.

• The book is in perfect time.

As you’ll hear within the pages of the book, Lable’s own life involves turmoil of the likes most of us will never experience.  Still, turmoil is a word being used often today, and human beings planet-wide dealing with changes in fortune, health, basic survival, and of course, the earning of a living and the making of a meaningful life.  In those “queasy” moments of life when we’re most tormented by what we think we have to do, or what we wish we could do but think we can’t, “In Case of Emergency, Ask Question” will, I hope, be a balm.

Those are just three reasons you might be interested in the fuss I’m making over this book.  You could say I’m supporting Lable as a friend, but it goes farther than that.  I see it as my professional duty to support its success. It has that much of a chance to help; it’s the right thing to do.

Enough! The more I write, the more words you need to read here, when I’d like for you to read his.  Here then is the back cover matter from the book, with the buttons to purchase below.  Do consider the bulk order – it will save you on shipping and handling, not to mention the reorder when you give your copy away.

“stopped me in my tracks and had me storming through the pages”
Ernest F. Oriente, President of PowerHour, www.powerhour.com

“A ‘must read’!”
- Donna Karlin, Executive and Political Leadership Coach, Lecturer and Author www.ABetterPerspective.com

“A clever guide for asking life’s biggest questions, offered in the storytelling style and finesse of the wizard Merlin, the primary archetype of its author!”
- Darelyn “DJ” Mitsch, Master Certified Coach, Past President -International Coach Federation, Author, Entrepreneur, Speaker, Inquisitive Mystic, and Mom www.pyramidresource.com

“One of those books you’re going to want to keep on the bedside table for years to come. I was profoundly moved by this book!”
- Suzanne Falter-Barns, Platform Building Expert www.getknownnow.com & www.howmuchjoy.com

“a wiser and dearer friend I could not ask for, and now he has a book so you can befriend him too”
Andrea J. Lee

What if a single question could guide the most important decisions of your life?

Coaches know questions, so by golly, this is a pretty bold claim. What if all our questions could be boiled down to one mother question, one that could grow or shrink to adapt to the situation, or, like the perfect little black dress, dressed up or down, was perfect in all sticky occasions? 

Drawing on wisdom from around the world, this book spotlights the one question at the root of all of life’s most crucial moments – yours.

Calling forth two giants from very different traditions, Hillel, a great Talmudic scholar, and Socrates, the towering figure of Western Philosophy, Braun deftly reveals teachings perfectly in time to address the chaos we’re challenged with today, even as they cross a gulf of more than 2,000 years.

But perhaps most notable is how a book that reads like a favorite novel can offer such a practical method for navigating the most gut-wrenching of situations.   ‘In Case of Emergency, Ask Question’ will both entertain and free you. Rooted solidly as it is in the collective consciousness of the human race, you will be able to put it to use immediately, and in doing so, feel much less alone.

(1) Click here to purchase a single copy of ‘In Case of Emergency, Ask Question’ by Lable Braun. 

$13.95 plus shipping and handling. (S&H will vary according to the address at which you’d like to receive the book.)

(2) Click here to purchase a bulk order of 3-9 copies.*

$11.95 per book, plus shipping and handling.

(3) Click here to purchase a bulk order of 10 or more copies.*

$10.95 per book, plus shipping and handling.

E.g. For an order of 10 books, that will be $109.50. Where else will you find such a meaningful coaching-centered gift for under $11?

*Important note re bulk orders: All 3 or more copies will be shipped to a single address of your choice. We apologize, we cannot offer the bulk discount for multiple addresses. If you wish us to ship your books to more than one address, please use the link for single copies and specify the address on the order page.

For bulk orders greater than 30, or questions regarding foreign rights, white label versions under your brand, corporate discounts, review copies or other inquiries concerning Lable and this book, please allow us to help you more personally.  Email or call at support@mythoughtpartners.com or 1-888-988-7465.  

About Lable Braun:

Emulating his hero Socrates who made his living as a stone mason, Lable Braun lives one foot each in the world of ideas and the world of work. With a degree in Psychology and Classical Literature, he is also a technologist and a corporate executive. A student of philosophy, mysticism, and science for decades, Lable finally admits he may have something worth saying and has become in demand as a particularly affecting speaker. This is his first book.

Lable resides in East Windsor, NJ and Hendersonville, North Carolina with his wife, Virginia.

Help Us Support this New Author

As you might imagine, it means a great deal to us to support groundbreaking ideas and concepts such as those in Lable’s first book, and we’re preparing to launch a new company that will do more of just that.  Specifically for Lable, I’d profoundly love your assistance in this endeavor.  Click here to tell friends about the book, here to sign up for our affiliate program (it’s a small book so the $ is small too, but still we’d love to send it to you) or, twitter, comment and link back using the tools below.  Thanks!  More to come about the new company soon…

Struggling to get your newsletter done?

Having worked with business owners for years now (and being one myself!) I know how hard it can be to get your ezine out on a regular basis. And yet this is one of the most important strategies for building relationships with existing and potential clients – staying in constant touch with your list via a regularly broadcast ezine or newsletter.

Have you ever wanted someone to hold your hand and do your ezines with you? And can you imagine having ALL of your ezines DONE for the whole year?

Enter newsletter marketing expert Linda Claire Puig. Her unique program, the Earlybird Ezine Telecamp, will give you everything you need (including a hand to hold) to get your ezines for the whole year done NOW.

Linda’s program includes 5 teleclasses, built-in accountability and super-high-quality articles (choose from 400+) that you can use as is or edit to make your own. Either way, you’ll cut HOURS from your ezine prep time. (There’s also room around the “telecampfire” if you’re doing your own articles.)

This program is great for anyone who a) is already publishing an ezine and wants to make the process easier, or b) wants to get started but isn’t sure where to start.

Join Linda for a free call on January 6th – Four Ways to NOT Struggle with Your Ezine and Actually Get ALL Your 2009 Newsletters DONE NOW in Advance…Easily! Register for the call here.

Or go ahead and check out the program itself at www.earlybirdezinetelecamp.com.

Check out what a few of the December 08 telecampers are saying about this program:

“I want to start by congratulating you on such a simple yet brilliant concept. I’m still “buzzing” from yesterday’s 1st telecamp. Not only did it get me focused, it really helped to lift my motivation and excitement about getting my ezines done. Your class was informative, inspiring and above all, you’ve created an environment where it’s not only possible and do-able, it’s also definitely going to be done! I feel well supported by someone who I’ve never even met! Thank you.” —Caroline Cameron, Australia

“I do not have words to thank you enough for what you do. You have the heart of a great teacher. All of the education, personal attention and gifts, too. I’m also grateful that your course price is a tremendous value and that you didn’t take my next idea and put it into practice before I met you, however, you should charge more. You deserve it.” —Jim Felker, Texas

“Thanks for a great start to our journey together. I really enjoyed the class. I already feel the heaviness I’ve felt around my ezines lightening and some hope for a new, easier way.” —Barbara Richards, Canada