Validate Your Life

The whole “work hours” thing is a foreign concept to me. Maybe because I just don’t make a distinction between work and play, or (most likely) I just always work.  Sometimes I wake up and start work at 2am. Sometimes I just don’t ever go to sleep and take a nap in the middle of the day.

It’s easier for me, I realize, to just say my sleep patterns (the times where I’m not working) than the times I am working;  I sometimes sleep around the 12ish to 3ish zone. I like exercising at night (moonlight runs).

So it’s strange, I work about 80-90 times harder and am more demanding of myself than I would have been if I worked for an employer other than myself.  This increase in work motivation, results, and demands is probably inherent to any freelance work or “business owner” work.  That’s an interesting pattern and managing the work that you do as an entrepreneur is what we’re talking about today. You have to develop this weird relationship with yourself where you’re the administrator who decides what we need to do (as a business) and then you put on the “employer cap” and do the stuff that you decided to do while wearing the administrative hat. Finally, you clean it all up by wearing, possibly a “customer hat” and test-running for the purposes of debugging your business feature.  This works with websites, products, services, expansions of any kind.

Having access to multiple outcome frames from multiple hats (points of view and angles) is a must for any entrepreneur. How do you do this? How do you don and even design the array of chapeaus you have to wear to be a successful entrepreneur? (more…)

My Elevator Speech is called “Specifics of Application”. I’ve chiseled this down to being able to deliver it in 15 seconds. I love it and am interested and psyched about practicing it more. Everytime I’ve practiced it, I’ve gotten great “reviews”. Great Reviews from an elevator speech means:

1) If I tell the person it’s an elevator speech and I’m approaching it from the POV of evaluating my elevator speech as opposed to the content of it where I’d be selling my coaching, they say it’s impressive or “a good one” (Ronnie Noize). So that rocks!

2) Selling success, allure, or interest. This is applying the elevator speech and selling the content. This type of success creates a prospective client’s interest in my coaching!

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Advanced Coach AC110: Challenging Clients
Ronnie Noise
This is pretty off topic but it does propose an alternative viewpoint to the question of uniquely or “colorfully” challenging clients. And that was “screamers”. LOL! We started discussing corporate clients who scream apparently. Now, the idea of corporate managers screaming like literally increasing the loudness of their voice and shouting was an entirely new, fascinating, and hilariously amusing topic.

New. Wait, what? It’s common for corporate managers to scream? Scream at whom coworkers? People lower in the hierarchy? Are they screaming during a sales pitch? Because someone doesn’t meet a standard? How common is this? Does it only happen in small startups or like in huge Fortune 500 hundred comapnies? The discussion made it sound like screamers in corporations was common. I did not know this. Is the screamer’s intention to try to (albeit a maladaptive approach) scare someone into changing or taking action differently? Or is it a reactionary result of stress?

Fascinating. Here’s the part that was so catchy. I scream. I personally relate to the screaming! I don’t scream at people, but I do scream. Sometimes it’s in a pillow or in a car or in some encapsulated environment. Always in a place where I wont’ disturb others. NOT disturbing others with my screaming is important. If I feel that i’ll disturb someone with my screaming, I won’t do it. However I do “practice” these kind of “controlled screams”. It’s something that I always consciously choose to do. This sounds VERY bizarre, but if I’m angry or stressed or confused about something, I’ll kind of “make an appointment with myself” to have a screamfest, a scream-session about that topic that feels overwhelming. Or heck, I’ve had “scream sessions” specifically about very positive things and screaming in that sense is a kind of rejoice. Personally, I’m sure they’re some downsides to it, but the benefits to me are basically stress release as well as it changes the texture of my voice. It’s simultaneously an auditory and a kinesthetic (screaming is kinesthetic because it involves your body) pattern interrupt. It’s very controversial, but I think in a controlled, organized, non-disruptive application screaming can be very positive. A lot of animals actually vocalize for digestion and other core physiological needs. In a controlled organized nondisruptive context screaming simply becomes another kind of physiological workout I think. I’ve done marathon training and have a set exercise routine. There’s nothing wrong with exercise. Exercise aligns you, makes you feel clear, and creates body-mind mastery. Whether that exercise be swimming 800m in a pool, running 2-3 miles outside, lifting a few weights, or….maybe even screaming for 5-10 minutes. I think this is very interesting.

Hilarous. Just the topic of conversation to casually discuss corporate managers and partners or workers that scream and the image of that, was highly goofy and amusing.

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w/Ronnie Noize

“What if you asked to be born?”

This is a fascinating question. It sparks and generates allusions to fate, destiny, and having a life mission and purpose. With questions like “Am I just feeling out life?” Did I signup for life to “Investigate life?” It makes you cognizant with your relationship to life! You start to think, “Did I ask to be born because I wanted to party and life’s a party?” or What about a mission or purpose, “Did I ask to be born to complete or accomplish something, like a life mission?” In many ways, this question is a seriously effective motivational epiphany!.

Here’s an interesting, albeit subtle, shift in the question:

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I can’t get over how awesome this is. Namely for the following reasons:

1. Health. This SERIOUSLY has got to be one of the most aligning and emotionally healthy experiences possible. I mean talking with a coach is inspiring, and becoming a coach is empowering, but interacting and exchanging with the hub of coaches becoming coaches, coaching each other and it’s like 100% pure premium motivational energy in it’s raw form! All the law of attraction and intention weaved in to with the enthusiasm of other coaches and that nourishes your own enthusiasm and wow. Exponential growth. Rad. Gnarly to the nth degree.

2. Success Stories. This is the biggest reason why this forum looks so appealing. The success stories. I’ve perused it for an hour and already have found 2 real-awesome bona fide tricks that seemed to work for two coaches (the facebook advert one and a mailing list one) and everyone’s eager to share this techniques that helped them earn for free! This is awesome. After stumbling into scams and tons of misleading crap, this finally seems like exactly the type of good, clean, clear, business networking for earning and for success.

3. Moving Forward. Starting this ICA training was DEFINITELY a good move. From the internationality of all the coaches and networking and seeing all their success stories and the fact that they share their techniques within this forum is tremendously exciting.

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