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THE SITUATION:  As a dentist operating a practice, why is it that you’ve done everything that you think you should this week–

Why do some things that you try to do come easily and others  are more difficult?  What are the ingredients of success? All successful small business coaches or executive business coaches have their answer to this question.

As a licensed small business coach and an executive business coach, I am meeting people these days who are out of work or business owners who are looking for more clients.  If you are one of those folks, here are some suggestions (job-seekers first) that will elevate your game and have fun doing it.

I serve baby boomers, as an Executive Business Coach for those who work for someone else and as Small Business Coach or on-line Business Coach for the self-employed.  I work with people who are faced with losing their income.  It is increasingly difficult for some business owners to find customers in this recession.  It is increasingly difficult for the previously employed to find another job.  And it also is increasingly scary for those folks facing retirement.   I believe the problem is the same, regardless of whether you are self-employed or have worked for a company all your life.

In the middle of the night I decided to read a little of Secrets of the Millionaire Mind  by T. Harv Eker.  I picked up the  NY Times best-selling book and absently turned to page 123 – “Wealth Principle #11:  Rich people choose to get paid based on results.  Poor people choose to get paid based on time.”

All my life I have fervently believed that the only way to true financial security and everlasting financial peace-of-mind is to be self-employed.   But as an adult I never had the courage to strike out on my own.

“What do you do?” I create jobs.

It was suggested that I look to Stephen Covey’s website for inspiration into clarifying how I might best serve those folks who are still on “The Other Side”  i.e. those still imprisoned in corporate jobs.  While scanning Covey’s Posts I discovered this especially meaningful (to me):

I feel like I’ve finally recaptured my direction after several months of floundering .  And I did not have this inspiration on my own, but rather with my “Core” coach, Shyla Nelson.  She challenges her clients  to “Live from the Core” and I asked her what that meant, because that directive certainly is deeper than simply living your passion or your dream (which I have already been doing for the last 17 months when I retired from corporate life).