Comments on: How Are You Creating Your Personal Business Freedom?

By: Amanda Solomon

Amanda Solomon — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:24:53 +0000

GREAT QUESTION MILANA,
I have takin my coaching business to the “next level” by first, acknowledging that I AM A COACH and this is an actual coaching business. I have been operating in the position of a life coach for over 10 years but, not taking it seriously enough to call it a business. In the last 12 months I have really “stepped it up” by taking thoughts off paper and implimenting them. I am now ficilitating a workshop at a Community College in town (from a class to a workshop) I am now working on a workbook(product) to offer in that workshop. I am working on my “niche” utilizing my years of theatre experience in my business, and I am daily plugging into entrepreneural training to increase my skills. I have learned to be passionate about my contribution to life. It’s SO COOL I get to do this.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:34:21 +0000

smart business plans…

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By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 02:11:02 +0000

Wow..it is refreshing to see so many people taking control of their lives and enjoying a life of freedom !!

Earlier this year I left a career that was not fulfilling and started my own company, Amazing Saint Coaching and Consulting. I have enjoyed being available to spend more time with my children - attending their activities and taking time to go have lunch with them.

I am working to find more ways to automate activities - I discovered a great system for staying in touch with friends and clients.

The year has had challenges…but, I am enjoying the freedom !!

By: Aunice

Aunice — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 14:48:51 +0000

Ok. Everybody is going to die from laughter, but what I’ve done in the last 12 months to free myself up is to create an autoresponder for my clients. I feel like a dinosaur, but for the longest time I was actually answering lots of emails…personally. As you can probably guess it ate up lots of time.

The other thing I did was stop doing the newsletter thing. I now do an e-course instead which has freed me up sooo much! (thanks to your book, “Coaching Millions”)

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acupuncture job — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 06:00:47 +0000

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By: helen

helen — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:19:25 +0000

This is actually the most important thing I tell my clients. ‘Improve your life’ is the slogan of oberon coaching. I make it my goal to introduce people to finding a perfect balance between work and pleasure. And what is more rewarding than making your passion into your daily job. That’s what I’m doing now. Just finding a few more clients and I’m all set. I work just 10 hours a week and read a lot during my free time. just playing with the kids. Just use the slogan that my gynacologist once told me: ‘a happy mommy makes a happy baby’. It’s the same for an employee ‘happy workers make happy money (and a lot more)’

By: Geraldine

Geraldine — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:34:49 +0000

I hired a business coach to help me repackage my business. However, she refused to help me until I’d taken 3 months off work to focus on “being”, not “doing”. I eventually agreed (my husband
immediately agreed - “I’ve never seen you relaxed”, he said - and 3 months turned into 7 months off!!

What I learned, was to build in daily habits of slowing down and listening to myself and the “flow” around me. The more I stayed away from my business (pushing, struggling) the better the business is! The more connected I am with myself and the “flow”, the more opportunities arrive.

Interestingly, I found my new life approach paralleled with my new niche within a niche - working with independent professionals who want to overcome speaking fears to speak with ease and authenticity - I found the techniques are one and the same - so there’s a lovely integrity and sense of “rightness” there which is restful and means, I don’t have to work so hard at being me or running my business. I generally work about 4-5 hours a day unless I have a big event on. And sometimes, I just take the day off.

By: Revka

Revka — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:29:53 +0000

I own a website and blog design business. I am in the process of making some drastic changes in an effort to avoid this very thing.

*signed up with ebizac.com which will help automate many administrative tasks, like autoresponders, sending newsletters, managing subscriptions, etc.
*I am in the process of creating a subscription-based product so I can have recurring income for doing the work once.
*I am looking for someone to whom I can outsource some smaller projects.
* I am letting my co-designer handle more of the marketing and promotion aspect.

In short, I am trying to find the areas where I am just wasting my time and am creating better solutions to the problems in those areas.

By: Frances

Frances — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:02:21 +0000

I hired a student and I’m looking to hire more.

I taped some of my workshops to turn into products.

I’m on AWeber now.

By: Gabrielle

Gabrielle — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:35:34 +0000

I’ve done a couple of new things to gain some personal freedom. One, I hire temporary help as needed. Second, I hired a tax accountant. Third, I simply chose to reclaim some personal time by stopping work daily at 6pm and rarely working weekends.