2 weeks ago I was in a coaching session and my client was listing all of the challenges he was having –

One challenge after the other –

The list went on and on and on…

Literally for 20 minutes he listed all of the challenges he was dealing with…

When he finally stopped listing he said, “So, what do you think I should do?”

I was silent for a few seconds and then I said…

“Well, it’s time for you to become a solutions expert.”

Now it was his turn to be silent — 10, 15, 20 seconds of silence until finally I wondered if he had gotten cut off — and then I heard a tired exhale from the other end of the phone –

“A solutions expert huh?”

“Yup” I said “A solutions expert”…

He said, “Not sure I know what you mean…”

I said, “Well, I just listened to you list all of the challenges you are having for 20 minutes — so at this point I would say you are a challenges expert — and my guess is that you are hoping I will be your solutions expert and tell you how you can handle these challenges — when the reality is, the most valuable thing you can do for yourself right now is stop being a challenges expert and shift to being a solutions expert…”

“WOW” he almost shouted it — “I never even thought of it that way — you’re right, I sit here and log all of the challenges in my head so that when we have a session I’ll be able to get your take on them — and I could spend that time and energy actually focussed on possible solutions — WOW!”

That was it — he literally had what everyone refers to as an “AHA Moment” and the difference in him is incredible — he sent me an email yesterday telling me all of the solutions he had come up with since we last spoke — and because of this new attitude, he has signed 3 new contracts, dropped 5 pounds and spent valuable time with his daughter that he normally would have had to miss –

So, I’m going to tell you the same thing I told him –

Be a solutions expert!

Be a solutions expert!

Be a solutions expert!

Just try it and your life will change…

Leave a comment and pass this one on — we all need it!

Go Big!

Kristen

I know it’s a touchy subject when it comes to making money from your passion, and I hit on it slightly in one of my posts a few weeks ago and I’m still getting emails about it.

So what’s the nerve I’ve hit?

I’ll tell you…

You won’t save the world by giving your solution away for free!

We’ve been doing all of this work on finding your passion and making money from it and discovering how you can help people…

In other words, defining what solution you have to someone else’s problem…

I do one-on-one and group coaching to help people do all of this and time and time again one of my clients will say to me…

‘But I want to make the world a better place and if I have a solution that someone else needs, shouldn’t I give it to them for free?’

YIKES!

NO!

Here’s the deal…

Do I want you to take advantage of people?

No, of course not!

But the fact of the matter is you are NEVER going to make the world a better place by giving your solution away for free for 2 main reasons…

1. If you give it away for free, how long do you think you’ll be able to keep giving it away? Honestly, won’t you end up depleted of resources like time and money and energy if you go this route? I say this to my coaching clients like a mantra, “When you fly in an airplane, there’s a reason they tell you to put the oxygen mask on your self first.”

2. People don’t have anything at stake if it’s free and if you REALLY want to help people they have to have something at stake.

Now before you argue with me on that second point, I have proof…

Years ago, I had enough people ask me why I didn’t give my coaching for free so I thought it would be an interesting experiment. I invited 10 people to work with me one-on-one for free. This normally would have been a $5000 investment for them to work with me, but I agreed to have them pay that amount once they finished the program and saw what it could do for them.

What do you think happened?

Well…the first 2 weeks went quite well, everyone stayed accountable and took the action I gave them to take and then…

Well, let’s just say that after 5 weeks I was putting all my time and effort into chasing them down.

I called a group session together and asked them what they thought the problem was…

I’ll be completely honest about the response…

• 1 of the men in the group said that I just wasn’t the coach for him
• 1 woman said that she realized she really didn’t want to do what it would take to be an enterpreneur
• 1 younger guy didn’t even call into the group session
• And the 7 remaining people agreed that because they didn’t have any skin in the game, the program had gone to the bottom of their priority list…

They literally told me that because they didn’t have their investment in the program pressuring them to follow through, they just weren’t making it a priority at all.

Ultimately, as a group, we called off the experiment and 3 of the people made the investment to start working with me…

The results?

2 of them now have extremely successful businesses and the third didn’t follow through anyway so I let him out of the program.

So, I’ll say this a million times if I have to…

If you have a solution that will help people, and you really want to help as many people as you possible can, the results will be much better for everyone if you don’t give it to them for free!

I’m all for giving and charity, but that isn’t what this is about…

You don’t have to charge huge amounts of money, but it does need to be enough that it inspires the person to follow through and actually use the solution you have offered them…

If you want to make money from your passion, please take this to heart…

Put the oxygen mask on yourself first and then get out there and you’ll be able to help all the people you can reach!

Leave me a comment or shoot me an email to let me know how you feel about this, it’s a hot button topic and I want to open up a conversation about it!

Go Big!

Kristen

If you didn’t, GO DO IT NOW!

I am excited to work with you on how to find your purpose which is the key to a fulfilling life, but for me to help you, you have to DO MORE THAN READ THIS, and you must take INSPIRED ACTION!

Let’s jump in…

Yesterday you answered a bunch of questions I gave you and from that you should have come up with a few answers that seemed to keep showing up.

Those are the key you are looking for!

Grab your pen and paper again and write those elements down, we’ll call this your ‘Purpose List’…

If you are like most people you probably have 1-5 things written down…

I want you to rate those from most exciting to least exciting…

Let’s look at the woman I told you about yesterday who went through my ‘Find Your Purpose’ coaching…

When she answered all the questions I gave her, she discovered 3 things that kept reoccurring as times when she felt her best and in the zone. The 3 things were:

1. Animals

2. Being Outside

3. People

I had her to rate them from most exciting, (meaning when she felt most fulfilled) to least exciting.

The list then looked like this:

1. Animals
2. People
3. Being Outside

Okay, go rate your purpose list now…

Did you do it?

Great!

Now, quickly write down the times in your current life when you are participating or experiencing any of the items on your purpose list.

On a scale of 1-10 (10 being most or all of your time) how much of your time is spent on your purpose list?

Chances are good you answered between 1-5, right?

That’s what we need to focus on now…

In order to find your purpose and live a fulfilling life, you must be spending the majority of your time on the things that bring you the most fulfillment! That’s the key to a fulfilling life, that’s living your purpose!

‘But how do I do it Kristen? Are you saying I should quit my job and move?’

NO…

It is too soon to make any rash decisions, let me show you how to find your purpose while you are living your current life…

Let me help you step into your purpose and fulfilling life one step at a time, one day at a time…sound fair?

Good…

Here’s the question for today that will help you take steps toward finding and living your purpose…

Ready for it?

Here you go…

Ask yourself this question every single day…

“What 1 thing can I do today so that I spend at least 10 minutes on one of the things on my purpose list?”

AND THEN DO IT!

I promise you, once you start taking steps to spend more time doing the things that bring you joy EVEN without changing anything else in your life, you will start to align with your purpose and the law of attraction will start to draw more opportunities that align with your purpose to you.

I’m here to help you take this from this first step ALL THE WAY THROUGH to completely finding your purpose and living a fulfilling life…we’ll get there but you have to take the first step! Take it now!

Tell me what you plan on doing by leaving it here in a comment, accountability is huge and if you write it here you are 90% more likely to do it!

Go Big!