I was talking with my best friend about a mutual friend of ours that is finally branching out with his own consulting business after years of running a consulting business for someone else…

As we were talking about this, my best friend said, “Do you think he’s ready?”

I thought about it for a second and this is what I said…

“I don’t think he’ll be ready until he’s doing it…”

We both laughed because it’s so true…

Think about it…

When are you ready? And I mean REALLY ready?

I’ll tell you when…

When you are doing it…

Don’t get me wrong…

You can (and must) prepare…

You can practice and get all of your ducks in a row (whatever that means)…

But you will finally be ready in the exact moment that you are doing it!

Here’s an example…

An athlete can train, hit practice hard and work all of their drills…

But when are they ready for the game?

During the game!

Here’s the deal…

So many people get stuck in the ‘Getting Ready’ phase and they never move onto the ready phase…

Be honest with me here…

What is it you are ‘getting ready for’ and have been ‘getting ready for’ for longer than a month?

Here are most of the things I hear that people are getting ready to be ready for…

• Losing weight
• Getting into shape
• Starting their own business
• Finding their passion
• Starting to design the life of their dreams
• Getting in the game
• Connecting with their kids
• Connecting with their spouse

and the list goes on and on and on…

So what is it for you?

It’s time to get in the game and START going big…

Enough getting ready!

Can’t wait for your comments on this one!

Go Big!

Kristen

I’ve been decorating and shopping…

One of the things I love to do is come up with a great idea for someone and shop online…

And this is what brings me to this post…

I have to get this off my chest —

If you have your own business, I don’t care how small your business is…

I have 1 thing to say to you that could be the difference between success and failure (especially during the holiday season)!

MAKE IT EASY FOR PEOPLE TO DO BUSINESS WITH YOU!

Please don’t make people have to jump through hoops to give you money for whatever you offer!

I don’t care how good your business or product is…

If it isn’t easy to give you my money, I’m gone and giving it to someone else…

Here’s an example:

I wanted to buy a gift certificate for someone in my family who lives accross the country.  I know that they love this one business in their area so I looked for the website –

• No website (Strike 1)

Then I looked them up online to get their number and called and left a message.  They called me back and said if I wanted a gift certificate they’d be happy to help but I need to email Susie (and then they gave me Susie’s email address.)

• Adding a step for me to take (Strike 2)

When Susie emailed me back she said she would be more than happy to create a personal gift certificate for me and that I could just swing by to get it and they accept payment in the form of cash or local check.

• Minimal payment options (Strike 3)

Keep in mind that I am more persistent than most people who would have stopped after strike 1 or 2.

What did I do?

I deleted Susie’s email and went to my second idea for a gift for this family member. I purchased it and had it on it’s way to me already gift wrapped in 5 minutes.

Please tell me you see the lesson here…

You could have the best business in the world but if you make it hard to do business with you, you will  lose that business…it’s as simple as that!

Look around you as you shop…

Notice the places that make it difficult and the places that make it easy and learn from each of them.

I notice this everywhere…stores, coaches, actors, entrepreneurs, people looking for jobs etc.

Start with that one goal in mind and see how you can adjust things…

And if you don’t have a business — how can you apply this principle to your life?

Leave me a comment of how you are going to apply this as of today!

Go Big!

Kristen

P.S. The next Go Big VIP Call with me is coming up on Dec. 11th, if you have been on the fence about joining the program get in before then so you can be on the call.  Remember, you can try the program risk-free for 60 days. Go Big Now instead of later http://www.gobigcoach.com/gobignow

Fear was on my mind on my walk today, I was thinking about a coaching client of mine.

She is faced with an opportunity right now and when it was brought to her she was immediately hit with fear.

On our call today, she told me all of the wild thoughts that threw themselves at her at warp speed when she first got the call with this opportunity.

Before I share her thoughts with you (and yes, she gave me approval to do so) I feel it’s important to know that there is NO MONEY at stake, there are NO CONTRACTS being signed, DEATH could not be a result, hell INJURY isn’t even a possibility.

Back to her attacking thoughts…these are the primary thoughts that hurled themselves at her…

• ‘What if it only seems like an opportunity but it’s not?’
• ‘What if it’s too much work and doesn’t fit into my life how I want it to?”
• “What if I hate it?”
• “What if it fails?”
• “What if I waste my time?’

…You get the idea.

Fear is such a huge factor in our lives…it becomes a great reason NOT to do things, get involved, connect, try…live.

The funny thing to me is how we phrase our fears…here are some examples of what we tell ourselves…

• ‘I’m scared to fly’
  (No you’re not…you’re scared to die)
• ‘I’m scared to love’
  (No you’re not…you’re scared that you won’t be loved back)
• ‘I’m scared to try a new sport, language, hobby, business.’
  (No you’re not your scared you’ll look stupid)
• ‘I’m scared to start my own business.’
  (No you’re not…you’re scared you’ll fail)
• ‘I’m scared to reach out to that casting director’
  (No you’re not…you’re scared they’ll tell you you’re not talented)
• ‘I’m scared to tell them how much I love them’
  (No you’re not…you’re scared they won’t care)
• ‘I’m scared to commit to __________.’
  (No you’re not, you’re scared if you commit you lose the power to choose)

And the list goes on…

We attach fear to the wrong thing…we attach it to the action when really what we are scared of is some potential negative feeling/emotion/result.

If we took EVERYTHING that anyone claims they are scared of I guarantee it boils down to a few basic fears:

• Fear of death or injury (to you or someone you love).
• Fear of rejection
• Fear of looking stupid
• Fear of failure

Boiled down even further…what we are scared of in one word is PAIN.

And the thing about people is, for the most part, we will most likely take action to avoid PAIN than we will to achieve pleasure.

BUT BUT BUT

Isn’t living life in a LESS THAN way PAINFUL?

It is for me…it sucks…I hate it…I wish I got zapped with electricity every time I chose the pain of safety over the possibility of pain with something new or out of the box that could bring me great joy.

That’s what I mean by ‘Go Big’…to me ‘Going Big’ means choosing to go toward what has a chance to bring me great joy even though it may not…because if I don’t ‘Go Big’ I am guaranteed 1 thing and 1 thing only, and that is the pain of living a life that is ‘less than’.

So my questions for you today are:

What does ‘Go Big’ mean to you?

Remember the Go Big End of Year Challenge: In what small way (maybe in less than 15 minutes) can you push your comfort zone and choose to ‘Go Big’ today?

Go Big!

Kristen

P.S. My Go Big VIP Program is filling up and I am doing something special.  The next 50 people that join and commit to ‘Go Big Now’ and not wait until after the holidays will get a special 1-on-1 strategy session with me in January to give you that extra advantage you need to make 2010 the best it can be. Get on board as one of the next 50 here: http://www.gobigcoach.com/gobignow

So many of you have decided (either by choice or necessity) to break into your own business…

So many of you are banging your heads against the wall with the business you started…

I get emails every single day asking me what is the 1 thing I can say that will help you succeed faster.

If you need to start to generate money fast then listen up because chances are good you are wasting valuable time.

Listen closely because I’m going to tell you the most important thing you can hear about this…

Don’t reinvent the wheel!

When you start your own business you need to discover what makes you different from your competitors and identify your unique selling proposition and all that other stuff you hear and read about…

But here’s the truth…

Especially in the beginning…

Don’t reinvent the wheel!

Yes, you need to separate yourself from the pack, but at first, look at what the people who are successful in your business are doing and DO IT!

Get started…

Model success and go for it…

Let me throw some cold water in your face right now…

If you aren’t successful in an area, then you DON’T know better than the people that are!

• Listen to them…
• Watch what they do…
• Look at the moves they make…
• Follow their lead…

Eventually you will become successful and you will find what makes you unique and THEN you can invent something new.

But until then…

Give yourself a break and increase your chances of success by almost 80% and Don’t Reinvent the Wheel!

I can promise you this…

If you are genuine and show up as you, you will be unique from the beginning…

Just because it’s been said before doesn’t mean it’s been said how YOU say it…

Every time I have a coaching session with a client and I suggest they do something and they object to it because that is what everybody else is doing I say — everyone else is doing it because IT WORKS!

Put the odds in your favor…

I’m not saying copy someone word for word…

As I said, if you stay true to yourself, you will bring a fresh perspective and approach to everything you do even when you are modeling someone else’s success!

I want you to be honest with me now…

Leave me a comment and tell me how you are going to use this to model success and stop reinventing the wheel now!

Do it now…accountability is key…if you write it here I can hold you accountable!

Go Big!

Kristen

I’ve been coaching people for years to find their passion and turn it into a business. I have coached people just starting out and I have helped current business owners maximize their businesses to multi million dollar businesses and there was one thing that all of my clients had in common…

They were Entrepreneurs by choice.

But now things are different…

People who never thought about starting their own business are suddenly forced to think about it. People are getting laid off or living under the impending doom of being laid off or at the least having their pay significantly cut and it is turning people into Entrepreneurs not out of choice but out of necessity.

There is a tidal wave of people who feel that they have to attract money fast AND they can NO LONGER rely on their job to do it.

• I see great possibility in this time…
• I see the opportunity for many to actually discover something they love and turn it into a business…
• I see the potential freedom for all of these people…

BUT I know there are lessons they will need to learn and because many of you are now entrepreneurs by necessity, I want to help you shorten the learning curve as much as possible.

• I know you feel like you need to attract money fast…
• I know you feel like you lack the luxury of time to discover what it is you really want to do…
• I know you are seriously pushing your comfort zone…

Whether you are an entrepreneur by choice or necessity, I know you are going through all of this because I went through it too and I can help you avoid some of the mistakes I made and shorten your journey where mine was long and painful.

I have received more emails than I can count from my subscribers telling me about this opportunity and that opportunity and that they don’t know what to do and which direction to go and how not to make mistakes. I know if you have someone guiding you openly and honestly you are more likely to start to succeed quickly!

So let me give you 3 tips right now:

1. I know you feel rushed, but you MUST take a few minutes to decide what areas of focus actually excite you. I promise you that when you start as an entrepreneur, if you start in an area you love, your chances for success increase by almost 80%.

2. Do your due diligence! There are 8 million people out there saying they have the opportunity that will make you a millionaire or financially free or an extra 10k per month. Some of them are legit and many are not. Do your due diligence. Find out everything you can about them and their success rate. Ask people you respect if they know anything about them. ALWAYS talk to someone at the company first before you dive in. How you are handled now is a great indicator of how you will be handled if you use their system or product or coaching.

3. Stick with 1 thing! I talk about this a lot in my coaching…I call it the ‘Something Shiny’ Epidemic. This is where you are so excited about an idea that you are sure is going to make you the money you need fast that you jump in, BUT the second another opportunity comes to you, you are lured to it because it seems like it might get you money faster. Trust me…I lived like this for a while and all this did was put me in debt. It wasn’t until I took a second to only look at opportunities that excited me THEN did my due diligence and THEN chose 1 and STUCK WITH IT that my life turned around. Learn from my mistakes on this one!

Leave a comment — I always love to see what you’re thinking!

Go through the ‘Finding your purpose’ exercises I have in the different posts on the blog, go through the exercises in the Free Report and reach out to me and the other people in the Law of Attraction Key Community.

Your time is now and I am excited to help you on your journey!

Go Big!

Kristen