Conscious Coaching Academy

Lots of "gurus" are jumping on the AI bandwagon. 🤦🏼‍♂️

They're the same "gurus" I've watched jump on every emerging trend they can over the years simply to get bums on seats to sell the same stuff they've always sold. 🤣

I go to sources I trust. I go to sources of integrity. I go to where the big thinkers are.

My question to you is this: if I get one of them to come on a free-to-access call - and give you and the insight most people don't have regarding the practical reality of AI in our businesses - (and where it's heading) - are you in? 🤔

⛔️ Don't respond if you only have a casual interest. This is strictly for business owners who know how serious this subject is, know it's going to have a profound, revolutionary impact on how we do business, and don't want to find themselves in the bloodbath of the demographic who ignored and resisted change of this magnitude.

𝐴𝑠 𝐸𝑟𝑖𝑐 𝐻𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑛𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝐼 𝑟𝑒𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑜𝑛-𝑡𝑜-𝑏𝑒-𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑦 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘, 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑈𝑙𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝐸𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑆𝑢𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑆𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑔𝑦™ 2.0…

… "In times of change, learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists."

Send me a DM if it interests you

What is Persistence?

👉The kind that sticks two fingers up at adversity. The kind which knows no defeat. The kind which takes blow after blow, learns from each one, yet never allows a blow to be a knockout.
However bruised, however battered, we get up and get on with it - regardless.

☝️Grit isn't a "nice to have" in entrepreneurial life - it's a major differentiator between those who make it, and the many who don't.
I'm not suggesting it's always easy.

🤔Sometimes it's not only hard to draw from the "inner well" of spirited initiative and resourcefulness which makes us the "glass half full" entrepreneurs we are…
… sometimes it's hard to find the well at all.

🤦Shift days happen. And we all have days when things get on top of us… when our molehills feel like mountains.

🏋️It's not easy to see the upside when the downside is so obvious and overwhelming.

It's there, though, regardless. It can't not be there - there is always another side to every equation. There are no exceptions. This is a natural law expressing itself.
Imagine how much easier it is to persist if you have the awareness to remind yourself of this truth - and look for the upside in every blow.

Every entrepreneur's primary goal is to focus on the potential not performance.

What is the main difference between the two? 🤔

The answer to this question lies in how we perceive results.

✅ Your current results do not represent your potential, they represent your current awareness of your potential.

✅ Your existing results reflect the quality of your thinking that you brought to your
business and life up until this moment in time. And focusing on them will not improve them. In fact, it is likely to replicate them.

Here are some irrefutable facts about potential: 👇

💫Your potential is infinite. It manifests itself through your natural strengths and talents.

💫 Our ability to draw our infinite potential will always be found in areas where we are naturally gifted. There is no limit to what can be achieved in our natural giftedness if we have the will, discipline and persistence to make it happen.

💫 Your potential is a process of discovery. You might not be aware of your talent. Or maybe, you are aware of it, but you are not working at it to the degree that you should be. In any case, you believe there is more to your life.

💫 The expression of your potential comes down to your awareness of it. Your
current results reflect your current awareness of your potential. The more aware you become of your natural talents, the more capable you become of expressing more of your potential.

✅ Expanding your potential will help you bring the most cherished entrepreneurial and life goals to life.

What do you think the implication would be on the growth of your business if you put as much focus, time and energy on your potential as you do on measuring your performance?

By their fruits ...

✅ To be an effective coach doesn’t require you have to have outstanding results in every area of your life, we all have areas of our lives we could improve, it does, however, require you to be a growth-orientated person who is as committed to self-improvement and the raising of your own consciousness as you expect the clients you’ll serve to be.

💫Our character reveals itself in our behaviour. Think of how the word behave. It consists of two words - be and have. You have to be the coach in order to have the ability to coach others to greater success. This is what Goethe was referring to when he said, “Before you can do something, you first must be something”.

Your ability to influence others to greater success will be determined, to an enormous degree, by your ability to influence yourself to greater success. The most vital activity for a coach is not the honing of specific skills, but the continuous commitment to raising one’s own consciousness.

This is the most important… and most rewarding… activity in life for any human being. Sadly, most people remain completely oblivious to this great truth. You can’t afford to be one of them.

Why? Because you cannot give what you do not have. If you're not in the business of improving your own consciousness, you’ll be very limited in your ability to help others raise theirs.

💫The idea of influencing and impacting other people to live far more successful lives is very attractive, compelling and exciting for people drawn to the idea of Coaching at a professional level - it certainly was for me when I came into this industry at the beginning of this century.

However - and this is vitally important for you to grasp right up front - Coaching is NOT what most people think it is. 😬

Without doubt, Coaching is the most overused, misunderstood, misrepresented and abused word in the personal and organisational success sector.

The Coaching profession isn’t what it looks like from the outside.

The paradox of the Coaching profession is its growth has been exponential, a trend which is excitingly set to continue for many years to come…

… yet the Coaching industry has one of the worst business survival rates of all sectors, and the typical revenue generated by a business in this profession is alarmingly low.

The critical point for you to grasp at this juncture is this is not an industry in which to follow the herd…

If you are considering coaching as your next career, send me a DM, so I can give you some powerful eye-opening information on how to make it in this industry

✅Authenticity.
✅Transparency.
✅Veracity.

To live those values in a world of abundant masks - where insincerity, disingenuity and falsity are very much the norms of our time - takes a level of self-knowledge which makes you comfortable in your own skin…
… or a bloody good dose of courage while you get there.

👉Most people build a brand to hide who they are, rather than express who they are.
It comes at a high price. In all business sectors this is true, not just the over-populated, "me -too" space of the Coaching profession.

I know the degree of authenticity, transparency and veracity I bring to my business life - sharing the "warts 'n' all" of my past and present.

It also put me at odds - and made me a misfit/black sheep - in certain communities I've served in the past - communities where culturally far more precedence is placed on sugar-coated falsity and pretence than authenticity, transparency and truth.
There's no "coincidence" in the fact I repel those who prescribe to such a way of living, and attract the very opposite.

💫Spend a few minutes in the company of any of our members at the Conscious Coaching Academy™ and you'd have first hand experience of people who live with authenticity, transparency and veracity.

The same goes for the entrepreneurs, business owners and Coaches in my Elite Masterminds and other inner circles.

🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️Almost every day of every week I come across Coaches who want bigger and better outcomes.

✔️They want to impact more lives.
✔️They want to be known.
✔️They want the kudos, credibility and acclaim coming from being positioned as a trusted, go-to-authority in the eyes, minds and hearts of the market they serve.
✔️They want the fattened bank account which comes from having far more influence, impact and income…
✔️… and they want to be known as one of the best…

🤷‍♂️… yet they're not willing to become who they need to become to make it happen.
See, that's the crux of it, right there: life doesn't give you what you want, it gives you who you are.

What are you willing to become and do to make it all happen?

𝑶𝒏𝒆 𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏.

🤔What if one question opened up the potential for the very insight which transforms a career?

🤔 What if one simple line of enquiry could cause the very penny to drop which makes all the difference between a career of struggle and mediocrity which is, ultimately and chronically, cut short…

… and the outstanding career meeting every personal aspiration of the individual concerned?

Socrates said it.

Countless other men and women of wisdom throughout the ages have too.

𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛'𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑎𝑙𝑤𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑏𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑑𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑞𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑟 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑒𝑑.

Why?

✅Because the quality of question determines the quality of answer.

Which brings me nicely to the initial responses to the question I posed to you (and every other reader of my emails) earlier this week, namely:
If you had a $100,000 problem, and someone has a $5000 solution, would you buy it?" 🤔

Ironically, the question isn't as powerful as an open, explorative Coaching question - and it's closed nature requires only a "yes or no" rather than evoking inductive thinking…

… nonetheless, regardless of its' limitations, it was powerful enough to expose the BIG LESSON most of my industry colleagues find perpetually hard to grasp.

I am curious, what kind of questions do you ask yourself on a daily basis?

Talking about the resilience and strength of the human spirit.

Here is Elouise's story 👇

"I'm not broken... I'm not alone…"

These words echoed in Elouise Cloete's mind as she woke up one morning.

Little did she know that within a few hours, her life would take a wild turn—a burst ectopic pregnancy, internal bleeding, and a nerve-wracking emergency surgery to keep her alive. It was tough, but in the end, it brought her an incredible gift.

From her early days in South Africa, Elouise had this burning dream to make a difference. She doesn't know where it came from, maybe growing up taking care of her siblings and wanting to fix things when life got tough played a part.

Her home was a hotpot of emotions, with her dad's self-esteem struggles and high expectations. But even with all the tough times, she wanted to be the glue that held her family together, the one who could fix what was broken.

As her parents' marriage fell apart, she learned a big lesson—her own life didn't need to fall apart too.

Elouise travelled all across Europe, soaking in different cultures and trying to find her true calling.

Back in South Africa, she dipped her toes into the hospitality world. Climbing the ladder in corporate event management felt good, proving she could achieve big things. But deep down, there was a hunger for more, a search for her untapped potential.

When she reached the peak of her career, the call of entrepreneurship pulled her in, and the dream of building a family took the spotlight.

In just two years, Elouise created a booming corporate event management business with an awesome team. The challenges and lessons learned propelled her to new heights.

With her career going strong, it was time to focus on her long-awaited dream of having a family. Little did she know, this path would test her patience and strength in ways she never imagined.

Ten years, three months, twelve days, one heartbreaking miscarriage, one painful ectopic pregnancy, and four tough failed IVF cycles—an almost impossible journey. But through all the ups and downs, it led her to the most incredible joy—the day she held her beautiful daughter in her arms.

Being labelled as a woman who might never "carry her own child" is a tough thing to reconcile. How do you climb the metaphorical Mount Everest of life achievements, only to face a summit seemingly out of reach?

💫Today, as the sun sets on her challenging journey, Elouise finds peace in nature's embrace, losing herself in its soothing rhythms. The piano keys sing beneath her fingertips, a melody that goes beyond the struggles of the past.

And most precious of all, she treasures the moments with her loving husband and the extraordinary gift that lights up their lives—their beautiful daughter.

𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 (𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞)? ☄️

Let’s consider humans as trifold beings: mind, body, spirit

Mind is movement. 💫

Body is a manifestation of that movement — body is an instrument of the mind. 👊

Because we are raised to operate mainly through our five physical senses, most human beings live as single-faceted creatures, they see themselves only as a body. Because they see, taste, touch and smell their body every day.

All the awareness is fixed on the lowest aspect of our nature. 👎

This is ignorance of self, and you don’t have to look very far for the evidence.

💫Once you understand, you are more than your body and mind, you begin to grow in your consciousness. The more conscious you become, the more you become a triple-faceted being.

This lady is incredible! So is her story. We are proud to have her as a founding member of the Conscious Coaching Academy. 👇

Robin Melina Kinsman's childhood was a whirlwind, navigating eight different countries and cultures due to her father's foreign service job.

Despite the freedom of this nomadic lifestyle, she grappled with a profound sense of alienation, a theme that persisted into her adulthood.

The realisation of her disconnect hit home during a church event in Peru.
Although fluent in Spanish and well-versed in the country's history, Robin found herself an outsider when the priest emphasised cultural distinctions, leaving her in tears as she recognized her isolation.

At 25, she plunged into a marriage that contradicted her values, a decision she regretted but felt compelled to fulfil due to societal expectations.

The union proved unfulfilling, stifling her identity and potential, and forcing her into financial dependency.

Driven by a thirst for personal development, Robin pursued education, obtaining a Master's in Organisational Leadership and Behavioural Sciences. Despite starting as a receptionist in a bilingual school, this humble beginning became a stepping stone to diverse opportunities in international projects.

The turning point came with a job offer from both the American Embassy and the Central Bank of Chile. Choosing the latter for its better benefits, she inadvertently revealed the competing offer, resulting in the bank revoking its offer. This painful setback, while naive, catalysed Robin's self-discovery.

Freed from the confines of an unsuitable marriage, Robin embraced entrepreneurship, defying societal norms.

✅The journey was riddled with failed ventures, from coffee expertise to rooftop gardens, until she discovered her passion for helping others find their true path.

🌟Inspired by Howard Truman's quote—“Don't ask the world what it needs. Ask yourself what makes you feel alive”—Robin realised the essence of individuals defines their career. Her gift for connecting with people attracted those seeking guidance with resumes and career choices.

💫Passion became the foundation of her business, but criticism about ignoring the monetary aspect prompted a shift. Studying successful entrepreneurs, Robin learned to turn ideas into profits.

Eventually, she honed her coaching skills, gaining accreditation from the Conscious Coaching Academy (CCA), guiding young adults to align their life paths with their true selves.

Robin now laughs at past struggles, viewing them as valuable lessons that paved the way for her success. Embracing her sense of alienation, she advocates for forging one's path and understanding one's true identity instead of fitting in—an ethos she lives by and imparts to others. 🌟

The difference between high achievers and underachievers, in any walk of life, is found in the simple graphic below.

Life's winners:

Embrace the process, and…
Stick with the process.
Life's underachievers don't.

They want the glory, but not the journey.

They want the outcome, but not the necessary process leading to it.

And life? It simply doesn't roll that way.

Make no mistake, the making of your '24 - and beyond - lies in you grasping the great truth.

The power is in the process…

… because things have the change IN you for things to change FOR you.

𝗜𝗳 𝘄𝗲’𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝗻𝗷𝗼𝘆 𝗳𝗮𝗿 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗮𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲…

… we must stop looking for solutions to our problems in places they can never be found. ⛔️

We must unlearn the deeply damaging consequences of a society deliberately designed to teach us what to think, not how to think.

We’re conditioned to conform, to follow the herd, to accept uncritically ideas we did not originate, and to not question those ideas. We pay an enormous price because of it. 😕

The insidious agenda to stupify the human race in the name of control has been at play for thousands of years.

Our man made, fear-based theological constructions have thrived for centuries on it. Today this agenda is stronger than ever.

We’re in decline. We’re dumbing down at the rate of knots. The attention deficit is falling off a cliff. Our mental capabilities are withering by the day. ⌳

We’re witnessing a reverse evolution.
An increasingly technologically advanced, consciously- re****ed species – a danger to itself and all other forms of life.

𝑊𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑟 ℎ𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑤𝑒 𝑑𝑜 𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑜𝑤𝑛, 𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑐 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 – 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑟 𝑑𝑟𝑎𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟, 𝑤𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑠𝑙𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑒𝑙.

Coaching, in its pure, transformative form, is the antidote. 🌟

No other intervention elevates consciousness as profoundly
as Coaching…
… yet sadly, very few who claim the title of “coach” are Coaching, and the Coach capable of Coaching at a consciousness-raising, transformative level is extremely rare.

Humanity deserves better from the Coaching profession.

This is why Conscious Coaching Academy was created

𝐈𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫…

… yet we didn’t know it as such.

Imagine if the cure was right under our nose…

… yet because it was positioned in our minds as something else, and administered in a false and ineffectual way by untrained, unqualified, unfit-for-purpose individuals, countless lives were lost unnecessarily.

What a tragedy that would be. 😔

Yet that’s exactly the reality we face.
🤷‍♂️

Five hundred years before the birth of Christ the Buddha declared the human race faced one, single challenge.

A challenge that is the root cause of ALL the dysfunctional, life and performance detracting behaviours witnessed on this planet today.

Two and half thousand years later…

… we remain an unconscious species.

Today’s Coaching profession is not only failing its consumer base, it’s failing humanity. The proverbial blind leading the blind.

The most transformational process known to mankind is being lost in the malpractice, negligence, misrepresentation and violation at play in the Coaching profession today.

Our problems – whether at an individual, organisational, institutional, societal, cultural, international and global level – are a subset of issues stemming from the only challenge we face as a species:

𝐈𝐠𝐧𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞.

The bottom line?

We can never, and will never, overcome our most pressing problems at the same level of consciousness by which we created them.

Results, in every aspect of life, at an individual and collective level, are a direct consequence of the consciousness being expressed in each area.

This is the ultimate cause and effect relationship in life.

Make no mistake, this is more than just a performance issue. At a species level…
… this is the TRUE existential threat.

Conscious Coaching Academy.

In the last post, I shared the story of how I lost my mom due to a stroke.

This is another story of my mom.

The worst day of my life was when I had to get my mom sectioned. I was 22. Having medical professionals come and take my mom because she was gravely mentality ill ripped my heart apart. I still remember the look she gave me that will stay with me forever.

𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘫𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘺 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘪𝘵 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘷𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘮𝘺 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘪𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘮𝘺 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘦 𝘱𝘶𝘳𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦.

I remember my childhood as being happy, loved and spoiled. I was the centre of my parents’ universe.

However, they were at war. And when they were at war, they were at war. I remember a few times in my early years waking up and hearing their voices booming through the ceiling.

I remember crawling down the stairs and seeing them at each other’s throats. I remember, at one stage, I was in the middle of them when they were fighting.

It was terrifying for a toddler…

Mom was very driven, ambitious and a beautiful woman. She worked for big-name cosmetic houses, such as Chanel, Givanchy, Lancome, as a model and a promotional girl.

My dad was an extremely gifted ‘people’ person with a great sense of humour, but because he didn't believe in himself, he was just a bus driver most of his life. Although they didn't see eye to eye with each other, they were both wonderful parents to me.

However, when I turned 12, my mom’s behaviour started shifting dramatically. She would behave irrationally, like smashing a vinyl music record, when my friend and I were dancing in the lounge. She would start embarrassing me in front of my friends and then girlfriends, by calling them names… I had no idea what was happening to mom. Dad explained to me she was going through menopause.

Things got worse, to the point that she was a danger to herself and to others.

It began when I was 12 and escalated to the point that I had to get my mom sectioned, it was a decade of darkness.

𝙄 𝙙𝙞𝙙𝙣’𝙩 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙞𝙩 𝙖𝙩 𝙖 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙙𝙞𝙛𝙛𝙞𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙩 𝙙𝙖𝙧𝙠 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙙 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙖 𝙜𝙞𝙛𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙜𝙪𝙞𝙨𝙚. 𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙢𝙮 𝙖𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙗𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙘𝙤𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙨 𝙖 𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙧, 𝙄 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙚𝙙𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙢𝙮 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙣𝙤𝙣𝙥𝙝𝙮𝙨𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙝𝙪𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙩 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙢𝙮 𝙢𝙤𝙢 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙚𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙡𝙮.

I had to first go through a sales career, which was quite successful for me, because I was always genuinely interested in other people and asking them questions about what made them tick.

I was more interested in people rather than sales, which always helped me sell more. I was unconsciously integrating coaching aspects into my work because of my natural curiosity and interest in people.

When I was invited to a weekend about coaching through the European Coaching Federation, everything made sense.

Embracing the art and science of coaching (both personally and professionally) those dark devastating times with my mom shifted to an immense gratitude for her sacrifice to allow me to find my purpose. She brought that experience to herself, but also she brought it to me.

There is no way I would have found my path of coaching if mom hadn’t sown the seed of my curiosity that we are more than this physical shell. 💫

It wasn't just the chemical imbalance in my mom that caused that mental and physical suffering. It wasn't body over mind. It was mind over body.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐰𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠-𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐯𝐢𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐧𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐮𝐚𝐥?

It was eye-opening. It all opened the door to a fascinating world of coaching.

The dramatic transformation happened when I hired my own coach, while still going through my own coaching training. I went from 240 pounds to 172 in a year, massively improving my health and fitness. My business performance went from 4 million to 64 million in a year in a company I was working for. And I started to live more consciously.

Being in this industry as a coach and a trainer of coaches for over 2 decades, I am grateful for the incredible opportunities it has brought me.

I have worked with Bob Proctor and John Maxwell, training and transforming the lives of over 40 000 coaches worldwide, training them to the highest standards prior to founding the Conscious Coaching Academy.

I miss my beautiful and loving mom tremendously, I so grateful for her and to her.

𝐀 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐦𝐲 𝐦𝐨𝐦

It was April 1997.

It was, on the face of it, no different to any other Sunday. It became everything but an ordinary Sunday. I was on the driveway of my mother's house washing my car.

When I'd arrived earlier. My mother casually mentioned she'd had some sharp pain at the back of her head while out tendering to her spring flowers.

Mom was hardly an attention seeker, but she was never short of some ailment or other to moan about either. I just wrote it off as Mom being Mom.

A short while later she appeared at the front door informing me she'd been violently sick. Now that was unusual, but still, I reasoned it to be something she ate or a stomach upset of some nature. 😕

"Go and make a cuppa" I suggested. Ah yes, that always does the trick, doesn't it? Whatever the ailment, the humble British cuppa is the one-stop solution for all ailments.

Not.

Minutes later she came back out of the house. No cuppa. Unsteady on her feet. Visibly distressed.

🥺

"Mom, what's up?" I enquired.

"Something's wrong and I need to get to the hospital. Now!!"

Her tone had a level of certainty and urgently about it that left little room for doubt.

On the way to the hospital, Mom's attitude worsened.

I had no comprehension of what was going on, or what was about to transpire, or that my life was about to be changed forever.

The rest of the events were like a blur… I just remember sitting with my dad in the hospital waiting for a doctor.

"Christian, the results of the MRI show your mother had a major bleed at the back of her brain earlier today. It's very likely she won't survive the night. 😥 If she does pull through, and again, I stress this is unlikely, she'll need to be transferred to the neurological centre at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital first thing tomorrow for surgery". Were the doctor's words that left me completely numb.

I don't recall the rest of the conversation. I was in shock over my mother's condition and predicament.

My father didn't know what to do with himself in the helplessness of it all either. I was right there with him.

Mom fought on. That woman had a heart like a lion and a spirit to match it.

Not only did she survive the night, she survived five hours of brain surgery the next day.

Sadly, over the next six months, she contracted every possible complication she could during her time on the neurological ward at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

To cut a long story short, my mother spent the next (and last) four years of her life bed-ridden, only able to move her eyes and, on rare occasions, drum up a big beautiful smile when I entered the room.

She was fully compos mentis throughout these four years, locked in a body that wouldn't respond.

A living hell.

I lost my mother twice. She finally left her physical body on January 10th, 2001, but in truth, I lost her for real on April 13th, 1997.

To be continued....

P.S. The photos of my parents.

How intentional are you about your inner circle?
The quality of the people in your surroundings creates a huge impact on your success.

Some time ago, one of my Entrepreneurial Inner Circle members, sent me a note:

𝐶ℎ𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑛,
𝐿𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒, 𝐼'𝑚 𝑜𝑛 𝑎 𝑓𝑒𝑤 𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠. 𝑀𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑡𝑟𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑙 𝑚𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝐼 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑠𝑜 𝑡𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑠𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑢𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑏𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑏𝑒.
𝑌𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑠 𝑎𝑑𝑑 𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑦 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒, 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑏𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑓 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑠ℎ 𝑎𝑖𝑟. 𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑑 '𝑇ℎ𝑒 7 𝑆𝑡𝑒𝑝𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑆𝑢𝑐𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠' 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑠 𝑎𝑑𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑘 𝑦𝑜𝑢.

If you want to improve your outcomes, you have to improve your environment which influences your thinking, beliefs, actions and results

The primary goal is to focus on the potential not performance. 💫

What is the main difference between the two? 🤔

The answer to this question lies in how we perceive results. Your current results do not represent your potential, they represent your current awareness of your potential. Your existing results reflect the quality of your thinking that you brought to your business and life up until this moment in time. And focusing on them will not improve them. In fact, it is likely to replicate them.

Here are some irrefutable facts about potential:

✅Your potential is infinite. It manifests itself through your natural strengths and talents.
Our ability to draw our infinite potential will always be found in areas where we are naturally gifted.
There is no limit to what can be achieved in our natural giftedness if we have the will, discipline and persistence to make it happen.

✅ Your potential is a process of discovery.
You might not be aware of your talent.
Or maybe, you are aware of it, but you are not working at it to the degree that you should be.
In any case, you believe there is more to your life.

✅ The expression of your potential comes down to your awareness of it.
Your current results reflect your current awareness of your potential.
The more aware you become of your natural talents, the more capable you become of expressing more of your potential.

Expanding your potential will help you bring the most cherished entrepreneurial and life goals to life.

What do you think the implication would be on the growth of your business if you put as much focus, time and energy on your potential as you do on measuring your performance?