Or … The Gravesian Way To Making A Great Living As A Coach/Consultant/Trainer … Okay … the idea of the Venn Diagram showing this particular intersection isn’t mine, but the commentary around it is … Let’s take a closer look together … shall we? [NOTE: I originally wrote this as a post on my blog where I've been talking the Graves Model for years. This model identifies what most drives perceptual, decision-making and behavioral responses that people default to generally, all other things being equal. The fundamental point here is that unconscious values drive responses. When you can recognize how your values shape your responses, and the way values shape the responses that others make, you can make choices that serve you more powerfully in your business. It's not so important to try to master the Graves Model, as to get the underlying values that form business decisions that shape a business' outcomes.] Most of the build your coaching business Continue Reading
Pathways To A High Ticket Coaching Or Consulting Practice
Or … The Gravesian Way To Making A Great Living As A Coach/Consultant/Trainer … Okay … the idea of the Venn Diagram isn’t mine, but the commentary around it is … Let’s take a closer look together … shall we? Most of the “Build Your Coaching Business Gurus” will point you towards what I’m calling out as the “Graves Six” position where you supposedly make money by pursuing your passion … e.g.: “Your Million Dollar Message” B.S. BUT … while you can indeed make money by overlapping “What You’re Passionate About” resides and where “What Your Clients Want and Are Willing To Pay Handsomely To Get” overlap … there ain’t no guarantee that’s gonna happen … BECAUSE there’s no guarantee that what you’re passionate about … or your message, life story, insights, calling, whatever … is going to resonate with what customers and clients are willing to pay handsomely for today. Now if you notice most of these “Gurus” are following the path that most of the Continue Reading
Leaping Forward …
Preparing The Future ... Neuro-Evolutionary Modeling I posted something on Facebook in response to comment made there about how someone wasn't getting the point that the person posting was trying to make ... not an uncommon scenario unfortunately. But there are different reasons people won't get a point someone is making ... maybe the point isn't being clearly made, or getting it requires a bit of background that's missing, or sometimes it can just be that the people disagree and that creates a block in the communication. However, in this case I believe it was something else ... a fundamental inability for people to see anything that's beyond their neuro-evolutionary development. Here's my response to that posting: I'm a big fan of neuro-evolutionary developmental modeling. Think of the work of Julian Jaynes and his bicameral mind theory, or the work of Clare Graves or Jane Lovinger, or E.O. Wilson's work in sociobiology. This is where my attention has Continue Reading
Which Brain Are You Using?
Silent Brain Learning NOTE: Read this article and watch the video first … [The Enormous Power of the Unconscious Brain] It’s a great article, but the journalist has it all wrong IMO. In fact he completely contradicts himself … Silence is Golden In the video you see the comparison between the journalist’s brain and the world-champ’s brain (that’s right the 10 year old is a world champion cup stacker … what have you done lately???). In that video the journalist’s brain is lit up like a Christmas tree .. whle the champ’s brain is virtually silent. Yet the journalist claims he’s wired in the programming to his cortical processing to run the patterns he’s running without processing them. That’s fundamentally absurd!!! (Go ahead, read the paragraph above again.) The argument I’m making is that what the champ did was to get his brain out of the way (okay, not his whole brain, but the part we “think” with normally … or at least consciously … the cortical brain (the Continue Reading
