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
My comments on Social Ontology
[NOTE: Copied from http://blognostra.blogspot.in/2005/08/re-sv-mythoself-tm-my-comments-on.html ... reposted here in full. Response on mythoself-tm@yahoogroups.com in response to the Social Ontology blog at www.blognostra.blogspot.com – simultaneously posted in both forums. - JSR] Robert, Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; I must admit I don’t “get it” ... a lot of words and little point. You the “master” of “simplicity” taking so many words to say so little. I appreciate that Najma loved it so it of course may just be me, but with absolute honesty I don’t get it ... at least in relation to Social Ontology ... or even the ordinary construction of logical connections. First, as always with you, I accept that this is ultimately a trance-lation from Swedish into Swenglish ... (pronounced either ‘swing-lish’ or ‘sweng-lish’ if you prefer, for those who want to know). I also accept that Najma Continue Reading
Freedom is just another word …
... and Freeing Your Mind is where to start! When I think about "freedom" I think about something that goes beyond place and time. For instance most folks think of freedom as: The ability to do what they want, when they want, where they want, whenever they want ... or something like that from my observations. But, that presupposes something that is very typically missing more often than not ... the fundamental ability to have a choice in the first place. Ah, but there's the rub ... To begin with to have a choice you must first be free of preconceived notions and knee-jerk responses, and so few of us are even a little bit free of those bits of installed mind programs. From the very beginning, maybe even in the womb, we are being programmed with what to like or dislike, what is good or bad, what to desire or reject ... and on and on. Yet we think the things we choose are our preferences most of the time, and not just pre-conditioned responses. If only that were true Continue Reading
The Nature of Change
"Happiness is never really so welcome as changelessness." -Graham Greene I often get asked something like, "Why bother?" … because it's unclear to most folks exactly what it is that I do. It's usually a sign of some confusion that I get asked such a thing, because the connection between the work I do … the actual service I provide … is often unclear, even to my clients … except for the results they get. It's why they keep coming. To be fair what is unclear is "HOW" what I do works, NOT the outcomes I produce. The outcomes, the "WHAT" that clients want, are attained within the work we do together … that's clear. However, from my point of view the "HOW" is much more interesting than the "WHAT" … despite how obscure it can seem to the uninitiated. Separating "THIS" and "THAT" … or, Unraveling the "X/Y Paradigm" In the simplest terms I am a "Change Artist." That is, I help individuals and organizations make changes they want or need to make … for whatever Continue Reading
