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Life’s Unexpected Events
August 17, 2011 10 Comments
Hi Coach Cameron here – below is a great article submitted by an expert in helping people prepare for the unexpected. Thanks to Wayne Lennan for sharing this with our readers and coaching clients.
Imagine for a moment the costs involved if you suffered a major medical trauma or if you were unable to work for an extended period of time due to injury or illness. There are medical costs for a start, not to mention the loss of your income and the day to day living expenses don’t go away because you can’t work! If you add to this the need to make lifestyle changes such as home modifications, rehabilitation programs and paying off any existing debt, the costs soon mount up.
Helping prepare for the unexpected
“Relieving stress and creating a better lifestyle if you suffer a major illness or are injured costs money – lots of money if you want to do it right”, says financial adviser Wayne Lennan from advisory group Financial Wisdom. “People generally want to remain self sufficient when it comes to their health and finances, but saving and investing alone may not be enough to cover the costs caused by illness or injury”.
The best solution to avoid financial hardship during these times is to insure your income and combine it with a trauma insurance policy.
While income protection will replace up to 75% of your income while you are unable to work, a trauma insurance policy will pay out a lump sum on a specified medical event, such as heart attack, cancer or stroke. “Trauma insurance provides cash to spend anyway you want to help you recover or change your lifestyle”, says Wayne “Many of our clients use it as a way to give up work altogether, setting up a debt free and worry free lifestyle”.
As with any insurance Wayne advises that it is a case of buyer beware. There are many products on the market that offer a wide variety of claims options in terms of medical conditions that are covered.
“You need to be careful and preferably get advice to ensure you are getting the best protection and the right amount of cover to suit your personal circumstances”.
Wayne Lennan is an authorised representative of Financial Wisdom Limited. This advice is of a general nature only and has been prepared without taking into account your particular financial needs, objectives and should not be construed as financial, taxation or legal advice.
For more information on Trauma insurance and income protection insurance products please visit www.waynelennan.financialwisdom.com.au or call Wayne Lennan on 02 49256125.
Success begins in your mind
August 17, 2011 48 Comments
Success Begins in Your Mind
Hi, Coach Cameron here… You know it can be challenging to be Leaping Through Life when markets are crashing, small business is struggling and countries owe billions and trillions of dollars worth of debt to one another – it would be easy to feel like all is lost and hopeless in the world of small business or solo businesses.
The truth is you can be leaping through life, you can develop that business idea you have been considering for a while, you can have a flourishing small business, you can get your family out of debt, you can pay off your mortgage and if you are in business you can put your prices up… you just have to have the right mindset.
You see in any economic environment, the success or failure of the individuals within that environment is dependent only on one thing – what they BELIEVE about themselves and their ability. Imagine if an Olympic Gold Medalists was told by his or her Coach “hey listen, hate to break bad news to you, but that record you’re chasing has never been broken, it’s never been done before – so why don’t you just be happy with what you already have and quit while you are ahead” Imagine if Robert Bannister on a windy day in May 1954, listened to all those around him that said you’ll never break the 4.00 minute mile, just play it safe, it’s too windy, you’re not fully rested and you’re not ready. Robert Bannister had the right mindset.
As odd as that sounds – that is exactly what people do when there is an economic crisis – they retreat, they back down, they complain, they get scared off, and they panic. When billions and trillions of dollars are lost on Wall Street in a single day, somewhere, someone made a killing on share prices going down! Yes that’s right, some people trade shares and they take out “put and call” options. When the markets crash, they make massive amounts of money as their option is bought as markets crash and slide. They have the right mindset.
So what’s your thinking like lately? Do you catch yourself out being negative? Do you find your state of mind is determined by all the bad news and negative headlines?
You can be Leaping Through Life and you can achieve SUCCESS in any area of your life, at any time. Stop waiting for the perfect day, the perfect season, or the perfect opportunity. Stop making excuses and blaming everyone and everything else. Go out into your world and make your own luck, create your own opportunities, and enjoy your own happiness.
Success begins with a thought, and thoughts begin in your mind!
Why not consider regular coaching – it’s FREE – my gift to you – (worth $395 per year!) and each month I’ll keep you updated with tools and strategies to keep your mind and life on the right track. Join up now below by submitting your name and email, you can unsubscribe at anytime. Warm Regards, Coach Cameron.
What’s your business issues?
July 7, 2011 36 Comments
Hi again, Coach Cameron here from Leaping Through Life and CEO of Small Business Master Coaching.
You know, what I believe a lot of people should look for in business is actually a good coach who can help them increase revenue, lower costs, improve systems, improve their lead generations and help them with both online and offline marketing.
Personally, if I was looking for a business coach, or someone to help me do those things, I wouldn’t want just someone who has paid a couple of thousand dollars to do a course on maybe say, business marketing or NLP. Sure, all that sort of stuff is really good but do they actually walk the talk? Have they got a runs on the board and have they run their own successful business models already? And if the answer is no, well then you’re just working with someone that’s done the training and might not really understand the day-to-day running of a small to medium business.
So, what I help people do as a business coach is I help managers and business owners identify some issues in their business because I get it. I know what it’s like to be in business. So I sit down with people and I help them identify some of the issues that are in their business currently.
From those issues, we identify or we highlight the top issues and we work with those ones first. From there, we look at the problems of those top issues, what are some of the challenges they face, what are some of the things they have to go through on a daily basis to get stuff right. Once we’ve identified the issues, we go through some of the problems then we look at the outcome, what’s the final result that the business owner wants from the issue? Is it to raise capital? Is it to improve revenue? Is it to create more leads?
Once people know what the outcome is, they can be coached or helped to achieve their goals a lot faster. If you start off coaching someone or when I start off working with someone both on and off a sporting field and on and off the business arena, it’s really hard to work with people that don’t know where they’re going. And that’s why that process is really important.
So I encourage you now. Take five minutes to identify some of the issues in your business you’re currently facing. Look at some of the problems or challenges that are ongoing as part of those issues. And then really get to the nuts and bolts and identify what is the end result that you would like. What should it look like if you could wave a magic wand over your business? What would the end result look like for you that you’d be truly satisfied with and happy with that outcome? Once you can identify those three steps, you’re on your way to improving your profitability, your productivity and your overall health of your business.
Thanks for clicking through. I look forward to seeing you really soon in person at one of my workshops or events, or I hope to get to coach you with one of our excellent membership programs.
Keep Leaping Through Life - warm regards, Coach Cameron Roberts.
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Why do many people fail when setting goals?
June 28, 2011 58 Comments
Hi there, Coach Cameron Roberts here, thanks for taking the time in clicking through in. Be sure to leave me a quick comment at the end of this article.
As part of our Leaping Through Life and Small Business Master Coaching Programs today, I want to share with you some coaching, business and life strategies around goal setting and specifically, I want to talk to you about why people fail when they set up their goals in the first place.
You know, as a coach of over 20 years experience, I find that a lot of people are really motivated to change something around New Year or in business it’s around end of financial year. But as the year gets on and their lives get busy, they often pull back a little bit or relax a little bit on their goals and the things they set themselves up for in business or life initially.
Why doesn't everyone achieve their dreams and goals
So what makes someone succeed while other people who also set the goals fail and fall back? Well, what I find in life is that people who succeed have a definite plan and a definite purpose.
They know what they want and they know what they want to get out of their lives, and that’s really important. But you know what really makes people succeed and gets them Leaping Through Life when they set their goals?
It is that they first and foremost change their rules and their beliefs about the situation that they’re setting their goals for!
Here’s what I mean. I’ll give you an example. About six months ago, I was working with a team of managers with a Leaping Through Life corporate coaching program from the Commonwealth Bank in the Hunter Region. Now, one of the managers came up to me about six months after the course that we ran for them and she was saying how great it was that she’s still motivated, she’s still achieving her goals that we set as part of the corporate program and she was really excited.
As a coach, I was really happy for her that she was still achieving those goals and objectives that we had set six months prior in the workshops that we did together.
So what happened was we just didn’t sit down and do a “goal-setting session” because anyone can do that. You can just sit down, work out on paper what you want to achieve, and then go forward and try to achieve it.
To be Leaping Through Life and achieve real success we first established some values and beliefs, and we looked at their limiting beliefs.
What was holding them back? What do they believe about a certain situation, about their health, about their finance, about their personality that motivate in holding them back? And once we looked at their beliefs that they had about a situation, then and only then do we set up their goals.
Now this is where a lot of people go wrong. They set themselves a goal of say, getting fit in the New Year but they don’t change their beliefs about what fitness means to them. Or they set themselves a goal of going on a diet in the New Year to lose weight but they don’t change their beliefs about food and what food means to them.
So if you want to change anything in your life, it’s a nor brainer that you need to set some goals -but what you’ve got to do first and foremost is change some of the limiting beliefs that you have about that situation you are setting your goals for and in.
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Keep Leaping Through Life – Coach Cameron Roberts
