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This year has been particularly interesting for a number of reasons. Obviously from the larger picture the effect of Brexit on my clients and the UK as a whole has been and will continue to be a challenge, but from the more parochial point of view, a number of my clients seem to have reached a watershed.

On the plus side, the point of my coaching is to help business owners to create a business which can work without them, and we have now achieved that with several clients during the year. However, on the down side, although we always start with goal setting, I think that on the whole they are all a little surprised that they have reached this stage, and are now wondering what to do next.

For some this can be almost as “risky” a point as when they first started out, because suddenly they are left with a feeling of redundancy, and there is a real chance that some will sub-consciously start to self-sabotage their business, so they are needed again, and can find a new challenge. For others, however, the challenge is to start up the next enterprise, and find new ventures into which they can invest time and money.

As a coach, I am really excited by the new opportunities this brings, as for my clients and for myself we are starting on new ground, often going into situations and facing decisions which we haven’t experienced before. In the past year fear of the unknown and fear of failure may have stopped me or my clients from talking these new paths, but now I know that only by pushing ourselves to new challenges, that we can reach still greater heights.

So have you reached your full potential yet? Does your business work without you? Do you feel a bit stale and need new challenges? A coach can help you with all these things, and I know my clients are reinvigorated by the unknown issues which lie ahead.

Have you ever found yourself in the position where you have just learned that because you didn’t do a task or take an action (which you had known about for sometime) you have cost yourself a lot of money, or even excluded yourself from something you would have liked to have been part of? I know I have both in my personal and my business life, and no doubt most people reading this will have been in this situation at one time or another.

Part of my role as a coach, is to make sure that this doesn’t happen to any of my clients. Sometimes it is fairly straight forward things, to make sure that costs are not out of control, and sales are on target. But sometimes it is something much more fundamental.

I was recently with a client who needed to get something approved by the local authorities, but for one reason or another he had been rejected. On discussing this further with them, they recognised that they had possibly been a little harsh, so asked him to re-submit his application, and this would then be “rubber-stamped”. Simple enough, but unfortunately my client has continually put this off as it is a big job and the thought of doing it all again is daunting. However, he runs the risk of missing the opportunity altogether if he doesn’t re-apply very soon. My question to him was “Should they tell you that now you can no longer apply, what difference would it make to your business?” His reply was “A huge difference, structurally and financially.” So why does he still hesitate?!

This situation is not unusual surprisingly. So it is up to me to keep him accountable to getting the application made. He has agreed that I will ring him twice a week until it is completed and submitted.

If you are like this, and you can’t find a way to change, why not invite a coach into your life. It may be more uncomfortable, but you won’t have to say “If only…..” anymore.

This year has been particularly interesting for a number of reasons. Obviously from the larger picture the effect of Brexit on my clients and the UK as a whole has been and will continue to be a challenge, but from the more parochial point of view, a number of my clients seem to have reached a watershed.

On the plus side, the point of my coaching is to help business owners to create a business which can work without them, and we have now achieved that with several clients during the year. However, on the down side, although we always start with goal setting, I think that on the whole they are all a little surprised that they have reached this stage, and are now wondering what to do next.

For some this can be almost as “risky” a point as when they first started out, because suddenly they are left with a feeling of redundancy, and there is a real chance that some will sub-consciously start to self-sabotage their business, so they are needed again, and can find a new challenge. For others, however, the challenge is to start up the next enterprise, and find new ventures into which they can invest time and money.

As a coach, I am really excited by the new opportunities this brings, as for my clients and for myself we are starting on new ground, often going into situations and facing decisions which we haven’t experienced before. In the past year fear of the unknown and fear of failure may have stopped me or my clients from talking these new paths, but now I know that only by pushing ourselves to new challenges, that we can reach still greater heights.

So have you reached your full potential yet? Does your business work without you? Do you feel a bit stale and need new challenges? A coach can help you with all these things, and I know my clients are reinvigorated by the unknown issues which lie ahead.

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