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		<title>How Many Hats Do You Wear? Part IV &#8211; The Business Coach / Mentor</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Sep 2010 19:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colette Morris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being a home business owner means developing different qualities as a person and as a leader. When you sponsor new people into your business, you need to be a good mentor and business coach. This is not something that comes naturally to some people.  I have been part of a few MLM companies now and &#8230; <a class="read-excerpt" href="http://colettemorris.com/2010/09/13/business-coach-mentor/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p>Being a home business owner means developing different qualities as a person and as a leader.  When you sponsor new people into your business, you need to be a good mentor and business coach.  This is not something that comes naturally to some people.   I have been part of a few MLM companies now and having a good mentor is key to you also succeeding in your business.   If your mentor or business coach is not very engaging with you, after a while you will lose interest or become demotivated. Coaching is about getting the very best out of someone and enabling them to make decisions that will improve their business or their life.</p>
<p>Business Coaching can help you identify ways in which you can develop your business, ways in which you can motivate yourself and others to get more out of your business day, ways to generate more leads.</p>
<p>You see, most people when first starting out in owning their home business can feel overwhelmed with the amount of  things they have to do to set up their business. That is where a business coach or a good mentor comes in.</p>
<p>If you area business owner and find that your are losing customers to the competition and you want to fight back, finding a good business coach is key to your success. Let’s face it, it’s hard to recruit, retain and motivate good strong leaders.  So being able to stepback and taking a look at your business instead and how you need to move forward with it rather than fire fighting.</p>
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<p>Developing good coaching skills is essential as a home business owner.<br />
<a href="http://www.businessballs.com" target="_blank">www.businessballs.com</a> is a useful site and has many articles on business coaching, life coaching that can help you as a new business owner to understand your core aims and it also give you lots of tips and techniques.</p>
<p>Another great site for coaching information and tips  is  <a href="http://www.the-coaching-academy.com" target="_blank">www.the-coaching-academy.com</a> If you are UK based you can sign up to a free two day coaching course run by them.</p>
<p>The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey has been a great book to help develop my coaching skills and understanding how people tick.  I have added the book link below from Amazon, if you have not yet read this I urge you to order it today to read.</p>
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<p>To Your Success</p>
<p><em><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #0000ff;">Colette Morris</span></span></em></p>
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		<title>Drown Out The Noise</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Colette Morris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you find sometimes you have too much going on in your head?  The noise can get quite deafening. Many a times it leads to illness, lack of sleep, short temper,  inertia and so one.  Inevitably you end up simply not doing anything. So, what can you do to stop the noise in your head? &#8230; <a class="read-excerpt" href="http://colettemorris.com/2010/07/27/drown-out-the-noise/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p>Do you find sometimes you have too much going on in your head?  The noise can get quite deafening. Many a times it leads to illness, lack of sleep, short temper,  inertia and so one.  Inevitably you end up simply not doing anything.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #800080;">So, what can you do to stop the noise in your head? What can you do to relieve the stresses and strains of too much happening around you? Here are a few ideas which have in the past helped me, and even now I use these to help me focus and get through the noise.<br />
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<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #800080;">Having too much going on in your head can lead to lack of productivity, which is not good for your creativity or your home business.  After all being productive is key to seeing results. So how do you drown out the noise and get your mind to focus.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #800080;">Well there are a number of methods you could try, I find meditating  or listening to calming music or a</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #800080;"> self development CD  helps to drown out the noise and gets me focused.  Everyone is different so try and find something that works for you.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #800080;">To keep focused write down a plan of daily action, I usually find first thing in the morning is a good time to do this. Write out those that were not carried out the day before you need to review to see if they are still required to be carried out.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #800080;">Keep a note book handy so that you are prepared to quickly capture those one off thoughts. Or if you are like me, record your ideas onto either a mobile phone or a dictaphone as they pop into your head.  Nothing is worse than having an idea and not capturing it for later use.  We must over a billion ideas in the day, and if we only captured a small percentage of those ideas who knows what may come out of them.  Many an entrepreneur or inventor has lost out to others because they had a thought or idea, but did not capture it and so therefore were not able to follow through to take action.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #800080;">I don&#8217;t know about you, but when there is too much going on I find I just STOP take a step back, slow things down and take positive action. How do you manage the noises in your head?  Share what works for you by leaving me a comment below. </span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;">To your success</span></span></p>
<p><span style="color: #000000;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><em>Colette Morris</em></span> aka workfmhomeDiva</span></span></p>
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