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THE

ESSENTIAL TOOLS To Get Your Coaching Business Online KELLY PETERING

HOW TO LET GO IN ORDER TO

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THE FUTURE OF Neuro Linguistic Programming POOJA LOHANA

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The ICG Brand 4 LESSONS FROM A 7 YEAR OLD

Shilpa Agarwal 8 HOW TO LET GO IN ORDER TO RECEIVE

Tess Bartlet 14 THE FUTURE OF NEURO LINGUISTIC PROGRAMMING

Pooja Lohana 18 7 ESSENTIAL TOOLS TO GET YOUR COACHING BUSINESS ONLINE

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LESSONS FROM A

7 Year Old WRITTEN BY

Shilpa Agarwal INT. Professional Coach

Shilpa Agarwal is the co-founder and director of ‘Want Solution’. She is an Author, a Mindset Coach, Motivational Speaker and Corporate Trainer. Her new book features simple yet effective strategies that have the power to take you, where you want to go. www.wantsolution.com/books Let me ask you a question. (And then I’m going

some cases, you must have achieved that deep

to ask you about thirty more!)

desire and in some cases, not. Have you ever

Do you recall a situation in your life when you

wondered why?

WANTED something? When you really wanted to

Let me explain this with one of my real-life

HAVE something instantly (let’s call it your “deep

examples, which is not very recent, but it is a

desire” hereafter)?

significant event of my life which has stayed

And as you recall that moment of desire, revisit

with me for all the good reasons. I have taken

that moment a bit more deeply. What were you

some great lessons from it and it still continues

seeing, hearing and feeling? What was your

to inspire me to stay connected with my inner

self-talk like? Were your thoughts in favour of

personal power.

or against you, as you wondered whether you’d have your deep desire fulfilled? Was it instant gratification that you were after? In

And that’s my intention for you through this article today. That you connect with your deepest inner strength or personal power. page 8

A PERSONAL STORY

I learnt to break down the sounds of consonants

Nearly 25 years ago, I was in the second grade

And guess what? In the process of learning, I

in school. At the end of the annual year, on the

started having FUN! It’s the most important

day of open-house, I arrived at school with my

element that we forget as we grow up.

and vowels and gave it a go to write spellings.

parents. And as I walked in, some of my friends and their parents who were already leaving the

Every weekend, I used to ask my dad to give

school premises with their report cards were

me some tough words to spell and some extra

congratulating me on the way.

math sums to solve. It’s now clearly evident that my “D-I” personality style was formed early on.

I had no idea what it was all about, but now,

Face challenges and make them fun became my

filled with a whole lot of unexpected surprise

mantra.

and excitement in my little 7-year old body and mind, I realised on reaching my classroom that

And that brings me to the main point.

I had secured the highest marks in English and Math amongst 150 second grade kids.

I was just BEING the best version

And there I was, thinking to myself, even at

of me! I was simply having fun

that little age of seven, “How oblivious I was to

learning and I wasn’t afraid of

the competition that was ahead of me when I actually wrote my exams. I just grasped the concepts of letters and

making mistakes. And when I was BEING what I needed to BE, and

numbers, spellings and sums, reading and story-

DOING what I needed to DO, I

telling and reproduced those on paper, which

simply and easily could HAVE what

has landed me this prize! And I had so much fun on the way! Wow!”

I wanted to HAVE.

I did not know back then, how and why this

INSTANT GRATIFICATION

happened and what made me deserving of the prize, but now when I look back at my 7-year old

Instant gratification brings about the need to

traits, I remember how I used to embrace math

fulfil your desires right here, right now.

sums and dictation tests like fun puzzles! This means we want to please our senses and I wanted a bigger number to add to and subtract

fulfil our desires almost instantly. We want it

from. I was thinking new and thinking fast. I recall

NOW and we want it — superfast — whether it’s

my thought process so vividly; I understood

about having good grades in our tests, a highly-

much earlier than it was taught to me that the

paying job, luxury in life, a healthy body, or lots

same addition principles would apply to 4, 5, 10

of clients in our business.

or even 13 digit numbers as they apply to 2-digit ones. page 9

SO THE NEXT TIME, YOU NOTICE A DESIRE CREEPING UP IN YOUR MIND, ASK YOURSELF: • WHO AM I BEING RIGHT NOW TO HAVE THE DEEP DESIRE I WANT FULFILLED? • WHAT ARE MY VALUES AROUND IT? • WHAT ARE MY BELIEFS? • WHAT PRINCIPLES OF

And also, what am I DOING right now to be able to achieve “my deep desire”? Am I taking enough action? Am I taking the right actions? Have I built muscle (physical or mental) around the skills required to do the tasks? And one of the most important questions. . . Do I understand the value and importance of delayed gratification? Why is it that I don’t have something right now and that I need to go through a certain “passage of rites” to be able to deserve to HAVE the desired outcome or results? How much nicer will it be when I BE and DO what is needed and get the results I wanted, albeit a bit later? What will I enjoy in this delayed gratification that instant gratification does not have to offer?

INTEGRITY DO I FOLLOW?

And my dear friends, once you have BEEN and DONE that, there’s no way for you but to HAVE what you want to HAVE.

• DO I UNDERSTAND THE

Here’s to Your Success!

PURPOSE OF MY BEING AND DOING THE DO? • DO I UNDERSTAND THE PURPOSE OF WANTING IT? • WHAT WILL FULFILLING THIS DESIRE GIVE ME? • HOW IS THAT IN SYNC WITH MY VALUES OF LIFE?

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Let Go IN ORDER TO Receive HOW TO

Tess Bartlett is writer, speaker, researcher and mindfulness and transformation coach for heart-centred female entrepreneurs and the Director of Tess Bartlett Holistic Coaching. She is passionate about creativity, mindfulness, and self-compassion and has written for various publications. A few weeks ago I ran a workshop on mindfulness meditation and someone in the group said: “This may be a silly question, but how do you let go?” It is not a silly question. In fact, it is a very important question, and one that is given scant attention, because we are all too busy holding on for our lives. When we are experiencing pain and difficult emotions such as fear, grief, loss, anger, resentment and sadness, the tendency is to want to ruminate and worry. We keep repeating the stories we have created in our minds that have either already happened or are yet to happen.

When we ruminate on thoughts of the past, we can start to identify with these events and relive them over and over again and this can lead to depression (see Murray Law, 2005). Conversely, fixating on thoughts that are situated in the future may lead to anxiety as we plan, worry, and fear what is yet to come. The most important thing to know is that due to human evolution, our minds are conditioned to focus more intensely on thoughts that are negative. This is what neuropsychologist Rick Hanson (2010) coined the “negativity bias” that exists in our brain’s amygdala:

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“The alarm bell of your brain – the amygdala – uses about two-thirds of its neurons to look for bad news: it’s primed to go negative. Once it sounds the alarm, negative events and experiences get quickly stored in memory – in contrast to positive events and experiences, which usually need to be held in awareness for a dozen or more seconds to transfer from shortterm memory buffers to longterm storage.”

In our brains this bias is “...Velcro for negative experiences but Teflon for positive ones” as Hanson suggests. The more we focus on and engage with negative stories, the more the stories become embedded in our minds. This in essence, is holding on. Instead of simply experiencing feelings, thoughts and emotions as they occur, the tendency is to grasp, resist, avoid and turn away. I mean, who wants to experience gut-wrenching loss over someone or something? Who wants to experience death? Who wants to experience anything without something to relieve us of this pain? Yet when we resist sensations, as well as life, we are holding on to the pain and remains in the problem and this only serve to prolong the pain.

LETTING GO: WHAT YOU WANT TO DO Bring into your mind a real life event that has happened to you recently – it may be an argument with a partner or a friend where you feel like you have been harmed in some way or maybe you haven’t been heard. Have you gone over and over the event in your mind? Each time you replay the conversation the hurt seems to go a little deeper. You feel the pain hurtling through your body. The stories are piling on top of each other and what started out as “She’s such a …” Has turned on yourself and has become “I am so ...” All you want to do is retreat into the mountains. Go where no-one can disturb you and you are free from all the problems. Realistically however, if you were to shut yourself away in a cabin while continuing to resist life, you would continue to experience suffering for your mind has simply come along for the ride. Not only will you be alone in a cabin, you will have our inner critic right there beside you. “Helloooooooooo!” “Fancy meeting you here.” As you bunker down, preparing for your weekend of solitude, the same old stories start circling through your mind reminding you that you’re not good enough, that the work you’re doing is a piece of crap, or that you really have no talent at all. Within this space there is no opportunity for growth and no opportunity for being open to learn. You can choose to continue running the same old patterns of resistance where you battle the whirlwind of cacophonies scripted out by your nasty inner critic, or you can choose another path that is light and golden to touch. page 15

You close your eyes and gently open your palms, releasing the feather into the whirling wind. With it you let go of the hurt, the pain, and the stories that have been circling through your mind.

“I’ve stopped trying to conduct the orchestra and have become the music itself.” Unknown LETTING GO:

As you open your eyes you watch the feather drift softly away and you feel lightness come over you as you allow beauty, opportunity, and light into your life.

LETTING GO: WHAT YOU NEED TO DO Letting go involves physically, emotionally, and mentally releasing the things that no longer serve, support, nurture and challenge you. Change your mindset to one of acceptance, love, forgiveness and compassion and imagine your mind and body to be that of a river. Firstly, letting go means allowing feelings to rush through you like water. It also takes being diligent with your thinking. The river of the mind needs diverting or it will flood. Each time you bring your mind back to the present you are adding stones to the river and slowly, over time, the river begins flowing freely in another direction. Each time you break your habitual patterns of negative thinking about the same old story you are strengthening the pathway back to your true self and your neurological pathway.

LETTING GO EXERCISE FOR USE IN DAILY LIFE You are standing in a golden meadow, wind whispering in your ears. You grasp a feather tightly between your palms, which holds a story that has been plaguing you for days. You imagine what it will feel like to release your feather into the wind: how free you will feel and how you are going to be content and happy in knowing that everything is taken care of.

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SOURCES

RICK HANSON

“Confronting the Negativity Bias” HTTP://WWW.RICKHANSON.NET

BRIDGET MURRAY LAW

“Probing the depressionremuniation cycle” KRISTIN NEFF

“Self Compassion”

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THE FUTURE OF

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Pooja Lohana is an Online Business Coach + Freelance Writer & Editor. She helps entrepreneurs shine their blog and copy, and simplifies online marketing so they can make more sales and live the Un-9-5 life. Reach her at www. ghostwriterpooja.com. My thought about “magic” changed back in 2013. I started believing in it. It was a crisp afternoon in April 2013 when Mary (name changed) gingerly raised her hand in a room full of around 30 of us.

The challenge was to get Mary to take a photo at the building’s open terrace. Huge deal for her. So here’s what happened in a nutshell: Before the bust: Mary cannot imagine stepping up the stairs to the terrace. She gets nervous goosebumps just talking about it.

“I believe I have a phobia,” she said. …Magic… “What kind?” our instructor probed. “I am scared of heights. I cannot, just cannot imagine travelling by air. I have never gone trekking. Heck, I can’t even step into a balcony.”

After the bust: Mary has overcome her phobia successfully. She gets her photo clicked at the rooftop. So how does someone get from here to there?

Mary grew visibly uncomfortable. Pearls of sweat settled on her forehead. By now she was shaking with nervousness. It seemed like Sharon Pearson, our instructor, had found her match. Over the next few minutes, she would “swoosh” her invisible wand and bust Mary’s acrophobia of 25 years, using NLP.

They say that if a man can do it, another can replicate it too. NLP, or Neuro Linguistic Programming, is based heavily on this principle. More formally known as “modelling”, it is one of the core pillars of NLP.

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In short, if any task is done skilfully, it can be

reframes to name a few.

decoded and replicated by others. And that was only the beginning. But simply put, I liken NLP to the science of how people can achieve outstanding results. These people can be from diverse spectrum of fields – finance, communications, sales, customer service – you name it. It’s equally important to acknowledge that NLP is not just effective professionally. There are numerous personal life instances that I have witnessed its success (Mary is one example) – personal change work, behavioural therapy, phobia

busting,

addiction

relief,

healing,

confidence boost and many more.

HOW IT ALL BEGAN. . . To give you a brief history, NLP was founded by Richard Bandler and John Grinder in early 70’s as a thesis project in California. The duo had one simple goal: To decode why certain people were excellent at what they did whereas others sucked. What set them apart? And how could the not-so-smart ones replicate the results, if at all? As models, they studied three key people who were successful at what they did. Virginia Satir, the ever-successful family therapist who seemed to solve intractable family issues; Fritz Perls, who co-founded Gestalt therapy; and Milton Ericson, the famous hypnotherapist. Studying their behavioural patterns, Bandler and Grinder found that these three pioneers,

TODAY . . . Today, NLP is used in a myriad of fields such as hypnosis, healing, personal change work, sport, life coaching, business coaching and sales training. It’s also taken a spiritual detour, with learners combining it to connect with the divine. Some are using it in hospitals to reduce the need to induce anaesthesia. Others use it to become better parents, fight stage fright or cure allergies. What’s more, you can even use it to pick up women in clubs.

If you’ve played any type of sport, you will know there comes a state of natural “flow” where you are in the zone, performing at your mental and physical best. Yet, it is hard to pin down that exact state of flow on purpose. The best sportspeople in the world wouldn’t have a clue. But with NLP in the house, this state can be invoked upon will. There are many conscious (and unconscious) strategies that help achieve peak performance. Anchoring, for example, is immensely helpful for a judo player to access states of explosive power when needed. Timothy Galwey wrote his best-seller The Inner Game of Tennis based on NLP principles. The book talks about detailed mental and physical exercises designed to help a player improve concentration, awareness and body rhythm.

although pretty different in personalities, shared some striking similarities in the form of language patterns, submodalities, eye-scanning patterns,

But it is so much more than sport. Well-informed parents practise better parenting techniques

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with NLP. For example, they get the core NLP

however is they are doing the same strategies

presupposition of “the map is not the territory”

that don’t work (because they don’t know any

and kids will respond according to the map of their

better) and expect different results. And when

world. Or find their preferred representational

that doesn’t work, they devalue learning, the

system to communicate accordingly with them.

school and eventually, the whole education

To quote Virginia Satir, “You cannot not communicate.” Communication happens on many levels, not just verbally. To give you a snapshot, here are the influences based on modalities:

system. NLP intervention can help here. Teachers can be equipped and coached with NLP strategies not just for regular students but also for those with special needs, learning disabilities, dyslexia, ADD to name a few.

Verbal: 7% Tone: 38%

For example, a child with ADD (who could exhibit characteristics of impulsiveness, hyperactivity,

Physiology: 55%

forgetfulness etc.) can be disruptive in a

Add to the mix our values, principles, experiences,

classroom setting. The current accepted way

knowledge etc.

to treat ADD is medication. According to Don Blackerby, Ph. D, ADD is being treated with

Kids learn behaviour by modelling their parents.

behaviour and environmental levels – whereas

So when communicating with your kids, make

ideally, the symptoms arise at a logical level and

sure you are not sending conflicting messages.

therefore the focus should be on that level.

THE FUTURE. . .

Practitioners in the field have all taken different directions using classic principles of NLP. For example, Tony Robbins took NLP a step further and created Neuro Associative Conditioning (NAC) and began incorporating it in his work as a peak performance coach. We have Michael Hall’s version of taking NLP to the next level with meta-semantics. Even pioneer John Grinder now refers to the original NLP modelling projects as Classic Code, and is now focusing on New Code NLP.

In future, NLP will continue to be used in the areas above, and more to come. It won’t be surprising to see NLP being applied in more dayto-day areas. The one thing that really excites me is the application in schools. The sad reality of the moment (which I hope will soon change) is that we leave it up to the students to figure out how to learn. When in reality, a large number of these learning strategies that inexperienced students come up with are inefficient/ineffective. And when the push comes to shove, many of these students take it upon themselves and assume something is wrong with them. The truth

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Meta Dynamics™ Another example is Sharon Pearson’s Meta Dynamics™ which is the “ultimate thinking model for solving problems and determining future directions”. For many of us, we believe that the best way to help us change the way we think is to tell ourselves repeatedly, to think a different way. The idea isn’t new. In fact, it’s very, very old. But choosing a mantra isn’t enough, it is important to learn new ways to do things, even little changes will give you a whole new perspective. By changing or breaking even small

NLP now is in its fourth decade as a field of study symbolising the relationship between the brain, body and language. It has evolved over the years and we’re heading toward a new direction, with more areas adopting NLP and making its best use to achieve extraordinary results, by not only communicating better with others, but also gain more control on what we thought was an automatic function of our neurology.

routines, your brain will be exposed to new stimuli and will create new neural pathways to accommodate these changes. Meta Dynamics™ is about getting to the heart of the problem. One of the biggest challenges that professional coaches face in the industry is reaching a bottleneck and getting stuck with their clients. Instead of looping around clients’ issues not knowing how to get to the heart of the problem, Meta Dynamics™ shows them exactly how.

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WRITTEN BY

KELLY PETERING ICG Associate Member Kelly Petering & Associates

7 ESSENTIAL TOOLS to Get Your COACHING BUSINESS

Online

Kelly Petering leads her own health and wellness tours as well as working with entrepreneurs helping them develop their online presence via their website and social media. Kelly is passionate about helping others communicate to the world in a modern and powerful way.

In this article, you will discover seven essential tools to assist you in getting your coaching business up and running online, so you can start generating leads, sales and eventually an income stream that requires only a small amount of your time. When you start out online, things can seem rather daunting. My mission is to demystify some of the tools and tricks that are out there for you to take advantage and use in getting your coaching

1. CULTIVATE A CAN-DO MINDSET Coming from a growth mindset in this learning experience is essential. Create your mindset for success: •

Get your “Can Do” track on and be ready to face the exciting challenges of the online

• • •

business online. •

world. In short, be prepared to learn. Know the reasons for building your business (both online and offline). Focus on the things you can control. Give more — focus on providing much more value than you receive in income. Know that you are capable of anything you set your mind to.

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2. DON’T BE AFRAID TO ASK FOR HELP

3. USE THE RIGHT TOOLS

You don’t have to be good at everything.

Learn the basics so you can run your own show, and outsource the fiddly things that you dislike doing. Some examples could be logo and ebook design or any kind of graphics, transcription, voice overs (if you are not confident in recording your own voice), and video production. Here are my favourite places to outsource tools that will free up some of your time for the other fun stuff: •

Wordpress is one of the most popular website building platforms out there. You can choose to create a free site with Wordpress however, I highly recommend purchasing your own domain name and hosting provider so that you will own your personal web domain name. Once you have a domain and a hosting provider, and have installed Wordpress with your hosting provider, you will then need to choose a theme to make your website look professional. I recommend using a theme called Divi from Elegant Themes — it’s simple to use, responsive

ELANCE.COM: You can place an ad asking for

with mobile devices and looks fantastic.

designers, writers etc. who will bid a price for

•

the job. You can then choose how much you

Let me explain about this in a way that will make

wish to spend depending on the offers you

more sense.

receive.

website, you are building a house.

Let’s pretend that instead of a

FIVERR.COM: You can get things done quickly and cheaply on Fiverr. Find designers,

Your Domain = www.kelly-petering.com, which

transcriptionists, voice over artists and many

is your address

more service providers who charge $5 for a Your Hosting = the “land” you are building on

basic job. •

WEB DESIGN: If you are not a web developer, you can most definitely outsource you website creation. This can potentially be expensive.

Wordpress = the building frame Wordpress Theme = your design

(If you want to learn how to build and run your

Once you have your theme (design) in place,

website yourself, but want some guidance, I run

you can then go ahead and start inserting your

a very affordable one-day workshop using the

beautiful logo, images and classy content.

International Coach Guild’s (ICG’s) meeting space in Melbourne as well as personalised one-onone mentoring to take you through the process of building your website.)

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4. KEEP IN TOUCH WITH YOUR PROSPECTS

Because what is the use of a website if you cannot

Now that you have your website up and running,

How to Generate Leads Online:

generate leads?

it’s time to add your mailman. This is also known as an auto-responder service. The thing I love most about auto-responder services is that once you have set everything up, it goes to work for you.

You give away a cool free gift that attracts you target market to give you their name, email and potentially their phone number in exchange for the freebie. This is the Law of Reciprocity in action.

When someone enters their details on your website in exchange for your super cool free gift, they are automatically entered into your auto-responder system which then shoots off your pre-written emails immediately.

What to Give Away: It really depends on what your target market likes — in fact, you want to base everything you do online on what your target market wants. Do they like to read? Watch video? Engage with you? Listen to audio?

How cool is that? You may choose to give them: Do the hard work once; then it goes to work for

•

An e-book (or a chapter of your e-book)

•

A report or cheat sheet

•

A video series

the opportunity to build strong relationships

•

A live webinar

with your clients and prospective clients. In your

•

An audio CD

you. Your auto-responder service is where you have

emails, I would recommend giving as much value as possible, in a way that speaks to your particular market. This could be via articles, video, audio, webinars or e-books.

The most important thing is that your free gift is a match for what you are offering and a match for your target market!

6. FIND NEW CUSTOMERS ONLINE

5. GIVE AWAY A VALUE-ADDING GIFT ON YOUR WEBSITE This is one of my favourites. Your free gift is one of the first things you will

There are many tools online that are at your disposal to get out there and find new customers. It’s time to get creative here.

need to develop — even before you have a website. page 24

Once you have done a breakdown of your avatar

For example, if your target market is established

(your ideal client), find out where they hangout

business owners, you may want to look at

online.

LinkedIn rather than Pinterest.

Are they Facebook dwellers?

If you are looking to find young mothers, you

Are they more business-focused and use LinkedIn?

may choose to look at Pinterest, Instagram or Facebook. The key with social media is to connect with

Are they part of any specific groups?

people and to provide them value.

Do they get into forums or read online journals and/or articles?

My advice: Choose one or two relevant platforms to begin with, and once you have a grasp on

You can use LinkedIn to search for specific groups — search keywords like “Small Business” and see what type of groups are already up and running that you can become a part of and contribute to. Once you know where they hang out and what they are looking for (which I am assuming is your coaching product or service), you can then create an online Marketing Strategy Plan to connect with them specifically.

those, move on to others. If you have an established social media presence, use a management system such as Hootsuite or Buffer to assist you in automating the process. The best advice I have ever received about getting my coaching business online It is simply: Just do it! Don’t wait for your website or your free gift to be absolutely “perfect”. Get it

7. MAKE USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA

out there and start generating some feedback so

What better way promote your coaching

why I highly recommend learning the basics of

business than on social media?

Online Marketing for yourself, so that you can

you can make improvements as you go. This is

get in there and tweak things along the way. Not only does it generate fantastic social proof (which is one of Robert Cialdini’s Laws of

If you want to learn more about how you can

Influence — from his book Influence), it is also

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