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		<title>My Problem Is Worse&#8230; For Now</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:22:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Mitchell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coaching]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something you often hear motivational types talking about is the concept that, for almost everyone, whatever problem you have someone has it worse, and that if you could see things in those terms you&#8217;d realize that at least you have a chance to make things better for yourself and push forward. In some respects that&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- RSPEAK_STOP --> <a href='http://wr.readspeaker.com/webreader/webreader.php?cid=03032f82fb8a2e73b1c430e365ab1dc3&t=wordpress_free&url=http://www.ttmitchellconsulting.com/Mitchblog/my-problem-is-worse-for-now/&title=My Problem Is Worse&#8230; For Now' onclick='readpage(this.href, 2145); return false;'> <img src='http://graphics.readspeaker.com/images/wr/listen_en_us.gif' style='border-style: none;' alt='Listen with webreader'></a><div id='WR_2145'></div> <!-- RSPEAK_START --> <p>Something you often hear motivational types talking about is the concept that, for almost everyone, whatever problem you have someone has it worse, and that if you could see things in those terms you&#8217;d realize that at least you have a chance to make things better for yourself and push forward.</p>
<p>In some respects that&#8217;s absolutely true.  How can one compare losing their cat to someone who&#8217;s losing their life, or was just in a critical accident and is physically scarred for life?  How can they compare having their relationship end to a bombing that&#8217;s killed 30 people, or an airplane crash with no survivors, or an earthquake that has displaced thousands of people from their home?</p>
<p>How can they?  It must be pretty easy because people do it every day, at any moment, and without any qualms whatsoever.  The reality is that for almost every person, whatever trauma they&#8217;re dealing with at that moment is the worst thing in the world, and they could care less about someone else&#8217;s problems, no matter how much worse they might be.  </p>
<p>Think about it.  How many times have you heard a young person say &#8220;&#8216;Blank&#8217; just dumped me and I want to kill myself; it&#8217;s the worst day of my life!&#8221;  And, if you try to offer comfort, it&#8217;s just not happening; they want to rant about this thing for weeks, unless someone else comes along to take their mind off it.  And if you even try to bring up someone else&#8217;s problems, they don&#8217;t care.  Sometimes they can&#8217;t even hear you, and other times they get mad, because at that moment it&#8217;s about them and their problem and nothing else matters.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not usually the first person to negate someone else&#8217;s pain and suffering.  I tend to understand that everyone hangs their hat on something they count on, and when that goes awry they might have a period of adjustment they need before they can get back on track.  I&#8217;m also not someone who, long term, will allow everyone&#8217;s pain to remain equal.</p>
<p>For instance, if your pet passes away, I can feel your pain, but only for a couple of days.  That might seem cruel but in my way of thinking it&#8217;s not on par with losing a family member or a best friend.  True, some will say their pet was their best friend; sorry, but that&#8217;s a bit over the top.  Pets are companions and they give great love while they&#8217;re around, but in the end they&#8217;re pets.</p>
<p>If your relationship ended I&#8217;ll feel your pain as well.  If you were going out with someone for a relatively short period of time I might not feel it as long as I would if you were with someone for 10 years or more; yes, there is a time component built into the equation.  If it wasn&#8217;t a true relationship I probably wouldn&#8217;t feel any pain whatsoever; that might seem cruel but just because one has feelings for someone that didn&#8217;t reciprocate it doesn&#8217;t mean it deserves my attention, even if it&#8217;s gotten yours.</p>
<p>Still, I recognize the paradigm that all of us on the outside of an issue deal with.  After all, we go through it ourselves.  Empathy is a powerful thing that humans rely on, whether it&#8217;s you or it&#8217;s someone you know.  Recognizing that things will go in the right direction by offering an &#8220;I&#8217;m sorry for &#8216;whatever&#8217;&#8221; rather than &#8220;It wasn&#8217;t that big a deal so get over it&#8221; is what we&#8217;re about, or should be about.  Allowing someone their moment, whether brief or long depending on what it is, doesn&#8217;t impede us one bit unless there&#8217;s something crucial that needs to be addressed.  Even then, finding a way around that person for awhile is probably the smarter direction to go anyway.</p>
<p>Just remember this; no matter what your problem is, and no matter how much worse someone else&#8217;s problem is, my problem will always be worse&#8230; for now.</p>
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		<title>3 Things The Best Coaches Do</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 15:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Mitchell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[being honest]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coaching others]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether you&#8217;re an executive coach, a life coach, a mentor or someone with authority over others, at some point you&#8217;re going to be interacting with other people, and some of these people are going to need your help in some fashion. Everyone I know has given advice of some kind in their life. Sometimes it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- RSPEAK_STOP --> <a href='http://wr.readspeaker.com/webreader/webreader.php?cid=03032f82fb8a2e73b1c430e365ab1dc3&t=wordpress_free&url=http://www.ttmitchellconsulting.com/Mitchblog/3-things-the-best-coaches-do/&title=3 Things The Best Coaches Do' onclick='readpage(this.href, 2121); return false;'> <img src='http://graphics.readspeaker.com/images/wr/listen_en_us.gif' style='border-style: none;' alt='Listen with webreader'></a><div id='WR_2121'></div> <!-- RSPEAK_START --> <p>Whether you&#8217;re an executive coach, a life coach, a mentor or someone with authority over others, at some point you&#8217;re going to be interacting with other people, and some of these people are going to need your help in some fashion.  Everyone I know has given advice of some kind in their life.  Sometimes it&#8217;s good advice, sometimes it&#8217;s bad.  Sometimes it&#8217;s great but then the circumstances change, and other times it wasn&#8217;t great because the coach or mentor didn&#8217;t know all the real facts of what was going on.</p>
<p>The truth is that it&#8217;s easy giving advice, but hard giving good advice.  That&#8217;s because most people go off the assumption that what they might do in a situation is always the way to go.  That type of thing doesn&#8217;t work for everyone.  If you tell someone you&#8217;d have hit the person in the nose and you&#8217;re 6&#8217;4&#8243; and 300 pounds, that advice (bad in any circumstance, by the way) wouldn&#8217;t necessarily apply to someone 5&#8217;3&#8243; weighing less than 100 pounds.  The consequences of the actions would probably be different; just saying&#8230;</p>
<p>Having said that, there are 3 techniques that work every time for those people who are interested in getting it right and providing the best service imaginable to those who need it.  They&#8217;re relatively simple, but powerful; let&#8217;s take a look.</p>
<p><b>1.  Listening</b>.  This is more powerful than all the others combined.  It&#8217;s also the hardest, even though I said all 3 techniques were relatively simple.  This one is hard because:</p>
<ul>
<li>People don&#8217;t always tell you the entire story</li>
<li>You&#8217;re only hearing one side of the story</li>
<li>You have to listen to more than just what&#8217;s being said</li>
<li>You have to remain dispassionate while listening to the story</li>
<li>You might not agree with the person telling you their story</li>
<li>If it&#8217;s a long story you might forget salient points along the way</li>
</ul>
<p>So many people often want to try to give advice to a person&#8217;s problem without listening to the entire story.  True, sometimes people tend to ramble, and a true practitioner of listening knows how to encourage a person to stay on point and only to focus on what the real issue is instead of all the extraneous stuff that has nothing to do with what&#8217;s going on.</p>
<p><b>2.  Give options</b>.  Even when something seems cut and dry, good coaches always see at least 3 options in every circumstance, and they&#8217;ll point them all out.  The reason for this is that one never wants to tell someone else what to do, have it go wrong, and destroy whatever the relationship might have been.  Giving options, and one&#8217;s opinion on what could happen from each option, puts the onus of what to do back on the person asking for advice.  Often adults already know what they should do, though it might counter with what they want to do, and pointing out all the options helps clarify what might be the best thing to do.</p>
<p><b>3.  Tell the truth</b>.  This one sounds scary to many people, but if you&#8217;re going to do anyone a true service you have to be willing to tell the truth, even if it might hurt.  I have told people they were wrong, although I&#8217;ve couched it in different language; there&#8217;s no reason to always have to be blunt unless someone really needs a wake-up call.  If you offer truth with ways to help and encouragement, no one will see you as being mean, but as being helpful.  It takes a lot of mental power to separate oneself from the personal mind to the analytical mind sometimes, but if you really care, you&#8217;ll do it.</p>
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		<title>Why Coaches Charge How They Do</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 14:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of years ago I mentioned that I did business coaching. Then in 2009 I had someone talk about the benefits she got from coaching, and two days later I had the opportunity to post the responses someone else gave to coaching receiving coaching assistance as well. So, there&#8217;s no doubt that the benefits [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- RSPEAK_STOP --> <a href='http://wr.readspeaker.com/webreader/webreader.php?cid=03032f82fb8a2e73b1c430e365ab1dc3&t=wordpress_free&url=http://www.ttmitchellconsulting.com/Mitchblog/why-coaches-charge-how-they-do/&title=Why Coaches Charge How They Do' onclick='readpage(this.href, 1896); return false;'> <img src='http://graphics.readspeaker.com/images/wr/listen_en_us.gif' style='border-style: none;' alt='Listen with webreader'></a><div id='WR_1896'></div> <!-- RSPEAK_START --> <p>A couple of years ago I mentioned that I did <a href="http://www.ttmitchellconsulting.com/Mitchblog/i-am-a-business-coach/">business coaching</a>.  Then in 2009 I had someone talk about the benefits she got from <a href="http://www.ttmitchellconsulting.com/Mitchblog/why-coaching-someone-responds/">coaching</a>, and two days later I had the opportunity to post the responses someone else gave to <a href="http://www.ttmitchellconsulting.com/Mitchblog/why-coaching-take-two/">coaching</a> receiving coaching assistance as well.</p>
<p>So, there&#8217;s no doubt that the benefits of <a href="http://www.ttmitchellconsulting.com/coaching.html" target="_blank">coaching</a> can be pretty neat.  The question then becomes why coaches will charge the way they do, both in pricing and time.  I&#8217;m going to take that one based on some of my own history.</p>
<p>One of the things you realize as a coach, at least initially, is that people come to you for answers.  Now, I do tend to believe that there&#8217;s a lot of self introspection one needs to do when it comes to the coaching process; if you don&#8217;t take the time to learn something about yourself, then what are you planning on changing?  </p>
<p>Yet, one of two things happen.  One, people want coaches to solve their problems for them.  Well, it doesn&#8217;t quite work out that way, although coaches can help solve some problems long term.  But coaches will make you do most of the work yourself, and work on guiding you through the process.</p>
<p>Two, the process scares a lot of people.  Most folks really aren&#8217;t skilled in the process of looking at their history and in defining their goals, and thus, it&#8217;s work to them.  And it&#8217;s work that&#8217;s going to produce some scary things here and there; sorry, but that&#8217;s just the way it is.  It can be uplifting as well, but it all depends on what the person is hoping for and what their goals ultimately turn out to be.</p>
<p>Now, you see I&#8217;ve mentioned the word &#8220;process&#8221;.  Coaching is a process, no matter what it&#8217;s related to.  You don&#8217;t go to basketball practice once and suddenly know how to play the game like a pro.  You don&#8217;t go to the gym and work with a trainer one time and suddenly know everything there is to working out.  With each of those, you&#8217;d pay for it in some fashion in advance, and at that point you&#8217;ve committed to getting it done and putting the work in.  </p>
<p>But time doesn&#8217;t stop for anyone; if you don&#8217;t put the time in, coaches don&#8217;t go back and say &#8220;hey, that&#8217;s okay, let&#8217;s move it to another time&#8221;.  At least they don&#8217;t do it often.  Sure, there are times when one has to change things up because emergencies occur.  But it&#8217;s up to the person who&#8217;s receiving the training to contact the person and try to work things out.  It&#8217;s also up to them to call ahead of time and let the coach know so that no one&#8217;s time is being abused.  One of those things I really hate is waiting for someone and having them not show up or call and then I hear about it days later.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s because of things like this that coaches charge for services up front.  Some charge a month in advance, others charge 3 months in advance.  I usually have 3 month contracts, though it depends on the type of issue we&#8217;re going to be working on, and expect to be paid for it all; I also offer a discount if all 3 months are paid in advance.  That way, if you skip a session we&#8217;ve already got our money, and if you decide you don&#8217;t want to follow through you knew there was a no-refund policy and we&#8217;re covered as well.</p>
<p>Every coach decides on their rate based on what they think their assistance is worth.  I know some coaches who charge the equivalent of $50 or less a session, and I know some others who charge upwards of $3,000 per session.  Overall, coaching is worth whatever you put into it and whatever you want to pay to try to get there.  Probably the more you pay, the more you&#8217;re really going to push yourself for change.</p>
<p>What do I charge?  You&#8217;ll have to ask me privately, but I&#8217;ll tell you this; I&#8217;m closer to the $50 than the $3,000, and that&#8217;s as much as I&#8217;m giving away.  <img src='http://www.ttmitchellconsulting.com/Mitchblog/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>Sometimes You Have To Take Over</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2010 13:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whenever I do any kind of coaching, I usually try to ask questions to get people to give me answers that I figure they know already. It doesn&#8217;t always work that way, but for the most part it works pretty well. I start with that statement because there&#8217;s a sharp divide among coaches as to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- RSPEAK_STOP --> <a href='http://wr.readspeaker.com/webreader/webreader.php?cid=03032f82fb8a2e73b1c430e365ab1dc3&t=wordpress_free&url=http://www.ttmitchellconsulting.com/Mitchblog/sometimes-you-have-to-take-over/&title=Sometimes You Have To Take Over' onclick='readpage(this.href, 1726); return false;'> <img src='http://graphics.readspeaker.com/images/wr/listen_en_us.gif' style='border-style: none;' alt='Listen with webreader'></a><div id='WR_1726'></div> <!-- RSPEAK_START --> <p>Whenever I do any kind of <a href="http://www.ttmitchellconsulting.com/coaching.html" target="_blank">coaching</a>, I usually try to ask questions to get people to give me answers that I figure they know already.  It doesn&#8217;t always work that way, but for the most part it works pretty well.</p>
<p>I start with that statement because there&#8217;s a sharp divide among coaches as to whether a coach should ever give anyone the answers to their questions.  Some coaches believe everyone always knows the answers and just need help pulling them out.  Some, like me, believe that if everyone already knew the answers there would never be a need for anyone to ask questions, or probably need coaching or mentoring to begin with.</p>
<p>Recently I had someone who contacted me about some issues she was having.  She&#8217;s also a friend, and I could tell she was distraught about her situation.  There wasn&#8217;t one issue; she was feeling overwhelmed.  I invited her over so we could talk in person.</p>
<p>When she arrived, she was an emotional mess.  She started trying to talk, but she just wasn&#8217;t sure where to start.  I gave her a pad of paper and a pen and I told her to write out every one of her problems.  I said not to try to put them in order, just to write them out like a list.</p>
<p>When she was done she handed it over to me.  There were six items on the list.  Out of the six items, five were related to business issues, while the last one was a personal issue.  I knew the personal issue was the one that was troubling her the most and decided I wasn&#8217;t going to start with that one.</p>
<p>Instead, I started with a business issue, and not one I thought was overly critical.  With that issue I read back what she wrote, asked her to briefly tell me about it, and when she was done I told her what to do.  She didn&#8217;t question it at all; she just said she understood, wrote down what I said, and that was that.  </p>
<p>I then selected a business issue that I knew was a lot tougher.  She explained it to me, and I understood it very well.  I told her what to do, while at the same time asking pointed questions that I pretty much knew only had one answer.  She wrote things down, and within 10 minutes we had solved that issue.</p>
<p>For the next business issue I asked her to tell me about it.  When she was done, I asked her what she thought she should do.  She was able to tell me what to do because suddenly she wasn&#8217;t feeling as much pressure anymore on the business issues.  The same thing happened for the next two business issues.  She said what she believed she should do, I agreed, and she wrote down what she said.</p>
<p>The last issue was the personal issue, and I told her that I couldn&#8217;t solve that one for her, but if she wanted to talk it out I would offer her some points of view.  I always hate giving direct advice on personal issues unless someone&#8217;s life is in danger, but I will share options, things I believe could happen, if there&#8217;s no action taken.  As I said earlier, I knew the personal issue was what was causing indecision on the other problems she had, and I also knew that I had to take charge to help her regain her equilibrium.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not just coaches or mentors that need to do this type of thing.  Sometimes, leaders and managers need to know how to do this as well.  Managers tend to do one of two things; either they answer everything or they answer nothing.  Being what I call a &#8220;hands-off&#8221; manager or a &#8220;micro-manager&#8221; does no one any good, and actually impedes the work environment.  Being someone who knows when to help and when to take charge makes everyone better.</p>
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		<title>Thought Processes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I&#8217;ve gotten older, I find myself sometimes not being able to remember things as well as I could when I was younger. I&#8217;ll be thinking about something and then someone will ask me that exact thing, and my mind will forget what it&#8217;s called for a minute and I&#8217;m stuck and feeling stupid. Most [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- RSPEAK_STOP --> <a href='http://wr.readspeaker.com/webreader/webreader.php?cid=03032f82fb8a2e73b1c430e365ab1dc3&t=wordpress_free&url=http://www.ttmitchellconsulting.com/Mitchblog/thought-processes/&title=Thought Processes' onclick='readpage(this.href, 1406); return false;'> <img src='http://graphics.readspeaker.com/images/wr/listen_en_us.gif' style='border-style: none;' alt='Listen with webreader'></a><div id='WR_1406'></div> <!-- RSPEAK_START --> <p>As I&#8217;ve gotten older, I find myself sometimes not being able to remember things as well as I could when I was younger.  I&#8217;ll be thinking about something and then someone will ask me that exact thing, and my mind will forget what it&#8217;s called for a minute and I&#8217;m stuck and feeling stupid.  </p>
<p>Most of the time, I will remember things relatively quickly because I&#8217;ve worked hard on setting up proper thought processes to help me get through these things.  It&#8217;s something that I never did when I was younger and had a better memory, and yet it often helps me find and figure things out better than I could when I was younger.</p>
<p>For instance, these days I sometimes forget why I&#8217;ve walked into another room.  I know I had something on my mind before I left the original room, but my mind was thinking about other things almost immediately, and it&#8217;s suddenly not there.  I have found that if I just retrace my steps, even if I have to go back to the exact spot I left, it will come to me and I can proceed in going for what I wanted in the first place.  It&#8217;s a thought process I&#8217;ve worked out that says to do everything I originally did but in reverse, in the exact order, and for whatever reason that seems to work.  My mind can remember where my body was almost in perfect order; how&#8217;s that for surprising?</p>
<p>The reason that&#8217;s better than when I was younger is because back then my memory was so sharp on other things that I didn&#8217;t have to worry that if I walked into a room I wouldn&#8217;t remember why I was there.  I didn&#8217;t forget the name of such and such singer who I&#8217;ve only seen once, or had heard the name and recalled it for no reason whatsoever.  Things just went into my mind automatically, and I remembered them.  However, if I lost something, I would have a heck of a time in finding it.  That&#8217;s because I relied on my memory for so many other things, I hadn&#8217;t thought back then about training myself to learn how to retrace my steps.  That caused a lot more consternation, because we all know that sometimes we lose things when we don&#8217;t know we&#8217;re losing them, such as when things fall out of your pocket or might slip behind cushions.</p>
<p>At a certain point, we all need to learn how to do certain things to help ourselves out.  I tend to write more things down these days to help me when I forget something for a few minutes.  I used to remember every phone number I&#8217;d ever heard, but I now have to write them down.  I set alarms on my watch and on my cell phone to alert me to things because recall just isn&#8217;t what it used to be.  All of these things help, and anything that helps is a good thing.</p>
<p>Have you had to find ways to alter your life to help your thought processes go better?  Do you need help in learning ways to help yourself?  Share your thoughts.</p>
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		<title>Dreams Versus Reality</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been working with a friend of mine lately on some of her business goals and personal dreams in my capacity as a business coach and consultant. This isn&#8217;t usually the type of thing I do, but I find that it&#8217;s sometimes easier to help someone else analyze their business and make positive strides with [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- RSPEAK_STOP --> <a href='http://wr.readspeaker.com/webreader/webreader.php?cid=03032f82fb8a2e73b1c430e365ab1dc3&t=wordpress_free&url=http://www.ttmitchellconsulting.com/Mitchblog/dreams-versus-reality/&title=Dreams Versus Reality' onclick='readpage(this.href, 1404); return false;'> <img src='http://graphics.readspeaker.com/images/wr/listen_en_us.gif' style='border-style: none;' alt='Listen with webreader'></a><div id='WR_1404'></div> <!-- RSPEAK_START --> <p>I&#8217;ve been working with a friend of mine lately on some of her business goals and personal dreams in my capacity as a business coach and consultant. This isn&#8217;t usually the type of thing I do, but I find that it&#8217;s sometimes easier to help someone else analyze their business and make positive strides with their business in some fashion that it is trying to do it for yourself. How am I doing? She told me a few days ago that she got more from me in 90 minutes than she did working with someone else over the course of 15 hours. I&#8217;d say that&#8217;s not bad.</p>
<p>There are two problems I sometimes see with <a href="http://www.ttmitchellconsulting.com/coaching.html" target="_blank">coaching</a> in general. One, certified coaches are often taught that every person they work with already had the answers inside them, and it&#8217;s up to the coach to try to bring answers out of them without telling them what they answers might be. I tend to disagree with that because I have found that sometimes people just don&#8217;t know. They had to have had some kind of basis by which they would know these answers, and if it&#8217;s something that their experience isn&#8217;t able to lead them to, then they&#8217;re never going to come up with answers.  </p>
<p>Two, sometimes the focus is more towards a person&#8217;s mental state that is in trying to deal with the reality that they&#8217;re facing at the present time. The point being it&#8217;s easy to tell somebody that they need to focus on their dreams and if they can focus on their dreams and their futures will be great. What&#8217;s much harder is trying to help that person figure out what they can do sooner to help affect their bottom line any more positive fashion so that it eases their mind enough to help them focus on their future.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s actually a number three, that being that sometimes what&#8217;s requested of the person is a little bit more complicated than what they&#8217;re ready for. Just because someone comes to you for help doesn&#8217;t mean that they&#8217;re ready to be inundated to the point that they don&#8217;t know where to begin and thus will sit there and do nothing.  </p>
<p>I&#8217;ve seen that in business quite often, where someone is given a task to do and the date when it&#8217;s supposed to be completed but not enough information on how to do the job. They almost always fail, or miss the deadline, because not only did they not know how to complete the task, but because they were put in the position of thinking they were supposed to know how to complete a task they wouldn&#8217;t ask for help until it was critically necessary.</p>
<p>Asking someone a lot of questions solves no purpose if you can&#8217;t get people thinking either realistically or positively. Sure, you might have to ask questions to try to get an understanding of someone, but at the end of the day you have to be willing to really help somebody. </p>
<p>I took a simple approach with my friend, which is probably the same kind of thing I would do for anybody else who asked for the same type of assistance. I gave her one small task to do that was meant to stimulate the mind over and over when needed. Then I gave her a specific task that was related to her business. It was part one of the steps where, once it was completed, she could use this over and over as well for her marketing. Then I gave her a suggestion for how to use this particular tool on a daily or weekly basis, such that if she did it the way I recommended it would only take her couple of minutes to do. </p>
<p>Once she saw that what I was proposing wasn&#8217;t going to complicate her life all that much, she was eager to try it out.  Of course we talked about a few more things over time, but all of it eventually led to the three recommendations I gave her.  We took care of the dreams part, and we&#8217;ve addressed the reality. The next time we meet, we will talk about reality a bit more, with dreams thrown in. Because the overall reality is that we all have to live, and we all need enough money to get by on, and we need a little bit more money than that to keep our minds calm and clear.  If we&#8217;re worried about things, it&#8217;s hard to get other things done.  </p>
<p>How are you addressing your dreams and reality today?</p>
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		<title>Talking Baby Boomer Men</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 12:57:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday, I was part of another interview by my friend Beverly Mahone of Boomer Diva Nation. This time I was acting in my capacity as an executive coach who also does some life coaching on the side here and there. Her basic topic was called Men Have Issues Too, and I was the voice [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- RSPEAK_STOP --> <a href='http://wr.readspeaker.com/webreader/webreader.php?cid=03032f82fb8a2e73b1c430e365ab1dc3&t=wordpress_free&url=http://www.ttmitchellconsulting.com/Mitchblog/talking-baby-boomer-men/&title=Talking Baby Boomer Men' onclick='readpage(this.href, 1051); return false;'> <img src='http://graphics.readspeaker.com/images/wr/listen_en_us.gif' style='border-style: none;' alt='Listen with webreader'></a><div id='WR_1051'></div> <!-- RSPEAK_START --> <p>Last Friday, I was part of another interview by my friend <a href="http://www.ttmitchellconsulting.com/Mitchblog/interview-series-bam-enterprises-media-consulting/">Beverly Mahone</a> of <a href="http://www.boomerdivanation.org/" target="_blank">Boomer Diva Nation</a>.  This time I was acting in my capacity as an <a href="http://www.ttmitchellconsulting.com/coaching.html" target="_blank">executive coach</a> who also does some life coaching on the side here and there.  Her basic topic was called <a href="http://www.ttmitchellconsulting.com/Interview_08232009.mp3">Men Have Issues Too</a>, and I was the voice of baby boomer men.  Click on that link to listen to the interview, which went about an hour.</p>
<p>There were two main questions within the conversation over that hour.  One was how could women get baby boomer men to talk to them.  The other was what the general mindset of men is.  Whenever you get into conversations like that, you have to always remember to make sure everyone knows you&#8217;re talking about generalities and not specifics.  After all, you can say something about a group of anything, and you&#8217;ll always have at least one that doesn&#8217;t quite fit what everyone else.</p>
<p>On the first question, I answered that, with baby boomer men, and remember, that figure is for men born between 1946 and 1964, there&#8217;s absolutely nothing you can do, except probably getting one drunk, to get men to talk if we&#8217;re not predisposed to doing so.  And even getting men drunk doesn&#8217;t mean what you&#8217;ll get out of them is what you wanted to talk about.  We just weren&#8217;t brought up that way as a group.  When we get together in general, we talk about sports, we talk about women we usually don&#8217;t know, we talk about movies and television.  Some might have special things they talk about such as guns or bowling or computers, but in general we talk about things, not about our emotions.  </p>
<p>On the second question of the general mindset of men, I went to some research that I&#8217;ve heard about in a couple of seminars I&#8217;ve been to.  There&#8217;s this pattern of growth between men and women that go in opposite directions, even now.  Men tend to start this pattern of upward mobility around the age of 23, and it has a nice trajectory until around the age of 37 or 38, when it starts to flatten out some.  By 50, most men have hit their plateau, and either flat line at that point or start going backwards.  </p>
<p>Women, on the other hand, show a much different pattern.  They&#8217;re slowly going upward from the age of 18, looking like a flat line, with a slight bump in the upper 20&#8242;s.  However, once they get around 37 or 38, they suddenly start showing upward growth.  By the age of 47, they&#8217;ve usually caught men, and by 50 they&#8217;ve passed men, as they&#8217;re still going up until around age 56 or 57.</p>
<p>This isn&#8217;t a measure of how much money either party makes, as men overall still make more money than women do.  It&#8217;s about the trajectory of growth.  Women start out slower because of childbirth.  Many stay home, or have jobs that don&#8217;t pay well so they can take time off to be with the kids.  In their mid to upper 30&#8242;s, the kids are older or have graduated high school, and women are ready to take their shot at working better jobs, moving into management and more responsibilities, and even starting careers and businesses of their own.</p>
<p>Anyway, back to men.  If suddenly you&#8217;re looking at your life and asking &#8220;<i>is this it</i>,&#8221; you will either become stagnant or start going backwards.  Men need to continually have this feeling of growing, and sometimes, they get it into their minds that they&#8217;ve already gone as far as they can.  And they might be right.  I actually had that feeling around 39, when I realized that without an advanced degree in a field I didn&#8217;t want, if I stayed where I was that I was pretty much done, except for the occasional raise.  There was no position I was qualified for to keep advancing; in health care, there is no ladder for moving above position without the proper degree, no matter how skilled you are.</p>
<p>It also helps to explain why men have a harder problem with this concept I wrote about and talked about back in February about <a href="http://www.ttmitchellconsulting.com/Mitchblog/reinvent-yourself/">reinventing yourself</a>.  It&#8217;s hard to think about changing while you&#8217;re thinking about your business life pretty much being over.  I&#8217;ve talked to many men saying that, in a tough economy, there&#8217;s nothing wrong with trying to think about a skill or background they have and trying to make some money on their own.  For most men, even those out of work, it&#8217;s just not something they can conceive of doing, especially after all those years of working for someone else.  Women much more easily embrace the concept, and are more willing to give it a shot, even if it doesn&#8217;t work out.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;d like to share, what are your thoughts on baby boomer men?  If you&#8217;re one, I&#8217;d love to hear from you.  And I hope you listen to the interview also.</p>
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		<title>Why Coaching?  Take Two</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:15:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found someone else who has used coaching to help improve her life, though this time it&#8217;s more for business life that personal life. Once again, her name will be anonymous, but she named some people, and I&#8217;ve linked to those people as I could find them: 1. What kind of coach did you employ? [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- RSPEAK_STOP --> <a href='http://wr.readspeaker.com/webreader/webreader.php?cid=03032f82fb8a2e73b1c430e365ab1dc3&t=wordpress_free&url=http://www.ttmitchellconsulting.com/Mitchblog/why-coaching-take-two/&title=Why Coaching?  Take Two' onclick='readpage(this.href, 731); return false;'> <img src='http://graphics.readspeaker.com/images/wr/listen_en_us.gif' style='border-style: none;' alt='Listen with webreader'></a><div id='WR_731'></div> <!-- RSPEAK_START --> <p>I found someone else who has used coaching to help improve her life, though this time it&#8217;s more for business life that personal life.  Once again, her name will be anonymous, but she named some people, and I&#8217;ve linked to those people as I could find them:</p>
<p><b>1.  What kind of coach did you employ?</b></p>
<p><i>I have three coaches:</p>
<p>1)  I started with a sales coach (<a href="http://www.ericlofholm.com/" target="_blank"><b>Eric Lofholm</b></a>) with whom I was in weekly contact for the first year.  As I became more sales savvy, the calls became less frequent and now I use him on a &#8216;refresher&#8217; basis only because we tend to forget what we have learned.</p>
<p>2)  Because real estate is such a unique type of sales, I employed the services of <a href="http://www.yourcoach.com/" target="_blank"><b>Tom Ferry</b></a>.  With real estate coaching, one gains more from the interaction with other agents (retreats, seminars and conference calls) than the weekly calls &#8211; what they did that worked and what didn&#8217;t work; interactive panels and role play. Nothing beats learning from someone who is successful and has has gone before you and there is much to lose by reinventing the wheel.</p>
<p>3)  <a href="http://www.byreferralonly.com/" target="_blank"><b>Joe Stumpf</b></a> of By Referral Only coaches on developing one&#8217;s referrals business  and this, basically is the &#8216;bread and butter&#8217; that just keeps coming in, while one is working on other things.</i></p>
<p><b>2.  What led you to decide to get a coach?</b></p>
<p><i>Irrespective of the industry, we tend to lose a ton of money &#8216;trying this&#8217; and &#8216;trying that&#8217;, in order to get and STAY on track.  Because real estate is such a high cost business, it was cheaper for me to pay a coach than to lose thousands and many months learning the hard way.</i></p>
<p><b>3.  What is a coaching session like for you?</b></p>
<p><i>Coaching sessions are usually 30 minutes in duration, and the times are set well in advance.  It is important to be prepared for one&#8217;s coaching time so as to not waste precious time because the talk is fast and furious, once it starts.  I look forward to my sessions because I use them as a benchmark for growth.  If I do what my coach advises and complete my &#8216;homework&#8217;, then I am the one who benefits and that growth is measurable.  It&#8217;s like a kid looking forward to the once weekly milk shake treat after doing chores all week! Very positive and uplifting.</i></p>
<p><b>4.  How often do you communicate with your coach?</b></p>
<p><i>With most coaches,  there is a once weekly session (some, every second week) but most coaches allow you to contact them if something important comes up.  I have been fortunate in that all my coaches are just an e-mail away and they encourage contact, so I feel that they are there for me.</i></p>
<p><b>5.  What has been the biggest change in your life that came from coaching?</b></p>
<p><i>Accountability and responsibility.  Although I always had these things before, having my feet held to the flames, made me more accountable and more able to accept the responsibility of my actions &#8211; good or bad.  Certainly, my time management improved vastly and I live by &#8216;highest and best use of time&#8217;.</i></p>
<p><b>6.  What is the hardest thing about having a coach?</b></p>
<p><i>Not all coaches are a good fit. They can be the best coach in the world but an uncomfortable fit and then it&#8217;s time to ask for a change of coach.  It&#8217;s not the end of the world&#8230;.. </i></p>
<p><b>7.  Would you recommend coaching for everyone?</b></p>
<p><i>No.  Some people are uncoachable and try to coach the coach because they want others to think that they know it all.  Some people believe that not knowing something about their industry is a sign of weakness and should be countered by an arrogant front.  When working with a coach, it is important to trust the coach, have faith in them and to be absolutely honest with them and yourself.  Being flexible and willing to break from ones &#8216;norm&#8217; to try new things (or old things new ways) is part of &#8216;out of the box&#8217; results.  If you can&#8217;t make yourself coachable, don&#8217;t get a coach, but if you can be open to change and guidance, a coach can be the best thing for you and your business.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s take fitness coaches: The reason that so many people shy away from them is because they would have less opportunity to cheat on their diet/exercise. Having a coach of any description can bring out the best in a person, but only if they are open to improvement. To those who want to remain the same, enjoying the same old results year after year, I say, don&#8217;t get a coach, but to those who want to go from mediocre to sensational in any field, find yourself a coach!</p>
<p>What some people don&#8217;t realize is that ANY coaching will take into consideration the 5 pillars of life, which among other things include rest and family, in order to maintain balance.  When one&#8217;s balance is out of whack, no areas succeed to any extent. </p>
<p>Mitch, in the time that you have known me, you have always marveled at the amount that I can get done in a day &#8211; THAT is what comes of coaching!  Certainly, for some people, living two days for every 24 hours that pass, is not their ideal, but it is for me.  I know that I only have &#8216;so&#8217; much time on this planet and I intend to make every precious second count for something.  I push myself hard &#8211; and then I employ coaches to push me further, to squeeze that last ounce of capability out of me, to keep me in balance.</i></p>
<p>I once again thank another friend for sharing her coaching experiences with us.  Just like I said the last time, if you&#8217;re looking for an <a href="http://www.ttmitchellconsulting.com/coaching.html" target="_blank"><b>executive coach</b></a>, I hope you&#8217;ll consider me while making your selection.</p>
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		<title>Why Coaching?  Someone Responds</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of you know I do executive coaching, though I&#8217;ll also sometimes do some life coaching. I&#8217;ve been asked by some folks what coaching is all about, and how it could help them. Though I always give an answer, coming from me, as someone who&#8217;s never had coaching, it always seems to come across as [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- RSPEAK_STOP --> <a href='http://wr.readspeaker.com/webreader/webreader.php?cid=03032f82fb8a2e73b1c430e365ab1dc3&t=wordpress_free&url=http://www.ttmitchellconsulting.com/Mitchblog/why-coaching-someone-responds/&title=Why Coaching?  Someone Responds' onclick='readpage(this.href, 728); return false;'> <img src='http://graphics.readspeaker.com/images/wr/listen_en_us.gif' style='border-style: none;' alt='Listen with webreader'></a><div id='WR_728'></div> <!-- RSPEAK_START --> <p>Some of you know I do <a href="http://www.ttmitchellconsulting.com/coaching.html" target="_blank"><b>executive coaching</b></a>, though I&#8217;ll also sometimes do some life coaching.  I&#8217;ve been asked by some folks what coaching is all about, and how it could help them.  Though I always give an answer, coming from me, as someone who&#8217;s never had coaching, it always seems to come across as more of a sales pitch than as the real deal.</p>
<p>So, I recently found out that a friend of mine has been getting life coaching for three years, supposedly, according to a mutual friend, because of something I happened to mention at the time.  I&#8217;d forgotten about it, and I asked her if she&#8217;d answer some questions about her experience.  If I can find more people, this will become a new series.  But let&#8217;s start with this one:</p>
<p><b>1. What kind of coach did you employ?</b> </p>
<p><i>A Life Coach/Spiritual Healer</i></p>
<p><b>2. What led you to decide to get a coach?</b></p>
<p><i>I had done counseling for years due to childhood issues.  I was having little progress going this route and once in massage school, I learned of coaching.  I was introduced to the LIfe Coach via a teacher who commented on her amazing success in helping people to move forward in their lives.  I knew I needed to get past my issues in order to grow and be successful.</i> </p>
<p><b>3. What is a coaching session like for you?</b></p>
<p><i>At first, the sessions were dealing with the childhood trauma.  These sessions were and still are on a monthly basis, going on now 3 years.  Consistency is key.  The sessions included steps to work through the trauma followed by home exercises and techniques to be applied in implementing change.  Now the sessions focus on the growth of my massage business including marketing strategies, management techniques, affirmations, visualizations.    Very powerful information!!</i></p>
<p><b>4. How often to you communicate with your coach?</b></p>
<p><i>Often!!  Via email, phone, and I see her 2x per month.</i></p>
<p><b>5. What has been the biggest change in your life that came from coaching?</b></p>
<p><i>Confidence!  I have walked through many negative emotions and thoughts.  The pathway to success is breaking through the past and disconnecting from the old recorder playing in our heads.  I have unleashed my true self.</i></p>
<p><b>6. What is the hardest thing about having a coach?</b></p>
<p><i>You have to be ready to listen and apply the techniques.  Our egos sometimes stop us from listening.  Take that step and trust the process. </i></p>
<p><b>7. Would you recommend coaching for everyone?</b></p>
<p><i>A football team without a coach is lost.  The same is true of me.  I would highly recommend utilizing a coach whether it is short-term or long-term.  There is great value and benefit in these sessions.</i></p>
<p>I want to thank my friend for answering these questions.  If you have any questions about my coaching, please click on the link above; I always give a free 30 minute session to see if we&#8217;re a good match for each other.</p>
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		<title>I Am A Business Coach</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 15:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mitch Mitchell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the services I provide is business coaching, but with a qualification. I don&#8217;t coach people on how to run their businesses; I&#8217;m not a financial wizard. Instead, I coach and motivate people within their businesses on how to work with others, time management, or general encouragement and motivation. Now, someone might ask why [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- RSPEAK_STOP --> <a href='http://wr.readspeaker.com/webreader/webreader.php?cid=03032f82fb8a2e73b1c430e365ab1dc3&t=wordpress_free&url=http://www.ttmitchellconsulting.com/Mitchblog/i-am-a-business-coach/&title=I Am A Business Coach' onclick='readpage(this.href, 350); return false;'> <img src='http://graphics.readspeaker.com/images/wr/listen_en_us.gif' style='border-style: none;' alt='Listen with webreader'></a><div id='WR_350'></div> <!-- RSPEAK_START --> <p>One of the services I provide is business coaching, but with a qualification.  I don&#8217;t coach people on how to run their businesses; I&#8217;m not a financial wizard.  Instead, I coach and motivate people within their businesses on how to work with others, time management, or general encouragement and motivation.</p>
<p>Now, someone might ask why someone would need a person like me.  After all, if they&#8217;re working within a company, surely they have someone else they can go to?  And if they started their own business, surely they already have the motivation needed to progress.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, not true on both fronts.  on the first, if you already work in the corporate world, or for someone else, think about how much support you get.  If you&#8217;re a manager, who do you get to talk to about your issues?  Who can you trust to be there for you and not themselves?  One of my most recent clients contacted me because she was relatively new in a position and there wasn&#8217;t anyone around who could help her figure things out.  A couple of weeks after she signed up with me, after we&#8217;d had only one session, she said that her confidence had gone up and it really made her feel comfortable knowing I was here for her, even if she didn&#8217;t have to call or write me all the time with questions.</p>
<p>Another client of mine was a partner in his business.  He was having issues with his partner that were not only harming the business, but hurting his family life as well.  As we talked, it became apparent that his issues were all concerned with time.  Rather, his disregard for time; other people&#8217;s time.  We talked about the issue for awhile, then I asked him how he felt when people exhibited the same behavior towards him.  It was like a light bulb went off in his head, and he realized how others must feel because, obviously, he hated having it done to him.  Within three weeks, not only had he landed a lucrative contract, but he said family members were astonished because his new sense of timing made them priorities in his life once again.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;d like to learn more about coaching, <a href="http://www.ttmitchellconsulting.com/coaching.html" target="_blank"><b>click here</b></a>.  The first session, 30 minutes, is always free.  After that, there is a monthly fee that&#8217;s based on the type of coaching you might like to have.  I discuss options at the link.  What would you like to discuss?  Give me a call.</p>
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