Posted by Dave Buck on October 27, 2008 under CoachVille Caffeine, | DAVE BUCK | 
10/27/2008
12 Key People To Have In Your Community & Network
Invitation to CV Caffeine on Monday 10/27/08 1PM ET
Hey Coach! Coach Dave Buck here.
I received several emails and blog comments in response to my focus on fundamentals article – THANKS! One idea I heard from several people and is create a new and improved personal environment. This is definitely a CORE fundamental. I noticed myself making several environmental clean ups and upgrades in the past few weeks.
The People Environment IS Key
Today on CV Caffeine (10/27 at 1PM ET) I’ll be talking about the People Environment. When most people think of cleaning up or improving their environment, they think about de-cluttering the office or upgrading some part of their home. These are good ideas, AND it is JUST as important to de-clutter and upgrade your PEOPLE and NETWORK environments!
As a conversation starter, here is a provocative poster by Thomas Leonard
Part of the A Perfect Life TM program…
12 Key People To Have In Your
Community & Network
1. Someone who loves you for you, just because you are you.
yes, It’s magic. Find and Enjoy
2. Someone who isn’t afraid to be honest with you.
They’ll need courage.
3. Someone who is more evolved that you are.
Let them be an evolving environment for you.
4. Someone who knows everybody.
Saves you time.
5. Someone who is well-connected.
Gives you access to opportunities
6. Someone who can solve your problems for you.
Life is too short to do this for yourself
7. Someone you can rely upon in a crisis.
Make sure they are up for this. Have a clear understanding
8. Someone who you love completely. just because.
Love is its own reward.
9. Someone who is a cyber/tech wizard.
Suck up if necessary
10. Someone in your field who is far more successful that you.
Model.
11. Someone who you are mentoring or coaching.
This brings our your best.
12. Someone who is mentoring and coaching you.
We all do better with a coach.
Join me on the show today and we will talk about the people environment and YOUR 12 key people.
Come prepared to share.
Just in case you miss the show today…
You can listen to the whole show right on the CV Home Page in the CV Caffeine Player in the right column.
(each show is available for one week. After that you can find it in the CV Caffeine Archive)
Who are YOUR 12 Key People? Please visit CoachBlog.com and share!!!
I may even ask you to join me on CV Caffeine to talk about it!
Remember to join me on CV Caffeine every Monday at 1PM ET.
A Perfect Life Program – Perfectly Counter Intuitive
Now is the PERFECT time to create A Perfect Life TM. I know that sounds counter intuitive in this time of global financial crisis and I think that’s why it will work. A key to staying productive AND joyful in this time is to THINK and FEEL differently than the mass fear consciousness. A great way to do that is to take the time now to create YOUR “A Perfect Life”. Just beginning this process will lift your spirits. Thomas said that creating A Perfect Life will probably take 2-5 years. So start now!
The complete home study course is just $99! and includes 12 1-hour recordings with Thomas and 6 with me.
All of the details are here.
Posted by Dave Buck on October 17, 2008 under | DAVE BUCK |
Hey Coach! Coach Dave Buck here.
My bank failed the other day (Wachovia). Scrambling around the web trying to figure out what would happen with my accounts was a disconcerting experience for sure. My cash is safe – Whew! While I am not a big purveyor of news – I don’t even own a TV - the tsunami wave of fear surrounding the global financial turbulence is a major force. The best thing to do with a BIG wave…
RIDE IT!!!
It takes courage to ride a REALLY BIG wave. You have to resist your instinct to run or hide.
AND if you manage to ride it out – it can really take you places!
How do you ride a wave like this – you keep paddling! OK, enough of the metaphor.
What you do is: focus on fundamentals.
I share four of my fundamentals below. In fact, I feel so strongly about these fundamental ideas that they are featured on the CV Home page!
And I spoke about them on our CV Caffeine Show on 10/13. I think you will find the audio inspiring.
You can listen to the whole show right on the CV Home Page - Look for the CV Caffeine Player in the right column
(until 10/20/08 at 3PM ET, after that you can find it in the CV Caffeine Archive)
What fundamentals will you focus on while we ride this wave? I really want to know.
Please share your thoughts by commenting on this blog entry.
Then we will continue to share about it together on our CV Caffeine Show on Monday 10/20/08.
NOW is our time, coaches.
The inspiration economy is right around the corner. This current global financial meltdown is the sign we have been waiting for. It is time for us Coaches to step up and lead the way. If we do, we can bring coaching into mainstream reality – you know, where everyone has a Coach as commonly as they have a dentist and an accountant.
I believe that if we rally together, we can ride the wave and make this the BEST time ever to be a Coach. We can make a solid case in our communities for coaching as the ultimate antidote for fear and failure. This financial wave is going to take us there. We can be the natural leaders that others are drawn to in times like this and ride the wave together to the good times ahead.
Four Fundamentals
Life is Sweet
It really is. No matter what the global markets are doing. Sometimes they go up. Sometimes they go down. Either way, it’s a miracle to be alive. What keeps you connected with your love for life? Meditation? Running? Reading inspiring stories? Playing with children? Do it! Do it a LOT! When you maintain your love for life every day you will become a source of strength for everyone around you.
Remember, most people have a scarcity consciousness even when they HAVE money. So it doesn’t take much turbulence in the markets for people to get scared. And for sure, those who have lost or are in danger of losing their homes might find it challenging to recognize the perfection of their situation right now.
But, there is perfection in EVERY situation. If you really look for it you can find it. Know that everything happening is happening to serve you and your purest intentions in some way. When you know this you can maintain your sense of JOY in any situation – and stay fully present with any client in any situation too.
(Coaching Proficiency #7 – Recognizes the Perfection In Every Situation)
This fundamental first came to me when I was deep in debt, homeless and living in my car for nine months! So I know it is possible to see it even in tough times.
You are a light in the world.
Master Your Craft
There are several productive ways to deal with a slow time; especially when we KNOW that a HUGE growth curve is coming.
1) Use the time to rest. Perhaps you have been running hard for a while and a time of rest is being served up for you as if by design! Don’t underestimate the raw power of billions of thoughts and feelings like: “I can’t keep going like this. I need a break!”. OK, here is your break!
2) Dedicate yourself to coaching A LOT. Reduce your fees by 30-50% – meet people where they are right now financially. Coaching people during tough times is a fantastic way to build YOUR skill AND certainty. Fear will always be a powerful force in our lives and the lives of our clients because it is a natural consequence of playing a bigger game. All that is happening now is the market turbulence is making everyone feel like the game is bigger and the stakes are higher! So it is a PERFECT time to Coach LOTS of people. As a Coach in tough times your inner strength will be honed and your resolve to be of service deepened.
3) Learn new skills like super conductivity coaching or group coaching. Learn something that will expand or improve what you have to offer. Group Coaching combined with office hours for short 1-1 coaching bursts is a great way to create a coaching service that is easier for people to cost justify. Build a new practice around high community value and high personal leverage and use the extra time to take on a bunch of pro-bono clients who really need you right now.
Remember: More Coaching = More Practice = Deeper Mastery
Contribute to community
“Wealth is what you have left when all of your money is gone” – Roger Hamilton, Author of Wealth Dynamics
The folks in our communities need us to be BIG right now. If we PLAY big now – with ideas, with inspiration, with energy, with leadership – we will be rewarded BIG when the wave settles down.
Generosity is a key coaching tenet and now is the time to embrace it and express it. Remember that wealth has many forms; Nine according to my model: Knowledge, Experience, Talent, Character, Community, Spiritual connection, Health, Financial and Relationship. SHARE what you have in abundance.
(Attraction Principle #2: Add Value for the Joy of It!)
Live Your Game
PLAY! Take your attention off of yourself – and put your attention on your game. There is nothing wrong with you (or your clients) no matter what your financial situation is. First of all, most of who/what you think you are is a story anyway. Secondly, what you think and feel about money is definitely a story you learned a long time ago, and thirdly, we have soo soo much less control over what is happening in our lives than we imagine that we do; that includes when things are rosy too!
The business or career and financial freedom games that you are playing are serious games. AND right now the scores don’t look so good by the standards you have set. You MUST remember that it IS a game.
So, as long as the game is still in your heart, keep playing! And focus your attention on playing a little better every day, NOT on the scoreboard.
These are just a few of my fundamentals.
What are YOUR fundamentals? Please visit CoachBlog.com and share!!!
I may even ask you to join me on CV Caffeine to talk about it!
Remember to join me on CV Caffeine every Monday at 1PM ET.
This Monday (10/20/08) we will talk about how to transform fear that gets you stuck into positive energy that propels you toward your desires!
