Tips for Women Working to Get Ahead in Business
Last month was Women’s Small Business Month, but it’s never too late for working women to reevaluate their long-term career goals in order to manage and grow in today’s competitive work environment. Here are some tips to help women get ahead…
A Day in the Life of a Life Coach
Deciding on a career path can be a long process if you have never really decided what you love to do. Allot of times, we don’t even come to the place of deciding that it’s even possible to have a career that is both fulfilling and lucrative, if this is your desire.
If you are like myself, where it took a couple of tries before I was able to hone in on what I loved, the path that you are already on, may be an indication of the skills you are going to need, people you are suppose to meet, and places you are meant to be, until finally you realize that all that you have been doing, has culminated into what you were always meant to do.
For instance, I started out working for a very large healthcare organization in my area. In fact, the largest in South Jersey. While working for this healthcare organization, I would gather the majority of the skills that I currently utilize, in helping me to run my current business in Life Coaching, as well as my home organizing business and the office that I currently run, as Practice Manager.
I would learn how to maintain client records, with confidentiality, learn professionalism and networking, I would learn CPR (an extra-added bonus), computer skills, systems thinking, how to run an office, curriculum development, training, teaching, and a host of other skills to fill the page.
All in all, the most valuable skills I learned were when I interacted with a client.
Learning to actively listen to what was being said before having an answer. Speaking clearly and concisely to convey, not only the point that I may have wanted to get across, but learning how to repeat back to a client, what they just said so they were confident I understood their message. None of what I just described had anything to do with my being a Life Coach/Motivator at the time, but the qualities of wanting the best, and seeing the best in people, were always inherent in my day to day interactions.
One day, it dawned on me after going to a clients home for my home organizing business, that I was already doing the work of a Life Coach/Motivator, but working in a different capacity. I decided to go back to school, where I received my Bachelors degree in spiritual counseling, and I was now able to focus my attention on my hearts desire to help people, while having a business that I can nurture and enjoy.
Look back on all you’ve done to this point. Take inventory of the skills you have acquired and know that you have an array of directions you can choose from. You don’t even have to choose just one thing. The choice is yours.
It is said that if you “Do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.”
Welcome to the path of Self Awareness
Lisa Scott/Bachelor of Metaphysical Counseling
Motivator/Life Coach
Lisascott858@msn.com
Desk Talk
While you may be sitting at your desk possibly getting hundreds of things done for the company, your mind is also thinking hundreds of thoughts. We may know that we are thinking lots of thoughts all the time, but we are not as good at taking inventory of the thoughts we are thinking, in order to filter which thoughts serve us, and which thoughts may be harmful to us. If we happen to be thinking self limiting thoughts, left unchecked, this could be harmful both mentally and physically. Over time, what was just another thought, can build up inside of us and begin to manifest itself physically.
Our thoughts can be an indication of why we feel like we’re running around in circles, and not getting anything done that we set out to do. Is your desktop messy? This could be attributed to too many thoughts happening at once.
Organize your desk, organize your thoughts. Put those things away, that can be worked on in the near or distant future. Only those things that need to be worked on immediately, should be on your desk and even these things need to be organized by order of importance. As tasks and/or projects are completed, you can put them away and out of your mind therefore creating more mental space. “An uncluttered space is an uncluttered mind”.
If you’ve been sitting at a desk all day, take a break by just recognizing your breathing pattern to make sure that you are calm. Take a walk outside, smell the air, and look at the beautiful sky. Being outside in nature helps us to feel connected to the things around us and can restore a sense of balance. Sometimes just that 5 minute escape from sitting at your desk can revive you mentally and give you enough energy to last the rest of your day.
Lastly, let it go. Driving home can be the best, and sometimes the only time we will have to ourselves, before reaching our next and final destination after work. Make sure it’s as relaxing and pleasurable as possible. Play your favorite music. Sing your favorite song. Have your favorite aroma in the car as well. This makes your driving experience all the more pleasurable and allows you to escape the business of the day just a little easier.
Take care of yourself first and you’ll be able to better take care of your business.
Welcome to the path of Self Awareness.
Lisa Scott/Bachelor of Metaphysical Counseling
Motivator/Life Coach
Lisascott858@msn.com
Life Coaching for Business Women
The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.
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“There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. Almost inevitably some part of him is aware that they are myths and that he believes them only because they are comforting. But he dares not face this thought! Moreover, since he is aware, however dimly, that his opinions are not rational, he becomes furious when they are disputed.”
-Bertrand Russell
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