Friday, July 25, 2008
Thursday, July 24, 2008
From Teacher to Coach - How to Offer Your "Teachable Skills" as a Coach!
From Teacher to Coach - How to Offer Your "Teachable Skills" as a Coach!
Are you a teacher, educator, author, or advocate? Are you tired of your work not feeding you financially? Are you nearing your breaking point, and weary of wondering if teaching is ever going to pan-out for you?
This one-hour teleclass is loaded with value, and it's only $49...register now, and get the following bonuses as a gift from us to you!
Bonuses:
Social Media Marketing 101, by Robert Allen and Al Polito available from Healer's Lounge
Using Your Blog to make $! by Robert Allen, available from Healer's Lounge
Six Reasons to Build a Phone Coaching Practice, by LaSara Firefox, available from lasarafirefox.com
Click here to register.
a one-hour teleclass, with LaSara Firefox (www.lasarafirefox.com) and Robert Allen (www.coachingwithrobertallen.com)
5 - 6 PM Pacific time, August 13, 2008
Are you a teacher, educator, author, or advocate? Are you tired of your work not feeding you financially? Are you nearing your breaking point, and weary of wondering if teaching is ever going to pan-out for you?
What if you could have the best of both worlds; continue sharing your gifts, skills and views with the world, AND make money at the same time? It's time to think about moving from "being an educator", to offering your teachable skills as a coach.
Some benefits of the coaching model:
* You get to work from, and in, your passion.
* You can build your business to fit your life.
* You can have clients all over the world, instead of just in your geographical locale.
* You get to live your life purpose -- as your work!
Who can be a coach?
You can! Anyone who has ever taught can be a coach. The better your existing platform as a teacher, the easier the transition will be.
A client recently came to LaSara with questions about career change. LaSara helped her client transition to coaching from more "traditional" models of teaching. Within two days the client had her sample sessions filled. In two weeks she had her coaching practice filled through the following three months. The client then listed an on-line class, and the class filled in a matter of days as well.
Not everyone will get the results that this client did, but until you explore the option of coaching, you won't know what might be possible for you and your practice.
Robert had a client who was a nutritionist and body-worker. She had hit her limit for hands-on sessions, and was feeling worn-out from the work. With Robert's help, she integrated coaching as an element in her healing practice. She ended up making more money with fewer clients, and being able to comfortably scale-back the number of hands-on sessions she was offering per week.
Is coaching the next career step for you? Think of your teaching or healing platform -- and whether it's ready to transition over to the coaching model. If you were to make the transition, what kind of coaching practice would you build?
The good news is that you can choose exactly the topic or area of interest that moves you into the most full alignment with your sense of purpose. What is the area that brings you the most joy?
How to start?
As a teacher, writer, advocate, or educator, you're ready to offer your services as a coach now. The only thing missing is the structure of the business itself, and the support that will make way for your success. Robert Allen and LaSara Firefox will walk you through the transition and transformation step-by-step, and help you to arrive at your desired outcome.
This one-hour teleclass is loaded with value, and it's only $49...register now, and get the following bonuses as a gift from us to you!
Bonuses:
Social Media Marketing 101, by Robert Allen and Al Polito available from Healer's Lounge
Using Your Blog to make $! by Robert Allen, available from Healer's Lounge
Six Reasons to Build a Phone Coaching Practice, by LaSara Firefox, available from lasarafirefox.com
Click here to register.
Questions? Call 707-293-5153, or drop a note to greenfieldcoachinginstitute@gmail.com.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Free intro session for teachers, authors, advocates!
Are you a teacher, educator, author, or advocate? Are you tired of your work not feeding you financially? Are you nearing your breaking point, and tired of wondering if teaching is ever going to pan-out for you?
What if you could have the best of both worlds; continue sharing your gifts, skills and views with the world, AND make money at the same time? It's time to think about moving from "being an educator", to offering your teachable skills as a coach.
Some benefits of the coaching model:
* You get to continue offering your expertise.
* You get to continue working from, and in, your passion.
* You can build your business to fit your life.
* You can have clients all over the world, instead of just in your geographical locale.
* You get to live your life purpose -- as your work!
I won't lie; building a coaching practice is not a quick fix, nor an easy solution. Building your practice, like building anything, takes time, energy, focus, and major amounts of commitment. It takes unbeatable conviction, and an entrepreneurial spirit.
True dedication is what building a business out of your dreams will call for. A successful practice must be built on the fundamental conviction that this is what you want to do with your life.
However, doing just this - building your dreams, your personal mission, your message, into the work you do in the world - is the way to continue offering your self, heart and soul, to the world. And, if your mission is what drives you, as it is for many of us teachers, you simply will not be satisfied with a life built on anything less.
Who can be a coach?
You can! Anyone who has ever taught can be a coach. The better your existing platform as a teacher, the easier the transition will be.
I have a client who recently came to me with questions about career change. I helped her transition to coaching from more "traditional" models of teaching. Within two days she had her sample sessions filled. Within two weeks she had her coaching practice filled through the next three months.
She then listed an on-line class, and the class filled in a matter of days as well.
Not everyone will get the results that she did, but right now, I'd like you to think of your teaching platform, and whether it's ready to transition over to the coaching model. If you were to make the transition, what kind of coaching practice would you build? What kind of coach would you be?
You can choose exactly the topic or area of interest that moves you into the most full alignment with your sense of purpose. What is the area that brings you the most joy?
Your topic might be love, relationships, and intimacy, or it might be spiritual purpose, or it might be adventure. Whatever it is, your commitment to bringing it to the world may be the key to your most ideal life.
How to start?
As a teacher, writer, advocate, or educator, you're ready to offer your services as a coach now. The only thing missing is the structure of the business itself, and the support that will make way for your success. I can walk you through the transition and transformation step-by-step, and help you to arrive at your desired outcome as easily as possible.
Call me now at 707-293-5153, or drop a note to info@lasarafirefox.com, to schedule a free, 30-minute, pre-commitment evaluation. Together, you and I will build a highly personalized strategy that will bring you to a whole new level of making your mission, your dream, work in the world; a plan that will increase your alignment with purpose, earning-potential, visibility, and professional achievement.
peace.
-LaSara
707-293-5153
www.lasarafirefox.com
P.S. I'm taking only three new clients at this time. If you want to be one of them, get in touch now. 707-293-5153, or, info@lasarafirefox.com.
P.P.S. Check out my interview with my latest major success story business coaching client; Ariel Gore! Yesterday I interviewed the infamous Hip Mama for my podcast series, WisdomBeing in Business; Bringing Enlightenment Consciousness to Your Work. We talked about ways to stay true to your heart, and your purpose, in your work.
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
An Ecstatic Presence Empowerment: Three Steps to Engaged Gratitude
by LaSara FireFox, www.lasarafirefox.com
Do you want to increase the peace in your life? Do you want more love, more joy, more presence? Do you want to take an active part in becoming the actual manifestation of "heaven on earth"?
The most revolutionary thing we can do to increase the peace is to LIVE IT. As Gandhi said, "there is no way to peace. Peace is the way." The more we practice peace, the more peace becomes our lives. We can live peace in every moment.
I'm not talking about some abstraction, or idea of peace. Nor am I speaking of the absence of conflict. Even in the midst of conflict, we can BE peace.
Engaged Gratitude practice, in three steps:
1: Invoke and Embody The Presence of Love
Make love real. Agapic love. The big, big love that lives at the center of all things. The flame that burns "in every heart of man, and in the core of every star." How to realize, or remember, this love, you may ask. The practices are many, the goal one. Gratitude practice, asking powerful questions, inducing positive states, prayer and meditation are all ways to invoke love.
Wherever we are, whatever we are doing, we can invoke and embody the presence of love. In my "playshop" called Being The Presence of Love, I offer not only many practices to make this practice accessible, but also offer the template of experiencing being present in love, so that you have a reliable, physiological anchor that will make it easy to access the power of Divine Love in any moment.
For now, an easy way to manifest the presence of love is to think of something that makes you feel a love beyond limits, unconditional, eternal. The perfect love. I find this love at the heart of deep prayer, in the arms of my beloved, sharing a smile with my child.
Think about it, and then feel it. Ahhhh. There it is. Now feel it even more. Let your heart, your whole being, glow with this love.
Of course, invoking the presence of love is only step one.
2: Grow Your Gratitude!
Gratitude heals the heart. This is true on multiple levels. Of course it makes sense on the metaphorical level - how could becoming grateful NOT heal a broken heart? When we experience loss, healing comes from realizing that the sum total of the impact of any experience was for the best. When we get this, it becomes easy to be grateful for the experiences we encounter.
In addition to the metaphorical, gratitude also heals the actual physiology of your heart. This is wonderful, and true! Gratitude practice is recommended as part of many heart-surgery and heart disease recovery programs. How does it work? Gratitude is the antidote for stress, anger, anxiety and many other ills. Stress, of course, is a huge contributor to both heart disease and heart attack.
Gratitude offers a rest to our physiological systems. For instance, say you're standing in line at the grocery store, and the people in front of you are taking forever. You may be late getting to where ever you're going, but is stressing out about it going to change the fact that you're stuck in line? Not a chance!
The one thing you CAN change is how you are experiencing the moment. So, instead of obsessing about your situation, take the time and cultivate gratitude. Even starting small will work. You can be grateful that you have the money to buy food. You can be grateful that you have a chance to read those amazing headlines on the trashy mag in the rack. I get really simple with it, and remember to be grateful to have a moment to be in stillness and silence. (Standing in line is a perfect opportunity for a moment of meditation.)
This choice is affecting you, and as a true believer in systems theory, I would say that is affects all that is. Your stress is not just your stress - it may very well affect the whole system in some subtle way. Your gratitude is the same way. As you choose to relax instead of stress, the ripples spread. Your interaction with the cashier is going to be different. His interaction with the next person in line may well be different, too.
On the personal level alone, though, the benefits are too many to mention. Gratitude is SO much nicer to hold in our cells than the alternative.
Another wonderful bonus is that because our minds sort for, and we notice, that which we expect, when we start practicing gratitude, we start noticing more and more to be grateful for. Gratitude practice, just like any other practice, becomes easier the more you do it!
3: Make Love a Verb; Gratitude in Action!
Love and gratitude become more powerful by far, when put into engaged action. Engagement is the final step of this process. Take your love and DO something with it. That something might be sitting in prayer, but think of how much more prayer you'd bring if you were to start hosting a weekly group prayer night at your home.
When you find gratitude for the food on your table, let it remind you that you can do your part to reduce suffering by offering food to those in need. Make a meal, box it up, and offer it to a local homeless person you have seen around.
While you're at it, have a conversation with this person.
At the Season for Nonviolence gathering a while back, Dr. Arun Gandhi pointed out that compassion is different from pity. I paraphrase the esteemed man here; pity offers the food and hopes the person will walk away with it. Compassion offers the food, asks the person how they ended up on the streets, witnesses the story, and does it's part to cause an end to the reasons that this person and others end up without.
Namaste. We are one. We are none. Consider yourself empowered!
Do you want to increase the peace in your life? Do you want more love, more joy, more presence? Do you want to take an active part in becoming the actual manifestation of "heaven on earth"?
The most revolutionary thing we can do to increase the peace is to LIVE IT. As Gandhi said, "there is no way to peace. Peace is the way." The more we practice peace, the more peace becomes our lives. We can live peace in every moment.
I'm not talking about some abstraction, or idea of peace. Nor am I speaking of the absence of conflict. Even in the midst of conflict, we can BE peace.
Engaged Gratitude practice, in three steps:
1: Invoke and Embody The Presence of Love
Make love real. Agapic love. The big, big love that lives at the center of all things. The flame that burns "in every heart of man, and in the core of every star." How to realize, or remember, this love, you may ask. The practices are many, the goal one. Gratitude practice, asking powerful questions, inducing positive states, prayer and meditation are all ways to invoke love.
Wherever we are, whatever we are doing, we can invoke and embody the presence of love. In my "playshop" called Being The Presence of Love, I offer not only many practices to make this practice accessible, but also offer the template of experiencing being present in love, so that you have a reliable, physiological anchor that will make it easy to access the power of Divine Love in any moment.
For now, an easy way to manifest the presence of love is to think of something that makes you feel a love beyond limits, unconditional, eternal. The perfect love. I find this love at the heart of deep prayer, in the arms of my beloved, sharing a smile with my child.
Think about it, and then feel it. Ahhhh. There it is. Now feel it even more. Let your heart, your whole being, glow with this love.
Of course, invoking the presence of love is only step one.
2: Grow Your Gratitude!
Gratitude heals the heart. This is true on multiple levels. Of course it makes sense on the metaphorical level - how could becoming grateful NOT heal a broken heart? When we experience loss, healing comes from realizing that the sum total of the impact of any experience was for the best. When we get this, it becomes easy to be grateful for the experiences we encounter.
In addition to the metaphorical, gratitude also heals the actual physiology of your heart. This is wonderful, and true! Gratitude practice is recommended as part of many heart-surgery and heart disease recovery programs. How does it work? Gratitude is the antidote for stress, anger, anxiety and many other ills. Stress, of course, is a huge contributor to both heart disease and heart attack.
Gratitude offers a rest to our physiological systems. For instance, say you're standing in line at the grocery store, and the people in front of you are taking forever. You may be late getting to where ever you're going, but is stressing out about it going to change the fact that you're stuck in line? Not a chance!
The one thing you CAN change is how you are experiencing the moment. So, instead of obsessing about your situation, take the time and cultivate gratitude. Even starting small will work. You can be grateful that you have the money to buy food. You can be grateful that you have a chance to read those amazing headlines on the trashy mag in the rack. I get really simple with it, and remember to be grateful to have a moment to be in stillness and silence. (Standing in line is a perfect opportunity for a moment of meditation.)
This choice is affecting you, and as a true believer in systems theory, I would say that is affects all that is. Your stress is not just your stress - it may very well affect the whole system in some subtle way. Your gratitude is the same way. As you choose to relax instead of stress, the ripples spread. Your interaction with the cashier is going to be different. His interaction with the next person in line may well be different, too.
On the personal level alone, though, the benefits are too many to mention. Gratitude is SO much nicer to hold in our cells than the alternative.
Another wonderful bonus is that because our minds sort for, and we notice, that which we expect, when we start practicing gratitude, we start noticing more and more to be grateful for. Gratitude practice, just like any other practice, becomes easier the more you do it!
3: Make Love a Verb; Gratitude in Action!
Love and gratitude become more powerful by far, when put into engaged action. Engagement is the final step of this process. Take your love and DO something with it. That something might be sitting in prayer, but think of how much more prayer you'd bring if you were to start hosting a weekly group prayer night at your home.
When you find gratitude for the food on your table, let it remind you that you can do your part to reduce suffering by offering food to those in need. Make a meal, box it up, and offer it to a local homeless person you have seen around.
While you're at it, have a conversation with this person.
At the Season for Nonviolence gathering a while back, Dr. Arun Gandhi pointed out that compassion is different from pity. I paraphrase the esteemed man here; pity offers the food and hopes the person will walk away with it. Compassion offers the food, asks the person how they ended up on the streets, witnesses the story, and does it's part to cause an end to the reasons that this person and others end up without.
Namaste. We are one. We are none. Consider yourself empowered!
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Join my talk show at talkshoe!
I have a weekly show starting through talkshoe.com. It's called Yoga Mama Satsangha with LaSara Firefox. Join in! The line will be open for questions, comments and more!
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Six Reasons to Build a Phone Coaching Business
by LaSara Firefox, www.lasarafirefox.com
The benefits of transitioning your face-to-face practice to a phone-based model are numerous. Here are six reasons to begin that transition today.
1. Geographical availability:
You can be anywhere, and serve clients all over the world. I’ve had clients in three countries at one time. This is a great benefit for anyone who wants to build a global perspective into their work.
2. Mobility in work and life:
You can travel, and still be available to your clients. I’ve been able to serve my coaching clients while I was traveling in the Middle East, on the east coast on book tour, and in Los Angeles on business. I’ve even been able to help a client with a time-sensitive issue by carving ten minutes out of a family vacation.
The freedom and security of being able to be mobile and still serve your clients is a huge benefit.
3. You’ll save time and money:
Fewer hours traveling means less money spent on gas, and fewer hours wasted in your workday. And, your clients don't need to travel to you either, so you're saving your clients time and money, too.
With gas currently at over $4.25 per gallon, I’m sure you can see how this could change your life for the better. Say you drive 60 miles a day (30 to work and 30 back home), your car gets 25 miles to the gallon, you drive to the office 5 days a week, and you’re paying $4.25 a gallon; you spend $204 a month on gas to get to the office and back.
Working from home, you stand to save nearly $2500 a year on work-related gas money alone!
Time-wise, I’m sure we can all think of better ways to spend the hour-or-so a day saved by not commuting. A few ideas; hanging out with loved ones. Marketing your services. Exercising. Taking a bath. Reading a new magazine. Talking with a friend.
4. You’ll Reduce your carbon footprint:
Working again with the driving distance of 60 miles a day (a low-average for most Americans), five days a week, your car at 25 miles to the gallon, you are producing 11,290 pounds of carbon a year.
You could buy “carbon offsets” (see carbonfootprint.com for more info), but why not just ax the negative impact of use, and cut straight to the chase?
5. You can work from home:
How great would it be to be there when your kids get home from school? I can tell you it's really great. I build in a break at 3:20 on my "kid days", so that when my girls get off the bus I can give (and get) hugs, hear about the school day, hang out for a few, share a snack, and set the monkeys up with activities before I dive back in to my work.
You can coach in an environment that is comfortable to you, and your clients can simultaneously be in environments that are comfortable to them. I love to take coaching calls in my yard on temperate days, where I can be held by nature, connected to beauty, and totally available to my client on all levels. Where would you most like to have your “floating office”?
6. Flexibility in scheduling:
You can choose what hours you want to be on the phone, and work it around your life. As opposed to an office environment, you have the flexibility to easily accommodate clients in other time zones or with non-standard work hours.
And, you can shape your coaching hours around your own needs, too. Like to go for a run after coffee, but before the heat of the day sets in? Me too! I build my schedule to support my self-care routine.
Not sure where to start? Check out the offerings at Greenfield Coaching Institute, by visiting my website at www.lasarafirefox.com.
About the author:
LaSara FireFox, MPNLP, is a master practitioner and trainer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), life coach, educator, and professional speaker. LaSara helps her clients to find balance in their lives, and alignment with their personal and family-held values.
In addition, LaSara is a mother of two, a successful author (Sexy Witch, nonfiction/self-help, Llewellyn Worldwide, 2005), founder of Ecstatic Presence Project and Global Family Awakening: an educational, peace and humanitarian family adventure club, and co-founder of Greenfield Coaching Institute (GCI). She teaches and coaches internationally.
The benefits of transitioning your face-to-face practice to a phone-based model are numerous. Here are six reasons to begin that transition today.
1. Geographical availability:
You can be anywhere, and serve clients all over the world. I’ve had clients in three countries at one time. This is a great benefit for anyone who wants to build a global perspective into their work.
2. Mobility in work and life:
You can travel, and still be available to your clients. I’ve been able to serve my coaching clients while I was traveling in the Middle East, on the east coast on book tour, and in Los Angeles on business. I’ve even been able to help a client with a time-sensitive issue by carving ten minutes out of a family vacation.
The freedom and security of being able to be mobile and still serve your clients is a huge benefit.
3. You’ll save time and money:
Fewer hours traveling means less money spent on gas, and fewer hours wasted in your workday. And, your clients don't need to travel to you either, so you're saving your clients time and money, too.
With gas currently at over $4.25 per gallon, I’m sure you can see how this could change your life for the better. Say you drive 60 miles a day (30 to work and 30 back home), your car gets 25 miles to the gallon, you drive to the office 5 days a week, and you’re paying $4.25 a gallon; you spend $204 a month on gas to get to the office and back.
Working from home, you stand to save nearly $2500 a year on work-related gas money alone!
Time-wise, I’m sure we can all think of better ways to spend the hour-or-so a day saved by not commuting. A few ideas; hanging out with loved ones. Marketing your services. Exercising. Taking a bath. Reading a new magazine. Talking with a friend.
4. You’ll Reduce your carbon footprint:
Working again with the driving distance of 60 miles a day (a low-average for most Americans), five days a week, your car at 25 miles to the gallon, you are producing 11,290 pounds of carbon a year.
You could buy “carbon offsets” (see carbonfootprint.com for more info), but why not just ax the negative impact of use, and cut straight to the chase?
5. You can work from home:
How great would it be to be there when your kids get home from school? I can tell you it's really great. I build in a break at 3:20 on my "kid days", so that when my girls get off the bus I can give (and get) hugs, hear about the school day, hang out for a few, share a snack, and set the monkeys up with activities before I dive back in to my work.
You can coach in an environment that is comfortable to you, and your clients can simultaneously be in environments that are comfortable to them. I love to take coaching calls in my yard on temperate days, where I can be held by nature, connected to beauty, and totally available to my client on all levels. Where would you most like to have your “floating office”?
6. Flexibility in scheduling:
You can choose what hours you want to be on the phone, and work it around your life. As opposed to an office environment, you have the flexibility to easily accommodate clients in other time zones or with non-standard work hours.
And, you can shape your coaching hours around your own needs, too. Like to go for a run after coffee, but before the heat of the day sets in? Me too! I build my schedule to support my self-care routine.
Not sure where to start? Check out the offerings at Greenfield Coaching Institute, by visiting my website at www.lasarafirefox.com.
About the author:
LaSara FireFox, MPNLP, is a master practitioner and trainer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), life coach, educator, and professional speaker. LaSara helps her clients to find balance in their lives, and alignment with their personal and family-held values.
In addition, LaSara is a mother of two, a successful author (Sexy Witch, nonfiction/self-help, Llewellyn Worldwide, 2005), founder of Ecstatic Presence Project and Global Family Awakening: an educational, peace and humanitarian family adventure club, and co-founder of Greenfield Coaching Institute (GCI). She teaches and coaches internationally.
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