Doing - coaching is about doing: Defining goals and developing plans to achieve these goals. And in our doing we want to have some success characteristics involved. We want to be determined, enthusiastic, and persuasive not only to others about our goals, but also ourselves. If we don’t believe, no one else will. Our personal strength comes from believing in ourselves. We have a choice to develop the things that we want to achieve and then begin the change. And while change comes at us from all directions, we have the choice on how to react to the change as it hits us. We even have the opportunity to practice how things might affect us.

Doing is the personal movement that we want to have, to be continuously goal-oriented. As goal-oriented creatures we survive only when we have goals to achieve, no matter what they may be.

We also grow by understanding things around us by comprehending facts and meanings to interpret truths and realizations of what is good for us. We continually learn and adjust our thinking if we want to grow. When we stop growing, learning new truths about the world and who we are in the world, we lose our personal strength.

I told someone the other day that the truth changes, and they said yes their truth did change as they got older. Of course it does, and people who hold on to beliefs that no longer serve them or the people around them gain nothing. It may stop our doing, because we stop believing.

Being is what we do as we prepare for success or failure. Are we developing ourselves and having growth over time? Is our goal setting helping us to unfold a plan over time to help us achieve what we want to achieve? In our being, is our plan growing with wisdom and unexpected life potential for us to evolve to a more perfect state of being? There is no question that over a lifetime we have an opportunity to gain education that we can discover and acquire knowledge, skill and competence over our minds and bodies. We have the opportunity to look at life as an adventure. While sometimes we fail, we can move forward from our failures to more success just by trying and understanding the opportunity that we have in life.

Philosophy is the how and why we live life. Life is an opportunity not settle for just being reasonable and responsible, so we end up with resentment at the end of life. “Why didn’t I do this or that?” Maybe we can’t do everything we want to in life, but I will bet you can do much more if you want to. Being isn’t airy-fairy; it is about having being prepared for your success.

How persuasive can you be? Can you move people to do things that you want them to do? Can you sell yourself as someone who knows what is going on, as someone that people want to be around? If you develop skills to be persuasive, how much more can you have in life? It really is about believing in yourself and developing your speaking abilities to help you move forward in life. Try being persuasive this week a few times. How does it feel to you?

PS: Check out the recent Weekly Challenges as an introduction or to find a new success technique.

“The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.”

Are you the right company? My wife won’t go into certain stores because she has a negative feeling about them. It is tough to sell someone something if they won’t go into your place of business. And how does someone get the idea they shouldn’t shop with you? Is it your advertising or word of mouth? Perhaps an idea that you are too expensive, or that there is no customer service. It is important to protect your company image by being there when a customer needs you, to make them feel like you care about their business. Last year I had two phones on Verizon,and wanted to change the service I had. They said that I can’t do that because of their policy, since I had moved and had a different land line. So I ended up canceling two phones, when I was trying to upgrade my service. Does policy get into your way so that you don’t keep as many customers as you should? Once you get a customer, do you do everything that you can to keep one?

PS: See the recent Sales Tips of the Week from Step Jones

Which of these people got fired?

1. Lee Iacocca
2. Michael Bloomberg
3. Jesse Ventura
4. Lou Holtz
5. All of the Above

Answer the question correctly and get a free MP3 download of Step Jones’s CD Help Yourself Be Better  from his upcoming new audio product Jump Start

The answer to last week’s trivia question is #3, Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbacca, recently became a U.S. Citizen.