{"id":1308,"date":"2012-04-08T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2012-04-08T18:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/?p=1308"},"modified":"2012-02-01T19:58:36","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T01:58:36","slug":"leza-danly-on-finding-initial-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/leza-danly-on-finding-initial-clients\/","title":{"rendered":"Leza Danly on Finding Initial Clients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is taken from David&#8217;s interview with Leza Danly in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.10supercoaches.com\/\">10 Super Coaches<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What top three methods, in order, did you use to get your clients in the first 2 years?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My top three methods were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Magic<\/li>\n<li>Referrals<\/li>\n<li>Public Speaking<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I am not joking when I saw magic was my primary enrollment method. In fact, it was really important to me that I create my practice magically, meaning that I visualized it, I programmed for it, I spent time regularly in meditation imagining my full practice and seeing myself happily coaching a full practice. I made a schedule of where my client appointments were going to be and I absolutely allowed myself to desire it, imagine and expect it to happen.<\/p>\n<p>Then I would delight as the phone rang and people called and I would set up sample sessions. I got so excited about the opportunities for growth for the people who called. I think I held an authentic space of possibility in such a way that they could more clearly see who they were becoming. Then I imagined people saying yes to coaching, and they did.<\/p>\n<p>Again, I want to be clear I am not talking about a child\u2019s magic that is about wishful thinking and looking the other way. 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