{"id":1839,"date":"2012-11-29T12:00:58","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T18:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/?p=1839"},"modified":"2012-02-08T13:17:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T19:17:00","slug":"stay-focused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/stay-focused\/","title":{"rendered":"Stay Focused"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The following is an excerpt from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.coachstart.com\/\">CoachStart Manual<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get sidetracked in the early stages by developing brochures, stationery, web sites, or other long-term marketing methods.\u00a0 Even business cards, registering a business and your welcome pack can wait.\u00a0 You want practice, practice, practice!\u00a0 And you know enough people already to get this practice, without using any fancy methods.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t distract yourself with long-term methods \u2014 they can be a way of avoiding coaching right now.\u00a0 Work through your confidence, and explore coaching with your current network.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like more information on exactly <em>how<\/em> to have fifty people say yes to a coaching session with you, you\u2019ll be glad to know this is covered in detail in my ICF Conference speech: \u2018Getting the First Fifty Clients\u2019.\u00a0 You can access this online (and on CD) at:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.FirstFiftyClients.com\">http:\/\/www.FirstFiftyClients.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>While the Manual you are reading covers many aspects of your coaching business, the above speech is focused solely on getting you those first fifty clients.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an excerpt from the\u00a0CoachStart Manual. Don&#8217;t get sidetracked in the early stages by developing brochures, stationery, web sites, or other long-term marketing methods.\u00a0 Even business cards, registering a business and your welcome pack can wait.\u00a0 You want practice, practice, practice!\u00a0 And you know enough people already to get this practice, without using [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[156],"tags":[353,59,149],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1840,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1839\/revisions\/1840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}