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BLBW Ep# 13 Your Questions Answered on all things Better Life & Better Work

Topic Episode #13:  Tribe Q & A

This week I took questions from members of my community on my email love list, my fb group and on Instagram.  We had some great questions that covered the gamut of Better Life & Better Work! 

 

  1. Rosie from the UK asks: Got a question I’d love to see your perspective on what do synchronicities mean? When they happen, why? What does it mean, in your opinion?
  2. Suzyreading from IG asks:   How do you shape the help that you’re given… when I’m in need my loved one tries to fix when I just really want him to bear witness and be with me as I express my feelings. Recipe for frustration for both of us…
  3. Deborah asks: My question is how to stop niche hopping over and over when things don’t seem to be attracting clients?  Also, I hear so much about marketing through talking about the problem that you solve. Do you think you need to have one problem that you solve for people to communicate in marketing? I know that you have said that you don’t need a niche on one of the videos you made but having a no niche didn’t seem to work either or was it just that I need to be me doing my thing and various things and do that long enough?
  4. Susan Asks: I AM actually narrowing my niche—My question is—how do I reach that special niche, once I have determined what it is?
  5. Linda asks: How do you know what works for you when you haven’t had enough clients to have an idea of what works? In relation to not hustling, cutting down on the tasks
  6. Missy asks:  I recently left a “job” that I had been doing for 4 years at a company that I had been with for 13.  I know that I made the right decision by leaving so why do I still have those pangs of regret that bubble up every now and again that make me doubt my decision?
  7. Casey asks: How can I keep my Art-Making and Teaching (that I’ve been doing for TWENTY YEARS!) a priority AND enjoyable, when my husband still says, “When are you going to get a REAL job?”
  8. Positively Slim on IG asks: How can we know what our online audience wants to know? I do ask often on posts and emails….
  9. Elizabeth asks: how do I set goals that I will actually feel like honoring and committing myself to? I’d love for my side business to earn $100,000 a year because I think that would lead to some amazing things in my life. And yet, I’ve done little to move forward on that goal. It feels like a good goal, so why haven’t I taken action? Is it because I’m not actually aligned to that goal? Is it because that goal is too big and too vague and perhaps the goal should be something like “send three emails a week to my list”?
  10. Kathryn asks: How do you get someone out of your head and heart. Any rituals or insights?

 

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  • This is a special shout out to my clients and fans and followers from England. You have a special place in my heart.... a quarter of my clients are from GB. And in all my system data, Brits are always top of the list. I have more clients who live in London than in my home town! One of my favorite coaches and mentors was also from London. Who knew that an uncouth smart-ass, but deeply loving soul from Texas would find so much love and acceptance and community from across the pond. I’m officially planning a member retreat for my Soul-Full Success Soulies in Europe... and we will gather in my favorite global city ~London, in 2019. 🇬🇧 💛 🇬🇧 💛
  • Came across a few amazing coaches this week who forgot that the client is responsible for their own work and results. . One client was sending call RE-caps to each of her clients! Holy HELL NO. We can’t learn for our clients and more information does not equal more value. . Often our over-striving or over-delivering comes from our insecurities or need to prove ourselves. . I know because I’ve been there. . If this has been you, I’m here to pat you on the back with encouragement, and straighten your cute winter jacket... and tell you to re adjust your agreements and power. . Take a breath and remember that the client is powerful, resourceful, and whole. Your job it not to be the power... but to remind your client that they are. They hired you to expect the best of them. Not do their work. Love, 💛 Allison.
  • Let’s talk about the fine line of “expert advice” coming from the interwebs. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ - I just heard an expert say, “Question your content: if your post and caption were in a magazine, would it be good enough and cause someone to buy. If not - then I shouldn’t post it in my Instagram feed. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ - What the what?!? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ - Nope. My Instagram and Facebook feed certainly won’t pass even close to a magazine spread. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ - Maybe this is true if you have a product? But I’m in the business of service via the guide of the individual providing the service. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ - As an individual business owner... even brand..... there is so much more to looking and even selling “good.” ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I’m all for a pretty IG feed. And. I wanna see and feel YOU. Connection matters. Connection creates. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ - If to create clients we had to be as pretty or good at copy as a magazine advert...... I’d be broke. And I’m not. I’m rich. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ So yes, keep learning new skills and tips and tricks..... and if you are in the business of service - connection is the most profitable asset you have. So create content that connects! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Loving you. 💛 Allison
  • Remembering. Perspective. It’s all true. 💛
  • Do you have a hard time shutting your work brain off? Especially if you love it. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I do. It’s Friday night and if technically finished work at noon today- I had a big and full week. Lots of giving and lots of creating! Hooray for new clients and awesome coaching calls. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Ethough it is all good it’s time to celebrate and close down the work brain for most of the weekend. Honestly that’s a challenge for me! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ But with one breath, and the next, this post and then a hot bath and a fiction book...... I’m shutting down the work brain. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ This is just a little reminder to myself, and you if you need it, that not only our bodies need rest. Our brains need rest from thinking and planning and creating. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ You do enough. You work enough and it is all working. There is space for rest and play and disconnect from social media. All is well, love. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Let’s chill the eff out together. What will you do to unplug and I swims your mind? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Love, 💛 Allison
  • Identity—- or even more specifically your self concept matters. We literally can’t create what we can’t see and believe in our subconscious. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I love hearing my clients answer the question: who do you have to BEcome? What do you have to BElieve about yourself... to create this in reality. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ It’s literally mind blowing. Those upper limit thinking problems are soooo subtle. Even for high achievers. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Who are you becoming? What is the identity you have to see, feel and live to create your best life and work? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 💛 Allison www.coachwithallison.com
  • How my dog’s allergies are an analogy for a current struggle: ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ This is Rocky Potato- my 10 yr old rescue Boston. He looks how I feel. Rocky is bundled up being cozy dried after an allergy bath for extreme allergy flare ups. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Some days the pressure I put on myself to always be ON, always be creating “value” on social media... overwhelms me - like and inflammation and itchy break out. I just wanna be cuddled up in comfort and held in these times. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Rocky itches. And I’m itching for more. My itches are really urges and in noticing the urges I remember that I don’t have to respond to the urges. - Urges = antsy anxiety and I’ve FINALLY (mostly learned)that those inflamed flare ups are worth of soothing release and anti inflammatory practices. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Bringing my self lovingly back to the relaxation response. Through breath. With soothing thought work and gentle emotional management. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ And, like Rocky’s winter allergy flare ups, sometime I need a few “treatments” a day. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Do you have occasional wig-outs? Inflamed spins about how you SHOLD be doing this work? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ If this is you, too, Let’s return to center and neutral and peace together. What say you!? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Love, Allison 💛
  • On of my favorite friends, clients, mentees, is starting a new round of her course BE UNOFFENDABLE. - I made a special trip to get a new journal for this next layer of learning. - @vcbrandon says that becoming UNOFFENDABLE is to have a high level of emotional mastery and emotional engagement. - Yes please!

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