I quit my coach

Yeah slacking is not a good habit to have : ) Your coach sounds great ; )

Quick question: if slacking is your problem, maybe you don't need a coach but simply to get working?

Read "Think and Grow Rich by Napolean Hill"

Slacking will be a distant memory!!

He injects steroids in me and then makes sure I am moving my mouse the correct way to make the most money everyday.

Slacking was definitely a problem that I used to struggle with when I first began trying to make money online. Hard Work is the KEY to long term consistent success.

If you're slacking, then you don't have a good enough reason to succeed. Decide what you REALLY want out of life, and don't let anything get in the way of you achieving that. That's a sure fire cure that will eliminate slacking.

No coach can force a student to work.

The best coach is offline sales /marketing and /or actual entreprenural experience. SuccesS on any level or degree makes the difference.

In the old days what I noticed was that the vast majority of those who made it big had that sort or story and experience to guide their online judgement. Yes, there were the young wizzkids and tech nerd geniuses who would have succeeded anyhow, or those with natural business acumen who also would have succeeded anyhow.

But for the vast majority offline experience holds the key that no coach can ever give you, unless you have enough money to literally buy success.

I have been very lucky after some disasterous experiences in the past decade that almost destroyed me . I did not have enough to buy online success, and what I had I SPENT FOOLISHLY.

Now is a very different story after 6 years away earning my way in the offline world to success that I have brought online.

Coaching is a very small part of it , know what tools to use, what to outsorce, and when to get advice as well as managing your resources effectively, holds the key to success online.

The key lies within you , not with any coach

Maybe its not your coach that is your problem, maybe its your attitude.
Attitude can easily be changed.
Anyway good luck with your new coach!

One more thing -for goodness sake.. don't become an affilate for or try to sell IM stuff before you don't even know what you are doing. That is unethical. it is like fraud in my opinion.

It is like like an accountant advising unsuspecting people about tax planning having never studied in that field and acheived any sort of exam success.

iT IS LIKE STEALING PEOPLE'S MONEY

Laziness and poverty are close relatives.

I think you can make it without a coach. Follow the advice here on the Warrior Forum and you will come out ahead.

Sometimes you need someone to motivate you to work or simply order you to work. I know the feeling. It takes awhile to get used to working for yourself.

I don't know if you guys ever heard of him but I paid a coach a lot of money. His name is Claude Diamond. Check him out on youtube if you have a minute. He teaches the GUTS sales system where you basically come across as a no BS kind of person who talks about all the important things up front with no fluff. He also comes across as kind of rude sometimes too and turns people off. But I fired Claude Diamond because he wasn't adding anything to my sales skills. Every time we had a skype chat he would tell me how great GUTS was but not really help me with the issues I wanted to deal with. So if you are considering GUTS, I would recommend not dropping the cash and if you really want to learn it just buy his e book for $30. His personal mentoring won't add anymore than the book.

It is not the previous couch is the problem. With do all respect, maybe It is YOU the problem! What is the point of having a couch if you don't listen and follow direction etc.,

ULTIMATELY, you are responsible to your own success YOU (ie.. your discipline, commitment to succeed etc).

I've always thought coaching only works if the coach and student are very much aligned in attitudes and goals. If the coach is a hard charger and the student is too laid back it won't work. Personality matches have much to do with it, imo.

I don't like coaches! They remind me of school and I never liked schoo! I prefer the word "mentor"! Coach is a FLAT WORD! Life coach, driving coach, fitness coach!!! Ahahaha!! Everybody can be a coach....so, I much prefer to sit on a comfy one than listen to a bs..ty one! LOL!

Yoan

Being a lazy ass is also my biggest problem, so I identify with you. And here I am piddling around on Warrior Forum, instead of working.

give your self a daily action plan , just start with an action plan and dont look back. be definite in your decisions. start with twitter and Facebook make friends. Follow groups and learn by others taking action and seeing results.

Hi All,

I read most of the posts and the one thing I noticed was missing was -- A REWARD!

As a copywriter SOMETIMES get a dreary product to write about... one that I just can't seem to get my writing engine into high gear on -- THE BIGGEST PROBLEM IS...

I am not "JAZZED ABOUT" WHAT I AM WRITING ABOUT!

So...

When this happens, what I do to stop procrastinating is...
I give myself a "little reward" after I write a page of copy and take a little break and that seems to help. (Especially when I have to write about a boring subject!)

Maybe the problem is you are not "JAZZED ABOUT" what YOU are doing!??

If that is the case.... Then it's NO WONDER you are procrastinating....

One thing I always do to get going (when I don't feel like working) is my old --
"WHEN I GET THIS THING DONE -- THEN I'LL GIVE MYSELF A BIG REWARD SYSTEM!"

So when I finish a long sales letter, I give myself a nice break, like run into town for a latte! Or do a little shopping or go plant some flowers or go for a nice long walk, or anything I like to do!

So why don't you try to do that?

Let's say your work today is:
to write a couple of blog posts, and you just don't feel motivated to do it right now...

Give yourself a little "mini-break" then say, "OK, after this little mini break, I am going to write 1 blog post".

Then I'm going to give myself another little break and get a fresh cup of coffee...

Then, just do that over and over again, and soon all the blog posts will be done!

Now the thing is you don't want to give yourself TOO long a break or reward or you get lost in the reward (i.e. playing video games... ) and then you forget to get any work done!

Another thing that I have found works is to set a simple kitchen timer.

Just set a plain old Kitchen timer, or one of those old hourglass things where you flip them over and the sand drains out. When the sand drains out, then you gotta get back to work, (or when the 10 minute kitchen timer goes off!)

There are plenty of free computer timer software you can download for free to pop up and give you a simple computer break so you don't work too long, those work fine too!

There are a lot of things you could use for a simple reward, so make a list of them and then give yourself a break when you get one of those nasty old jobs done you don't want to do.

This is a trick that works for procrastination problems with all sorts of things people don't like to do, like housework, doing dishes, doing laundry, mowing the lawn, shoveling snow, you name it!

Don't beat yourself up for not getting your work done, if you are not rewarding yourself when you DO get some work done.

Give yourself a pat on the back when you DO get your work done, and then spend some time on the Warrior forum if that is your 'reward'.

This works for me...

I hope it gives you some food for thought as to WHY you are procrastinating...and how to get the work done your coach tells you to do and so you start enjoy building your business at the same time!

Good luck to all with your businesses.

Jennie Heckel
Sales Letter Copywriter



Maybe THAT is the problem...