A thick fog rolled in last night with freezing temperatures to boot. Large ice crystals formed everywhere!
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Business Coaching Business Coaches Regurgitating Advice
Free Business Idea:
A business coaching business coaches.
It seems there are so many folks, (around this area in particular) who are interested in helping other businesses grow their business. It’s their business to grow your business.
I’ll let you in on a secret: You can learn nearly all the same information from books and the internet.
Please shoot me a note if you’re interested in building a business coaching other business coaches. I don’t know, maybe it sticks. Some business coaches out there are just regurgitating advice, paraphrasing commencement talks and writing terrible e-books. They could surely use some help with their business coaching business?
It’s a pretty specific niche. Could we make it more specific by focusing on business coaches coaching businesses in a specific vertical?
What about an annual conference for business coaching coaching? We could offer our best business coach clients the opportunity to give paraphrased versions of talks from other conferences that were interesting a year or two ago.
The Best Communicator Always Wins
Dealing with humans is hard. Communication appears simple but for every person involved in the conversation, there’s an exponentially increasing number of ways to be misunderstood. Everyone has their own filter bubble, and it’s available IRL, not just on Twitter.
You can bet on the best communicator being the one winning the job, getting the promotion, or gaining more power in an organization.
The funny thing is, the best communicator doesn’t necessarily mean the one with the best ideas.
The person with the genius level intelligence who goes dark and can’t clearly communicate their brilliant ideas isn’t going to be gaining more traction within the social network that is a business enterprise. If you’re a programmer, this is summed up well by Jeff Atwood who tells you, “Don’t Go Dark”.
The person in the organization who communicates well to the most important stake holders is the one will garner more attention and more power within the organization.
A subtle wrinkle here: This person doesn’t even need a clear direction — let alone the best ideas.
You really only need to communicate to others that you care about them and their interests. If you do that, you’re likely to go far.
Wolf Tracks on Teton Pass
It’s barely December and it’s been more than two months since the first snow of this winter flew. I didn’t expect to skin past meandering bear wolf tracks on Teton Pass this late in the year, but I suppose it’s still early season.
Update: Originally I had posted this resorting to the obvious explanation: Bears. A word about Bears in Winter. The conventional wisdom is the bears are hanging around for a few extra weeks looking for a free elk gut pile left from hunters, or some other delicacy such as a few Backcountry skiers before turning in for the winter.
Turns out these are Wolf Tracks. Here’s some handy beta on identifying these tracks for your future use.
the War of Art
or Don’t Overthink the Resistance
There’s something to be said for just showing up every day and doing the work.
Thus I began re-reading the War of Art. This gem by Pressfield can be read in less than a day, especially if you’re on a flight or have a few hours to commit to following through. It’s a great inspirational read about the Resistance that stops us all from accomplishing the things that we want to accomplish.
The hardest part about doing the things we want to do and accomplishing what we want in life is simply taking action on them. Day in, day out. Showing up. Putting in the reps.
It turns out that there is a force in the universe that wants to stop us all from accomplishing the things that we want and Pressfield takes to calling that thing the Resistance.
Giving in is really easy. Doing the work is also easy, but not as seductive as giving into the Resistance.
I definitely recommend this book for anyone working in a remotely creative or entrepreneurial environment.