Business Update

It’s been an interesting few months business wise.  I realised during October that there was no way I could continue working two markets in coaching, complete with two websites, two newsletters and two very different audiences!  At the same time I was coming up to exams at school, working four days a week on a contract position within Defence and looking at being a single mother when Eddie deployed!  Can you say “Overwhelm”???  LOL!

Anyway, I ended up emailing both my ezine mailing lists to say I was taking a sabbatical until January.  It was one of the best things I’ve done business wise!  Taking a sabbatical gave me enough mental and emotional space to sit back and really look at what I was doing.  I had pushed so hard all year to keep everything going that I was working crazy hours just to do the bare minimum, and that not very well.

In December I made the decision to close down one of my websites and coaching markets.  I’ve been finding it difficult to work with this side for quite a while, my focus has been on coaching Work at Home Moms, yet I didn’t want to end it as that site/business had been my ‘baby’ since I started coaching.

Well, it’s done.  I sent the email out yesterday to announce the closure, I’ve altered the website so it is notifying anyone who goes there and as of 10 January I’ll have the site diverted to my other website.

Which brings me to the really cool news!  I’ve got a new business website!  It’s for Work at Home Moms/Mums/Mothers who are beginning to build their online (and offline) business.  I’ve called it WAHM Biz Builder and it will be based around helping work at home moms whose businesses aren’t bringing in huge amounts to build their business.  I’ve seen a lot of coaching businesses who have high priced tools, however very few focus on helping the new WAHMs build their businesses.

There’s not much on the site at the moment, I expect to have it finished by mid january.

7 Habits of Highly Effective People

I’ve been rereading this book by Stephen Covey, the first time I read it I think I was only around twelve years old!  I really didn’t ‘get it’ then, but it shows how long I’ve been into reading Personal Development books!

Anyway, I started reading it again recently, and have set myself a “Challenge” to focus on and develop one habit a month for the next seven months.  I’ve been blogging about it on one of my business sites, Excellence Coaching, and will be updating over the months on that site.

The first habit that I’ve been focussing on for July is Being Proactive, looking at what is in my Circle of Influence and what is in my Circle of Concern.

I’ve been finding it challenging, because I can no longer whinge about something (ok, it hasn’t stopped me totally) I need to work out what I can change, what is in my circle of influence, and let the rest go.  Whining and complaining is much easier!

Business Changes

It’s been a long time coming…. I’m splitting Excellence Coaching into two separate markets, Life Coaching and Business Coaching. I have a large proportion of Work At Home Mums/Moms (WAHM) as clients, and I really can’t cater to both the business side and the Life coaching side at the same time. So I’ve made the decision to set up a second website, totally separate from Excellence Coaching, that focuses on WAHM Business Coaching. It’s going to be called WAHM Business Builder and should be up and running by June. This should make it a lot easier to serve both the markets that I currently have.