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		<title>Business Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 10:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melinda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;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 &#8220;Overwhelm&#8221;???  LOL!</p>
<p>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&#8217;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.</p>
<p>In December I made the decision to close down one of my websites and coaching markets.  I&#8217;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&#8217;t want to end it as that site/business had been my &#8216;baby&#8217; since I started coaching.</p>
<p>Well, it&#8217;s done.  I sent the email out yesterday to announce the closure, I&#8217;ve altered the website so it is notifying anyone who goes there and as of 10 January I&#8217;ll have the site diverted to my other website.</p>
<p>Which brings me to the really cool news!  I&#8217;ve got a new business website!  It&#8217;s for Work at Home Moms/Mums/Mothers who are beginning to build their online (and offline) business.  I&#8217;ve called it <a href="http://wahmbizbuilder.com" target="_blank">WAHM Biz Builder</a> and it will be based around <a href="http://wahmbizbuilder.com" target="_blank">helping work at home moms</a> whose businesses aren&#8217;t bringing in huge amounts to build their business.  I&#8217;ve seen a lot of coaching businesses who have high priced tools, however very few focus on helping the new WAHMs build their businesses.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s not much on the site at the moment, I expect to have it finished by mid january.</p>
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		<title>7 Habits of Highly Effective People</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 05:19:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melinda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;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&#8217;t &#8216;get it&#8217; then, but it shows how long I&#8217;ve been into reading Personal Development books!
Anyway, I started reading it again recently, and have set myself a &#8220;Challenge&#8221; to focus [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;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&#8217;t &#8216;get it&#8217; then, but it shows how long I&#8217;ve been into reading Personal Development books!</p>
<p>Anyway, I started reading it again recently, and have set myself a &#8220;Challenge&#8221; to focus on and develop one habit a month for the next seven months.  I&#8217;ve been blogging about it on one of my business sites, Excellence Coaching, and will be updating over the months on that site.</p>
<p>The first habit that I&#8217;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.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been finding it challenging, because I can no longer whinge about something (ok, it hasn&#8217;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!</p>
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		<title>Business Changes</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 07:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Melinda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a long time coming&#8230;. I&#8217;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&#8217;t cater to both the business side and the Life coaching side at the same time.  So I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s been a long time coming&#8230;. I&#8217;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&#8217;t cater to both the business side and the Life coaching side at the same time.  So I&#8217;ve made the decision to set up a second website, totally separate from Excellence Coaching, that focuses on WAHM Business Coaching.  It&#8217;s going to be called <a href="http://www.wahmbusinessbuilder.com">WAHM Business Builder</a> and should be up and running by June.  This should make it a lot easier to serve both the markets that I currently have.</p>
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