There are only three things you have to do to achieve success:

1. Work when you feel like it
2. Work when you don't feel like it
3. Have an up to date plan and follow it.

In working as a coach with businesses, especially the very small business, there comes a time when the owners' initial enthusiasm wears out and the hard realty of running a business sets in.

To maintain the needed energy and positive attitude, a person's life has to be in balance. There are five vital areas that have to be in balance in order to sustain and grow a business:

• family
• health
• spiritual life
• work
• recreation

To much of one or a neglect of another, may result in the "loss of enthusiasm".

A coach has to be in a position of confidence in order to provide the needed support . Everything is held in the strictest confidence. As a Certified Financial Planner  I follow a very strict code of ethics and the Principle of Confidentiality is essential to working relationships with clients.

I bring this in only to emphasize the importance of these five areas. They really service as one of the building blocks for growing a business. Yes, we look at a lot of other things such as financial status, goals, trends, etc. but a coach also has to work from "your values" perspective.

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Wisdom is knowing what to do: Skill is knowing how to do it: Virtue is doing it.