Sometimes in business success coaching we complicate things when we don’t have to. We might even develop such a complicated success coaching strategy that it paralyzes our clients. And paralysis is the greatest threat in success coaching. Paralysis equals death; with business success coaching clients and in life.

Success Coaching Requires Both You and Your Client to Keep Moving

Why is this important in business success coaching? Imagine that you stopped breathing. What would happen to you? Imagine if the world stopped spinning. One side of the planet would have no light and the plants would die. Someone better be around to get things moving again. Which is what we need to make sure happens in success coaching.

Failure is a Part of Business; Success Coaching Means Seeing the Opportunity Therein

Time after time I’ve heard success coaching clients tell me how they failed in the past. Each time they saw opportunities to escape failure, but they didn’t take action soon enough. They felt paralyzed. Opportunities that would have saved them disappeared. The path became narrower and the choices fewer. They may have even passed up business success coaching. Eventually, the only option was to quit, or have it taken away from them somehow. And unless they somehow experienced enough pain to decide they would never allow that to happen again, they are doomed to either repeat it or never take that risk again.

In Success Coaching, You Have Know the Difference Between Activity and Action

It’s their indecision that killed their business. In success coaching we know that when you come to a fork in the road, you have 3 options. Continue to the right or left, or stop and figure out which way to go. You need to let your business success coaching clients know that their business is not moving forward during this time. It might appear to be moving because of momentum, but it’s not growing.

Business Success Coaching Won’t Wait for Tomorrow

Failure always gives you opportunities to avoid it. Have your business success coaching clients remove, “I’ll wait and see” from their vocabulary. Remind them that as long as there are moving forward, new opportunities will arise. Especially in this economy, it’s important to make sure your success coaching clients do not get stranded at an impasse.

Colette Seymann
JTS Advisors Bi-Designated Strategy and Accountability Coach