Choice

Choose to produce the results that you value. Not getting what you desire, make different choices. Don’t want to make new and different choices? Learn how to be happy with the results that you’re producing. Those two choices are the core choices of our lives. 


I am hesitant to admit it, but I have come to the conclusion that the efforts with my son's business have become lackluster. Because I am accustomed to nothing less than stellar success, it has been a difficult exercise in self examination. But I am firm in my belief that we really only have one of two choices to make, as stated above. I am not happy with my performance, with what I've been producing. Upon inspection, I have come to accept that what I value, is not valued amongst the Retailers that I have attempted to serve. I do not choose to change what I value, at it's core - the desire to help others create more success in their businesses. Recognizing that I can sound pedantic in my offerings of help, I may have offended some. While that may be regrettable, it is a truth that I have to accept. And the greater truth is that I have lost my passion for the work because it isn't consistent with what I value. Perhaps you have felt similar challenges in your work. Whether you own your own business, or work for someone else, if the work is consistent with what you value, you will show up every day excited about what can be created that day. Engaged, fully engaged in your work produces incredible energy and satisfaction. If you're not feeling energy and satisfaction, it's time to do some self inspection. Is what you're doing aligned with what you value? If not, can you make new and different choices? 


Take a look at one of my clients, Randon. I first started coaching him in Real Estate. He was a Licensed Realtor. He was driven. But in the course of getting to know him better, despite the successes we had achieved together, I knew that Real Estate wasn't his passion. His passion was teaching others to fly (there are some great metaphors in that). So I challenged him to begin a new work in our coaching. Starting up a flight school. Any of you who are familiar with that industry know that it's a volatile business. Flight Schools are generally happy to achieve break even, mush less profitability. Applying the principles that I've been taught, Randon earned a profit on his first student, and now a year and a half later, more students have equaled increasing revenue and profits. But most importantly, he loves being up in an airplane doing his favorite work. 


Helping Randon with his Flight School, I discovered another way to create energy and satisfaction in my life. Randon helped me to create a new service. We call it Business Development Implementation. Rather than engage in Coaching sessions alone, I have given Randon the opportunity to simply ask me to complete important assignments. While it may forego his personal growth, we can't deny the explosive growth it has created for his flight school. Additionally, as I have remained true to what I value, and clearly communicated those values, remarkable people have been "attracted" into my life. One of those people is something of a celebrity in the Academic Aviation world, Dr. Ron Smart. Together, we're now collaborating on a project that's International in scope. Again, it provides me with energy and satisfaction.


My wish is for you to enjoy the same energy and satisfaction in your work. Call me or e-mail me at coachfrits@gmail.com with any questions or concerns that you might have and let's get to work on making the choice of either doing different things to produce different things than you've been producing, or making the choice to be happy with the results that you're already producing. 


Coach Frits  

Making 2012 The Best Year Ever!

The past 16 months have found me busy developing a new business for my son. That has kept me so busy that I have neglected my first love, Coaching. And it has been evidenced by my lack of new blog posts. To tell the whole story, I have been enjoying my new granddaughter, Marley, since her birth in February, 2011. It was her pending birth that motivated me to start the new business for my son, it was really for her. The new business has been a great place to apply the very business development principles that I teach my coaching clients. As most of you know, I prefer to lead by doing and succeeding. That allows me to prove the value of the principles that I have been taught and continue to pass on.


Business startup in the economy of 2010 has been challenging, but the principles that I have been taught have proven themselves to be timeless and adaptable to any economic environment. Profitability was achieved within the second month. A major change in my largest trading partner’s business model forced me start at square one again in February of 2011. Once again those principles of success proved their value as we once again achieved profitability almost immediately.


As we begin a new year we see it full of promise and the opportunity to make new choices (if we’re not getting the results that we say we would like to enjoy), or choose new outcomes for this year, or commit ourselves to the choices and activities that have produced the desired, successful, results for us.


Let’s take this new year to focus on learning and applying principles of success, as opposed to focusing on strategies. What are the principles of success?


VALUE 


What do you value, what is your time worth, who shares those values in the form of Co-workers, Customers, and Joint Venture Partners?


SERVICE


Don’t ask how you can make money; simply ask how you serve the world best. What are your unique strengths? Remember the Hippopotamus that is my corporate logo. If you don't know the story behind that choice, no worries, we'll revisit it in February.


VISION


If you don’t know what success looks like, you may just walk past it, past him or past her. When you have enjoyed complete success, where are you, what are you doing, and who are you with; both at home and at work? Can you clearly communicate that vision of success? When you can, you will attract the right components required for that success. What does success look like, feel like, sound like, taste like? Experience that success daily, internally.


GRATITUDE


If you aren’t grateful for what you already have, you can’t have more – meaning that what is the point of accomplishment or gain when it doesn’t register with you? Lack of gratitude is at the core of a scarcity mentality. Lack of gratitude focuses on what you don’t have and provides all the excuses for failure. Gratitude allows you to recognize what you already have and allows you to leverage those assets for greater achievement.


CHOICE


Choose to produce the results that you value. Not getting what you desire, make different choices. Don’t want to make new and different choices? Learn how to be happy with the results that you’re producing. Those two choices are the core choices of our lives.


BALANCE 


Balance work and play, home and work, indulgence and discipline, limits and charity, effort and rest.


INTEGRITY


Keep all of your promises and make no promises that you can’t keep.


ATTENTION


Pay attention and listen to the most important people in your life, at home, at the office and in the marketplace. Give them what is important to them, and in a way that allows them to understand that you’re giving them what they ask for.


MUST DO


If I say it’s going to get done I will get it done.


GOOD ENOUGH


Don’t wait for the perfect amount of time, or the perfect set of circumstances to begin achieving your dreams. Start now, even if you only have 5 minutes, even if you only have $5, even if you only have 5 friends or 5 potential customers.


ACCEPTANCE


Accept what is as good and beautiful, and right for the moment, even if “what is” seems painful.


LOVE


Learn to love and care for yourself as you would love and care for those most important to you. There is no integrity to beating yourself up while extending love to others. You can’t love anyone more than you love yourself. Until you can show yourself patience and acceptance, you can’t show it to anyone else, at least not to the highest levels that you are capable of.

I have not been producing all of the results that I value most; chief among them is the coaching that fulfills me.  One of the reasons that I value Coaching so much is that it allows me to revisit the principles of success that have been taught to me. And frankly, I need to hear those message more than most of you need to hear them. While it appears that I am better at applying the principles of success, it is simply a matter of the fact that I hear the messages more often than the rest of you, because I repeat them over and over again in coaching sessions with my clients, my friends. That said, I choose to post to this blog on a bi-weekly basis, and I will use these principles as my curriculum. Let me know if these posts are meaningful. In fact, take the time to post links to these blog posts on your blogs. I promise to pay attention to what you say to make these posts as productive for you as possible. Let's take our "Knowing" this year and apply in wise ways to produce much good for ourselves, our families, our friends  and our communities throughout the world.


Make this “THE BEST YEAR EVER!”™


Coach Frits


and remember... "Once a Client, always a friend!" Get in touch with me my friends, let me know what you're grateful for.