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I just got back from a wonderful holiday in Ottawa, introducing baby Kenny to relatives and friends- it was sooo much fun!

Nope, that's not Santa - it's Gramps!

Usually at this time of year I would still be in holiday mode BUT this year, I am full of excitement and anticipation of the upcoming LIVE Passion into Profit program  (PIP) starting January 4th and still having conversations with committed, courageous coaches about the possibilities of turning their passion and talent of coaching into profitable businesses.

I wanted to send out one last invite. If you are sitting on the fence and have an inkling the PIP program may be exactly what you need to make your dreams a reality, I invite you to book a personal consultation with me to decide if the Passion into Profit program is the next best step for you. I have carved out time on Thursday afternoon ( December 23rd) to speak with potential PIPers – then office doors are closed for Christmas! 

Send an email to info@passionintoprofitforcoaches.com and type “Yes I want to talk to Teresia!” in the subject box. We will then contact you and book a personal consultation to see if it’s the next best step for you and your business. 

In the spirit of the holidays,  I have decided to extend the bonus offer until December 23rd

When you sign up for our LIVE Passion into Profit program you will receive a very special bonus: Interviews of my MasterMind Team on the strategies, process and marketing activities they used to build six figure businesses (Valued at $249!) really priceless!

As I often say why reinvent the wheel?

I look forward to partnering with you and making 2011 your best year yet!

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I have realized babies have a way of inspiring ones soul.  I love being a mom. During my baby leave I loved starting my mornings off knowing I have all the time in the world to connect, play and be with Kenny.  (To my wonderful surprise I fully embraced that my day evolved around his needs).  I loved that I had time to work out (with Kenny of course).  I treasured that Kenny and I spent a lot of quality time with family and friends and I loved working only when I felt inspired to.

Sooo that has lead me to asking myself this question: How can I triple my income, have more time to make a difference and maintain this lifestyle?

Hmmm… Powerful Question

For many having big financial goals brings up a lot of uncomfortable feelings. As I ponder this question, I notice some residue of limiting beliefs.  Creating a life of true abundance and success is unlikely until you clear the limiting beliefs that may be blocking it.

Beliefs are powerful. More powerful than you can imagine.  Basically, what you believe is what you will receive.  Moment to moment, the Law of Attraction is working to create exactly what you expect to see in your life. Your beliefs control your outer circumstances.  Take a moment right now and think about your beliefs pertaining to money and abundance.  Even better, look at your outer circumstances and ask yourself, “What beliefs had to have been in place for me to create these circumstances?” Yes we are fully responsible for whatever financial situation we find ourselves in.

Today I challenge you to decide on a big fat juicy financial goal. What do you want to make monthly? Yearly? Write it down. Ok now triple it! Yes triple it!

It is our birthright to step into our greatness and live a life of abundance.

Here are some common beliefs I continue to work through, and hear from many clients:

• I will have to give up what is important to me to reach my financial goals.
• I have to work really hard to make lots of money.
• It is difficult to make lots of money.
• I can’t have money and be spiritual.
• If I have money, I am greedy.
• If I want to be rich, I am selfish.
• People won’t like me if I have lots of money.
• Making lots of money is too much effort/too much work.
• I will be judged/criticized/shamed if I have lots of money.
• I don’t deserve to enjoy/possess the good/beautiful things in life.

Do any of these sound familiar? Once you become aware that you are holding negative or limiting beliefs about your ability to create a more abundant future, you can begin the work of clearing them out and forming more empowering, abundant beliefs.

Getting clear about money is crucial, as we can then focus on sharing our talents and achieving our life’s mission.

Clearing your limiting money beliefs doesn’t have to take forever. I invite you to join my team coach partner Cheryl Cran and I on October 21st 2:00pm (pacific time) for a powerful dialogue on “Cutting through the BS and Getting to the Abundant YES!”

Make this month your breakthrough month and go for what you REALLY want. “See” you on October 21st.

Do you want to I triple your income, have more time to make a difference, live an extraordinary lifestyle AND not do it alone?
Check out our unparalleled Triple M Mastermind Program

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Whoa, what a ride……….last week was my first week as a MOMpreneur. Being the mom of a 10 week old and running a full fledged business, the concept of time management presents a whole new set of challenges. “Going back to work” brought up many different emotions; sadness, joy, fatigue, gratitude, and most of all overwhelm.

As we enter the month of September many of you will be getting into the ‘back to school mentality” and refocusing your energy and time on your business. Before that familiar feeling of overwhelm sneaks up on you, I want to share with you four “perspective shifts” that I am revisiting as I enter this new phase in my life and which powerfully supports stepping out of reaction mode and stepping into super efficiency.

This perspective shift is based on one question: what’s most important? It may sound like a simple place to start, but when you really embrace this, it has a profound effect on how you run your business – and your life.

Here are some tips that I am embracing and I invite you to join me.

1. Become the CEO of your business. When a good CEO starts her day, she has a plan. She moves with purpose, methodically devoting her full attention to each objective. She has results in mind. Does she answer every call that comes in? Does she let other people determine when to meet, and for how long? Does she run around putting out fires and saving the day? Not a chance. You are the boss of your company, and it’s okay to act like it. You get to decide where to invest your time, and that means you don’t necessarily respond to every little thing right away. Go ahead, let that call go to voicemail!

2. You won’t get it all done – and that’s okay. It’s the dark side of ambition that driving need to get everything handled. It haunts our nights and eats into our personal time. Many of us believe that in order to be successful, we have to get everything done. It’s not true! Handle your biggest priorities (like your marketing activities) every day and let the small stuff take care of itself. It is OK if you don’t get it all done – really! Getting to the next level is about doing what’s most important – always.

3. Perfectionism isn’t profitable. Remember the golden rule in business: ‘Tis better to get it done than to do it perfectly. Don’t waste time with details that don’t really matter in the end. If high standards are compromising your productivity or adding to your stress, take some time to explore whether you have an unmet personal need (such as a need for approval). If this is the case, find ways to meet your needs outside of work. (We’ll talk about needs in a future article, as I have found that unmet needs are one the biggest reasons we become out of balance – more later). Remember, your job is to make sure things get done – one priority at a time.

4. Contain your business: declare office hours. When you’re self employed, and especially when you work from home, your professional life and your personal life tend to blend together. You conduct high-powered meetings over the phone in your pajamas (come on ……I know I am not the only one your faxes end up with salsa smudges; you stop shopping for the kids back to school clothes to take a call from your assistant etc. But when you set up boundaries between your personal time and your work hours, you’ll start to experience some wonderful benefits:

• You become much more efficient. In an effort to make the most of your work hours, you stop tending to the minor details and start tackling the bigger picture.

• Your time off actually becomes “down time” so you feel much more rested.

• At the end of the day, you feel satisfied instead of resentful; in control instead of chaotic; purposeful instead of panicky. Of course, you only realize these benefits if you actually honor your office hours. Take them seriously, and demand that everyone else does too.

TLC Coaches challenge:

This month, be intentional about how you spend your time. Define your office hours and stick to your priorities. Constantly ask yourself, “Which result is most important now?” Post a sign or make a note to keep you focused, and when the end of the day comes, close the door.

Begin this fall with a CEO mentality and join me in having your business serve your life rather then feeling like a servant to your business!

Make it a self honouring month!

PS Are you ready to go for what you REALLY want?…

Preregister now for a breakthrough call! I invite you to join my team coach partner Cheryl Cran and I on October 21st at 2:00 p.m pacific for a powerful dialogue on “Cutting through the BS and Getting to the Abundant YES!”

Stay tuned for our next newsletter for more information. Register now to get your spot.

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As I prepare to transition from my baby leave to getting back into the coach/entrepreneur role, I find myself asking the question: how can I make a million dollars and maintain the lifestyle I have?

I love being a mom. I love starting my mornings off knowing I have all the time in the world to connect, play and be with my baby. (To my wonderful surprise I love that my day evolves around the needs of my baby). I love that I have the time to work out everyday. I love that family and friends visits more to spend time with the new addition to our family. I love working only when I feel inspired I work.

Challenge: I am not in a financial position (to maintain my present lifestyle) to continue living my life this way. For me, success is about doing what you want, when you want, with who you want.

For the month of September I am going to set the intention, engage in conversations and take the action to create the abundance my soul and heart desire at this time in my life.

I invite you to join me! What has to happen for you to make a million dollars and live a life you love?

Here is one of the first steps I am taking. This week I am getting together with a girlfriend and we are going to brainstorm our bucket list. To quote the movie with Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman a bucket list is “What do you want to do before you ‘kick the bucket”.

Having dreams, fulfilling goals is a great way to instill motivation and inspiration to increase your financial abundance.

• This week write out your bucket list. What are some of the things you want to experience in this lifetime? Dare to dream!

I would love to hear from you. What is on your bucket list?

PS Are you ready to go for what you REALLY want?… 

Preregister now for a breakthrough call!  I invite you to join my team coach partner Cheryl Cran and I on October 21st at 2:00 p.m pacific for a powerful dialogue on “Cutting through the BS and Getting to the Abundant YES!”

Stay tuned for our next newsletter for more information. Register now to get your spot.

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As a blossoming MOMpreneur you get creative!

One of my greatest passions as a coach is to give back and help fellow coaches build their business. I started my business in 1996 when very few people knew what success coaching was. Many times I was asked are you a coach of a sports team? No “what a fitness trainer does for your body I do for your mind” was my common response. I built my business very quickly, (a huge dose of passion and an innate knowing of business savvy ) I had a full practice in my first year and was making 75,000.00 annually. It was a natural next step to share what was working for me with other coaches.

We have been offering the Passion into Profit program : (PIP) a customized business building program for coaches, for more then a decade. Embarking on my “baby leave” we have decided to make the PIP home study program available – a great way to serve coaches who are eager and ready to take their business to the next level NOW. In addition a great passive income source for my business.

I just had two inspiring conversations with two coaches who purchased the PIP Home Study program! Visit www.passionintoprofitforcoaches.com to find out more.

Or email us at info@passionintoprofitforcoaches.com  to book your consultation to find out if it is the next best step for you.

As an entrepreneur there are many ways to serve our clients.  Identify your ideal client, be clear of their greatest needs and have many options of how to help them meet those needs!

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I just completed a coaching session with a client who is taking her business from Virtual Assistant services to supporting her clients in Internet Marketing Strategies.

We talked about the important of having a clear concise answer when individuals ask you what you do.  Marketing starts when someone asks you “what do you do?” When this happens, what do you say? More importantly, how do you feel?

This is a pivotal moment; it is a chance to communicate your business to a captive audience that could very well become a paying client or a referral source.

Do you freeze up? Feel nervous? Walk away thinking, “I could have handled that better…”?  Do you know what your company stands for? Can you explain it with conviction and confidence? This is key, as entrepreneurs, one of our biggest challenges is getting the word out about who we are and what we do, and doing so in a way that makes people want to work with us.  If you don’t sound clear and confident when you speak about your own business, how is your listener or prospect going to believe in your work?

Your credo is the heart of how you represent your work to prospects – both in print and in face-to-face interactions. If you find networking a bit uncomfortable, it’s probably because you don’t have a strong credo to leverage in conversations with strangers.

As an entrepreneur it is important that you feel excited to share who you are, what you do, who you love to work with, and how you make a difference, this is the beginning of attracting business, the business you want. We like to say that a strong credo is the window to the soul of a business. In that one minute (more or less), you stand in the gateway to more clients, more business, more profit and more success.

To help you wrap your mind around this concept, here’s is an example of my clients credo:  

“My name is Tracey Ehman and I am a Virtual Marketing Director.  I work with established female entrepreneurs who are tired of watching their competitors get the edge through internet marketing. I help them move ahead of their competition by determining a strategy using social media, blogging and a variety of other online marketing platforms.    We work together to assess your goals, create a strategy and design a process to achieve them”.

 ~ Tracey Ehman, Your Virtual Marketing Director, http://www.done2atee.com/

 Make a commitment to yourself to devote time to developing or improving your credo.  Having a credo that resonates with your soul and captures the essence of your business is the first step in creating an effortless and fun marketing campaign.

 Visit www.passionintoprofitforcoaches.com for a complimentary recording on creating your credo. (Go half way down right hand column)

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Being self employed there is no such thing as maternity leave, at least not paid maternity leave. Well….that is not entirely true, if you are savvy enough to set your business up to create passive income, you could have paid maternity leave.  When we decided to start a family I became very motivated to have a passive income stream.  As I prepare for taking two months off completely from my business to be fully present as a new mom, I am taking some time to review my financial situation.  I have not quite reached my passive financial goals, but what I have created makes a difference!

Is it time for you to focus on passive income? If you are self employed why not incorporate passive income into your business plan.  Let’s first look at what is Passive Income? Passive income is money that comes in after you have completed working to get it.  It is income from work you have already performed versus work you are currently doing. Therefore, a passive income stream is a continued flow of income from a completed task.

One obvious source of passive income that illustrates the idea behind a passive income stream is a savings account.  You open a savings account with a certain amount of money, and that money gains interest as it sits there.  You never have to deposit any more money in order for that initial amount to continue earning interest for you.  Obviously the more money you deposit into the account, the more money you will make on it.

With access to the World Wide Web it opens up many options of passive income streams you can include in your business model.

Here are a few.

1. Affiliate Programs – passive income is derived from setting up a web site that pre-sell companies’ products or having other companies sell your products.

2. Information Products – ebooks, CD’s, books, ecourse, etc

3. Advertising commissions – on your website, newsletters or ezines.

4. Pay Per Click Campaigns – you can make money instantly by setting up a Google AdWords campaign for your product or affiliate program.

5. Referrals – create a network of people that offer services or products related to your business, set up an alliance where you receive a commission every time you refer someone.

6. Create a membership site – if you are an expert in your field and can provide the resources, knowledge and support, you can charge a monthly fee to gain access to your membership site. Because you are an expert in your field, you can also recommend other products and services to your members, from which you earn commissions.

7. Have associates – having a team of people working for your company that you receive a percentage of their service fee. If you are a coach or a self employed professionals check out our Creating your own coaching company ebook on how to incorporate associates as part of your business.

These are just some ideas of possible passive income streams.  Get together and brainstorm with your mastermind team (you have a mastermind team – right? If not read our blogs on the power of being part of a mastermind team) and decide which passive stream would best compliment your business and enjoy the benefits of this extra income.

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Last night I went to my good friend and colleague, Cheryl Cran’s  book launch.  I met Cheryl when she and I first started our  businesses – 15 years ago.  During this time she has written 4 books! Her latest “101 Ways to Make Generations X, Y and Zoomers Happy at Work.” Cheryl’s business is keynote speaking.  Being the past President of the Canadian Association for Public Speakers, she has been a leader and a strong role model for up and coming speakers.  Over the years many of my clients and fellow colleagues have had the dream of becoming authors.  I have been intrigued of the process of writing, publishing and marketing a book as well.

I pulled the star of the night aside and asked “what would you recommend to new authors who are considering having a book launch?”

Here is what she said: do not expect your book launch to a profitable event, it is not about selling your books. A book launch is a time to celebrate the success of completing your book, your excitement of sharing the message with others, acknowledging your support team, and officially claiming that you are an expert in your field.  In addition, a book launch is a great time to invite and connect with some of your key centers of influence, individuals who will be great “raving fans” , potential clients and any media contacts you may have”.

I left the event inspired by Cheryl’s accomplishments and the great networking that took place.  I was happy to witness that even though Cheryl’s outcome was not to make a profit a lot books left in the hands of guests.

When your book is published – treat yourself,  throw a book launch and relish in the celebration of your accomplishment!

To purchase Cheryl book visit http://www.101waystomakegenerationsxyandzoomershappyatwork.com/

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I have the pleasure of writing for the Vancouver Province paper in the Business section once a month, where I have the opportunity to address some questions and concerns that entrepreneurs have.

Here is how I answered the question I received about what traits are necessary to become a successful entrepreneur.

 The question and answer appeared in my latest Vancouver Province  feature on May 2.

I would love to hear your feedback.

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I hope you had a chance to join us as I interviewed Cheryl Cran, CSP on the Top Ten Tips for a Fantastic Keynote Speech yesterday, but if you didn’t, I invite you to take the opportunity to listen in on what you missed.

For those of you who did make it on the call, we trust you walked away with new ideas and inspired action.

For your files here is the recording

To take your keynote career to the next level, sign up for Cheryl’s special event “The Keynote Queen Retreat” on May 6/7- the first 10 who register will also get a 30 minutes pre-event call with Cheryl.

Register online at http://www.thekeynotequeen.com or email Dale Clarke at dale@thekeynotequeen.com

This 2 day retreat will cover how to put your keynote or speech together, how to market yourself with your elevator speech, how to make money from your speaking and much more……

As a review click here for Cheryl’s Top 10 Tips for a Fantastic Keynote Speech.

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