Are you happy with your career?

Most people are unhappy with their careers. The research proves that people need to find work that makes them happy.

You can’t rely on anyone else to make you happy.

The question is, “Why don’t the unhappy people find more satisfying work?”

I believe it’s fear.

I know it’s fear.

One more time from the mountain tops – Fear!

Most people would rather complain about their current crappy job instead of finding work that will make them happier. Your career alone isn’t going to be the magic happy pill. Your career is just a part of the whole system.

You may be unhappy in your current position and finding a new job will make you happy for a few months until you fall back into the same old habits. You usually fall back into these old habits because you are afraid of something – either the work, the people, or yourself.

The only way you are going to break these habits is by finding the core of the problem.

You have to walk up to your fear and have an honest conversation.

I like to call my fear my arch nemesis. It’s that little voice inside my head that says I’m not good enough. I actually gave him a name: Dr. Oatzel. By giving that voice a name, it became more tangible, as if I could go up to him and say, “Why do you want to wreck my happiness?”

Defining Your Career

Your career is dependent on how you embrace change. Within change is a big fat fear sausage. This fear, if you let it, will dictate your actions. If you keep taking the safe route you’ll end up with indigestion that never goes away.

Believe me, I’ve been there.

I’ve stayed at safe jobs to keep adding to my 401k, but I felt miserable the whole time. I was stressed out and hating my life.

It wasn’t until I created goals to help me launch my own business that I began to lead from my heart instead of my fear.

Career Bliss

The career that you are developing right now is either setting you up for happiness or sadness. If you are doing work you hate, you are creating a crappy existence. When you do work that engages your heart and mind you don’t worry about what you are possibly doing wrong. You focus on what you are doing right.

You must create a career that’s going to excite you to your core.

If you are just going through the motions, you are living to exist instead of thrive. I hate to see this. I want to see everyone using their superpowers so they can do great work

Fear to Fuel

Nathan Hangen and I created a product called Fear to Fuel – Stop Resisting and Start Creating. It was designed to help two different types of people.

Who this e-course is for

1. People who want to start a small business, but don’t know how to overcome the fear.

2. Small business owners who want to overcome their fear, so they can get unstuck and take their business to the next level.

Nathan and I are both familiar with procrastination that can exist in both of these situations. We’ve worked hard to engage these emotions and use them to our advantage. We know you can do the same thing.

This course is for the creative types. It’s for the people who want to share their writing with the world and actually make some money from it. It’s also for those artists who don’t think that they can make a living from their art. And lastly for people who procrastinate on doing work they love because it’s easier to do work they aren’t passionate about.

This course isn’t for everyone. We know that.

Who this e-course isn’t for:

If you are happy working for someone else then this e-course isn’t for you. Not everyone wants to go through the hassle of developing a business. Don’t worry, I’m creating an e-course for you too. You just have to be patient.

Your Fear

The fear that drives your procrastination is holding you back. If you are tired of letting your arch nemesis control your life, then the Fear to Fuel course is something you should seriously consider.

100% Guarantee

If you don’t love the course we offer a 100% money back guarantee. It’s a win-win. We do ask that you pass the information on to a friend who might be a better fit for the course.

Tired of Being Modest

I know I don’t usually promote my products on this blog. I was afraid of being too pushy. The thing is that I’m so proud of this product that I want everyone to know about it, so I’m not afraid to shout its praises on my blog.

Your Help

Do you someone that hates their job and she needs to take her career in a new direction?

You can be of great help. Let your friend know about this awesome product. You can email them, post on twitter or Facebook, or drag them away from the TV and show them how they could use such an e-course.

Why It’s So Good

Fear to Fuel has over 10 hours of audio, 9 PDF modules, 14 action sheets to go along with each interview and a marketing module. It’s a complete system that will help you launch or build a stronger business.

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How much does your fear hold you back from doing work you love?

Building a business is not easy. There is crying, yelling, fighting with your arch nemesis, losing your superpowers, gaining them back again, more yelling, wanting to throw in the towel, feeling like you are on top of the world, and knowing everything that you do is worth your efforts.

I’ve been working hard behind the Work Happy Now scenes.

I want to help you with the resistance that you have in starting your own business or taking your business to the next level. Nathan Hangen and I have created an e-course that helps people do just that.

We’re calling it Fear to Fuel – Stop Resisting and Start Creating.

Too often we procrastinate on stuff that really lights our fires because we are afraid of failing at something we truly care about.

Building Interest

Right now we are building interest by releasing 1 part of 9 PDF modules as a free preview. We plan to release an audio interview by a best-selling author by mid-week, and at the end of the week we’ll make the PDF action worksheet ready for you.

Click here to sign up so you can get access to all the free content. After Friday we will be pulling the information down because we want people to buy the e-course.

What’s Inside

The e-course is filled with great stuff to help you leverage your superpowers so you can do more of the stuff you love to do.

Interviews

We interviewed 14 creative experts and asked them tough questions about what they did right and wrong as they built their businesses.

The list is truly amazing. We have Tony Hsieh the CEO of Zappos, Hugh Macleod the amazing cartoonist at Gaping Void, and Gretchen Rubin of The Happiness Project to name a few.

Action Sheets

Each interview comes along with an action sheet that highlights the interview. After you are done listening to the MP3, you can answer some tough questions to help you break through your procrastination.

9 PDF Modules

We created 9 PDF modules that will take you step by step through your fear, teach you how to know where it’s coming from, give you strategies on how to friend your fear, and then help you learn to use your fear to fuel you into action.

Marketing Module

Finally, we created a marketing module. Nathan and I talked about what very few others do – that there is no magic formula for success. It takes a lot of hard work, connecting with the right people and showing up every day. Once people know that they can trust you, that’s when the magic happens. They will tell everyone they know that you are awesome.

Where Porcupines Come In to Play

We picked the topic of fear because it dominates so many of our decisions. Think about the last crappy job you stayed at. Why did you stay?

Because you were afraid of finding a crappier job.

Because you would lose your health insurance.

Because you were afraid of change.

All valid arguments, but so very weak at the same time. Your fear holds you back from doing work that you love.

It’s like hugging a porcupine. You think you can do it gently enough that it won’t prick you. Each time you hug that porcupine, a loose quill jabs you. You pick the porcupine up the next day hoping for better results.

You keep showing up at your job because you’re hoping that one day you will stop being pricked and start being appreciated.

Your fear is holding you back. You aren’t creating something that excites you. Then this course is for you.

Partnership

I partnered with Nathan Hangen because we’ve both struggled with fear and found different ways to use that fear to fuel our businesses. We try something, fail try something else and succeed. Then repeat the things that worked.

We’ve tried so many angles that we know what works best for us. Each failure helps us gain clarity.

Right Now

We are giving away a small piece of the course for free, so we can show you how valuable the whole Fear to Fuel package is. Click here to sign up and you’ll get access to each new part that is released. The first part will be released today. The next 2 parts will be released later this week.

As always if you have any questions, just let me know and I’ll be glad to help.

* No extra links today because that’s how important Fear to Fuel is to me.

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For those of you who aren’t on the Work Happy Now newsletter list I bet you are asking yourself…

Why should you join the Work Happy Now newsletter and e-course?

Well, I’m glad you are curious. You get 10 amazing lessons on leveraging your superpowers, increasing your happiness, and improving your productivity. I wish I would have had this e-course available for free 5 years ago. I would have been all over it. I would have had an easier time enjoying my work.

Also…

I send out a special offers to everyone who joins the newsletter list. Tomorrow morning I’m announcing a special offer good for only 2 days. If you want to want in on this special offer you better sign up today or you’ll miss out.

The special offer will save you money and help you take your passion and turn it into a small business. I’m still trying to figure out why there aren’t 1,000,000 people on this list already, but I digress. Maybe they don’t understand the importance of leveraging their superpowers.

I know you probably have full email inbox, but I promise this email will be a powerful offer that will help take your career in a new direction.

You can sign up in the upper left corner of this site.

Time to Share the Love

* One of my favorite bloggers, Nadia of Happy Lotus, has put out an ebook, “The Buddha Blueprint: Building the Foundation for Happiness and Inner Peace.” I haven’t had a chance to review it yet, but I’m 100% sure it is awesome.

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A few of my friends asked me if a small business coach is worth the money. They knew my answer would be a resounding yes, but wanted to rile me up a little bit. Hey, what are friends for?

I began to talk about all the successes that I have had with coaching clients. I could see their eyes begin to glaze over.

It’s like reading people’s testimonials. Of course they are going to put the best ones up on their website. You don’t get to read about the failures.

I’ve had plenty of failures. It comes with the territory. I can’t help everyone; that would mean I was superman. I have superpowers, but I can’t fly faster than a speeding bullet.

My Latest Failure

An artiest signed up for 4 sessions with me. He is a really talented guy. He can use concepts in ways that brings out the beauty in the most mundane objects.

We were trying to work together to clarify his brand. I felt his resistance from the start, but I thought that if we could keep digging we would get there.

We couldn’t break through. I tried everything and we weren’t heading in the right direction.

After the 4^th session I suggested that he hire a branding expert. He wanted to hire me for 4 more sessions, but I knew it wouldn’t be right. I felt like we were talking in circles. I wasn’t helping him.

For Every Failure There will be Victories

A business coach must put himself out there to fail. If he isn’t then he isn’t putting himself out there and taking risks he isn’t trying hard enough. There is that fine line of pushing just hard enough to get results, but not pushing too hard that the client gets scared.

A good small business coach will push you outside of your comfort zone, so you can grow. If you don’t feel a little uncomfortable then you aren’t developing new habits that will help you become happier, more productive and successful.

Success Stories

I could give you a whole bunch of success stories. In fact here are some of the testimonials. I don’t push these that hard. I know that they don’t tell the whole story.

You aren’t going to hire me based on these testimonials. You’ll hire me because I coached a friend through a tough transition in his business and he told you about how awesome I am. You’ll also hire me because you got to know me through this blog and other social media, you like my style and you believe that I can help you. Because you believe in me, you are willing to push outside your comfort zone to grow.

Those are really the top two reasons I’ve ever been hired.

My Experience with Coaches

I’ve worked with some amazing coaches. Each one helped me get a little closer to my superpowers. They knew how to ask the right questions in order to help me understand my purpose.

Katie of the Levity Project helped me understand how to separate myself from the crowd. She is the one who forced me to figure out my brand. We didn’t solve it over the phone, but she opened the door for me to walk through.

Once I was through, I understood that I needed to help people leverage their superpowers in their businesses. It felt like an “aha” moment, but really it came from me asking for help and expecting to find it. I might have been able to reach the same place without Katie, but she fast forwarded my progress.

She saved me months of time trying to discover the direction I needed to go in. That’s when I really knew I wanted to be a small business coach. I wanted to help people fast forward their progress.

What You Need

Your needs are different from everyone else you know. They are similar, but different. You need to find the right type of coach to fit your unique personality.

Some people need a cheerleader, some people need a task master, and some people need someone to bounce ideas off of.

You have to know what you want to accomplish, otherwise you won’t be successful with your coach.

Now that my story is done, here are the 21 reasons to hire a business coach:

1. You want to go from a functional business person to an optimal business person.

2. Your work is running you.

3. You feel stuck and don’t know what direction to take.

4. You hate your day job and want to do something you are passionate about.

5. Procrastination is your number 1 arch nemesis.

6. You aren’t sure why your business isn’t taking off.

7. The stress is slowly killing you.

8. You’ve stopped having fun with your work.

9. You are ready to take your business to the next level.

10. Your clients drain your energy.

11. You can’t stay focused on the work that you love to do.

12. You need a better understanding of how to leverage your superpowers.

13. You know social media is a big part of business, but you don’t know how to use it.

14. You’re scared of making the leap into entrepreneurship.

15. You don’t know how to develop a network that supports your business.

16. You can do the work, but none of it is coming your way.

17. The people you hired don’t care about the business.

18. You’re not sure if you should sell your business.

19. The people you want to work with are too busy.

20. Even when you have a hugely successful week you still don’t feel successful.

21. You need to develop better habits, so you can do work that you are passionate about.

You don’t need a business coach, but it does make life so much easier. I’m so thankful for the coaches in my life. They’ve pushed me to a new level.

There are probably 21 reasons not to hire a coach.

The number one reason is that you aren’t passionate about anything. There isn’t a group of people you want to help solve a problem. Then you should keep your money.

If you need some guidance then please hire someone. Pay the money and watch the magic. That is if they are a good fit for you. I don’t care if you hire me or not because that’s how much I believe in hiring a smart and empathetic coach. I do emphasis smart and empathetic coach. There are some people out there that aren’t a good fit for you. Ask around see who your friends are using, see who you connect with through their social media presence, and always test the waters first a good coach will over you a free consultation to see if you are a good fit for each other.

Final note: If you aren’t satisfied with the coaching call the person should have a refund policy. If they don’t that’s a sign that they might not be a good fit for you.

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* Chris Garrett wrote an awesome piece about stepping outside your blog and reaching out to new people.

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