My blind student has no problem getting support-Do you? Personal Coach
DEFINITION: Giggers – those who have started their own Gig to live the New Gig Economy Lifestyle.
One day I saw my student, Chi Hung, and her friends were having a fundraising demonstration for orphan kids in China, and she had the microphone because it wasn’t easy for her to hand out flyers. It is interesting, as my student Chi Hung is blind but has no problems asking for support and guidance.
Why do small business owners resist getting support to overcome their blind spots? With my personal coach and mentor clients, and in classes where I teach a How to Become a Life Coach Certification course, we learn how we can develop and see our blind spots.
Every day Chi Hung knows she needs and is okay getting a little guidance. In class, she is totally on her own with taking notes and using her braille and text to speech apps on her phone and computer.
Every time I think of Chi Hung, I tell myself not to complain about my problems and pray for ways to overcome them.
Can you overcome your problems as Suze Orman suggests? More on that later…
How do you rate? How well can you recognize your blind spots?
Remember…
Quiz yourself at this end of this blog to see how you fair?
Doc Warren Lifestyle Coach here…
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Giggers, how can you learn to recognise blind spot patterns that keep you from building your customer clan? As The New Rich are effective Entrepreneurs, learned to recognized their blind spots for experiencing optimal lifestyles.
Today we are aligning our Skill #7: Seeing Your Blind Spots with Gig Business SuccessStep-1: Use low cost digital marketing.
The 5 Steps so you can build your Gig business to the next level and experience your optimal income.
| Step-1: Use low cost digital marketing. | (Yes, for local small businesses, you can “set it and forget it” to get your BIG DATA too.) |
| Step-2: Know your CLAN and build them up. | (Get to KNOW THEM WELL.) |
| Step-3: Automate and outsource to streamline processes to reduce wasted activity and space. | (Think Disney or McDonald’s.) |
| Step-4: Scale your business globally. | (E.g. A local bakery can sell an online eBook with recipes and Ideas for Entertaining.) |
| Step-5: Enjoy your Gig business optimal freedom lifestyle. | (Your goal is a 4-Hour Work Week.) |
Today I am attending a digital marketing workshop and right now we are on break. Some of you are asking, “Why are you doing that Warren?” The answer is to learn more about digital marketing to help my clients more. In a world that is racing forward like digital marketing, there is no way I can stay ahead on my own.
For many years, I thought I could be successful by word-of-mouth networking, and that was my own blind spot. Now I see my blind spots often come from my own ego not wanting to ask for help.
Another blind spot for some is to think they can get the free eBook and then all will be okay. For some that book is all they need. For most, their blind spot is to think the free ‘gift’ will solve their problems.
With a little help we can learn to recognize our blind spot patterns and avoid those situations. Because they are blind spots, it is extremely difficult to overcome them on our own.
Similarly, learning about your customer clan can be almost impossible without using digital marketing tools. With free or low cost tools Giggers can learn what is most important to their customer clan members.
My client Chris, told me, “Warren, although I have run my own business for years, my blind spot was to think I knew what they wanted. The problem is now times have changed and there is no way I can know enough to keep ahead of my competition.”
Recast your current problems into proactive goals.
Suze Orman
Have to run, but I hope you have a great one today!
All the Best,
Your Personal Coach, Doc Warren Linger
Seeing Your Blind Spots. Exercise #3:
As a Gigger in the global Gig economy, how can you use digital marketing to overcome your blind spots to build your Gig business to the next level?
Look at these examples where Giggers say they used digital marketing to blind spots and found ways to overcome them to feel confident and build their Gig business to support their customer clans.
- I started using Facebook ads at just US$1 per day and have learned SO much about how my clan feels
- My mentor told me about email auto responders, and now I always use them to interact with my clan
- I saw I could create a contest for my local restaurant and our business has doubled after we started
Write 3 Gigger projects say they created their flow systems to have time to feel fully engaged developing yourself in your Gig and for your customer clan.
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Look at your list and attack 1 (only one at a time but do try a new one every month) idea to apply this week:
- Write your your idea where you could be blind and how you can use digital marketing.
- List steps you can learn about your blind spots with digital marketing.
- Give yourself a metric to measure progress. (e.g. I will create a contest on Facebook for my customer clan and get their feedback.)
- Reward yourself after you have completed your steps to overcome blind spots.
Debrief: The point here is to get over your own “NO, I can’t,” response and change to “YES, I can” develop yourself so you can have your business success and your optimal lifestyle.
If you are looking at this exercise and saying, “this feels awkward,” that is good. The important part is you will get used to it, as your life, family, and business depend on it.
Recast your current problems into proactive goals.
Suze Orman
NOTE: If you don’t learn to recognize your blind spots, you may soon join the 80% of small businesses that fail within the first 5 years!
PS: Next time you will learn another step on your Gigger Recognize Your Blind Spots path to success. If you would like more developing your Gig business to the next level and living your optimal lifestyle, email me at drwarren@cict.co.
Hope this helps.
Doc Warren Linger
@DrWarrenLINGER
PS You’ll also be able to join our private support groups on FB… so you’re never alone in getting your first few months of holiday vacation opening up.
We’ll all be there to celebrate your big successes, and to help you up if and when you should ever fall…
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Engagement background of Optimal Engagement Lifestyle
As a trainer and university lecturer in the USA, I had great success in my coaching, training, and classrooms by engaging my learners in ways I had learned from my Dale Carnegie Instructor Training. (optimal engagement)
After earning my Doctoral Degree researching engaging instruction in adult education and training and development, I started a training business in Hong Kong.
But something was wrong, I was struggling in this new culture (I’m a cattle rancher’s son from Colorado, USA) to find ways to inspire and motivate my coachees and students in Hong Kong.
With my coachees and in the classroom, I preferred having clients engage in learning activities instead of just talking. This is especially effective to keep clients engaged between coaching calls.
I struggled through trying several paper worksheets and workbooks to guide students, but I wasn’t getting the results I wanted. (junk engagement)
When the smart phone with the ability to search the internet came along, I could see my clients were curating (i.e. searching, finding, collecting, commenting, changing, remixing, and sharing.)
I thought, “Why not do that for learning?”, so I started asking them to answer questions, interact with information and colleagues, and go find examples of the learning content using their mobile devices.
eWorkbook development and success
I began searching for possibilities and I struggled testing several apps, until we created best practices using eWorkbooks, and after testing them, began to use eWorkbooks as my clients always had their devices with them.
Then we used eWorkbooks (Google Forms with the training slides as well as interactive questions, curating links and tasks, example images and videos, etc.) This became powerful for my coaching clients as they were able to share ideas and get the benefits of social learning even though they were not in the training course or classroom.
My clients [Engaging Screenagers] completed eWorkbooks using their mobile devices as they were learning interactively while, at the same time, they were developing habits of learning with their devices (optimal engagement) instead of killing time with them. (junk engagement)
Students used eWorkbooks to while I lead the discussion and guided them, and after they submitted their answers, they would get their responses sent to their inbox so they could review their learning Moments of Growth. (optimal engagement)
Because the students’ responses from eWorkbooks go right into a spreadsheet in real-time, as the teacher I can monitor what students are doing to give them guidance in the moment, as well as track their learning develop over time.
Since those early days, I’ve had great luck supporting my coaching clients and entrepreneur friends use Google forms for 360° reviews for evaluations as well as use eBrochures and eMenus to test new ideas and actively engage and actively interact with customers.
All client info has been scrubbed of identifying information unless they have given me specific, written permission to quote them.
*Entrepreneurial Foundation>Success Skills adapted from World Life Skills Expert, Jill Raiguel’s awesome book, “The Next Step,” (1991) Amethyst Books, New York.
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