Failing is a good thing.

When you learn from it… that is.

Too many coaches let the fear of failing cripple them.

I know I have.

Nothing will cause you to fail faster than inaction.

Guaranteed.

Because you failed by default, immediately, when you don’t act.

You cannot succeed without first trying.

After interviewing and being mentored by coaches like Tim Storey (Oprah’s personal coach) and David Meltzer (CEO coach for fortune 50 companies),

I can tell you one thing for sure:

They have learned to embrace failure.

Dust themselves off.

And get back to doing meaningful work.

Some of the best advice they have given me is to:

“Surround yourself with those who have gone where you want to go.”

If fear is holding you back from hitting the next level in your business.

Watch this video.

Warmly,

Jake

P.S. After you have watched the video, there is going to be a link at the end where will accept some free 1-on-1 calls.

The other day I asked a group of coaches: 

What is the biggest thing holding you back from success?

Their answer: Time.

As we dug deeper into the problem of "time," we came to realize that one of the biggest things holding everyone back was...

80% of their time was spent dealing with clients that made up 20% of their total revenue.

When we start out in coaching, many coaches take on less-than-desirable clients at far-less-than-desirable price points.

Later, when the coach is trying to escape the 1-on-1 coaching bottleneck, they’re “stuck” helping these clients they signed up earlier.

Now...

What if you could replace your less-than-desirable clients, for high-paying, great attitude, do-anything-you-say clients that don’t suck your time, operate perfectly and get amazing results in a group coaching setting?

It's possible — this is exactly what my clients are doing, every single day.

Ask yourself:

Which 20% of my clients are causing 80% of my problems and unhappiness?

Am I the bottleneck in my coaching business?

Once we know the problem, we can actually start making moves to implement a solution.

Let's jump on a call together to dive into the strategies that will help relieve you of the burden of "time", release the bottleneck, and actually, get you working less, with more enjoyable coaching clients — all at higher price points.

Here is the link to book a meeting.

To your success,

Jake Nicolle

P.s. Scaling your coaching business online, spending less time and making more money, does not need to be frustrating and complicated. If you’re looking for a proven system to follow, click here and we can discuss your strategy moving forward.

We all have big aspirations at the beginning of the year.

• Some people make it through the first few weeks charging ahead, taking ground, and accomplishing their big resolutions.
• Others drop off right away.
• Few people make it through the first 3 months before stumbling back to their usual routine.
• Very few people actually accomplish their goals by the year's end.

Why?

Today, I'm going to share the things no one is telling you when you're planning your resolutions.

One of the things is to anticipate and plan for your failure because you will fail in one way or another.

Do you know what matters more than simply breaking a streak?

Continuing to get the heck back up when you're knocked down... No matter how many times you have to get back up.

Now that sounds like a new years resolution.

Let's get started.

-- Jake

My coaching case study for coaches ready to ignore all the shiny objects in the market-place and form an effective strategy for winning ideal clients: https://jakenicolle.com/case-study

“I KNOW EVERYTHING.”

Today’s episode is going to be a fun one….

I believe that I actually know almost everything I need to know.

Now before you call me a heretic, I want to prove to you that every single thing you want to accomplish in life, you likely ALREADY know the answers too also.

Let’s talk about some of the basic stuff:

• Health (sleep, food)
• Routines (scheduling, priorities)
• Relationships (romantic, personal)
• Business (do your best, surprise and delight clients, share about what you do)
• Money (save at least 10%, pay off highest debts first, live well below your means, avoid debt that doesn’t appreciate (cars, clothes, gadgets etc)
• Happiness (do something for others in need, give your money away, message someone an encouraging word)
• Spiritual life (you know there’s something bigger than you at work in the world and in your life, you acknowledge you yourself are not the centre of the world, you know there is more than just the observable world - there is a world of values and morality and purpose that is as real as you and me but invisible and yet has produced hierarchy, good, evil, destruction and beauty)

YOU KNOW ALL THIS AND YET…

We think we just don’t know it all.

The truth is we understand everything we should do… but we lack the discipline, vision and focus of knowing WHAT TO ACT ON and WHEN.

Here's Where 99% of people & business fail in life.

First I want you to ask yourself why you think they fail and hold onto your answer… I’ll explain what I believe it is, and what the research would show it is, in just a minute.

I want to start today by asking you when in your personal life or business you’ve seen the greatest results…

Next… I want to ask you whether or not any of those items you listed or thought of were external…

Because we’re going to start here:

We are going to eliminate EVERYTHING external from determining your success.

You can’t blame ANYTHING that you have the power to change.

This means you can’t blame financial resources for why you’re not more successful. You can’t blame the people around you if you’re not willing to remove yourself from the relationship. You can’t blame your lack of information because information is literally everywhere.

• Busyness does not equal
• • Productivity
  • Success
  • Higher income

Busyness is actually you distracting yourself from doing your most important work.

You have to begin to prioritize what I like to call power actions which are the items that move you toward your big goals.

Tasks to ignore:

• Any form of direct messaging
• Phone always in Do Not Disturb Mode
• Anything that interrupts your flow or your focus

Bill Gates and Warren Buffet met for the first time. Bill's dad asked, "what is the most important quality you both possess for your success?".

To accomplish any goal you need to get incredibly specific.

But even "getting specific" can be vague unless you get specific about:

• A measurement for your success (ie. Lose weight < Be 5lbs lighter)
• Why your goal is an absolute must and significant to you
• A deadline for your goal
• When in your day, week or month you will start, rehearse or accomplish your goal
• The outcome of your goal
• What things get in the way of you accomplishing that goal
• Which actions you can take to set yourself up for success
• Someone you can share your goal with
• Someone you can chase your goal with

If you take 5 minutes to physically write down answers to these questions, you will be amazed how much your mind, body and soul come into alignment for you to tackle and succeed at your goal!

We all know the saying, “death by a thousand cuts” – the idea that it’s not the big things in life that destroy us but the accumulation of many poor decisions all added together. The alternative to our demise is our victory and we rarely discuss it. If we die by a thousand cuts how can we live and become victorious? I believe it’s by taking a thousand faithful steps in the right direction, no matter how seemingly small. Actually, the smaller the step of faith in action, the better.

If you are faithful in little things, you will be faithful in large ones. But if you are dishonest in little things, you won’t be honest with greater responsibilities.

Our lives are defined by small actions. Contrary to what we like to believe, it is not the big massive moments that define our character, our thinking or our reputation. It is the combination of many small decisions we make each day that define our patterns of behaviour. If you want to be trusted with much, I encourage you to start by being consistent with the little you have. Show up, right now, where you’re at. This means you go above and beyond right where you are.

The biggest mistakes I have made in my life can all be traced back to thinking I was above my situation. Instead, I should have held onto the perspective that if I was going to become better than that situation I would have to take action worthy of deserving more. Then, the likelihood of the MORE I was searching for revealing itself would soar.

Don’t make the same mistakes I have made in the past. Instead, choose to ask yourself today how you can bring more of yourself to the opportunities before you. If you can’t see the opportunities then there is a better chance that you are simply blind to them. This opportunity blindness will not somehow help you arrive at the more you’re anticipating and hoping for in life. If you want to create remarkable opportunities, simply look around today and go, “Could I solve that problem?” or “Am I bringing all of myself to the situations in front of me?” or “How could I see my current situation as an opportunity?”

The worst that can happen when you adopt this way of thinking is that you become more talented at whatever you’re doing. You might even begin to form a habit of going “ALL IN”. That would create more resources and skills to better serve you when your opportunity arrives. None of that sounds like a bad thing to me…

Go ALL IN,

Jake

Your life is meant to be lived ALL IN.

It takes more energy to live a below average or even a mediocre life than it does to live a life full of incredible achievements.

The person who lives a below average life chooses to constantly justify to others and themselves why they have been treated unfairly. They become the victim.

The person who lives an average life settles for an OK career, an OK partner, OK friends and has experienced year after year of OK memories and maybe, if they're lucky, an OK week long vacation.

When things drift from OK they fight and claw to get back to their safe place which happens to be right on the edge of below average.

Living to justify why you are the victim, living to ensure everything is safe and OK, and living without truly preparing for the curveballs life promises to throw takes far more energy than it does to go ALL IN on your life.

Don’t believe me?

The person who goes ALL IN believes they can have it all.

Each morning serves as a reminder that today is full of possibility, hope and whimsy.

Every encounter with someone reveals a hidden lesson about life and a new exciting way in which to understand the world.

Relationships become a place of growth, encouragement and the richest moments in life.

Careers become about having an impact and casting vision rather than money and fame.

Money no longer becomes about tangible things but a fuel for intangible potential and generosity.

The greatest joy is realized in serving and providing for others, creating incredible experiences and blessing future generations.

Faith flows freely and hope realizes itself in a force far greater than themselves.

Living ALL IN brings you more energy each day than you could ever know what to do with.

That energy manifests itself in gratitude, joy, vision and anticipation of what’s to come.

Here’s a quote that I would encourage you to consider by looking around at the people in your life and asking, "who do I know who lives a below average, settles for mediocrity, or goes absolutely ALL IN?"

For to the one who has it, it will be given, and it will be increased.

But from the one who doesn't, it will be taken, and it will be decreased.

Are you ready to live your life ALL IN?

Today, make a decision that you will take control of all the areas in your life you have; left to chance, filled with excuses or blamed someone else for.

Decide today that you are responsible for, and capable of, being someone who gets to have it all, blessing everyone around you as a direct result.

You were created to go ALL IN.

Jake

You know that one big thing you need to get done that you are in fact getting absolutely nowhere on? Today's Novel idea is about putting that thing in it's place and winning the day. Part of winning the day is to begin the day with that one big scary task.

I had a friend just this week share how much he was struggling to get through this big project he's been slaving over. After a brief bit of a conversation, I realised a few critical errors my buddy was making. One, he was responding to emails, texts and various other external prompts when he should be putting all his energy into that project. Second, he wasn't getting any physical activity, which deeply stifles any of our creativity.

Your goal is to think of that one big thing you need to get done and prioritize it to be the very first thing you do in the day. This means you shouldn't even turn on your phone or open up your email until you've spent at least the first chunk of your morning tackling this to-do.

Procrastination is by its very nature, unassuming. No one realizes just how much they are procrastinating until they are filled with self-doubt and blame. What you get to do is tackle that big thing before anything else and then reward yourself with the other things that usually are a distraction. An example would be, I'll enjoy my morning coffee once I've started that project, or, I'll open my inbox to take a break from conquering my big to-do!

I hope this helps you press into your goals a little further and this #NOVELiDEA puts you back on track to accomplishing more!

Jake

 Embrace what's Embarrassing.

Today's #NOVELiDEA comes from a funny experience I had at a retirement home this weekend.

It cost me ten minutes of my life...

And no, I'm not taking about the old lady who thought I was her long lost son (that really did happen),

I'm talking about a door that a group of strangers THOUGHT was stuck shut.

After standing their for 10 minutes,

Someone came up and simply slid the electronic door we all assumed was locked wide open.

The lesson I was reminded of is to:.

Step out and take chances....

Even if it results in you playing the fool.

Exercise:

Close your eyes and envision who you want to become over the next 10 years...

• How do you make people feel?
• What is it like when you walk into a room?
• How engaged are you in conversations?
• What do you do first thing in the morning?
• What do you do as the last thing before bed?
• Who are the types of people you're surrounded by?
• What do you contribute to your community?
• How do you add value to the people's lives around you?
• What are your limitations?
• Do you have the same fears?
• What challenges do you wish to have conquered?
• Which people do you wish to be distant from?
• Which job will you wake up for?
• Which business(es) will you be running?

Now ask yourself this following questions as you re-read each above question again...

"What is holding me back from accomplishing this today, this month or this year?"

"What is one thing I can do to move the needle toward my ideal outcome and my best future self?"

"Who is one person I know that embodies this trait already and how could I learn it from them?"

Change doesn't happen over 10 years, it happens at different critical moments over the span of 10 years. I am simply encouraging you to ask what you could instigate today to expedite the process by lifting off the limitations you have placed on yourself.

Let me know how it goes.

With love,

Jake