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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 5659446" data-attributes="member: 54707">Much, if not all, of the recent business coaching  I've been getting has worked out superbly.   Over the past week my wife and I have secured a  new contract for a Project for a company that does international interpretations  and translations (I'm writing the training manual and materials, she's handling  the training program itself).   My wife and I met a consultant who handles  non-profits on Tuesday who is setting up a meeting with a famous public speaker  (a woman) who is going to mentor my wife in developing her own Public Speaking  Career. He also seemed interested in me doing some brokerage work for him on  client contacts, which I haven't done in 15 years or so but that I wouldn't mind  doing again.   Today she met at a Woman's Chamber Network meeting  someone for the local school district that wants me to put a Writing Program  together for the public schools as a pilot program, us to put together a  presentation for Career Day at the High Schools, another woman who runs a  Montessori Academy that wants me to write an educational program and my wife to  do Voice Over Work for her, and a human resources consultant who wants my wife  to work with her on some on-boarding programs for Fortune 500  companies.   On Wednesday I met a guy who has opened a local  Psychological Counseling and Services firm who is also now a nationally licensed  seminar speaker (he's a former hospital administrator). I am hoping that I will  get to write out some of his seminar speeches and possibly work with him on a  project of psychological and Christian Counseling programs. Psychology was one  of my majors in college and I did 3 internships in the field, and in addition I  have a real interest in Christian counseling as I am studying to be a Priest,  and psychology will be one of my Priestly pursuits. And I think this whole field  of exposure will be excellent practice for me, and I like the guy from our  initial meeting. So I talk to him next week.   I think my wife is beginning to benefit immensely  from the coaching I/we've been getting as well. She's flush with ideas lately  and has been practically swimming in new contacts and projects. I had been  hoping and praying for a long time that she would leave her employer, and I was  encouraging her to do so, but I think she lacked the courage to make that step  so losing her job was one of the best things that could have happened to her I  think. It was a Godsend. And for me as well as I'm greatly enjoying being in  business with her. Our skills and talents are complimentary and a lot of people  seem to love the idea of us working together as a partnership team, me handling  the writing, plan development, consulting, brokerage and so forth, and she  handling the public speaking, training, coaching, and presentation  work.   I'm still working on the "converting my business  into a game" project but haven't had time to work that idea much because of  other business and career matters. But I'm moving ahead and searching for an  agent to represent my fiction writings and some of my non-fiction  works.   Tomorrow I spend "not working," instead it will be  my second Friday of going out with the wife and family, taking photographs, and  idea-generation. I've had a great idea to stem from that and now I give 3 quotes  on every project. A Simple quote covering only what is barely  needed for the project to work, an Advantage Quote which  includes added-value components (and is more expensive than the first quote) and  an Exceptional Quote which includes the very best and  most complex work I can produce on that particular project with promises to  produce future or on-going/follow-up work. I'm finding most clients prefer to  take the Exceptional Quote even though it is the most expensive as it solves the  most number of problems for them.   I've also gotten some good advice about  "Create your own Numbers" (which actually gave me the idea for the 3  Quote system), but the best advice I've gotten over this week is simply to  "Do Only One Thing - Ever." That has been extremely good advice  and has led to a lot of our new business. I'm really, really enjoying business  again.</blockquote>

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