Working from Home in the sun

I love working from my own home; I chose this over working for a school many moons ago and guess what I have never looked back! Don't get me wrong I loved working at the school, but being the master of your own destiny is a wonderful thing!

However today even I am being tested! It is gorgeous hot sunny weather outside and try as I might I just can't see my lap-top screen at all! I have moved to the studio and it is SO hot in there I can't concentrate - to make things worse it is the second week of Wimbledon too!

So how to focus now more than ever! Well I have moved to the kitchen, still hot but a lovely view of the garden and studio - I plan to get up earlier and end sooner - this solves the heat and Wimbledon!!

What could you do in this predicament? Of course it depends what your business is exactly. But you could try some of these:

• Get a lot done in the early mornings & evenings.
• Buy a good fan & drink lots of water.
• Plan ahead and leave all jobs you can do from another location till the sun hits - then go to the beach and work there!
• Work fast in short batches, then go for walks in between.
• Make all meetings at outdoor locations.
• Resolve to be even more focused, work smart and have a holiday destination booked to aim towards!
• Realise how lucky you are to work for yourself (if of course you do...)
• Plan, Plan, Plan is the key here!

If you work for yourself you are the lucky one's right now, even if you have deadlines to meet, clients to see, meeting to hold, and products to make. Just remember you can be flexible and think how to make the best of things; look ahead if the forecast is for rain at the weekend, then love the sun now and work at the weekend.

What ever you do - have fun! Surely this is one of the reasons you work at home isn't it? If not, check out my website and book yourself some coaching - get life the way you want it!

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Find out more at http://www.aleptis.co.uk/
Sophie Mahir
Personal Development Coach, Business Coach and Trainer

Free Event in July

Quite a few people have contacted me about the Life Changing Event I went to in March last year.

Well I am sending out tickets to anyone who requests and gives me an address to send them to! I was so grateful to the person who sent me mine all that time ago. And it really feels like an age ago. What have I achieved since that weekend? Well:

• I have built my new business up from running at a loss to living comfortably off it.
• I have a completely new lovely relationship with my father.
• I have become so confident within myself.
• I concentrate on what I have, not what I don't have.
• I love my life.
• I have a great friendship with my teenage daughters (don't lose my temper with them now).
• I have trained in courses I thought previously were beyond me.
• I have shifted beliefs I had about myself.

And yes I think this is good progression for one year! Of course I can and will learn so much more - and really looking forward to the next 12 months!

The event is Breakthrough to Success on July 24/25/26 in London - it's a very full weekend! Be prepared to have fun, to hug people you have never met before, to laugh and possibly cry, to dance, to celebrate and to LEARN! Of course there are a range of courses available to you to further your learning, so come prepared to listen to great sales techniques! They are incredible courses and you get some great deals over the weekend. So be open to all of it - I have been to this twice so far, have crewed at it once, and will be there in July, and crewing again in September in Dublin.

Yes it's that good; I go now to soak up the atmosphere, see new friends, and learn more things. I would love to meet you there; so take action, get in contact - what have you got to lose?

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Find out more at http://www.aleptis.co.uk/
Sophie Mahir
Personal Development Coach, Business Coach and Trainer

Taking Action

So today I have been mulling over all the material I have learned on my courses. How best to integrate this?

We know that new information is best reviewed first after 1 hour, then 24 hours, then 7 days etc. So I have used my usual rules here to make sure this gets done:

1. Decide
2. Commit
3. ACT!

I decided to look through my notes 7 days after we finished the course. As this is today I have allocated time this weekend to do it properly. I am totally committed to doing this and am really looking forward to it.

Why is it that so many of us suffer with procrastination when we have to take action?

I do count myself one of the lucky ones, I love taking action! Some people are planners, some love the action more and I assume we all LOVE the RESULTS!!!

So what can you do to make sure you take action?

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Find out more at http://www.aleptis.co.uk/
Sophie Mahir
Personal Development Coach, Business Coach and Trainer

New Qualifications

This brings me to something that has kept me very busy studying over the past months...


Just over one year ago I attended an event in London that changed my life for ever. Having spent three days couped up with 3,000+ other people all experiencing the same thing I knew I wanted to understand more about what I had gone through.

That started my serious journey on personal & business development. Of course I had read all the usual books, done the coaching course, but this was a bit different. It wasn't for everybody of naturally, lots of people left as their personal 'stuff' came up - this only compelled me to see the process through.

Now I knew a bit about NLP, but this is much more than that...

At the end I went away to think about what I had been through - some information (well lots actually) about Quantum Physics, a series of focused exercises requiring us to dig deep and uncover any fears, limiting decisions and beliefs that we might have held that could hold us back in our lives. We explored our values - what was important to us and how that has a direct impact on our lives, we set some really large goals in a totally different way than I had learned! We listened to a magical story and on the third day it was lots of powerful visualisation processes that have impacted me in an enormous way!

I decided I wanted to be able to do all of this and more, so set about creating the funds to do two of the courses.

I have just qualified in Master level NLP, Hypnosis, Christopher Howard Results Coaching, Performance Consultancy and Advanced Neurological Re-patterning. These are tools I am using for myself and for my clients on a daily basis.

(Contact me if you would like any free tickets to the above event, or experience life changing Breakthrough Coaching with me.)

Watch this space for how I will continue to use these tools to build my business and get life just the way I want it!



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Find out more at http://www.aleptis.co.uk/
Sophie Mahir
Personal Development Coach, Business Coach and Trainer

Effective blogging!

Well I hope you find the title of this entry amusing! It has indeed been 4 months since my last blog! And this brings me to the reasons why...

In January just after my fabulous Goal Setting Event I went from just 5 clients to 15! I was being SO productive that the days just flew by! I decided to build my business up as quickly as I could, just not realising that all the things that I was doing were great blog material!

I have a member of my fantastic support team to thank for really drilling this home - Vanessa this is for you!

Effective blogging is of course really keeping in touch, letting everyone out there know what you are doing, and also how you are doing it! I suppose it also involves regular participation, something I will be doing from now onwards...

The laptop is with me here by the door looking out onto my beautiful small but abundant garden; the sunshine and warmth fill me with excitment for the next few days and weeks...

I plan to build my business up again from here, so join me in my process, get in touch and get blogging yourself!

Till next time,

Sophie


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Find out more at http://www.aleptis.co.uk/
Sophie Mahir
Personal Development Coach, Business Coach and Trainer