The Life Coach Who Learned A Huge Life Lesson In Business – With Tim Brownson

This show’s guest is Tim Brownson. Tim is a kick-ass life coach with a great sense of humor.

In this episode Tim shares how he went from a comfortable sales position into starting his coaching practice. And then, how his coaching business started failing. Then he had a swift kick in the ass: He lost all his savings.

Here’s what Tim and I discuss in Episode 3:

• Money doesn’t buy happiness.
• How sales led him into coaching and how he let his sales experience hold him back.
• What happens when you don’t focus and take your business seriously.
• The challenge of working for yourself, when you have no one to hold you accountable.
• How losing his entire savings finally kicked him in the ass.
• The self-delusion that kept Tim thinking success was about to “hit” at any moment. The tipping point was within his grasp.
• Why you can’t take your foot off the gas in a competitive industry.
• How easily the world will forget about you.
• Why Tim said, “People expect you to be competent. That doesn’t get you raving fans.”
• What makes people really rabid fans?
• Why you should stop worrying about always showing your best side.
• Why Tim said, “Nobody farts on a first date.”
• Why Tim needs to fear waking up to find a Grizzly Bear looking for salmon in his fridge.
• Why Tim said, “We haven’t got that much mental bandwidth that we can be looking at different things at the same time.” And how it stopped his business for over a year.
• When it’s important to “burn the ships.”
• When you should commit to your outcome.
• The importance of “invigoration.”
• What happens when your expectations aren’t in line with reality. And how it prevents your success.

Enjoy the show.

Mentioned in the show:

• Customer Satisfaction Is Worthless, Customer Loyalty Is Priceless by Jeffrey Gitomer
• Customer Loyalty Is A Myth
• How To Overcome The Fear of Public Speaking
• Upside Of Stress by Kelly McGonigal
• Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal
• Deepening the Dimension of Stillness by Eckhart Tolle