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I had a wake-up recently. I realised that I have been living in a very small world. The problem was that I'd become so absorbed with what is directly around me, that I haven't been thinking in a global sense or manner.

Working on the basis that I am my own small island. Surrounded by small boats. I've been trying to create an entity which can reach out so much further than that. The ways that I've been seeing things and thinking have resulted in my limited outlook.

This limitation has been one of those classic. “You don't know what you don't know”. Every time I've managed to convince myself I am thinking big. The ‘Big Thinking’ I've been describing to myself has been severely limited. Because of my inability to grasp the actual bigger picture.

A good example of this is that somewhere. I read if you want to market your brand, it's a good idea to ‘have a Blog’. So I started this blog.... It's named after a quote which is passed into the language. From Star Trek when Leonard Nimoy as Spock would remark to Captain Kirk (William Shatner) “It's life, Jim, but not as we know it.”

I began this blog in an expansive mood thinking that although my aim is to form my brand and establish my business as a life coach, everything doesn't have to necessarily be about. “the brand”.

However. I stumbled on a. YouTube Presentation. By Adam Enfroy: https://youtu.be/1HeWXWtHEd8.

And it opened my eyes. In very wide way. For example. A blog is more of a landing page or a place to insert calls for action. So that you can guide people back to your website. The blog Itself in the modern era, is supposed to be. A marketing tool, literally.

Not a place.

Find a niche market. And then then relentlessly pedal your wares. Things related to the market, to people who are interested in such things.

I decided to remodel this work. So does it would do that job and I asked myself: “What is my niche?

I came to the conclusion. My niche would be related to teaching others how to become a coach. And with that in mind. To do book reviews.

I thought it would be a good idea to take a book that I've read. And review it. Put it on my blog. My blog is no longer a place to share my personal musings.

Not if I am serious about marketing.

The book I chose.” Was personal coaching for results” by Lou Tice.

Another great example of how I’d been living in a mental village – the inherent limits of the mental environment I placed myself in. I found “Personal Coaching for Results” in a second hand shop. I like to to buy secondhand. Especially books about personal development.

You see? I had a vision of what blog should look like and what it should look like involved going back to basic designs, and paying subscription fees so that I can access all the eye-catching colourful elements that are required in the modern world.

I was operating in the limited sphere. The first being my mistaken ideas about what A blog is. The second was closed mindedness about how I access new information (using second-hand shops).

The third. Being. My habitual reluctance to invest. In myself or a better blog.

And now for the fourth example. I went into the publication details of “Personal Coaching…” and I recalled Lou Tice mentioned The Pacific Institute. Which is a company he started to mentor and coach people. And so having drawn a blank finding any reviews or good information about the book itself. I went to the Pacific Institute website. There I found an  incredibly, functional eye-catching and intentional. Website.

https://thepacificinstitute.com/

The Pacific Institute website. Really showed me how limited my own attempt at setting up website had been. The Pacific Institute website had areas of interaction, was directly to the point and explained why and how. It very gently funnelled me down into a course that I could take with Pacific Institute. Going into the page, there's a page dedicated to acquiring my. credit card details. Elsewhere there was a lead magnet using a free book.

In short. The Pacific Institute website was a quick master class. How to do a functional website in order to gather business.

Going forward my intention is to open up to the possibilities that life has to offer. By this. I mea. I have to explain my vision. So that the “Real World” (for want of a better phrase) can share in it. Going forward? I will remodel this blog. Show that it has room for the personal musings. And observations and I wish to share. However. It will also. Have much more visual impact. And it will be designed to generate interest in my business.

But what I want to emphasise is. That if you make the effort to expand Your horizon, in time your horizon will expand. It won't be a Road to Damascus epiphany, so much as succumbing. to a gentle saturation of information. To extend the analogy. We all have the potential to be. Like a sponge. And in this case. When it comes to acquiring knowledge. The best way to achieve this saturation is with a gentle, consistent process rather than a rapid. sensational dunking.

Personal Coaching for results: How to mentor and inspire others by Lou Tice - with Joyce Quick - was copyrighted in 1997 by The Pacific Institute and published that year by Thomas Nelson Inc., in Nashville USA.