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#012 – Procrastination, Productivity and Religious Beliefs – Thriving Coaches Podcast

Posted on September 19, 2018 by Jamie Smart

Released 5th Sep 2018 Subscribe: Spotify | iTunes | Stitcher

This week’s episode is a coaching demo I did during the first module of this year’s Clarity Coach Training programme which kicked off a couple of weeks ago. We record all the modules so we can give the footage to the participants to review, as well as share it with the people who had to miss the first module, and this coaching demo was a shocker for everyone who saw it. Here’s why: The client, Karen, was struggling to be productive, take action and make progress on growing her coaching practice. She said she knew what she should be doing but just wasn’t doing it. Can you relate to that?

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JST 237 – The Freedom Paradox

Posted on September 18, 2018 by Jamie Smart

“God demands nothing less than complete self-surrender as the price for the only real freedom that is worth having. And when a man thus loses himself he immediately finds himself in the service of all that lives. It becomes his delight and his recreation. He is a new man, never weary of spending himself in the service of God’s creation.”
– Gandhi
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TTE 163 – Directors Commentary, Elon Musk & Broken Bones

Posted on September 13, 2018 by Jamie Smart

It’s enthusiasm time again. Let me know what you think via twitter at @JamieSmartCom, on my Facebook page, or on my blog below.

1. A quote I’m resonating with this week
I’m creating something this week all about the creative process, and I was reminded of this quote by the dancer and choreographer, Martha Graham:

“There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.”

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#011 – A Clear Mind Produces Results – Get Clarity Podcast

Posted on September 12, 2018 by Jamie Smart

Released 12th Sep 2018 Subscribe: Spotify | iTunes | Stitcher

This week’s episode is a re-release of one of the interviews I did to coincide with the release of my Sunday Times best-selling book – Results.The interview is with Ian Selby – a company director who did a 3 day 1 to 1 coaching intensive with me (and later joined me on Clarity Coach Training).The reason that Ian was featured in my book Results was because our 1 to 1 intensive gave rise to what I call the Clarity Equation;

Clarity = Capacity – Contamination

An equation for understanding how the principles behind Clarity play out in every aspect of your life.

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LIVE Example: How To Conduct a Great 1-to-1 Coaching Session

Posted on September 11, 2018 by Jamie Smart

In this blog post I’ve decided to do something totally new; something that I’m guessing is going to help a lot of coaches, therapists, consultants and trainers.

I’m going to be walking (and talking) you through a real, no holds barred, 1 to 1 coaching session I did recently that had a huge impact on the client I was coaching (the client is a 7-figure coach, Pam Featherstone). In this video, you’re going to get a ‘directors commentary’ on the entire session!

I’ve decided to showcase this coaching session so that you can
– see exactly how to format a 1 to 1 coaching session
– listen to the questions I’m asking and (more importantly) understand why I’m asking them
– learn how to respond to the answers your client gives.

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TTE 162 – Moloko and mind-blowing impact

Posted on September 6, 2018 by Jamie Smart

It’s enthusiasm time again. Let me know what you think via twitter at @JamieSmartCom, on my Facebook page, or on my blog below.

1. A quote I’m resonating with this week
In the theme of ‘quotes that make me appropriately uncomfortable’ that started with Rumi’s contribution last week, here’s a corker from C.S. Lewis:

“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.”

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#011 – Why clients hire you as a coach or therapist – Thriving Coaches Podcast

Posted on September 5, 2018 by Jamie Smart

Released 5th Sep 2018 Subscribe: Spotify | iTunes | Stitcher

In this episode you’re going to hear me answer a question from a coach called Max, who asked what is it that has people hire you as a coach? Max had always been told that you need to “blow a client’s mind” during your enrolment conversation, and he’d noticed that I seemed to be taking a completely different approach (this was during one of my coach training programmes where I’d just been demonstrating an enrolment session with a client called Sarah).

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JST 236 – Mastery, and the power of transformation

Posted on September 4, 2018 by Jamie Smart

Photo courtesy of klimkin and Pixabay

Welcome to the final part in this series of articles on the 7 steps to earning your living as a successful professional in any field. Over the past year I’ve been isolating the specific steps involved, and refining them. What’s resulted is a ‘roadmap’, and while the version of it I’ve created is aimed at coaches, therapists, trainers and consultants, with a little creativity, you’ll be able to see how these steps relate to anyone who wants to transition to doing work that involves you being a ‘trusted advisor’ to others (e.g. expert / speaker / professional services etc).
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TTE 161 – Madness, newbies and self-harm

Posted on August 30, 2018 by Jamie Smart

It’s enthusiasm time again. Let me know what you think via twitter at @JamieSmartCom, on my Facebook page, or on my blog below.

1. A quote I’m resonating with this week
I included a quote from the Sufi poet, Rumi towards the end of my first book, CLARITY. This week, I stumbled across the full stanza the quote was excerpted from, and I love it! Here it is in full:

“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”

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#010 – Keynote – Get results and thrive in times of pressure and stress – Get Clarity Podcast

Posted on August 29, 2018 by Jamie Smart

Released 29th Aug 2018 Subscribe: Spotify | iTunes | Stitcher

In this episode you’re going to hear a keynote speech I gave to the employees of two companies, Online Mortgage Advisors and Create Finance. Two of the founders of these companies had already been impacted from exploring the principles behind clarity so they wanted to share it with their teams. Most of the 80 people who attended were unfamiliar with this work, and with the world of ‘personal development’ in general, so it was really great to be able to share it with a group of people hearing it for the first time. People were really impacted, and I’m told that the buzz in the offices afterwards was great so I’m looking forward to following up in a few weeks time.

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