Sample from the website
Earlier this week on Tuesday when I had my coaching call with my peer coach, Jennifer, I was stuck on finishing the website. I had a lot of the pages and the content, but I was unsure what to do for the home page, that first impression. I originally had it as the page about coaching, and was totally stuck on what to write as content. We talked about some different approaches that I could take, and I made a promise to be done with the website by 5:00pm yesterday (Thursday). Yesterday afternoon I was in between appointments, and it was pretty clear that I wasn't going to get the website done in time. I texted Jennifer and re-promised to be done with the website by midnight.
Last night we hosted the get-together with our 2010 Wisdom group from 8-10pm. So around 10:45pm, I sat down to work on the website and get it done. I enlisted Donovan's help with the project, because I was still stuck on the home page. We started toying with the idea of making the coaching page a separate stand-alone page, but then I really had no idea what to put on the home page. Donovan had a fairly vague idea that the home page should have my voice, whatever that meant. He wasn't particularly clear about it. With about 45 minutes to go before my promised deadline, I started throwing some words down on a page, and actually ended up with something pretty decent. We re-worked it for quite a while, and got it to a place where I was really happy with it. I spent a little more time refining all the remaining pages, and at around 12:30am I declared the website DONE!!! YAY!!!!! :)
Part of what was driving me to get the website done was that I felt that I couldn't really launch myself as a coach without a website. So once the website was done, I could launch myself!! (Yes, I like saying that. :) ) So the next promise I had made was to send out a mass e-mail introducing my coaching business to everyone I know and offering a complimentary coaching session to anyone who is interested. Also, to plaster my website all over Facebook, again with the offer of a complimentary coaching session. I sent the e-mail around 1:00am, and then this morning I did the Facebook stuff. It felt really great to get it all done, and a little nerve racking, too!!
Three weeks ago, when I went to L.A. for Mod II of my coaching program, I wasn't really doing much about creating my coaching business. It seemed like something I would do a few months down the road, when I finished the certification. Something in Mod II lit a fire under my ass, because the week that I came back I created the Facebook page for the business and started working on the website. And here I am, less than three weeks later, launching myself as a life coach to the world! Amazing how things can change so dramatically in such a short period of time! Really makes me wonder where I'll be six months or a year from now!!
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