Here’s the short, sad logical progression. and it probably applies to you, even you practice a different modality:
1. Feldenkrais Practitioners need clients.
2. Feldenkrais Practitioners hate business.
3. Promotion gets clients.
4. Promotion is business.
5. Uh-oh.
Happily, there’s something you can do about it!
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2 thoughts on “Day 9… Promotion”
Promotion used to scare the crap outta me. Living my life as a semi-deaf person I’ve always gravitated to work where I could be isolated.
After I graduated from my Feldenkrais training a few years ago I naturally went back to my J.O.B. since it was way easier than having the necessary conversations that would start driving clients in my direction.
But an internal stirring that I had something unique to share with the world, and that I wasn’t doing it (felt like I was dying inside each day), finally pushed me off the fence.
I started doing the things that most scared me, attending weekly business networking meetings, contacting organizations about speaking engagements, etc….in short, putting myself out there (even though I still had many linguiring doubts about my own abilities).
I told my business coach at the time “I thought I signed up for business coaching, I didn’t realize this was going to be life coaching!”
Putting myself out there and learning how to be my own boss has been the most powerful self improvement program I’ve ever participated in.
Look forward to the rest of your videos.
Erik
Hi, Erik,
thanks for sharing this. I think a lot of us feel the same way, and overcoming the internal feeling that we want to run and hide instead of putting ourselves out there is a big challenge for most of us.
For me, a key has been realizing that what I have to offer can change people’s lives, and that it’s my responsibility to let them know about it. If I don’t do that, what I have to share is vastly diminished… and getting past what stops me from sharing is my own journey.
So yup, it’s ALL life coaching, including Feldenkrais work!