How a skilled life coach is helping entrepreneurs
Tags: Mental Health, Entrepreneurship, Business, Talk Therapy, Self Esteem

J ane* is an entrepreneur that I work with as a coach and mentor. Her business has been at the sharp end of lockdown and her venture has suffered significantly. However, with support Jane has been able to maintain her self-esteem and personal confidence and found the strength to dig deep, innovate and stay relevant. Developing her emotional intelligence in this way has given her resilience and clarity of what is really important to her. This has meant that she is able now to breathe and begin to plan for the future; feeling stronger for the experience that she and her staff have been through. Like Jane, you also have it within you to come through extraordinary adversity — and this may be your opportunity to find your strength. (*name changed for privacy. )

The life of an entrepreneur can be richly rewarding in so many different ways. It can also be a roller coaster ride and at times not easy. We make our choice to be an entrepreneur for many different and personal reasons from passion and focus on some occupation of great interest to outright necessity of circumstances. Whatever your reason, the essential realities of being an entrepreneur are all the same — the rewards and the challenges are also.

The rewards that mean most to you may be quantifiable and measurable such as financial, and they may also be less quantifiable such as freedom and flexibility.

Most of the challenges that arise for an entrepreneur stem from the word itself — that you are essentially an individual striking out on your own to create something that is in some way new, fresh and exciting.

Whatever the nature of your business idea, you are the person “where the buck stops” and the most important qualities that will help you along your entrepreneur’s journey are personal to you. These essential qualities are likely to include motivation, self-confidence, calm, clarity, resilience, optimism, ability to relax, empathy and relationships … to mention just a few.

Your ability to dial these qualities up and down at will depends upon self-awareness and self-knowing because these qualities light up the choices you have and enable you to harness and focus your energies consciously.

Business likes certainty. However, it is also true that most businesses profit (as opposed to survive) from uncertainty, from being in the right place at the right time, from making the right decisions to change and perform differently. This is entrepreneurship, and in these COVID times, when change has a quickening pace to it, there is no such thing as certainty for many sectors of our economy.

As an entrepreneur — you can also often feel alone — and the most important thing to realise is that you are not so. Every successful entrepreneur has a support structure that may include friends, family, experts, partners and mentors.

The role that independent mentors, coaches and therapists can play is valuable — as a safe, confidential space where an entrepreneur can be completely open, honest and even vulnerable in order to get the personal insights that enable her to take the next step forward.

You can benefit from coaching with Greg, an executive coach and counsellor with goodtalk.uk. He has been working with CEOs, executives and entrepreneurs for over 2 decades.

To schedule a chat with him, email us @ hello@goodtalk.uk with the line “book session with Greg”. You can also find him on our website. For any help with booking, please don’t hesitate to get in touch!

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