Your First 30 Days As A Beachbody Coach

Welcome to the Team!

This month is all about establishing what your goals for your business are.  This month you'll find out your WHY, discover what YOUR GOALS are, and what you'll have to do to reach them!  This is your foundation and you'll reference the materials you acquire here frequently as you develop as a coach.

LAYING THE FOUNDATION

• Day 1 - 7: 
• "Getting Started"
• Download the "7 Day Quick Start Guide" and fill it out in a PDF viewer.  Then print it off.
• Watch the three training videos in the "Getting Started" portion of the back office
• Coach Online Office - Training - Getting Started
• Check into the FB team groups I've added you to daily, especially the new coach training group!
• Arm Yourself Against Excuses and Self Doubt
• Make a quick video (3 minutes max) just shouting to the world WHAT you're doing, WHERE it's going to take you, and WHY.  Then INVITE others to take this journey/risk with you.
• Watch "Check your 2014 baggage at the door" (an old Team Dynasty team call of ours)
• Start brainstorming your WHY (write out at least five things)
• Start Your Personal Development
• Start reading "The Compound Effect" DAILY, I will give this book to you. 
• Day 8 - 14:
• Start the vital behavior of "Be a Product of the Product". 
• Do your workouts and drink your Shakeology daily!
• "Coach Basics"
• Download and work through the "Coach Basics Participant Guide" AFTER completing the 7 Day Quick Start
• Print out/download the PDFs from the file
• Watch the videos linked to (probably one video a day
• Watch our fellow coach's video tutorial for the online office.
• Continue work started last week with "The Compound Effect" and your WHY
• Attend this week's team call
• Get ORGANIZED with a calendar and schedule team calls
• Monday = National Wake Up Call and Dynasty Team Calls
• I will tell you the day of the week new coach calls are on.
• If you feel comfortable, start inviting people to join you on your journey as a coach or as a challenger.  Set your start date for day 30 of your coach training!
• Day 14 - 21:
• Continue work from last week with "The Compound Effect"
• Training:"Coach Business Starter"
• Work your way through the five sections of this page
• This is CRUCIAL!  Don't put it off!
• Make you list of 100 people you can help with this opportunity by inviting them to be a coach or by getting them started on a health/fitness journey.
• The TOP coaches have ALL done this!  True success lies in conquering this first step!
• Start studying Shakeology.  Read the FAQs in the online office and research some of the ingredients you've never heard of.
• If you're feeling daring, START INVITING! :D
• Day 21 - 28:
• Continue the work from "The Compound Effect", ideally you'll be almost done with it.
• Start the inviting vital behavior using the F.O.R.M. method and your enthusiasm!
• Decide your two social media sources that you feel you'll be good at.
• Do you take great pictures or already have a Instagram started?  Go there?
• How do you feel about Pinterest?  Love it? Use it!
• Don't mind being in front of the camera?  Then YouTube's for you!
• The options are endless and there's a team call from our team on ALL OF THEM!  Visit the previous page for all the archived Bombshell Dynasty Team Calls.
• Day 29 - 30:
• Continue living the 3 Vital Behaviors!
• Start your first challenge group if you started inviting during week two!  
• Finish "The Compound Effect" and start "Your First Year In Network Marketing", again I'll provide you with this book.

Crucial Behaviors:

• SHARE what you're doing DAILY on social media!
• 3-5 posts daily
• Ex. something you learned from personal development, the arrival of your program, your first team call experience, your workouts, YOUR WHY!
• Doing the Three Vital Behaviors DAILY
• Be A Product of the Product
• Do your workouts and drink Shakeology
• Invite, Invite, Invite
• Connect with people and share the opportunity!
• Personal Development
• Read "The Compound Effect"
• Check in with the New Coach Training group and the other FB groups DAILY.  Learn from the other coaches in these groups.
• ASK QUESTIONS!
• Ask me ALL the questions you may have, big or small!  Or, if you don't want to ask me, ask the coaches in our FB groups!
• TELL ME if you already know something or if you're confused.  :)
• Learn from My Mistakes
• Don't try to reinvent the wheel
• TRUST the process
• HAVE FUN! 
• BE YOU!

How To Build Your New Beachbody Coaching Business

Today I wanted to give you a sneak peek into how new coaches on my team will grow their business.  These techniques are 

• Attraction Marketing and Internet Marketing
• The idea behind these marketing methods are to bring people TO YOU.  Less going out and messaging others, the initial interaction is started from people coming to you.  Your responsibility will be to contact these people in return.
• For example, if someone leaves a comment or is added to your lead collector you HAVE to follow up with them!  
• Connect with people and ADD VALUE through TWO social media platforms
• I have two platforms that I have started focusing on.  I made the mistake of NOT focusing on only two in the beginning and I stretched myself too thin.  Find two platforms that will get you exposed to new people, not just your family and friends.  
• My media platforms: YouTube and Blogging
• Facebook is something I'm consistent on, but prospecting my family and friends is not something that I'm keen on, so I add people to my Facebook.
• Follow Through with Your Personal Action Plan
• Together we'll create an initial getting started training that's 30 days where we'll:
• Establish what your goals are
• What mediums are going to suit your personality
• Make a plan to grow your business without using use family and friends (your warm market)
• Follow Through with the Information Provided in the Training
• Beachbody does weekly calls where top coaches share what they've learned when growing their businesses.  
• My team does online training two to five times a week via Instant Presenter and Zoom.  Some of these trainings are Q&As for new coaches to gain insights from me or other coaches, some are trainings with experts in the MLM industry.  
• Get Your Mind Right With Personal Development
• I provide and recommend eBooks that are crucial for developing into a business owner, which is what you are!  These books give you insights into topics from running an online business to shutting down negative self-talk to personal growth.
• Live the Three Vital Behaviors of Beachbody AND Recruit Coaches That Will Do The Same!
• The Three Vital Behaviors of coaching are:
• Connect with people and invite them
• Be a product of the products to prove that they work
• Do your personal development daily
• People that tell me they do not want to even try the products I do not allow on my team.  It feels wrong to me ethically for someone to be representing a company and product they have never even tried.  This is just my opinion and I have lost some potential coaches this way, but I feel in my heart that it is for the best.  You don't have to continue buying products but you need to at least TRY the products.

Now that you know some of the tools to build your business, would you like to join the team?  You can fill out a quick 1 minute form HERE

Why sign up NOW?

Take a moment to think about your life right now.  Would creating your own business and getting extra income improve your situation?  How about the prospect of leaving your full-time job?  Or making enough extra money to be able to take a vacation or buy new clothes.

Before I became a coach I wasn't buying new clothes regularly.  A pair of jeans would have to be falling apart before I purchased a new pair and my shoes would have no soles left before I dragged myself to the store.  Why?  Because I honestly didn't have the money for new clothes.  And by new, I mean new USED clothes.  I didn't have the money to pay all of my bills.  I was deciding which bill wasn't getting paid and then ignoring the collection calls that would come in.

Being able to buy jeans that actually FIT ME after I lost my last 20lbs with Focus T25 was an emotional experience for me.  They weren't even new jeans!  But they were new to me and that feeling inspired me to do more, to push more!

Again, if you want to join, go HERE

The Power of Visualization

"If you can't see it, then how are you going to get it?!"
That is a thought that was running through my head when I first decided that I wanted to lose weight.  Waay back before I actually understood my "why" behind my desire to lose weight and get back the physique I once had.  So, this thought has been in my mind recently, since I just discovered my why not too long ago.

The art of seeing what you want to achieve, and I do believe it is an art, is called visualization.  I'm sure we all know what visualization is, but just to ensure we have all of our i's crossed and t's dotted (=P) let's throw a definition out there:

Visualization is "...a cognitive tool accessing imagination to realize all aspects of an object, action or outcome".  In a sense it's kind of like day dreaming, but with a purpose behind it, because you (re)create a scenario using most, or even all, of your senses" (Baumgartner, 2011).

I use visualization on an almost daily basis now because if I can't see myself with a four pack in a bikini for the first time ever, then how am I going to know what to aim for?  How am I going to know when I reach my goal?

Visualization has many uses outside of helping you get the body you want.  Psychologists use it in their practice to help patients exercise specific reactions to situations; athletes use it before a match; actors use it before they perform.  It helps because the brain is being trained to perform the task, it's like practicing a practice match.

Angie LeVan, MAPP, (2009) goes over a great way to get started with visualization.  I've included the excerpt below:

Begin by establishing a highly specific goal. Imagine the future; you have already achieved your goal. Hold a mental ‘picture’ of it as if it were occurring to you right at that moment. Imagine the scene in as much detail as possible. Engage as many of the five senses as you can in your visualization. Who are you with? Which emotions are you feeling right now? What are you wearing? Is there a smell in the air? What do you hear? What is your environment? Sit with a straight spine when you do this. Practice at night or in the morning (just before/after sleep). Eliminate any doubts, if they come to you. Repeat this practice often. Combine with meditation or an affirmation (e.g. “I am courageous; I am strong”, or to borrow from Ali, “I am the greatest!”).

So, what is your highly specific goal?  Can you see it happening yet?  If not, keep practicing!

Reference(s):
Baumgartner, J. (November 8, 2011). The psychology of dress, the doctor is in...you closet! Visualize it. Retrieved from http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-psychology-dress/201111/visualize-it.

LeVan, A. (December 3, 2009). Flourish! Seeing is believing: The power of visualization. Retrieved from http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/flourish/200912/seeing-is-believing-the-power-visualization.

Having Motivation in the Morning

I'm sure I'm not the only one that feels super motivated in the evening and resolve to do soo many things the next day (i.e. clean the house, exercise, pack lunch, etc) only to wake up the next day and find that the spark is gone. Sometimes, there's no recollection of WHY there was motivation to accomplish all of the tasks. 

Well, my aim this week is to move beyond that and I've gotten a few ideas from an article: addicted2success.com/mot
ivation/15-ways-to-wake-up
-with-motivation/ . 

My key take-aways are: 
1. Have my goals predominately place everywhere I'm going to be. Luckily, there's only two for 2014: get out of debt and be a successful Beachbody Coach (the latter is a hefty goal with many smaller steps required though). So, I'm going to be placing these goals EVERYWHERE! On my phone, in my bathroom, on my fridge, in my car, and even at work. There won't be a day that I don't remember my goals because they'll be staring me in the face all day, everyday! 

2. Focus on TODAY! I've only had a "I wish I had..." mentality growing up and switching that to a "Today I'm going to..." mindset isn't going to be easy but take-away number one will make it easier. I've found that out before when I did the same thing during a period when I was attempting to get promoted at work. Having my work goal on my clip board for me to see daily kept me going strong in and out of work. I didn't have any "I wish I had..." thoughts because I had already done what I needed to do. 

3. Read voraciously! Now, the author isn't talking about reading fiction for the heck of it. He's talking about books that inspire and/or are focused on personal development. This is a stance that Beachbody takes and is one of the three behaviors they stress to their coaches. Everyday is a chance to better myself and that's what I'm going to do. I'll be revisiting Failing Forward this week. 

4. Practice discipline. There's two lines, that I combine into one in this quote, that really struck me from this article: "It's in discipline that we gain freedom...to get more done, to improve, and to remove regret from our lives." (Chad Howse, 08/03/2013) 
Again, take-away number one is going to help with this because it will keep me on track and increase my discipline through practice. It will also raise my consistency, a key factor in successfully completing any life change. 

So, there you have it. My four take-aways from the article linked above. Life changes take time but they are doable. There are success stories all over Spark People and the Internet. We can ALL change our habits for the better, it just takes drive and support.