No More Excuses! Monday Motivation Sandi Ballard, The BADASS Business Coach

HI! And welcome to my very first Podcast called Monday Motivation!
My name is Sandi Ballard. I’m a Motivator. A Taskmaster. A Connector and more importantly a COACH!  My company is Growing Forward and I help YOU achieve YOUR success.
Today’s theme is SPRING!
The start of the 2nd quarter. Yes, we’re already 90 days INTO this new year, so it’s time to check-in on your progress and do a sort of “SPRING CLEANING” on your goals. Out with the old, in with the new! This week take a moment to “open the windows and get a breath of fresh air. Look at what’s working and what’s NOT.
Oh, wait…have you even SET your goals or are they just rattling around in your head still? Well, then you better listen in and get busy!
If you need help, download FREE worksheets from my website: www.GrowingForward.biz

Hi everyone and thank you again for listening to my weekly Monday Motivation podcast. This is only my 2nd one, so I am still learning and having fun doing so!
During the podcast, I’ll ask a question or for you to share something via email or social media - What gets me excited is seeing people accomplish their goals – truly achieve Their Success. (which is my tagline!)  And that was actually my question last week – I asked people to share “What does success mean to you?”
How do you define it? View it? Achieve it?
What feelings do you get when you think about SUCCESS? When you really stop and picture yourself in a successful moment. Most people barely take the time to set goals, let alone imagine themselves achieving them.
Do you FEAR success? 
Think about this – if you fear success, is there someone in your life that changed when they became successful? 
Don’t forget to check out my website at www.GrowingForward.biz and if you need help setting, checking-in on your goals or perhaps taking that 1st step due to FEAR – click on the “spring clean” link, use SPRING CLEAN (all one word) for a special half-day Strategy session!

In last week’s podcast, I ended by asking for people to share with me what they were afraid of. Evidently it was posting their fear as no one did!
Some of the answers I received were: SUCCESS, Settling, offering a specific service this person wasn’t trained in and yet another said Running for City Council. All different.
With success, as mentioned in my previous podcast, I discussed a client who had someone he admired change negatively as he achieved success. With Settling – it could be similar, So I asked her to think about who she felt in her life has settled. Has perhaps given up on their dream.  Wasted talent as I like to call it. That’s one of the things I hate the most.  Wasted talent!  Sometimes it’s unavoidable, like a career-ending sports injury. But most of the time it’s excuses ANNNNNNND….what? Yes, you guessed it! FEAR! My least favorite 4-letter word!
How is your fear affecting your life, your career, your business?
How is it sabotaging your ability to Achieve YOUR SUCCESS?
What can you do to work thru it?
Unfortunately the best way to the other side is straight thru the muck. The “thick of things” or the best way out is THROUGH as we’ve heard. So many sayings and you never know what they mean until you’re living it right? Many times we hate them! Like “Face your fears”, “Just do it”, and yes, “it will be what it will be” and yes “deal with it”.
So, take a moment and imagine what it “ON THE OTHER SIDE” - in the place I like to refer to as "Happy Land"!
Don’t forget to check out my website at www.GrowingForward.biz and if you need help setting, checking-in on your goals or perhaps taking that 1st step due to FEAR – click on the “spring clean” link, use SPRING CLEAN (all one word) for a special half-day Strategy session! OR email me for your FREE - yes FREE 30-min coaching call. No strings attached. Ain't nobody got time for that!
 

This week’s theme - What’s your vision?
What do you see on “the other side”. In last week’s podcast, I asked you to share what you saw when you got to Happy Land!! In the podcast, I suggested you draw a picture (nothing elaborate) or even write down what you want. What you SEE and how you would FEEL once you get to “Happy Land”.
 So – what IS your vision and how the hell do you get there?
About 3 years ago, I had a woman come to me and say “I want to make better choices”. At first it was really all about physical health. The usual – lose weight. Well, I’m not a “health coach”, but I understood she needed help with the “how” and the accountability. I agreed to take her on as a private coaching client. As we would meet and talk thru what she wanted, it wasn’t well “you can’t eat this or that, you have to work out, or you won’t succeed”. It was conversations full of her why. Her VISION. What did she see in her HAPPY LAND?
Stop eating McDonalds every morning for breakfast and starting to walk at lunch is the obvious part. Her vision included financial, emotional AND physical health. WOW – that was a lot more than she mentioned, but that is what happens when you’re COACHING someone. You don’t just focus on the obvious…because usually that’s a result of something bigger – deeper.
WE HAD TO DETERMINE WHAT WAS CAUSING HER TO MAKE UNHEALTHY DECISIONS.
THINK ABOUT: What it is YOU want. AND what you need help with (this can be the hard part – so who can help you determine that?)
So this week – I want you to think about who it is that YOU want to become. What do you want your legacy to be? If you died tomorrow... what would you hope that people are saying? What do I want you to do? Write your TOMBSTONE MESSAGE! HAHA…YES, THAT’S WHAT I SAID!
Make sure you post your message in the comments section!
And, if you need help like this client did – with:
creating your vision, determining the how, or keeping you focused and holding you accountable  Click here to email me to get this going!!
SEE you next week!
Cheers!

As I spoke about in the previous podcast – I help people realize their potential. Sometimes you don’t SEE the same things others do. AH YES, PERCEPTION. We’ll get into that in another podcast and be ready – perception is NOT reality!  Wasted talent…so what do I mean by that?
We’ve seen the obvious ones – you know, the 7’ kid who we assume he plays basketball yet he doesn’t even like sports. Yes, there are those, but what I am referring to is when people have a special gift – an eye for creativity, perhaps they’re gifted in the food industry, cleaning business, sales – whatever it is, they kind of know they are as they’ve done things for FREE, or for pay, they get excited, they start making progress and then BAM! Eh I don't want to work that hard. It’s more fun doing it for free. They walk away from what “they said” was their dream to become. THAT MY FRIENDS IS WASTED-FRIGGN-TALENT.  So close. Such amazing things happening, perhaps a bump in the road and then they just turn and run. *sigh*
(You can Refer to podcast 2 and 3 where I discuss fear killing your goals and dreams.)
in sense just BEING the best YOU you can be. We can’t always be “on” – fun, funny, nice, giving, etc…but when we aren’t, that gives people around you to notice and ask how you are. What’s going on, how they can help. Or, if you aren’t in a good place in life – are you ok living in that “world”? Would you want, “Heart of Gold but always a Bitch” written on your tombstone?!!  Mine would say, “100% empathic, authentic. If it was on your mind, I was already saying it. If you were lucky enough to be in my World, you were always considered a friend.
And this “becoming the best YOU” goes way beyond personality. It’s about who you want to be – a well known artist. A highly respected professor. A business person. A chef – perhaps a restaurant owner. Teacher…. Make sense?
So you’ve decided you want to become this amazing person. Now what?
How. Well, I guess you better listen in, eh?! Start defining the WHAT behind the WHO. Because without the “what”, you’ll just be whoever you become. 
Please share the post on your social media outlets.  I look forward to your comments (email me at SBAllard@growingforward.biz if you feel more comfortable doing that than posting in public.

Hi everyone! Sandi here! WOW welcome to WEEK 6 of my Monday Motivation podcasts! It’s gone by fast!
My question last week was “what are you willing to do in the next 30 (now 21 days) to enrich  your life? You must still be thinking about it, as no one posted a comment?! Hmmmmm, are you stumped? OR do you KNOW but don’t know HOW to do it or where to start…or perhaps afraid. YEP – THAT DAMN FEAR SHOWS UP EVERYWHERE!
I’ve been afraid. I admitted to many of my fears in my 1st book which was published in 2015 titled "From There To Here". 
So this week I ask you – WHAT IS THE DRIVING FORCE behind your fear? Yes, all the excuses, reasons, blame, lack of progress and momentum… fear is lurking back there. But what is it that you’re afraid of.  In a previous podcast, I mentioned my client said his fear of success was due to someone he admired changing negatively as he found his success. After deeper thinking – he said it felt more like the unknown of the paradigm shift AS he achieves his success. So my question to him was – who are you afraid to LEAVE BEHIND or LOSE as a result of your success? Hmmmmm – yes you have to DIG DEEPER if you want to PLAY BIGGER!!
So this week AGAIN – thinking about "Happy Land". Focusing on something you have YET to do. You’re curious as to why. You have plenty of excuses and say “I’ll get to that”, I’ll do that some day”. WELL GUESS WHAT? SOME DAY IS NOT A DAY OF THE WEEK!!!  I WANT A post in the comments section of this page or facebook – wherever you are finding the podcast link or email me, WHAT IT IS that you feel is truly behind your fears? Your lack of motion.
Thanks again for listening! I look forward to your comments!
And, if you want to learn more about me and my realization of my fear, and plan to gain my life back…check out my book on Amazon – "From There to Here". (kindle version available as well) or email me and I can send you the link!
If you can't figure out where the fear is coming from, call me for your FREE 30-min coaching call. Perhaps all you need is a quick fix! If you want more... THEN you can hire me! Because YOU are worth it, aren't you?
SEE you next week!
Cheers!