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Why Having a Holistic Approach to Your Business Matters
One of the most common questions I get is “Holly what does it mean to be a holistic business coach?”... I love when people ask me this question. I am passionate about holistic. I believe you deserve to live the life of your dreams!
I approach coaching and client growth from a perspective of looking at the whole person. I look at their health, their life priorities, the legacy they wish to leave behind, how they define success, and their business goals.
Taking a holistic approach allows me to get to the root cause of my clients challenges. It allows me to see them as a whole person so I can help them address any challenge they face.
Frequently, business challenges are rooted in our mindset. Or they stem from a poor lack of healthy lifestyle foundations. When we aren’t healthy, we aren’t clear. When we aren’t healthy, we don’t have the energy to build the life and business of our dreams.
Many business challenges are tied to misalignment. A client is building a business that doesn’t align with their values, their priorities or the legacy they wish to build. Or perhaps they haven’t defined success on their own terms which means they are chasing someone else's dreams.
This is why approaching business from a holistic lens is essential.
If you want to have a HUGE impact while living a healthy and balanced life, holistic is the only approach.
So let’s dig into what this really looks like...
Your Health
I believe that our impact starts with setting a healthy foundation. Without our health, we can’t even begin to get clear on what success looks like. We have no idea what our values are because we are clouded with pain or lacking the energy to think clearly.
I look at every pillar of my business as a bridge. When it comes to your health this means I am building a bridge that takes from stressed to blessed.
We will start by taking a deep dive into what’s out of balance in your life. While you may think this is complicated and will take a long time, we accomplish this in a very simple exercise. And once we uncover what’s out of balance, we create an action plan to rebuild alignment.
Next, we take a look at what’s going on with your thinking. Our thoughts create our habits, identity and reality. So what we think is where we can begin to seed new thoughts for substantial and lasting change. But that starts by identifying what negative thought patterns you have. This means we also explore and uncover your limiting beliefs.
The first step to shifting our self-talk is to uncover what’s there. Then we can build a step by step roadmap to shift your thoughts and beliefs to ones that serve you. To thoughts that will help you build belief in yourself. Thoughts that create the identity of who you really are.
Another core strategy to building a solid health foundation is building a tribe. We all need a community that is there to cheer us on, support us and give us a kick in the butt when we get off track. Humans are built for connection. When we lose this essential need, we let fear and anxiety and stress take the steering wheel of life. We lose control.
Isolation also has terrible consequences on our health…physically, emotionally and mentally. We will build a plan where you can identify your inner circle people, your business tribe and much more. You will discover new ways of building deep and meaningful connections that last a lifetime. And when we feel connected, we show up with confidence and power.
Not to mention that the biggest factor in success is our circle of people. The network we have determines how successful we can be. We can only reach our full potential when we are connected. There is incredible power in numbers. Collaboration amplifies our impact like a ripple effect.
No more going it alone. No more needing to have all the answers. No more lying awake at night in fear. You will learn how to build a tribe that will not only support you but drive you to thriving success!
These are just a few of the strategies in my proprietary process to ignite your health. There’s much more in my toolkit. In fact, if you are starting with health, check out my book Inspiration Contagion, Health Secrets for Raving Success and its accompanying online class today.
Clarity
Next, it’s time to dig into what success looks like for you and the legacy you want to leave behind. When it comes to clarity I take my clients from reactive to guided by priorities.
No more guessing what you should say yes to and what you should say no to. We will start by building out your life and business compass. In this step you will map out your life priorities and define what success looks like in each area. If you prioritize family time, exactly what does success look like for you? You will also map out your three career or business goals for the next quarter. And you will uncover what your big and inspiring goal is long term. That goal that gives you that inner spark. That energy to get out of bed and say “yes, I’m excited to build that…I have purpose today!”.
You will also learn how to use your compass. I will show you how to use it as an anchor and accountability tool. It will guide you on everything you should take action on and everything you need to gracefully say no to. This step is a very freeing step. Because it heightens your clarity while simplifying your life.
One of my clients told me, “Holly, I don’t know what I’d do without my compass. It really makes every decision so simple. My brain isn’t overwhelmed. I don’t feel stressed out or anxious about not doing the right things. I don’t have to worry about wasting my time or taking the wrong direction. I am able to go to sleep knowing I did everything I could today to get at least a little bit closer to my long term goal. Now, I wake up feeling inspired and excited to tackle the day!”.
I don’t know about you but that makes me want to look at my compass! It makes me want to build one if you don’t have one. This tool is powerful. You need it. It will transform your life in massive ways.
Another key strategy in clarity is to build out your morning routine. Every successful leader in the world has one thing in common. They have a morning routine. While their routines are widely different, they all show up with the discipline and do the routine.
I share with my clients the power of a morning routine and the power of having self discipline. With discipline comes tremendous freedom. You can have it all!
You will learn all of the tools you can experiment with as you build out your morning routine.
One of the most powerful tools is visualization. With all of my clients, I challenge them to try visualization for at least 30 days. Visualization is powerful because it allows us to experience today what we want 1 year, 5 years or 20 years from today. In doing so, we can step into that experience. We can feel, hear, taste and experience our dream life right now!
That’s powerful. When I start my morning with visualization, it keeps me inspired, motivated and excited about my day….even when I have tedious things to accomplish.
Tuning into my vision for the future reminds me that every single thing I do today is one baby step on my journey to building that long term dream. And that is exciting!
Business
So you are probably wondering, Holly, what about business? That’s a lot and none of it is business oriented. Well that’s where you are wrong.
As leaders in our businesses if we can’t walk the talk of what we are selling, no one will buy from us. If you aren’t healthy and you show up to a sales call stressed out, overwhelmed, and frazzled, you aren’t likely to get the sale.
On the other end of the spectrum, if you start building or scaling a business that isn’t aligned with your definition of success, you will burn out. Because it’s going against what you want. It’s not who you are.
So often I meet clients who are building a business or a career path based on a definition of success that isn’t theirs. It’s borrowed from a parent, a spouse, a mentor, you name it... When we really stop and they take the time to define success, we quickly discover that we need to shift directions entirely.
In this step, I take my clients from worried to confident.
As we walk through this section of the bridge you will know you are taking action that will build your dream life. You will know that your business is sustainable. You will have a very clear roadmap with baby steps that will get you to your big, long term goals.
In this section, we revisit the foundation of community and tribe. It’s really important that you build an inner circle of business leaders who inspire you. Business people who are experts in areas you aren’t. You can’t know it all but you can build a circle of experts who do know it all.
You need to build out your referral partners, collaboration opportunities, and marketing partners. Doing things with others will get you to your goals and dream life much faster than going it alone. In fact, if you try to go it alone, I promise you will end up stressed out, overwhelmed, drained, and possibly very ill.
Don’t make this mistake. Build your business community. Find your board of experts you can lean on and trust in tough times. Together, we will explore how you can find these people, how you can tune into your intuition to find them and much more.
We will put together an action plan that will take you from feeling like your long term goal is unlikely to inevitable.
Another essential piece of business is understanding your personal and business brand message. We are in an era of marketing where story wins the war, attention span is short and authenticity is the value of the day.
You must be authentic. You must walk the talk. You must be clear on your values, mission, vision, and voice.
I have many tools where we can take a deep dive into every element of this. Step by step we will build out the core foundations of your business. It will be authentic, effective and heart felt. You will learn how to market and connect to your ideal clients.
I teach my clients the shortest pathway to success in building their brand and reaching their clients. And it’s a simple step by step process that you can’t mess up!
Another essential is building your proprietary process and while that may sound complicated, it’s really not. I will share visual examples of this to help spark your creativity. We will brainstorm the most authentic and creative way we can share this with your ideal clients.
Having a proprietary process is key. Your potential clients will feel reassured knowing that you have a process. They need to be able to see the bridge you are building for them.
Having a process also builds your credibility thus building trust with your potential and existing clients. No one wants to be blindly led especially when some of the work we are doing is going to be outside of your comfort zone.
Having this process and creating a simple visual will help you show up with confidence on sales calls. It will help your clients see themselves walking this journey with you. It will help you speak with confidence about what you do in your business and much.
These are only three of the core strategies and tools I have when working with my clients.
When it comes to business, I help my clients build and scale their business so that they can live their dream lives. So that they can have a deep impact on the community they serve. So that they can show up with confidence and ease.
We work through your:
- Marketing
- Technology
- Hiring and managing teams
- Building strategies that work
- Develop the tenants for a sustainable business
- And much more
Build Your Dream Life Today!
Are you ready to go holistic? Are you ready to live your dream life? Amazing! Let’s connect!
Do you know someone who needs this holistic approach? Please share this blog with them.
After all, we are better together. And our world certainly needs more holistic businesses to offer services that heal and solve big problems.
Let’s build your dream life and legacy together today!
