I decided it is time for an update on the business side of Rising Sun Coaching.

Three Months Going Strong

It’s been three months since I left my corporate job for full-fledged entrepreneurship. Coaching is going well, and it is wonderful to be in a career that fills my soul. Please check out the coaching section of my site for more details.

I am also excited to now offer more resources to you, to help you create your best life.

Mastermind Groups

I am currently running a Mastermind Group for coaches, focused on getting their coaching practices up and running. It's a great group, and we're having fun, too.

I am starting two new groups in October. Check out the details on my website.

• Build Your Practice - Mastermind for Coaches
• Grow Your Business - Mastermind for Small Business Owners

Classes

I offered my first class last week, and it was free! It was called Get Your Website Up!, and it was targeted at small business owners who want to have a website and are struggling to get started. The class was recorded, so if this information would be useful to you, email me and I will send you a link to the free recording. If you are looking for more support in getting a website up, I will also be offering drop-in group coaching for a small fee.

Do-It-Yourself Products

I found coaching very helpful to find my right career and a happy life, and I also did a lot of self-reflection and do-it-myself studying. I want to help everyone find the thing in life that makes them happy, regardless of their learning style. 

I will be offering do-it-yourself coaching products on my website. The first product I will have is an audio and workbook companion to Martha Beck's book Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live. I am partnering with my coaching friend Alison Horner to put together this great product for you.

Newsletter

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Questions or Suggestions?

I love to hear ideas and suggestions from my clients, blog readers, and newsletter subscribers. If there is anything you would like to hear about, read about, or be a part of, drop me an email [Jenny [at] RisingSunCoaching [dot] com]. I’d love to hear from you!

I am working on my first downloadable coaching product, and I’m learning so many great lessons along the way. Last week I learned that it’s better for everyone when I put my well-being ahead of everything else. Maybe you think this sounds selfish, but I learned that everyone benefits when we take care of ourselves first.

The product I’m working on is a collaborative project with my coaching friend Alison Horner. We’re creating a companion guide to Martha Beck’s Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live. It’s an audio and workbook set which covers each chapter in the book. Ali and I have been putting a good effort into it and having fun along the way. We both found this book useful for setting our lives on our “right” path and are excited to share it with our clients.

We were making audio recordings one morning recently, and after forty-five minutes, I was toast. I felt flustered and was ready to take a break. We had planned to work for another hour that day, but I didn’t have it in me. I was honest with Ali and said that I needed a break. I knew that we scheduled more time to work that day, but I feared that the quality would suffer if I kept at it. So we quit, and I worked on easier tasks that afternoon.

The next week, after Ali and I put more time into a recording, she said she needed a break. So we quit, and we both worked on other things for the rest of the day. No hard feelings either time.

By being honest about how we were feeling, we honored ourselves, each other, and our product. If we had pushed through despite our feelings, we would have felt drained and the quality of our product would have suffered. No one would have benefited from this.

Often I find it easy to just push through one more thing, ignoring how I feel and focusing on achieving a sense of completion. In the end, everyone suffers with that method. I suffer for pushing myself hard, and others suffer by dealing with an outcome that is less than perfect and was created with some negative energy.

Do you have a tendency to push yourself too hard? Can you call it quits a little sooner, and put yourself first?