7 signs you can benefit from hiring a coach for your solopreneur business

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Are you thinking about hiring a coach for your solopreneur business? Or are you wondering whether a coach would be useful for you? In this video, we're going to go over the seven indicators that you can benefit from hiring a coach for your solopreneur business. 

My name is Sagan Morrow and I'm an anti hustle Productivity Strategist and internationally board certified Success and Life Coach who specializes in working with solopreneurs. Be sure to grab my free training, Anti Hustle Secrets to Solopreneur Success! 

Now let's get into today's video: Should you hire a coach for your solopreneur business?

Now my take on coaching may be a little bit different than what you hear from other coaches because I don't actually think that coaching is necessary. I don't think that everyone must have a coach. And I also don't believe that everyone needs to have a coach at all times. I think that you can get a lot of benefits from coaching, 100%! …And you can also get a lot of benefits from coaching on an ongoing basis; or by taking breaks, doing your own thing and then coming back to your coach; by changing up to your coaches; all of these different types of things. 

It really depends on your unique situation, your unique wants and needs, your personality, your lifestyle, your brain, your goals, your values, all of these different things go into it. So I am never going to tell you that everyone must have a coach in order to be successful. However, coaching can help you move faster, farther, more enjoyably more smoothly and more easily than if you do things on your own.

So after I work together with my clients and often actually very quickly into us working together one on one, my one on one coaching clients often tell me things like, “you know what Sagan, now that we've been working together, I'm realizing that I am fully capable of doing this stuff on my own. And I really do believe that eventually I would have figured this out, but it would have taken me years to do this on my own, whereas we've accomplished all of this within just a couple of months!” 

I hear that type of thing a lot from my clients, that they realize that they are fully empowered to do this on their own, but it would have taken them a really long time to work through things and to figure it out and, and all of that sort of thing. So basically we just move really, really fast and we get a ton of stuff done and we move really really far, often much farther than they really thought that they were even capable of. We really unlock your potential as a solopreneur. It's so cool. It's so, so beautiful. 

My clients are making big waves, they are learning to love themselves. They are learning to become much more confident in themselves. They are beginning to enjoy their personal lives so much more fully, and really overcome all of that sneaky, negative self-talk that can kind of be insidious and get inside our brains. And they're also doing the thing that they have always dreamed about as sort of as someday far in the distance far as the future sort of idea. They're becoming so much more confident, comfortable and really deeply satisfied with who they are and everything that they have to offer the world. That is the power of coaching.

Again, coaching is not necessarily the right fit for every person. Some people will do better in a group dynamic. Some people might work really well in a live online course where they get to work in a community of their peers. Other people might work really well in a mastermind sort of setting. Others will do really well with self led DIY type of work. So coaching is a possible tool that can be very beneficial for you. So if you're kind of wondering, “okay, could coaching work for me? Am I well suited to coaching? How do I even know if coaching can benefit me?” Then you're in the right place in this video! 

Let's talk about the seven signs that coaching is right for you. So I'm going to go through the seven signs and I want you to give yourself one point for each of these signs that resonates with you every time that a sign resonates with you. If you're like, “yes, that is me,” give yourself one point. We're going to tally them up at the end of the seven signs, and then I will give you a recommendation for your next step depending on where you're at.

Sign number one that hiring a solopreneur coach like me is the right fit for you:

You love planning and you have awesome ideas for your business, but it's not always easy to take action on your plans, especially when it comes to making really good progress on your biggest goals. 

You probably keep finding reasons or obstacles that are preventing you from making progress on your goals. You want something to change, but you're not really sure what to do about it. So give yourself one point, if that resonates with you.

Sign number two that coaching is right for you, is that you love being a solo business owner and you really enjoy doing things on your own (maybe you're an introvert), but at the same time, you kind of wish that you had someone to help hold you accountable. 

You really wouldn't mind a second opinion on some things. You'd love to be able to bounce ideas off of someone else who really understands the solopreneur experience and who really gets where you're coming from. You also want some strategies and guidance in your business that will help you in your business and your lifestyle, that will really help you to get closer to where you want to be. And you also don't want to be stuck in a room where you are competing against other people for one on one attention or to get personalized feedback. So you want support and guidance, but you don't want that sort of group dynamic; you want one on one high touch personalized feedback.

Give yourself one point if that resonates.

Sign number three that you can benefit from hiring a solopreneur coach, you feel scattered and overwhelmed by everything that you need to do and you're not sure how you can possibly keep on top of it all. 

You're feeling maybe a little bit lost or stagnant in your business. You're not really sure what your next steps are and it’s almost starting to feel like your business is suffocating you.

Give yourself one point if that resonates with you.

Sign number four that coaching is right for you: You are exhausted on a pretty much a consistent basis. 

So maybe you're getting the Monday scaries, right so on Sunday night, you're kind of maybe dreading that the workdays starting on Monday. You are maybe worried that you're headed towards burnout or you might already be experiencing some burnout. Give yourself one point if that resonates.

Sign number five that coaching is right for you: You crave time freedom and genuine work life balance, but no matter what you do, it still feels elusive.

You would love for your business to support your lifestyle, rather than feeling like you're always putting your business first. But even though you are trying to prioritize your family or your hobbies or self care or your community, it feels like they are always coming in second to your business. And the problem here as well is that your business requires you to be in it so frequently, that you rarely if ever get to prioritize your personal life.

Give yourself one point if that resonates. 

Sign number six that coaching is right for you: You know that you have some mindset blocks and some internal bottlenecks — maybe that's people pleasing or impostor syndrome or perfectionism, procrastination, something along those lines — but you can't seem to overcome them. 

So you see it happening. You see yourself doing it, you see yourself trapped in it and stuck in it. But you're kind of just like, “well, this is who I am. There's nothing I can do about it.”

Give yourself one point if that resonates. 

Sign number seven that coaching is right for you: You are willing to put in the effort for your business, you enjoy the work you do, you actually like working hard, you care about providing value and really valuable services and products for your clients and customers, AND you also do not want to have to hustle or work 24/7. 

You wish that there was a way to be prolific and accomplished and successful, producing high quality work efficiently, without needing to hustle every single minute of every day.

Give yourself one point if that resonates. 

Okay, Tally up your points!

If you got zero points out of seven, then I am guessing you already have some kind of support system in place. So maybe you've already taken my online course, Productivity Powerhouse. Maybe you are already getting coaching with me inside Solopreneur CEO, or maybe you are part of another coaching program or another mastermind. I'm guessing you have some kind of support in place.

If you got 1 - 3 points, then you could definitely benefit from hiring a coach. So even one point out of those seven signs, even one of those indicates that hiring a coach would be very helpful for you. 

These seven signs also tend to feed into one another. So I would really caution you to be careful if you only have one point, then I would recommend that you deal with it sooner rather than later because that one point can snowball into two or three into four or five points and that kind of thing. So they really can again feed into one another and build off of one another which is why you definitely want to work through them sooner rather than later.

And if you got four to seven points, then you could have used a coach yesterday. I strongly strongly recommend that you hire a coach for your solopreneur business ASAP. And my Solopreneur CEO coaching program would be a great fit. So you can learn more about that at SaganMorrow.com/ceo.