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The Ultimate Guide to Business Accountability Coaching

When I announced to my family in 2019 that I was becoming a full-time business accountability coach, they had questions, including “What the heck is a business accountability coach?” It sounds like a made-up job. Business coaching is an $11.6 billion industry, and business accountability coaching has surged, as more and more people start microbusinesses. This ultimate guide to business accountability can answer all the questions you {and my mom} have about this business coaching niche.

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Eight Marketing on a Shoestring Strategies

As a microbusiness owner, you may think you need a big pile of cash to effectively promote your business. But that’s not the case. These are my eight favorite low or no-cost strategies to include in a marketing on a shoestring plan.

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Confidence Journal: Your Book of Awesome

No matter how confident you become, you will still have moments where you question yourself, and your confidence takes a hit. Even Rihanna, Adele, and Beyonce have openly admitted to having stage fright. If Adele and Beyonce lose their confidence from time to time, what can we mere mortals do? The solution isn’t to avoid losing confidence- because that’s inevitable- but to get it back as quickly as possible by reviewing your awesomeness through a confidence journal.

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Avoid Confidence-Crushing People and Places

Hopefully, you have at least one ride-or-die, loves you madly, thinks you are the bomb.com personal cheerleader. The President of the You Fan Club. Someone who believes in you and lifts you up. And you have at least one person who sucks the energy, the confidence, and the courage right out of you, like a self-esteem vampire. You might even have a particular place or situation that makes you feel inadequate, self-conscious, and unworthy. If you want to build your confidence and courage, you’ve got to avoid confidence-crushing people and places.

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Confidence Hack: Build Better Habits

Do you brush your teeth every night before you go to bed? Do you have to look at your To-Do List to remember to do it? Of course not. Brushing your teeth is a self-care habit you created as a child. Thanks, mom! Habits are powerful, and having the right habits can build your self-confidence. If you want more confidence, build better habits.

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Practice Self-Care to Increase Confidence

Having self-confidence means we have faith and trust in our abilities. It’s virtually impossible to feel confident when you feel like crap. Exhaustion, burn-out, lethargy, general ickiness do not a confident woman make. It’s crucial that you practice self-care to increase confidence.

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Confidence Hack: Keep Promises To Yourself

If you made a promise to your kid or your grandma, would you honor it, even if it became inconvenient or difficult? Of course, you would, because that relationship matters to you, and you want to be the type of woman that your grandmother or child can count on. Breaking promises is a confidence killer, and when you break the promises you made to yourself, you crush your confidence. To build confidence, practice keeping promises you made to yourself.

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Preparation Creates Confidence

Full disclosure: I’m a planner, prepper, and practicer. Not the “I’ve got six-months worth of food in my basement” type; more of the “the only the I wing in my eyeliner” type. And not because I’m a control freak. My natural tendency is to be more of “winging it” type of gal. But, over the years, I’ve learned that preparation creates confidence.

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