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Personal Coaching
A serious performer in any field needs coaching to improve his or her performance. Life is the ultimate endeavor. You don't get a do-over as far as we know, so you might as well put your stamp on this life and enjoy it to the max.
"Tom,
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU for providing a structure and your expert guidance on this part of my journey. I'm looking forward to our next meeting.
Susan Sanders
Instructional Design and Training Facilitation
Lewisburg, West Virginia"
"Tom,
When I first talked to you about some allergies that had kept me awake from the congestion for well over 2 weeks – it was really just a small conversation maker. Imagine my surprise when you said you could fix it with just a little bit of time. The amazing part is that before the evening was over the headache and congestion were both gone.
That pales in comparison to the help you gave me in my stumbling block to public speaking. In just a short week after meeting with you I was able to close a room that meant over $70,000.00 in income to me. Since then doing a weekend that results in over $100,000.00 are becoming fairly common.
Thanks For all of your help my friend,
Terry Wygal
The Quick Home Buyer, Houston, Texas"
What Coaching does
When a top performer is Coached, they keep improving. When you have a competent Coach with a supportive outside perspective you can make very rapid improvements in how you do almost anything.
Here's what happens to normal people without Coaches.
Humans develop about 85% of their opinions regarding the world (and themselves) by the time they are five years old. Another 10% of their beliefs is formed and has become solid by the time they have turned eighteen.
That means that 95% of their beliefs and values are formed by age eighteen. Those beliefs and values are the filters that determine how we understand the world around us, and how we form new habits and behavior patterns.
How We Get "Stuck"
There's a funny thing about new habits and behaviors. As soon as a behavior pattern develops, it begins to harden. With us inside it.
What worked in the past has a way of sticking around in our unconscious, and acts as a "parking brake" in our future. We often feel like we are "Sabotaging" ourselves when actually there is just an old outmoded pattern stuck our the unconscious that needs to be updated.
Most people lead cramped and narrow lives — not because they chose them — but because they didn't keep pushing through the walls of the box that was forming around them. It happens to all of us.
That shouldn't surprise anyone. Most adult learning and understanding of situations is actually being handled by a bunch of five-year-olds!
How To Get Unstuck
The path to achievement and fulfillment is a steady pushing at personal horizons, discovering new ways to give and receive the joys of this life. If you want a champion's life you will need outside help and support, a lift when you need it and a caution when it's useful.
Coaching can help you:
* Increase your income — whether you're in a job or running your own business.
* Resolve performance blocks and personal issues that may get be hampering your success.
* Identify and develop new skills and behavior patterns to get you where you want to go.
* Gain focus and greater certainty in choosing and tracking your progress toward your goals.
* Most importantly, you can increase satisfaction — in your customers, your mate, and yourself.
"When I started coaching with Tom Hoobyar 2 years ago, I didn't realize how valuable our sessions would actually prove to be.
It's one thing to get advice about specific business tactics and marketing advice (all of which Tom is qualified to give). But it's an entirely different thing to understand why you do what you do… why you're not doing what you know you can do. Having coached many hundreds of entrepreneurs to greater levels of success myself, I've seen that most people are limited not by technical know-how but hidden demons, belief systems, self-imposed limitations.
Those are the things that I talk to Tom about – every chance I get. Tom has helped me clarify my business priorities, get rid of things I never should have been doing in the first place. My business has doubled in this time and no doubt he's played a part. But more he's also helped me make great strides in my personal and family relationships. Especially my marriage.
Most people have two or three beliefs or past events or self-imposed limitations which, once untangled, make that desperately-awaited quantum leap possible. Tom gets to the bottom of these things faster than anyone I know. Once you make that quantum leap you'll hardly be able to wait for the next one – and Tom will be there to help you with that, too.
Perry Marshall
Chicago, Illinois
www.perrymarshall.com"
How To Pick a Coach
1. Client-centered Orientation. Remember that a coach works for you; the input MUST be beneficial to you — just like your physical trainer. Check his or her competence (satisfied customers) and training to learn if their skills will be useful to you.
2. Personal Compatibility. Assess his or her compatibility with you and your personal and professional goals (very important!). It's critical that the person you choose LISTENS to you and focuses on what YOU want – and does not try to force a solution on you.
3. Results. Were you able to agree on the outcome you wanted? Then were you able to list how specifically you would know when you had accomplished it? And did you get it?
"If you are tangled up, stuck or struggling in your business or your life, Tom Hoobyar can help you get moving in the direction you most want — in hours not days and months. He is an extraordinarily talented coach. His years of entrepreneurial success and his caring heart give him a perspective that is hard to find anywhere else."
Rob Berkley, Master Certified Coach. Martha's Vineyard, MA
"Tom is in the minority of those Coaches who can pinpoint the trouble within a few moments to one session and come up with a plan to recovery.
I know. I experienced it. After consulting with Tom for only a couple of months, my income in the next several months INCREASED 3 FOLD! I have the Income Tax Returns to prove it.
Not only did Tom put me on a course of recovery financially, my confidence grew, I had more respect for myself and everything he recommended (my homework, yes there is work involved) worked in my favor.
I set the path for the type of client I wanted and had a choice in selecting them. Tom is very direct, sincere and has an uncanny way of seeing through the mess in our lives. I highly recommend his expertise.
Steve Grabianowski
Redwood City, California"
Can I help you?
At this point neither of us has the answer. Here's an easy way to get an idea, without risking your money or my time.
I invite you to browse the rest of the site, particularly the Featured Articles. It'll give you a feel for my thinking and personality. There's a lot of free information here that will be useful to you and you're welcome to it. You are also welcome to sign up for the "Tom's Tips" Newsletter, free by email.
How I work
I work with clients face to face, by phone and through email. Usually during our relationship we are in contact through more than one of these channels. I do multiple-session coaching (agreed to at the beginning of our work). Most of my coaching with entrepreneurs is done with members of my Mastermind groups.
When it can work, it's more cost-effective for the client and more time-effective for me.
If you're interested in coaching we need to find out whether I can do you any good. I'm not a good fit for everybody. I've had extensive training in NLP, Coaching and hypnotherapy and I'm an inventor/entrepreneur, so I tend to be more direct than, say, a minister or psychotherapist.
Most of what my clients want from me is quick empathetic insight that they can put to use immediately. And sometimes a roadblock-breaking intensive series to get them moving in the direction of their dreams.
If you're interested in coaching with me, please email or fax me with your background and the situation you're facing. My contact information is here, and also in the "Contact Us" link at the top of the web pages on this site.
I'll review your information and get back to you with recommendations and resources that may include coaching, or it may include information and referrals to other resources. And we'll go from there.
Thanks for stopping by,
Tom
"I really enjoyed sitting down with you last week. I just got back from the meeting we talked about. It went fantastically; I didn't really have a single misstep through the whole thing. In fact I felt like I didn't have a care in the world and was completely at ease. That sense has been building since the moment I left you.
It was just fantastic. Everything's been going well. I just can't thank you for your help enough."
Patrick Clark
Stockbroker
Philadelphia, PA
"Tom is an excellent teacher and guide. He has a wealth of knowledge that he shares in a very practical, down to earth way. He is generous with his time and expertise. A real gem of a person."
Marnie Fehrer, RN, Nurse Practitioner, Certified Healing Touch Practitioner.