Your SUCCESS COACH, Tom Marcoux
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Question: Why is "coaching" such an exciting benefit for peak performers?

Tom Marcoux: We notice that every peak performer, from Michael Jordon to top CEOs, has a coach. Highly successful people do not have time for trial-and-error approaches to getting more from themselves and life. Your coach helps you truly implement what you know to create great, powerful results in your life. This difference is between knowing and doing. Coaching empowers you more than a book or seminar because your coach helps you customize your personal action plans and remove blocks to getting the vital tasks done.

Question: How are coaching, mentoring, and consulting different?
Tom: I do all three, and sometimes for the same client. Here's a quick overview: mentoring is when someone says, "Here's how I did it." Consultants can say, "Here, with my specialized knowledge and fresh perspective, is how I recommend that you proceed." Coaching has a different framework. Your coach knows that you have the answers. A coach's facilitative questions help you target your own best actions for the upcoming week. You get clarity quickly, you change strategies efficiently, and you create exceptional results faster. In a brief, weekly 30 minute phone-session, your coach helps you gain clarity, strategize, and make commitments to yourself so that your next week feels like one of your best weeks so far in your life. As a coach, I often help clients separate "efforts-goals" from "results-goals." My top-achieving clients consistently put in the most useful efforts. Using my WIN-system(tm) my clients overcome procrastination, guilt-feelings, and "slumps." They learn to keep score and achieve more. They use tracking systems that constantly help them feel great. The powerful principle is that you need to measure it to improve it.

Question: How does your coaching increase feelings of well-being?
Tom: My clients find that they feel more energized on a daily basis, because I assist them in making commitments to themselves so that they keep their many roles in balance. Every week you target ways to enhance your personal and professional relationships. You also nurture yourself.

Question: Why are your coaching clients' romantic partners, families and friends happy about coaching?
Tom: My coaching clients create quality time with the people who are important to them. When top performers are more effective, they get exceptional results in less time. Clients' families and romantic partners appreciate that the client now has more time for them. Clients release stress so that stress does not impinge on quality time anymore. My clients have often used the 101 Strategies to Gain 2 Extra Productive Hours that are quoted in my book Save Your Time and Your Sanity.

A sample of Results enjoyed by Clients:

"I'm very happy. Tom's techniques worked so well. It's like a miracle! Tom's coaching has helped me clarify my goals and take daily action steps. He gives me support in all areas of my life." Martine Velkeniers, San Francisco

"Really inspirational. I think what Tom is doing is wonderful." P.F.