🙂 Buy a great value course that has loads of videos and exercises. Select and purchase a brand new notebook to capture all your great ideas and learning. Feel positive and hopeful.

🤓Start off strong by watching the course videos in order and doing your homework.

🤩 Get excited with all your new ideas and start building your website.

😬 Quickly realise that building a website takes FOREVER, you’re not quite sure what to write where and you’re close to throwing your laptop at the wall because you can’t get images to look how you want them to look. Website building stalls.

🙂 Start listening to business and marketing podcasts and fill your notebook with more and more ideas.

😐 Post on IG but it’s a bit ad hoc and inconsistent.  Switch between feeling thrilled and frustrated depending on the reaction/lack of reaction you get from them.

😐 Keep intending to go back to the course to watch the next video and promise yourself you will religiously do the exercises. 

🙈 Months go past and you have not watched the next video nor done the exercises – you keep intending to, just life keeps getting in the way…

😩Start wondering what you should do next and when you are going to find the time to do it. Working after work is not really working for you because you are too tired and there’s not enough time in the weekend either.

🤯 Feel overwhelmed as you now have too many ideas and you can’t figure out what to do next. Also having to manage all the demands and colleague drama of your paid job – it’s a lot on your plate.

🥲 When you manage to carve out some time to work on your biz, you feel pulled in all directions. It takes a while to focus on just one thing and then when you finally get into it, you overthink it trying to get it just how you want it, spending way to long in the process and then still feel dissatisfied with the result.

🫣 Your friend asks you “how’s the biz going, do you think you’re going to hand in your notice soon?” And you feel embarrassed and mutter something along the lines of “yeah good, you know it’s a journey…” When really, feel you like you’re nowhere near your first sale let alone working for yourself full time and you have no clue how you’re going to find the time, energy or focus to get there!

🙂 Buy a great value personalised 1:1 accountability coaching package. Your coach gives you a tried & tested action planning spreadsheet where together you will prioritise, plan and review your goals and weekly tasks, as well as strategically capture future business ideas. Feel positive and hopeful.

🤓 Start off strong by meeting your coach and setting clear, achievable short, medium and long term goals aligned with your vision and purpose. Your coach helps you craft a personalised plan, ensuring you stay on track and motivated.

🤩 Quickly realise that the first most important step of building your biz is NOT creating a website but getting clear on your niche, offer and transformation for your clients. Get excited as your coach guides you through these fundamental steps helping you to develop your offer, write your sales page, create your lead magnet or whatever it is that is the next step for you using all the information you have already available.

🤔 Still listen to business and marketing podcasts and get excited with more and more ideas. Discuss these with your coach who helps you figure out which are the most needle moving actions to prioritise and which are better to return to later. Capture the latter to return to strategically in the future.

😁 Use your coach to help keep you accountable to create valuable content consistently for your audience in a way that fits into your existing schedule and starts generating you interested leads.

👏 Regularly check in with your coach to review your progress against your plan and goals. Each session includes a review of what’s working, what’s not, a discussion to agree what is the next thing to be prioritised and how that will fit into your upcoming schedule. Your coach gently pushes you out of your comfort zone encouraging you to be brave and take bolder actions.

🤹As the months go by, you see tangible progress and feel proud of the steps you’ve taken. Life still gets busy, but your coach helps you find the time to keep moving forward, making sure you stay motivated, focused and on track even while juggling the stresses of your paid job.

😀 When you work on your biz, you focus quickly and work effectively. Your coach helps you avoid overthinking, perfectionism and negative self-talk, enabling you to complete tasks more efficiently and feel satisfied with your progress.

🥳 Your friend asks you “how’s the biz going, do you think you’re going to hand in your notice soon?” And you smile confidently, saying “It’s going great! I’m seeing real progress, I’ve made my first sale and I have a solid plan in place to keep growing.” You feel closer than ever to realising your dream of being your own boss thanks to the regular prioritising, planning, reviewing, learning, support and accountability from your coach.

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Hi! We’re Ali and Neil, Certified Coaches (Chartered Management Institute, Institute of Leadership & Management) and co-founders of The One Life School.

Our background is in Psychology and Behaviour Change. Neil used to be Experimental Psychologist (PhD) and Ali graduated with a Masters in Psychology and Behaviour Change.

And we learnt the hard way exactly what happens when you don’t have accountability in your business, EVEN IF you’re doing something that you love!

Ali became a workaholic, sacrificed her personal life when building her drop-shipping business. She created the products, made the website, and had all the enthusiasm in the world to make it work. But she was was too scared to put herself out there and actually MAKE SALES(!) and because no one held her accountable to do it, the business failed and her drop-shipping dreams died.

Neil tried to build a coaching biz alongside his full time job but struggled to know what to do, let alone find the time and energy to do it. He knew the only way he would ever grow his coaching business was to quit his job as a Psychologist and take a leap into full-time entrepreneurship creating stakes that forced him to take massive action and make sales or literally go hungry. This was an accountability strategy that got results but felt like stress on steroids and is not recommended!

Now we combine our knowledge, skills and experience in Psychology, coaching, business and productivity to help give you the right structure and support so that taking action to grow your business is quicker, easier and a lot more fun!