Last week I hosted a work/life balance webinar at work.

During the webinar I nattered away about my experience of burnout, how I came through it and what I’ve learnt about stress & work/life balance.

I ran a couple of exercises too. 

And I also shared a few ideas from the Inside-Out Understanding which underpins all my coaching, webinars, workshops and even these merry emails.

It was a fun webinar and hopefully useful for a few folk.

But I had a sneaky ulterior motive for the webinar.

See, I’m revving up to re-run my 10 week Mindset & Clarity workshops. 

(that’s right - we’re taking these workshops for another spin baby!)

These were the workshops I ran earlier this year for my very own department at work.  And now another department has come knocking, asking if I’ll run the same workshops for them.

When I promoted the workshops first time round, I pinged out an email.  But this time I wanted to give colleagues a taste of what to expect. 

A little something to nibble on, if you will.  A preview of coming attractions.

Hence the webinar.

And it seemed to do the trick.

Of the 60 odd people on the webinar, 19 signed up for the 10 week Mindset & Clarity workshops then & there.

That’s a big win in my book. 

And it’s reminded me of something I’ve known for a while but sometimes forget:

The best way to grasp what something is like is to experience it directly.

The work/life balance webinar I ran last week is the perfect example.

The way I broached the topic, the nature of the exercises, the energy on the call, the flow of ideas, the space for reflection and the potential for insights gave a much richer, deeper, truer feel of what the Mindset & Clarity Workshops will be like vs sending out an email.

And I think that’s why 19 people signed up.

Funnily enough, this is also why I LOVE going to food fairs.  The stall-holders live by the same philosophy.  So there are always free samples and it’s rare I’ll leave a food fair without having nibbled a few cubes of cheddar, sampled a vegan chocolate brownie, slurped on a rhubarb kombucha and tried all sorts of wacky flavoured chilli oils.

i.e. it’s not reading pretty words about a vegan chocolate brownie which gives a sense of what it tastes like.

It’s by tasting it.

And I don’t care if it’s nibbling chocolate brownies, test driving a car, trying on new clothes, checking out a new neighbourhood or anything else similar.  For as long as you research, weigh up the options, make a pros & cons list, ask other people, ponder it deeply and consider all the what-ifs, it won’t compare to the feel you’ll get by just trying it.

This is precisely why I’m offering free 30 minute taster sessions for my Baby on Board coaching sale.

I want to give you a risk-free, no-obligation opportunity to experience what 1 on 1 coaching is like.

But this opportunity ends on Sunday and stragglers will be turned away with their tail between their legs.

If you’d like to take a nibble before then

That’s all for today.

 - Tom