Create a For-profit Business that Supports Your Non-profit Dreams

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by: Ryan P. Desmond

I started Coaches Network as a means to finance my work in Christ. God created me as a teacher and encourager. Coaching is the most natural profession for me to apply my spiritual gifts of teaching and exhortation. And coaching entrepreneurs is a great way for me to expand my services.

Ryan P. Desmond, Founder of Coaches Network

Sport is expensive and requires a great deal of financial resources to produce a meaningful program. Coaching athletes and entrepreneurs is a busy, complimentary mix of who God made me to be. I have the tremendous blessing to see young men grow to become men–husbands and fathers that influence the world for Christ. In addition, the entrepreneurial efforts of the Coaches Network is creating generational wealth for other families to enter into the mission field.

I am proud of the work that we are doing. And I pray that God will continue to give us favor for many years to come. The harvest is great, but the workers are few.

Doing Business. Creating Lifestyle.

The primary mission of Coaches Network is to provide the Desmond Pugh Sports Academy with a strong financial base of support.

Second, we coach sports organizations and other business minds to improve entrepreneurial skills so they can also form a strong financial base of support for the services they provide and create their lifestyle of choice.

Ask me how to join the Coaches Network!

Be Driven by Lifestyle, not Profits. My #1 Principle for Entrepreneurial Success.

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by: Ryan P. Desmond

You cannot be an entrepreneur unless you are making profits! However, I do not want you to measure your success by the size of your bank account. Entrepreneurship is about generating enough profit to create freedom. If you tie your success to the size of your bank account, you run the risk of becoming a slave to the money. You don’t want to be a slave to your money, right? You are an entrepreneur because you crave financial freedom and time freedom. So, maintain that vision.

Money is a tool that we need to enjoy life. It buys life experiences. Everyone wants the nice house and beautiful car. Those are things that every dual income household can purchase. In fact, a nice house and beautiful car can be paid off in 5 to 10 years. Entrepreneurs like you and I, typically desire more. Many of us have seen our parents work and work and work, but they were not able to create the comfortable, nest egg. Therefore, we want to create a family legacy of financial success that will span several generations. The house and the car are not enough. We want to also enjoy our money. We want to see our kids play sports. We want to travel and vacation.

We want to retire before 70 and live in an RV seven months out of the year.

You can have your vision. I encourage you to BUILD IT BIG! And, I encourage you to create a plan to make your vision a reality.

This is my one principle for turning a big vision into a reality.

Most people will tell you that creating a business plan is vital to running a successful business. I agree. P.K. Bernard said, “A man without a vision is a man without a future. A man without a future will always return to his past.” You need a clear vision if you want to change your financial circumstances and grow your business. A business plan is your means of planning and tracking your vision. It also allows you to understand your position in comparison to competitors and the consumer market.

This plan should not be built on the principle of money. Money can buy many things, but it does not buy happiness. In fact, “being in love with money opens the door to all kinds of evil, because chasing it can cause you to pursue things that are not in line with your character” (1 Timothy 6:10). Tons of people have traded their morals and integrity in exchange for money. In the process, they have lost family, friends, health, and the ability to enjoy the fruits of their labor. And their lives are filled with misery. This result is the antithesis of entrepreneurship.

Entrepreneurs seek to create a better way of life for themselves, loved ones, and business associates. That is why your lifestyle plan MUST be created first. One day you will retire from work. And when you retire, life will continue. If you do this first step correctly, you will have a life of joy and prosperity several decades after work. Get your lifestyle plan started by creating a Vision Board.

 

Entrepreneurship is like Juggling. Become an Expert Entrepreneur with This One Piece of Advice.

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by Ryan P. Desmond

Can you juggle? I cannot. I have toyed with the idea several times, but never committed to the learning process. Learning to juggle is not a lengthy commitment. From what I understand, it only takes about 15 minutes to learn. I guess learning never truly interested me.However, being a top-notch entrepreneur is important to me. If it is important to you, consider this piece of advice.

Entrepreneurship, like juggling, is a skill that takes time to learn.

When people learn to juggle, they start out slow. They juggle scarves at first, because they float through the air. This gives you time to develop your hand-eye coordination. It is possible to develop the same hand eye coordination with a ball, but it is a bit harder. The ball falls at a much faster rate, thus reducing the amount of time you have to reaction. Using the ball method may increase your learning time from 15 minutes to several hours.

Entrepreneurs may not have the luxury of a delayed learning curve, because the learning curve equates to revenue. Business markets can seem fickle. And consumer demand can change rapidly. You want to make money as fast as possible. That means the time from launch to revenue must be short.

Keep the time from launch to revenue short by staying focused. What do I mean? You have a ton of ideas for making money. That  is part of what makes you an entrepreneur. However, having tons of ideas can be a bad thing. You have to take the necessary time to develop one idea before you move on to the next. Trust me on this.

Multi-tasking is the enemy of new entrepreneurs. It is very tempting to start every idea that you have, but that will leave you stuck in the beginning stages for all of your ideas. Keep in mind that you are building an empire. That takes time. So, be like the novice juggler. Put all the desire that you have to be successful into the first task. Use that energy to focus on making your initial idea successful. For the juggler, they keep 2 or 3 scarves floating. For the entrepreneur, develop ONE product and create multiple ways to it.

Stay focused on marketing that product until you are able to generate revenue. This is the key to growing your empire.

They changed the channel toward more healthy TV programming

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by Ryan P. Desmond

Changing the Channel

In a recent Tweet, Life Time made the public aware of a change in the way they are doing business. They decided to change the channel on their TV programming. In exchange for the negative news cycle, Life Time will air shows that are more positive and family oriented, in an effort to improve emotional well-being.

Bahram Akradi, CEO of Life Time, founded the company to promote a healthy way of life. The leadership feels this change is consistent with their philospohy and client’s desires for a healthy, family environment.

Kudos to the Brand

I am not sure if Life Time abides by a Christian philosophy; however, I give kudos to the company. This decision is more consistent with their business philosophy, and it also parallels my belief of healthy, biblical living. Our Way of Life should always reflect the teachings of Jesus Christ and laws of God. Proverbs 4:23 says, “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it” (NIV). These words of wisdom are a short statement that draws from the life experiences of our forefathers and give us direction for applying biblical principles in a practical way.

We are rarely able to list all of the potential outcomes of the decisions that we make. Still, that does not change the fact that our decisions often have profound, everlasting affects. That is why the wisdom of others is so important. That is the significance of living in a biblical way. We are able to take advantage of the experiences of so many that have come before us. And in hindsight, we are delighted when we see how our decision to live biblically saved us from heartache. 

Psychologist, Dr. Graham C.L. Davy, Ph.D. believes, “[the emotional content of films and television programs] can affect your psychological health, by directly affecting your mood, and your mood can then affect many aspects of your thinking and behaviour.” His belief supports the sentiments expressed by the author of Proverbs. We must guard our hearts and minds from negativity of all kinds, even sensationalized news. Negatively-charged, sensationalized news has the potential to affect our mood for an entire day. An article published in the Harvard Business Review said, “Individuals who watched just three minutes of negative news in the morning had a whopping 27% greater likelihood of reporting their day as unhappy six to eight hours later compared to the positive condition.”

Summary

As Christians, we must be well informed regarding the events that occur in life. We must also guard ourselves from the onslaught of negative outcomes that sensationalized news tends to market. That is just a way for them to improve ratings. Staying up-to-date on current events, like crime, famine, war, violence, political unrest, and injustice is important to life, because we are more aware of the types of decisions that we must make. And our decisions have the power to guide the world in a godly direction. Life Time has taken a huge step toward creating a more biblical environment on earth.