Whether you have been an entrepreneur for a while, new to consultancy, or you're getting frustrated with how much you are earning; you will likely want to raise your rates at some point in time.

Here are the observations that I hear when clients are considering raising their rates, but blocks or limiting beliefs are holding them back.

• My clients may go to someone who charges less
• My existing clients will go and I’ll be out of business
• My clients are going to be annoyed when I raise my rates
• My clients will not understand the rate increases
• My clients will complain to others about my rates
• Peers are going to make negative comments about who am I to charge those rates

Let me say this to you right now: these are all common blocks to have.

What is so wrong with wanting to charge more?

Many entrepreneurs do raise their rates for several commercial and lifestyle reasons.

• They are fully booked and earnings become capped
• The margins for their consultancy rates isn’t...

If I look back at my own story as a child, I learned during school that people-pleasing was a skill and it got results. From putting the pens back in the draw to seeing on report cards “Laura is a pleasure to have in class”, there were always ways that I could please people.

As a skill, people-pleasing or a part of what enables you to people-please is important. It is the ability to be empathetic, read and understand your audience in a very short space of time.

It’s important to understand that people-pleasing, isn’t the same as being kind to others.

The behaviour resides in that you will seek to make others happy, even though it may have a detrimental impact on your health and wellbeing.

It can involve you being terrified, with a physical response of being rejected by others.

How do you know if you are a people pleaser:

1. Pretending to agree with people when you don’t
2. Apologies even when you’ve done nothing wrong
3. Not being able to say no even when...

Whether you are looking to become a coach or for your own personal development, neuro-linguistic programming is a powerful coaching tool, and here are the best NLP Books.

The list that follows is comprehensive for beginner level as you explore the powerful world of NLP, and I’ve also thrown in a couple of more advanced books too, for you if you wish to progress.

An important note that the books below give a comprehensive top-level overview of NLP as a topic, but they do not always go into specific focus on certain models or techniques.

What is NLP

Before we get into the book list, let’s go back to what actually is NLP. 

NLP stands for ‘Neuro Linguistic Programming’ and has been around since 1970’s when its co-founders, Richard Bandler and John Grinder first modelled the therapists Milton Erickson, Gregory Bateson, Fritz Perls and Virginia Satir.

ANLP defines NLP as a collection of models, techniques and strategies for modelling excellence, in...

As a certified Master Coach of NLP, I only work with the leading organisations with the NLP Coaching Community and I’m delighted to announce, that I have accepted the position of NLP Specialist Envoy for Online Business & Technology on behalf of the ANLP.

Whilst virtual therapy and coaching sessions are becoming part of the norm as ‘face-to-face’ therapy stopped seemingly overnight after the Covid-19 Pandemic.

As leading coaches we have to find new ways to grow businesses and support clients and this includes online technology.

NEW Online Virtual hypnotherapy clinics, Virtual NLP Success Coaching, and ‘One-to-One’ Sleep Coaching are now part of the safe solution. 

As lead coach and strategist at ElevateLABS, we help coaches build sustainably integrity led services online.  Through my blend of NLP, corporate strategies, and proven online growth systems, I lead the ElevateLABS team that creates long term growth for coaches, consultants, and...

Do you ever find yourself thinking that you don’t know enough, aren’t slim/ pretty or confidence enough/ aren’t experienced enough? Basically just not good enough to achieve your goals?

Let me tell you that you aren’t alone and it’s very common for highly successful people to feel this way to, including the amazing Michelle Obama, Tina Fey and Sheryl Sandberg, who have all publicly said that they felt like a fraud at times.

So what actually is this? It is called Imposter Syndrome and at the core, just not feeling good enough.

Here are some of my top 5 tips to start addressing your Imposter Syndrome.
1. Write down all of your strengths 
sit down and write down a list of all your strengths and positive qualities. If you find any resistance to doing this task, simply put on a blank page, “Why am I awesome.....” and just like you would tenaciously go after any other goal in your business, direct that towards answering this question.

2....

Any entrepreneur will tell you that it is a roller-coaster, that there are highs and lows. As an established entrepreneur for over a decade I know this to be true, but too often being an entrepreneur is pitched as being 100% fun and creating the life of your dreams.

Let’s cut through some of the marketing speak and false promises on this. Yes being an entrepreneur is 100% awesome and I would never trade it for an employed role. It is about creating a life and business of your dreams, and this does take work. It does take hustle and it does take hard work and momentum to get a business started especially if you are at the beginning.

Many entrepreneurs also find themselves feeling very isolated and lonely, as they spend large quantities of time on their own. It is one of the reasons as to why I created the Facebook community Entrepreneurs Elevating to bring together those entrepreneurs who are seeking to build a highly profitable and have longevity in business built on solid...

The reason as a mindset ninja coach that selling is so important to me is that no matter what field you are in, the impact on increasing your conversion rate, increasing your average order value and increasing your lifetime customer value has HUGE impact on your business.

The world has undeniably changed for me since I learned not just the techniques but the neuroscience behind how to sell with ease.

As a coach, I used to hate the idea of actually selling my services, it felt sleazy and pushy. And this is something that I hear from so many of my own clients too.

Clients who are tenacious and awesome at what they do, yet selling to them feels like incredibly hard work.

Here are a few quick tips that you can implement today on how to sell more:

1 – Get to Know your Customer

As an NLP Master Practitioner, we call this getting into rapport, and on a basic level, it means getting to know your customer BEFORE you launch into your sales script.

Match and mirror their...

And you are not alone, there are many creative ways that people come up with reasons and ways of procrastinating:

So why do we procrastinate? Often because we haven’t aligned with our bigger vision goals and broken them down in actionable steps.

But there is hope and here are my 6 top tips on How to Stop Procrastinating Now

1 – Be Nice.

One of the quickest ways to break out of the procrastination and guilt cycle is to give yourself a break and stop beating yourself up for procrastinating in the first place.

Remember, after you’ve given yourself a good kicking you are still in the...

Everyone has a relationship with money, and much like any other relationship, you learned the parameters of that relationship, and how to ‘be’ in a relationship with money when you were a child before the age of 7.

If our money story is empowering and we have an ease and flow in attracting, holding and spending money then the financial success we crave is likely to be a reality.

However if your thoughts and feelings about money are disempowering, or they are holding you back, we refer to these as limiting beliefs.

As we grow we try on these limiting beliefs and they can be reinforced by age, so overcoming them in middle to late adulthood can be a challenge.

So what can you do to get rid of those limiting beliefs about money? A simple yet hard step...

a talented solo floral designer, goes in 3 years from working on her own to securing one of the most prestigious ‘floral designer in residence’ contracts in the whole of the UK, at the prestigious Four Seasons Ten Trinity.

That is exactly what the vivacious and inspiring Paula Rooney has done and is now becoming known as the rising star of the international floral designer community, sought after for luxury brides, floral design installations and even cruise ships!

Now having an in-house team of 6 plus her on-site floral design team, success like this doesn’t just happen and I’ve been working with Paula as her mind coach and success mentor.

Paula isn’t alone either, as shown on my testimonial page, but also celebrities such as Oprah, Richard Brandson, Nia Long, Leonardo DiCaprio plus elite athletes such as Serena Williams to presidents such as Bill Clinton have all worked with...