In 2011, I became a certified Best Year Yet coach and now, one of the primary focuses of my coaching with pet business owners has been to provide Best Year Coaching with them to create powerful shifts in their business and their lives.

What that means is simply: I help you create the best year you’ve ever had in work and in your personal life.

In a nutshell, here’s how the Best Year process works:

1. Together we explore your roles, goals, values.

4. In 12 months you’ve lived your Best Year ever!

Want to find out even more information and create your Best Year ever?

It’s for ANYONE who wants to create the best year of their life–including YOU.

Click to find out more and to sign up for Best Year Yet Coaching for Pet Sitters, Dog Walkers and Dog Trainers.

Horray! Just got another good review for my book “Six-Figure Pet Business”.

This one from the National Cat Groomers Institute of America. Here’s the review:

“I found Six Figure Pet Business to contain a great deal of helpful information for pet grooming business owners, especially for those just starting out. The content is thorough, well organized and presented in a way that makes implementation easy to keep up with. I recommend the book to all of our students.”

Kristin’s note: I love pioneers in any industry and the National Cat Groomers Institute of America (NCGIA) is one!

Here’s why: The first cat grooming standards to ever exist within the grooming industry were set by the NCGIA in 2007. This was a result of an attempt to meet the needs of pet groomers wishing to practice safer and better quality cat grooming. Through instruction and the certification process, pet groomers have been able to better meet the demands of the cat-owning public and grow their businesses. Cats and their owners also benefit from the NCGIA training and certification program by having quality grooming performed for them on a regular basis.

The NCGIA’s primary goal is to maintain feline grooming standards within the pet grooming industry. To assist groomers around the world in meeting those standards, the NCGIA offers training through hands-on instruction, video, lecture, and written material. Certification is earned upon completion of exams that have been created to meet those standards.

Thanks, NCGIA for the great review and also for setting the bar for cat groomers around the country!

If you are interested in finding out more about the NCGIA, contact the National Cat Groomers Institute of America.

One of the visions that I’ve had for the last couple of years has been to do more public speaking so I could connect live with pet business owners.

All of my pet business coaching is done with people on the phone which is great (I love it and so do my clients who get to have sessions with me in their jammies!) and I also really like the face-to-face connection.

I’ve had “public speaking” written on my visions list for a couple of years and boy has it has happened this year! 🙂

I spoke at the National Association for Professional Pet Sitters 2012 conference in Las Vegas, I’ve recently been asked by local business associations to speak at various business functions this year, a couple of weeks ago I was asked to go to Las Vegas again to speak at another pet business conference (I’ll be speaking on Monday, October 22), and then I’ll be speaking in San Antonio for the NAPPS conference in February 2013.

I’ve done a lot of visioning and goal setting in my life and most of what I’ve put on my various lists has manifested.

Here are four tips that I’ve discovered through my own visioning and goal setting journey:

1) Writing your visions down is crucial. And putting it where you can see it daily will likely make it happen. There’s something powerful about having your vision or goals for your life in writing that causes it to manifest more easily. It’s not magic even though it may feel like magic. What happens is that, by seeing your visions or goals on a daily basis, you begin taking the actions needed to achieve your goals. It’s as simple as that.

2) As you are visioning ask yourself: “What would I create in my business or my life if I had no fear?” Fear is the #1 emotion that holds us back from visioning and thus achieving what we want. When we can be present to the fear then it will start to shift and movement will happen. Paying attention to the fear is powerful stuff. What we resist persists. Don’t resist the fear, simply recognize it and live your life in spite of the fear. Fear will always be there, it’s how you relate to it that impacts your life.

3) Have patience. Do the footwork. Trust your visions for your business and your life will happen in right timing. As I mentioned above I wrote “public speaking” on my visions list a couple of years ago. It didn’t happen right away. But I was persistent and motivated to do steps needed to make this vision happen. …And some of these speaking engagements have happened out of the blue which is one of the things I most love about visioning–you never know how your visions will happen but just trust that, in right timing, they will happen when you are ready for them to happen.

4) Celebrate what you’ve created. We are so quick to move on to the next thing, the next goal. When you have achieved something significant in your life allow yourself to pause and honor it (and honor yourself for having achieved it).

I hope to see some of you at these speaking events I’ve got lined up!

Warmly,
Kristin

Howdy! I’ll be speaking at the National Association of Professional Pet Sitters (NAPPS) annual conference in San Antonio, Texas. Yee-Haw!

Last year it was such a treat to meet many of you in person (for the first time). It brought tears to my eyes to actually see, in person, so many of you that I’ve worked with on the phone through the years. Such joy.

Come join me February 8-10, 2013. For more information and to sign up for the NAPPS conference, go to the National Association of Professional Pet Sitters website.

Just received a book review for my book Six-Figure Pet Business from Martin Deeley, Executive Director of International Association of Canine Professionals (IACP):

“As an ex-management lecturer and business consultant I can tell you Six-Figure Pet Business is a first class piece of advice/book for all wishing to start in the Pet Business.

Starting you own business can be so daunting and a potential minefield in our minds. So much so that we never really get started on what we would love to do – run our own business.  Pet businesses are often small one owner businesses at first and gradually grow but rarely get large.  Therefore we can be on our own with little help or support – having to be jack-of-all-trades. What I enjoyed about Six-Figure Pet Business was it was simple to understand and broke down all the different barriers to starting and running your own pet business in a way that has you saying – “I can do that!”

It was written in a way that not only explained clearly what to do but also was also enjoyable to read and learn from. The important points at the end of each Chapter assists in reinforcing what is read and really pinches home what needs to be done. Even though I have been in the pet business for many years there was so much in this book that got me thinking – ‘yup, I must start doing that’ or ‘I must start doing that again’.

For those wanting to start their own <dog training, dog grooming, doggy day care> business this is essential reading. For those already in business it is a reminder of what we should still be doing or should do, to build success.

I will definitely be recommending Six-Figure Pet Business to all wishing to start their own pet business and those already in it.”  

-Martin Deeley, Executive Director

International Association of Canine Professionals (IACP) www.canineprofessionals.com

Thanks, Martin and the International Association for Canine Professionals for the great review! 🙂

Thank you to the International Boarding and Pet Services Association (IBPSA) for the wonderful review they gave my book Six-Figure Pet Business: Unleash the Potential in Your Dog Training, Pet Grooming, Dog Day Care and Any Other Pet Business.

Here’s the review:

“Kristin has once again shown herself to be a terrific Business Coach! Six-Figure Pet Business gives the pet care service professional all the steps they need to grow their pet business. Following Kristin’s step-by-step program as laid out in this book will make future growth plans easier to begin. And for those individuals looking to start a pet care business this is a must read.”

It’s reviews like this that make all that time spent writing the book completely worthwhile!
🙂