Let’s face it: sometimes it’s tough to stay motivated while educating yourself. As with anything that’s worth doing, there’s a “dip” you’ll inevitably run into in the process of self-education: a motivational wall that must be surmounted before you really start to see the benefits of your effort. Once you’ve hit the wall, it’s hard to push through it alone, and ordinary people simply give up… and forfeit the life-long benefits of a useful, practical business education.

4 Barriers to a Comprehensive Business Self-Education

When your life gets hectic, spending focused time learning and growing is one of the first things to go, even though it’s critically important if you want to achieve the goals you’ve set for yourself. In a recent survey of PMBA readers, almost everyone mentioned some variation of…

• “Keeping Motivated”
• “Staying Focused”
• “Committing the Time”
• “Putting What I Learn into Practice”

… as the biggest barriers to meeting their personal business education goals. Education is, paraphrasing Stephen Covey, “very important… but not urgent.”

PMBA Coaching is an elegant way to keep your personal growth your #1 priority.

What is PMBA Coaching?

The purpose of personalized PMBA coaching is to help you clarify your goals and priorities, construct an individualized learning plan, and provide motivation and support throughout your self-education process. Coaching is one of the most effective ways I’ve found to inject a healthy dose of structure, motivation, and accountability into what can often be a confusing and frustrating process. Having a good coach is like working with a personal trainer: while you may be doing the same exercises, a little extra push from your coach can help you get more results in less time.

Over the past five years, I’ve created and refined a unique approach to business education: 57 concepts that will give you a solid framework you can rely on to make good business decisions. By working with me, you’ll easily be in the top 1% of the human population when it comes to knowing:

• How businesses actually work.
• How to start a new business.
• How to improve your current business.
• How to use business-related skills to accomplish your personal goals.

I’ve spent several years testing these fundamental principles with my clients and readers. Understanding and applying these “business mental models” have helped them launch new careers, land job offers from prestigious institutions, get promoted, start new businesses, and in several cases, go through the entire product development process (from idea to first sale) in under 4 weeks.

These concepts are important because they work. Not only will you be able create more value for others and improve your own financial situation, you’ll find it noticeably easier to achieve what you set out to do – and you’ll have more fun along the way.

Personalized Attention and Customization

Personalized attention and customization is something that the PMBA can offer that’s unique in the world of business education. Traditional MBA programs still use the “assembly line” model of education: you spend the majority of your time focusing on what your professor thinks you need to know alongside 20-30 other students, regardless of what you personally need to know now to increase your effectiveness and achieve your goals. Personalized coaching is the exact opposite of the “Death by Powerpoint” so prevalent in today’s business school classrooms: 100% of the time and energy you spend is focused on you as an individual.

In addition, personal coaching will give me the opportunity to bring my experience and knowledge to bear directly on the issues that are most important to you. The PMBA reading list is, by necessity, a one-size-fits-all approach. While it’s a great way to get started, it may be entirely appropriate for you to go deeper on certain topics than the PMBA does. I’ve literally reviewed thousands of books to create the PMBA reading list, and I can help you create a detailed learning plan that will suit your needs perfectly.

To be clear, I’m not a business professor – I can’t “educate” you or give you a credential. I am, however, happy to help you clarify your goals, construct a personalized learning plan that suits your needs, share the knowledge and resources I’ve collected over the years, and help you stay excited and motivated while you put what you learn into practice.

Here’s what a few of my clients have to say about PMBA Coaching…

Daniel Joshua Rubin, New Media Writer, HolywoodDan Multimedia Enterprises:

My name is Daniel Joshua Rubin, and I’m a writer currently working in Hollywood who is looking to transition fully into the New Media. I needed to get up to speed as quickly as possible as a businessperson so that I can build a legitimate career creating and writing on the ‘Net.

The transition from Hollywood to the New Media can be unnerving. The New Media landscape is changing at high speeds and culture shock from playing the Hollywood game, to working entirely independently requires great self-knowledge, discipline, and developing a much more healthy relationship with one’s own creativity.

I discovered Josh and the Personal MBA through The Motley Fool, after he posted something impressively intelligent on the discussion boards. From the instant I looked over the PMBA Reading List and reviewed Josh’s “manifesto” I knew there was something legitimately inspired in his work.

The PMBA Coaching program does an excellent job of mixing the development of your business knowledge with development of self-knowledge. This is a perfect recipe for building long-term success because the PMBA Coaching program addresses key details of your personality, your working habits, and builds a program that is highly personal.

The word “personal” is extremely key here, and entirely accurate. I’ve been working with Josh for about six months and have seen not just an increase in my productivity, but a radical increase in the enjoyment I feel for my work. This has had an incredibly massive effect on my personal life, as the energy that I save from poor work habits, stress, etc. now goes into being more present and engaged with my family and friends.

Josh has an extraordinarily rare combination of fundamental human decency, compassion and integrity mixed with excellence and extreme competence. Again, it’s a “personal” experience and in order to excel at this program, one must be willing to face down their flaws in order to rise above them.

Josh is relentlessly positive and exceptionally reliable in every way. In the six months we’ve been working together, I can honestly say I have never heard him raise his voice, make a sarcastic comment or betray my trust in even the slightest way. For the vast majority of people, learning in a hyper-positive environment like Josh consistently creates is 1,000 times more effective than learning in a competitive, tense, stressful scene.

Josh is laser-focused on keeping things positive, maxing out the value of the time he spends with people and you can tell that he genuinely cares about what he does. He is extremely confident, but in an unpretentious, unaffected, and entirely righteous way – and that’s contagious. Here, with the PMBA, you find a guy doing exactly what he was so obviously meant to do. There are many people who do an excellent job in this world, but very few of them do it with the level of compassion and basic human kindness that you find in Josh.

I recommend PMBA Coaching with great enthusiasm. In a world that is changing so rapidly, one has to be able to adapt quickly and develop the skills necessary to compete at the highest level. Josh is all about developing highly-personalized skills with extreme competence and speed. His PMBA coaching program is ridiculously inexpensive in relation to the value you’ll receive.

While I may not end up with a fancy degree from a prestigious university hanging on my wall, I have no doubt that I’m developing the skill set necessary to be successful and more importantly, developing something 1,000 times more essential – what Johnny Cash called, “A Satisfied Mind.”

Travis Corcoran, President, SmartFlix.com / HeavyInk.com:

I’m an engineer who accidentally started a company and grew it to $1 million a year in revenue, despite not knowing much at all about business. I had some confidence that the things that I was doing were being done decently well (say, a B- or so as a letter grade, where most startups get Ds and Fs and then disappear), but I was worried that there were areas where there were “unknown unknowns” – I might be getting Fs and not even know it!

Josh has given me a lot of great ideas for marketing approaches to try at work. Insights about employee personalities and intra-employee interactions have also been quite useful in managing an office of 10-15 people. (Particularly given that I’m an introvert.)

I recommend PMBA Coaching to anyone who fits my profile: running a small company without a background in management or a good mentor.

Vincent Touquet, Strategist & Entrepreneur, Bratislava:

I’m very interested in developing my skills, and PMBA Coaching seemed like the best way to put “personal” back into personal development. I was a bit skeptical of PMBA Coaching at first, but after giving Josh the benefit of the doubt and agreeing to a few sessions, he quickly convinced me of the usefulness.

PMBA Coaching is good and to the point. Personally, it has made me more confident in what I want and how I would like to go about my professional life, which automatically positively impacts my personal life too. I feel that the biggest impact is yet ahead: it’s like a guide which can positively impact you in any endeavor, but this endeavor needs to come from within – it will not be given to you by the PMBA.

I recommend PMBA Coaching to anyone with an open spirit who wants to change their way of thinking and working, particularly entrepreneurial types, whether they work for a company or have their own business.

PMBA Coaching Plans – Different Plans for Different Needs

To accommodate different needs, several coaching plans are available. The higher the level, the more coaching you get:

Twice-a-Week Intensive PMBA Coaching – $1497/month. Includes 2 hour of phone coaching every week (Monday/Tuesday + Thursday/Friday); fully personalized learning plan, including detailed business / product launch plan; goals and priorities coaching; habits and routines coaching; and in-depth business and career consulting. (Best for individuals launching a new business or major project.)

Weekly Advanced PMBA Coaching – $797/month. Includes 1 hour of phone coaching every week; fully personalized learning plan; goals and priorities coaching; habits and routines coaching; and in-depth business and career consulting. (Best for solo entrepreneurs who need a more structured weekly review and constant improvement in business skills.)

Bi-Weekly PMBA Coaching – $497/month. Includes 1 hour of phone coaching every 2 weeks; fully personalized learning plan; and goals and priorities coaching. (Best for aspiring entrepreneurs, corporate managers, and busy executives.)

Warning: For Serious Business Professionals Only

PMBA Coaching is not right for everyone. I’m choosing to focus my time and energy on people who are truly dedicated and committed to learning about business and educating themselves. If you’re not dedicated to improving your business results and the quality of your life, PMBA Coaching is not for you.

Before you commit to any of these plans, I’m willing to talk with you by phone to see if PMBA-related coaching is right for you, without any obligation whatsoever. If we’re a good fit, we’ll discuss next steps during our conversation.

Book Your No-Obligation Consultation Now in 2 Minutes

Coaching slots are strictly limited, and are provided on a first-come-first-serve basis. To ensure you receive the help you need to reach your goals, take a few minutes now to reserve your slot.

Due to strong demand, I will also be increasing the price of PMBA Coaching in the very near future. Several respected mentors with whom I’ve discussed PMBA Coaching believe I’m charging too little for my services, and I’m starting to believe them. If you’re on the fence, taking 2 minutes to book a consultation now will lock in the current rate structure.

If you’re interested in learning more about PMBA Coaching, click the button below to sign up. Here’s how the sign-up process works: the system will charge you a $20 deposit for the consultation, which helps me verify that (1) you’re a real person, and (2) you’re serious about exploring coaching. It also gives me your contact information, which I’ll use to schedule our first session.

Our first call is a great opportunity to meet each other, discuss what you’re doing, and see if we’re a good fit. If so, the billing logistics are already handled, and we can get started immediately. If we’re not a good fit, your account is immediately cancelled. I’ll even refund your $20, so you have nothing to lose.

Schedule your initial consultation now – I’m looking forward to helping you achieve your goals!