Dream Team (QS)

Answers To Your FAQS,
Expert Marketing Advice, And
The Chance to Maximize Your Training
And Attract Paying Clients ASAP

Congratulations! This week marks the final week of the formal 8 Week Profiting From Your Passions® training program.

You may have absorbed all 15 classes. Or you might be in catch up mode. If so, set backs are part of the journey. The important thing is to get back in the game and finish!

If you’ve taken even some of the classes at least now you know first-hand how powerful it is to have a proven formula.

The 7-Step Profiting From Your Passion® system will enable you to change the lives of your clients. And it will empower you to profit from your own passion for brainstorming.

Like I said, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how to ease your transition from trainee to paid professional.

After all, the faster you make that leap, the faster you can take on paying clients.

So I’ve put together some answers to your FAQs along with some advice to help you rock the “outside the job box” coaching world.

This is where you’ll find valuable information on:

• Working with practice clients
• Favorite resources and cool ideas you might have missed
• Marketing advice
• Joining a 7 month Dream Team [time sensitive]

Before we jump in, I need to get personal.

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A Personal Thank You From Me to You

I want you to know what an incredible honor it’s been to have you in this course. Although it’s only been a short time, I already feel that we’re kindred spirits.

After all, we both recognize how short and precious life truly is. That’s why we need to do everything in our power to do work that feeds your soul and pays the bills.

And we’re both motivated by a deep desire to do work that makes a difference in the lives of others.

The way I see it, guiding another person to find a way to create a livelihood that offers both satisfaction and the chance to live life on their own terms makes a difference.

And that my friend is what I call doing work that matters.

I am also deeply honored by the kind words I’ve received about the training thus far.

Stephanie posted, [I’m] part way through step 3 and loving how creative it is and how much it exercises your mind.

Jerry wrote, I think this course is amazing; well worth the money!!!!!!

Dominika posted, I can now see everything from a different perspective. I look at opportunities everywhere for new business ideas.

Nicole wrote to say, So far the class has been very helpful and thought provoking. I’m really enjoying it!

And an initially self-doubting Beverly shared this from the heart in this highly relatable post:

I’ve been freaking out a bit lately as this class has been progressing, and I’ve been 2nd guessing myself as to why I am taking it, that I won’t be good at it as I am not outgoing, blah blah blah…and other negative thoughts (I am an introvert).

But then I listened to step 5 this past week (I listen to the replays) after a very stressful and frustrating day at my corporate job and…suddenly… the wheels started turning and ideas started flowing, and today I am excited to be in this great program!

Thank you Valerie, for sharing your process for changing course and to all the rest of you great group for all the great ideas and examples to stimulate my own imagination!

I’ve heard similar comments. If yours was one, please know I’ve read them all and am grateful to each of you for taking the time to share your experiences with me.

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Getting Ready to Work With Practice Clients

When you registered for this training I expressed my complete confidence that you would walk away with three things: A proven consulting process, the tools, and the confidence to identify ways your clients can turn their interests into income.

As long as you do your part: take all of the online classes, listen to the client case studies, read the materials and do the exercises then there is no doubt this promise will be fulfilled.

The best way to put this to the test is schedule a practice client.

At least one coach Dominika, has already conducted her first consultation:

[blockQuote position=”center”]I had my first session today using life first, work second approach. I was a little bit nervous as I never worked with life first but it went quite well I think. We explored client’s life vision and for her was difficult too to start with the life first but at the end she came up with an interesting picture. Then we moved to her business ideas and financial goals. She wants to be a Youth and Family Coach, she is living in Bruxelle now for one year because of her husband work for EU [European Union] projects, and she wants to test her idea first with multinational teenager groups there. I am curious how it is going to evolve, we have another 4 sessions.[/blockQuote]

Sue, Regina, and Leah have at least one practice client lined up. And still others are making plans to do so.

I love that so many people are taking immediate action! That tells me you’re serious about following through on a big commitment you made to yourself. Bravo!

If you have not yet found a practice client, I urge you to do so now. After all, we all know the longer we wait to apply any new knowledge or skills, the less likely we are to retain it.

In preparation for your practice session you’ll need to conduct a new client intake, send them their assignment, give them adequate time to reply, and then use their responses to prepare for the session.

Because so much of the work happens prior to meeting with the client, I urge you conduct the session no later than November 30^th.

And if you need some help brainstorming ideas ahead of the consultation, the private Facebook page will be live until at least that date.

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Marketing Moment

One of your fellow trainees found a creative way to find his first practice client – and attract paying clients at the same time.

When a local non-profit held a charity auction, Bill from Lincroft, NJ saw an opportunity and ran with it.

I’ll let Bill tell you in his own words.

A few days before the event, I emailed the 3 people organizing it to explain what my basket theme would be (part of me was wondering if they’d think I’m nuts – since the other families were donating baskets of wine, candy, etc.)

It was encouraging when 2 of them replied with “Wow.  Was that basket designed specifically for me?!” and “That’s Amazing! What a great idea!”

So, I printed a certificate for the consultation, a picture of the ebook cover and created the basket.  I placed both a 1-pg overview of what the PFYP basket is about and a 2-sided sign-up sheet (with room for 70 names) in front of the basket.

As Murphy’s Law would have it, they put a basket filled with Lottery tickets right next to mine…

About half way through the event, the Lottery ticket basket had lots of tickets…

Yet there were NO tickets in the jar for my basket.

Boy, did I have a case of Imposter Syndrome at that point…

However, my goal was to get 1 ticket in my basket.  That’s all I needed to get a practice client who WANTS what I have to offer!

I ended up with about 6 tickets in the basket, and the winner was thrilled to win it.  I spoke with her briefly, and we’ll have our intake phone call in the next few days! 

No one signed up for my mailing list, but that’s ok. 

As I was leaving, my son’s coach (who is a tough, no-nonsense type of guy. Not someone I would have guessed would be interested in PFYP) told me that he’d like to talk with me to learn more about this, and that he has a friend he’s going to get to talk with me as well! 

We’re planting seeds.

Donating a free session to a silent auction or other charity event is a great way to get exposure for your coaching. Best of all – it costs you nothing!

For other low- or no-cost marketing and promotion ideas make sure you listen to the over three hours of audio training from two of the world’s top client attraction and marketing experts Marcia Yudkin and Ilise Benun.

You’ll find the recordings in the private membership site under Course Materials.

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Cool Resources and Ideas You Might Have Missed

A whopping 80 percent of students in the Fall program joined the private Facebook page. If you’re one, I hope you’ve enjoyed this lively exchange resources and ideas.

If you didn’t join us on Facebook, there’s still time. Just click here and click on Join Group in the upper right corner. 

That’s where you’ll learn about cool resources and ideas like:

Changing Course’s own tech guru Lisa Tarrant shared a big sale happening on a website that helps you create great looking graphics for book covers and other information products

Anissa from France shared an article titled How to Start a Food Blog in 20 Minutes containing lots of helpful information regardless of what subject you or your future clients want to blog about

Kamin from California shared a great low-cost recorder for Mac Skype called Call Recorder. That way you can offer your clients the added-value benefit of receiving a recording of their session.

And Annie from New Zealand posted a link to an article on Solopreneurs with some really interesting findings like:

There are currently 17.9 million solopreneurs — full-time independent workers — in the U.S, up 12.5 percent since 2011. In addition, there are another 12.1 million ‘side-giggers,’ part-time independent workers who work less than 15 hours a week.

And that over 80 percent of those surveyed were satisfied with their choice to become solopreneurs. And with good reason. According to the study authors:

Solopreneurs choose this work style because they want control over their lives, including the ability to determine when and where they work and what type of work they do. Even though independent work has its challenges, most solopreneurs feel that the key advantages of independent work – control, autonomy and flexibility – far outweigh the challenges of working solo.

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Marketing Moment

Findings like these matter because they offer additional confirmation that the work you’ve been training to do taps into what’s clearly a growing trend.

That’s why i highly recommend you read the entire article and note these and other findings to use on your website, in a future article or blog post, or otherwise use in attracting clients.

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Facebook is also where you learned about people like Gary Auerbach AKA the Frisbee Guy.

Gary’s a great example of some of the concepts we covered in Step 3 of the Profiting From Your Passion® formula. First he identified a keen interest (Frisbee) with a personal experience (winning the national championship).

Next Gary asked the question at the heart of Step 4: Who wants what I have?

Out of that came multiple profit centers. Today Gary makes a living putting on fun shows at schools, summer camps, and birthday parties, leading team building exercises for employees, and motivational speaking.

Facebook is also a great place for group brainstorming.

Like this one to come up with ways a cupcake maker I met at the Ithaca New York farmer’s market could go from baking as a sideline to full-time business owner.

With fabulous autumn flavors like sweet potato with maple cream cheese frosting and spice cake with pumpkin buttercream frosting, success for this aspiring self-bosser will be extra sweet!

Dominika thought our cupcake maker should:

• Offer gift certificates or gift baskets as prizes for local organizations’ charity events and raffles
• Do Joint ventures with wedding planners, personalize a wedding, rehearsal dinner, other wedding-related special event

Leah turned the group onto the Food Network show Cupcake Wars (who knew!) then went wild with these and other ideas:

• Partner with restaurants and sell them there or at high-end coffee shops. A friend of mine did that with her cheese cakes.
• Sell them to the restaurant by the dozen and the restaurant could sell them by the cupcake to the customer.
• Sell at local wine, craft, and food festivals or just festivals (in this case maybe a Fall or pumpkin festival) have food vendors that set up all kinds of concession-type stands. I hope this helps!
• Rent a van and make cupcake deliveries like pizza delivers.
• Sometimes hotels and merchandisers are looking for cupcake designers to help with a themed display. She could try a few displays and take pictures and perhaps send them out to hotels and marketing companies. Also, she could send her portfolio pictures out to events planners to create displays for retirements, birthday celebrations, and family reunions

Finally, in Class 14 you learned how to help your clients by tapping into the power of “Things You Happen to Know.”

Turns out, Annie just happens to have some experience that could help our cupcake maker, posting:

I recently surprised one of our son’s (and all his classmates) on his 21st birthday with 21 cupcakes – this lady could ship birthday parcels – 10 cupcakes for ten years etc. for children of any age, in a color or flavor theme.

Don’t you love it when people who never met one another reach out across space and time to get – and give – advice? It’s so inspiring!

It’s this kind of support and encouragement that enables everyone to achieve our goals more quickly than you could on your own.

And as the eight-week course comes to a close, your future goals are exactly what you should be thinking about right now. In other words…

Where Do You Go Next?

Where you go next largely depends on who you are and what you personally need.

For instance, you already know the first phase of your journey was to master the proven Profiting From Your Passions® 7-step system and how to use it effectively with paying clients. Mission accomplished.

Now you need to build on what you’ve just learned.

If this is a first-time business for you — or you already have a coaching practice and could use some additional assistance showcasing your new specialty to the world – then you may need some additional help on the marketing side.

It all comes down to something my friend and best-selling author Barbara Sher always says, “Isolation is the dream killer.”

We all know intelligent, talented, even inspired people can struggle to achieve a goal on their own.

They get discouraged or overwhelmed. So they procrastinate or worse, just give up.

They experience crushing self-doubt. And so they spin in circles second guessing decisions or going in five different directions at once and then get nowhere on any of them.

Sound familiar?

The good news is when you put these same people in a group setting they positively thrive!

That’s why as the 8-week class winds down I want to offer you the chance to join a small “Dream Team.” Simply said…

Being a Part of a Dream Team is Your Chance to Thrive

As a member of a Dream Team you’ll meet weekly with 4-6 students of the Profiting From Your Passions® course.

Since people in this class are spread across 17 states and six countries it’s not possible to meet in person.

So instead we’ll give you access to the dedicated Changing Course conference line or for international groups you can connect via Skype.

Your group will start out with a bang. That’s because as a Dream Team member you’ll receive exclusive access to 10 additional online classes.

These additional classes cover how to design the business that’s right for you and how to attract clients even if you hate “selling.”

You’ll get the information and insight you need to determine what you want to offer, who you want to offer it to, how you want to offer it, even what to charge.

In the first six classes you’ll learn:

• How to find and attract clients who want what you have to offer
• Creative ways to get the word out about your practice with little or no money
• Self-promotion techniques that work even if you are an introvert
• How to establish a track record when you have zero experience
• Learn a powerful 30-second response to the question “What do you do?” that’s guaranteed to pique interest and referrals
• Why you don’t need an online business to find paying clients
• How to get a professionally-designed website designed for free
• How to partner with well-respected (and often overlooked) local businesses with a direct stake in sponsoring and promoting your workshops

What’s more, with your Dream Team there to help you hone in on your ideal client and refine your message, you’ll move at lightning speed!

Tools to Help You Design Your Business, Get Clients, and Get Ready for Success

Plus you receive dozens of handy worksheets and other tools.

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That’s because when you upgraded to the Quick Launch kit you positioned yourself to receive instant access to Manual 4: Designing Your Business, Finding Clients, and Getting Ready for Success.

This 160-page resource has everything you need to design a business that works for you, your personality, and your desired lifestyle.

We’ll also cover how to create your website or blog as well as concrete steps you need to take to get ready for success.

In addition with your Quick Launch Kit upgrade you have access to 4 additional classes all about creating a winning website.

This also includes already prepared “What to say” marketing materials that you can literally copy and paste into your website, brochure, blog, emails or whatever form you like.[/innerTwoThirdsLast]

Plus to make it as easy as possible to get started your comprehensive 150+ page Website & Marketing Guide features concrete advice and guidelines for talking to prospective clients (in print or in person) about your new coaching specialty.

Doing the exercises to help you design your business, identify your niche, clarify your service offerings and pricing, and tweaking your web copy to fit your voice is one thing.

But having a Dream Team to provide feedback and keep you on track is where the added resources in your Quick Launch Kit come alive. That’s because…

When you’re a part of a group like this 5 important things happen…

Doing the exercises to help you design your business, identify your niche, clarify your service offerings and pricing, and tweaking your web copy to fit your voice is one thing.

But having a Dream Team to provide feedback and keep you on track is where the added resources in your Quick Launch Kit come alive. That’s because…

1. You gain accountability so you treat this new business not like wishful thinking, but like the legitimate life-changer it is.[linebreak style=”simple”][linebreak style=”simple”]By signing on to join a Dream Team, you become part of this “inner circle.” You’re going to get inspired and, in turn, you’re going to inspire others.[linebreak style=”simple”][linebreak style=”simple”]These are the people you’ll set goals with and then come the next week and say, “Hey, I tried that… and it worked. I’m actually doing it! And the income is starting to roll in.”
2. You gain courage so you’re excited to keep “doing.”[linebreak style=”simple”][linebreak style=”simple”]It’s interesting. But when you’re in a group like this, somehow you feel empowered. You become almost “bigger” than you usually are.[linebreak style=”simple”][linebreak style=”simple”]You feel a confidence that’s sometimes impossible to muster on your own. Yet with this “network of supporters” cheering you on, you’re inspired to go on… to plow ahead with a certain audacity that you might not feel you have in you, normally.
3. You gain productivity so you get more done in the next seven months than you might normally have taken seven years to achieve.[linebreak style=”simple”][linebreak style=”simple”]There are times in the course of any dream where you feel tired, or scared, or discouraged. You won’t feel like doing anything.That’s okay. It happens to everyone.[linebreak style=”simple”][linebreak style=”simple”]But when you are part of a Dream Team you automatically become part of something bigger than yourself. And that helps keep you “on task” and moving toward your dream.
4. You gain new resources and contacts and find you have at your fingertips an incredibly diverse group of people you can tap. I cannot stress enough the power of “connection.”[linebreak style=”simple”][linebreak style=”simple”]You’re going to share many things in common with the other people who are a part of your Dream Team. That’s a given. But you’ll also all have very different backgrounds.[linebreak style=”simple”][linebreak style=”simple”]That works to your advantage. Because each of you will bring his or her own contacts, expertise, and niche knowledge. And when you start to tap into that, all of a sudden, you’ve got at your disposal an incredibly far-reaching network.[linebreak style=”simple”][linebreak style=”simple”]
5. You gain momentum so one good thing leads to another.[linebreak style=”simple”][linebreak style=”simple”]Momentum will move you along even faster here because in addition to your weekly phone meetings each Dream Team will be set up with its own unique and totally private Facebook page.[linebreak style=”simple”][linebreak style=”simple”]That way you can do things like upload weekly goals and action steps so everyone is held accountable and pass along resources particular to one another’s goals, needs, or niche markets.[linebreak style=”simple”][linebreak style=”simple”]Plus this team-only Facebook group makes for a convenient way to communicate about schedules or let your group know if you’re running late or otherwise share information specific just to your group.

I’ll Be There Too to Coach You to Success

It’s bound to happen. From time to time something will come up that you or your group just can’t help with.

Times when you need to bounce something off someone with a greater depth of knowledge and experience as an outside the job box career coach, in marketing, or an entrepreneur.

When you join a Dream Team you’ll receive Live Group Coaching and Q&A Time with me.

• Wondering what market you should niche in? I can help.
• Curious about something that came up in one of the Client Case Studies? Ask away!
• Stuck? Confused? Starting to wonder if you can really do this work? I’ve been there.

More importantly I’ve worked with hundreds of people going through the exact same thing. So I know how to help.

That’s why once a month I’ll be stopping by your Dream Team to personally coach you.

You can take a giant step back. Or as some of your peers have already discovered, you can leap ahead in just a few short minutes talking with me.

My call with Valerie today was great! Lots of good ideas and validation of my path forward. Sue, Texas

[My] session with Valerie… was amazing! Thank you so much for your great ideas and loads of inspiration. Annie, New Zealand

I’ve just received a payment from my first client $129, and this is only the first week of our course. Thank you! Dominika, Italy

Plus as a member of a Dream Team you’ll have access to an additional expert.

The Technology Side of Your New Business Just Got a Whole Lot Easier

Lack of experience or comfort with technology keeps far too many otherwise well-prepared coaches from ever launching their business and serving the very people you trained to help!

Not anymore.

• Need help figuring out how to launch your website?
• Not sure how to accept credit cards?
• Confused about how set up your site so you can build a list?
• How do you know which shopping cart to use?
• Overwhelmed trying to decide on a contact list manager?

Once you’ve completed the first six classes on designing your business, attracting clients and getting ready for success, you’ll receive four additional classes to answer all these questions and more.

Here you’ll be learning directly from technology and website wizard Lisa Tarrant.

Lisa has worked behind the scenes with countless successful business owners and coaches to help them grow. Now she can help you too!

Plus Dream Team members will have the chance to log into a series of Live Q&A and coaching webinars so you can be coached by Lisa directly. It’s like having your very own web master to guide you!

Then, once the formal online classes are over, your group will serve as a sounding board and brain trust to help you attract clients, grow your business, and stay on track!

Not just for a few weeks — but from the week of November 17th all the way through the middle of May. That’s seven months of peer support, group coaching with me, and technology advice and coaching from Lisa Tarrant.

Joining a Dream Team is hands down the best way for you to be in business for yourself but not BY yourself.

What’s Your Investment to
Join A “Success Team” on Steroids?

If you saw my Facebook post, you already know I’m committed to making these Dream Teams high value and still as affordable as possible for as many as possible.

After lots of back and forth with my team, I think we finally found a way to make this opportunity CRAZY affordable.

Your cost to be a part of this 7-month Dream Team is just $99 a month – that’s barely over $3 a day! (I told you it was crazy affordable!)

When you consider this covers seven months of group time plus live Q&A and coaching from me and tech guru Lisa Tarrant – PLUS all the additional resources included – I think you’ll agree that this opportunity to catapult your coaching practice is a bargain.

Get one month of FREE benefits. Pay $599 today and get all the benefits of the 7 month program for the price of 6.

Another advantage to paying in full is the ability to deduct the expense on your 2014 taxes.

You’ll want to check with your tax advisor of course. However, the way I see it, since this is a business building program it should qualify as a legitimate business expense.

That means when you pay in full this year you get to take the full tax deduction this year as well.

But for you it gets even better.

Because you paid $199 to upgrade to the Quick Launch Kit, when you join a Dream Team you’ll receive a Changing Course coupon worth $199. It’s like getting the kit for free!

You can apply your $199 coupon toward any of the career and life-changing products in the Changing Course Store like…

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Making Dreams Happen Audio Program featuring Barbara Sher, Barbara Winter and Valerie Young

Making Dreams Happen was the name I gave a live four day workshop held in Boulder Colorado at the foothills of the Rockies. You see it was my dream to bring together the two women who had such a profound impact on my own decision to change course – Barbara Sher and Barbara Winter.

Well, I built it and they came – and so did 55 enthusiastic participants from across the country. All the people you’ll meet in this audio series were intent on discovering what it takes to make dreams happen.

This is no ordinary audio series. This is your chance to learn from three acclaimed experts how to define your true calling… overcome the obstacles… and actually take the leap to a more meaningful, balanced life.

If you’ve ever wanted to put on your own workshops or retreats this is your chance to learn from the masters. You get to be a fly on the wall to hear every bit of advice these participants received from Barbara Sher, Barbara Winter, and me.

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Or listen and learn from another information-packed resource. It’s called

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Inspiring Entrepreneurs Tell All

In this dream-affirming and idea-provoking 4-Part MP3 over a dozen engaging entrepreneurs share with you their hard-earned advice, including –

• A woman with absolutely no experience as an inventor who successfully brought not one but two handy product ideas to market.
• A former nursing home executive who tapped a family recipe he brought from his native Nigeria and now makes and sells to gourmet shops and restaurants.
• A talented artist who after struggling with low self-esteem discovered the lucrative world of art licensing. Today she is a working artist who gets paid to have her work reproduced on anything from gift bags, to coffee mugs and has recently licensed her own line of inspirational jewelry.
• A woman bringing in an amazing $70,000 a year as an animal communicator
• And lots more…

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The Final Details

Dream Teams begin the week of November 17^th. That will give everyone time to sign up for a group and start listening to the Client Case Studies.

You can download the entire 7-month schedule here.

Once we know how many Dream Team members we have, we’ll survey the group for best meeting times.

To ensure there are times everyone can make it – including those who are still (but not for long!) in their day jobs and those in different time zones – groups will either meet directly after the current noon and 8PM online class times or on Saturday morning or Sunday early evening.

So what are you waiting for? Sign up for your chance to be a part of this amazing community of action takers and fast track your dream!

A Word About the Power of Commitment

In the unlikely event we do not get enough members to fill a given time slot, your registration will not be processed and you will owe nothing.

By joining a Dream Team you are making a commitment not only to yourself, but to the other members of your group as well.

By registering you agree to show up, to do the exercises, and to be an engaged member of your team. After all – we’re all in this together!

I’m offering the payment plan to make it easier for more people to join. However, I also realize it makes it easier for people to take the resources I’m offering here and bail on their dream – which also means bailing on their Dream Team and on me.

For that reason, I hope you understand there are no refunds on Dream Team memberships. You either want to succeed or you don’t. You’re either committed to growing a profitable practice or you’re not. In other words, you’re either in or out.

Having said that, occasionally things change for one or more members of a group. In the event that happens we will make every attempt to move you to another group/time.

Of course, the decision is yours and yours alone to make. What I can tell you though, is that indecision is a form of self-abuse.

What’s more, when you finally do make an important decision – any decision – the world opens up to embrace it.

I’m guessing that’s what happened to the 18^th century writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe who, at just 25, was already a literary celebrity.

Why else would he remind us that…

“At The Moment Of Commitment
The Entire Universe Conspires To Assist You.”

Everything you need to maximize your training and attract paying clients ASAP, is right here.

You and I are witnessing a powerful shift… a shift from searching for a job… to the relentless pursuit to find one’s passion.

A shift from a single-minded focus on turning a profit… to a burning desire to make money doing what you love.

If you feel called to do this work – and be a part of a community of people who share your passion and determination, I urge you not to miss this chance.