5 Productive Habits That Kept My Coaching Business Stuck

Does this sound familiar?

 

If you’ve ever felt like no matter how hard you work or how many things you try, your coaching business just won’t grow, keep watching because I’ve been EXACTLY where you are.

 

I struggled for almost 5 years trying to break past 6-figures as an online coach, doing everything the “experts” said to do.

 

Ads, funnels, nonstop networking, posting every day - but the results weren’t there. 

 

I was working around the clock, burning out constantly, and staying stuck at the same income.

 

And I couldn’t figure it out. I kept asking myself, “How am I doing all the right things, but still not seeing the growth I want?”

 

Until I FINALLY figured it out and went from being stuck under $30,000 a year to hitting my first $100k in just one year.

 

And it was all because I quit these 5 “productive” habits that were ruining my business growth and might be ruining yours too.

 

In this video, I'll be sharing with you these five “productive” habits that were keeping me under 6-figures and what to do instead so you can finally see the results you want. 

 

And make sure you watch this entire video, because missing even one of these could be the reason you’re not seeing the income you want right now.

 

Habit #1

 

The first habit that was keeping me under 6-figures felt so productive and even empowering at the time… but it was secretly sabotaging my coaching business for years.

 

I mean, isn’t it logical that if you post more content and are seen on more platforms, you should be getting more clients?

 

But I wasn’t.

 

I kept pushing - posting on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube - sometimes multiple times a day, because that’s what all the “experts” said would grow my business.

 

But instead of growing, I was just burning myself out.

 

And honestly, it sent me into a really dark place where I felt drained, depressed, and questioning if being an entrepreneur was even worth it.

 

It took me a long time to realize that when your content is all output with no strategy, it doesn’t bring in clients - it just leaves you exhausted.

 

So I completely changed my strategy and stopped trying to post everywhere, every single day.

 

Instead of cranking out 10 random posts a week, I focused on strategic, evergreen content through podcasting and YouTube - and that’s when the magic happened.

 

This one shift of posting less but with more intention literally tripled my coaching business in just one year.

 

My email list started growing every day, random calls were getting booked by people who were already sold on working with me, and my courses started selling in my sleep.

 

I went from doing way too much, on too many platforms, for way too long… to having a business that runs for me 24/7.

 

That’s the power of evergreen content.

 

A YouTube video you post today can still bring in leads and sales three years from now.

 

While an instagram post disappears in a couple of days max.

 

When you do it right, each evergreen post builds on the last, like a team of digital employees working around the clock to get your business discovered, build trust, and show people how to work with you.

 

When I doubled down on evergreen platforms, then guided all of that traffic to my backend system, my business started running on autopilot.

 

If you want to get a behin d the scenes look at the EXACT system I use to sell digital products and coaching while I sleep, I have a full deep dive training I only host on my website that’ll walk you through the entire process. 

 

It’s not some long drawn out sales pitch, it’s a straight-to-the-point breakdown of what actually works, with real examples and strategies you can apply right away.

 

Click the first link in the description and get ready to take some notes.

 

Now, posting nonstop wasn’t the only “productive” habit standing in the way of building my dream business.

 

Habit #2

 

Which brings me to my second “productive” habit that kept me stuck under 6-figures.

 

And I didn’t expect this one to make such a difference, but dropping it completely transformed my business.

 

By now, I think all of us have heard this popular business advice that if you want to grow, you need multiple streams of income. 

 

Because having more products means you’ll have more ways to solve people's problems, which means you’ll make more sales.

 

… Right?

 

But creating more offers actually made my business look worse. Because there’s one detail no one really talks about.

 

Of course, you need something to sell in your business, but you don’t need 10 different things. 

 

What you actually need is one clear, irresistible offer that solves a real problem.

 

And I knew that at the time, but I didn’t put it into practice enough.

 

Instead, I kept building new workshops, new courses, and new lead magnets, thinking that if I just “added another thing,” one of them would take off and I’d finally hit my income goals.

 

But nobody was buying.

 

My audience just got more confused, my message got watered down, and my income stayed flat.

 

So I started losing hope and thinking maybe I just wasn’t cut out for this.

 

Maybe my niche was bad, or I didn’t have the right personality for coaching. 

 

This is when I even considered quitting because I wasn’t seeing the results I wanted.

 

But then I simplified. 

 

I cut out all the extras and focused on dialing one core offer that I knew my audience truly cared about. 

 

And that’s when I started making consistent sales.

 

People finally understood what I was offering, and that clarity is what made them want to buy.

 

You don’t need to make more offers because more offers mean more questions you need to answer, more content you need to eventually update, and more moving parts which complicates things.

 

What you really need is one clear, compelling offer that consistently brings in clients.

 

It’s fine to add more products later, but the mistake I made—and that most coaches make—is trying to build the next offer before ever getting one to actually work.

 

So they stay in this constant cycle of building a poor product, not making sales, then building another one and never questioning why the first one didn’t sell.

 

All that energy you put into building more products could’ve been spent on selling more people into one product.

 

There are millions of people who have no idea you can solve their problem with that one product.

 

And if they just knew you existed, they’d want to buy it.

 

So, when you’re building products, do your research ahead of time, interview your audience, run polls, whatever you need to do - then create a simple solution to their biggest problem.

 

Once you're selling that product in your sleep, THEN you can start building another product.

 

This is something I wish I put more time into when I first started.

 

But building too many offers was just one piece of the puzzle that was holding me back from building a successful coaching business.

 

Habit #3

 

Which brings me to the third “productive” habit that kept me under 6-figures.

 

Every business guru tells us that if you want to succeed, you need to track your numbers. 

 

Track your followers, your email open rates, your ad clicks, your podcast downloads. 

 

Because as Peter Drucker famously said, “What you don’t measure, you can’t improve.”

 

So, I had a period where I was completely focused on tracking everything.

 

I was thinking about the numbers all the time, making sure I updated my spreadsheets and dashboards every day, LIVING in my analytics, but all that did was leave me more frustrated.

 

It took up so much of my brain space, and it wasn’t even moving the needle in my business.

 

So one day, I quit obsessively tracking and instead, asked one simple question: What’s actually bringing in clients?

 

I quickly realized that there are only 3 core metrics we need to measure:

 

1. Monthly traffic to your website
2. Email opt ins from that traffic
3. Sales from those opt ins  

 

Let’s say for example, you get 3,000 monthly visitors to your website (which is a good baseline).

 

If your email opt-in rate is 3%, that’s about 90 new email subscribers every single month.

 

Now, if 5% of those people buy your $197 product, that’s 5 sales or $985 a month.

 

That’s all the data you really need to track the health of your coaching business.

 

Before I focused on these 3 metrics, I was buried in spreadsheets, constantly craving more information, stats, and data. 

 

I was ADDICTED, but it never solved my real problem.

 

But when I started focusing on these 3 metrics, I stopped obsessing over vanity metrics and started making more sales with less stress.

 

So, take a look at your data by pulling up analytics for website traffic, email opt-ins, and sales from checkout pages. 

 

Write down your site traffic, email opt-ins, and sales over the past 3 months and get it all in front of you. 

 

Then determine which metric you need to work on the most. 

 

If you’re barely getting traffic, focus on creating more quality content that your ideal audience is searching for, doing collaborations, or even running targeted ads.

 

If you’re getting traffic but little to no opt-ins, investigate your lead magnet and opt-in copy - is it really compelling enough?

 

And if you’re getting steady traffic with a solid 2–5%+ email opt-in rate but no sales, it’s time to reassess your sales page and email copy.

 

Just by knowing those three metrics—monthly traffic, email opt-ins, and sales—you can easily assess the health of your online business and see exactly where to focus if you want to grow.

 

Habit #4

 

Which brings me to the fourth “productive” habit that I got wrong.

 

And fixing this one made my business so much more enjoyable on every level.

 

You’ve probably heard advice like: “The more you learn, the more you’ll earn.” 

 

Read every book. Join every mastermind. Take every course. Absorb everything you can.

 

And I was SO in on this because I love learning. 

 

I’d buy course after course, join coaching programs, go deep into trainings thinking I was being SO productive… but I still wasn’t making any real money.

 

My head was full of information, my notes stacked with ideas, and I couldn’t really understand why my income wasn’t changing.

 

Then it hit me…

 

I was too busy putting time into learning more rather than applying what I learned. 

 

And when I stopped caring about being the “smartest person in the room” and just started implementing what I already knew, everything changed.

 

Instead of trying to duct tape 10 frameworks from 10 experts, I just focused on the one that made the most sense to me at the time and gave it a 90 day test. 

 

In doing that, I was able to tangibly see which strategies actually worked for me and which ones didn’t.

 

That’s when I started seeing results, because I was finally doing the work.

 

And once I stopped hoarding knowledge, my relationship w ith learning improved too. 

 

I wasn’t anxious about “falling behind” anymore. 

 

I only learned when I needed to solve a specific problem, and that made the learning way more valuable.

 

It’s totally fine to study and learn - in fact it’s necessary. 

 

But there has to be a line between hiding behind learning and actually putting in the work.

 

Habit #5

 

This brings me to the fifth “productive” habit that kept me under 6-figures.

 

To grow faster, we often get told to just put in more hours. 

 

Hustle harder, wake up earlier, stay up later, and sacrifice everything until you make it.

 

But this advice kept me broke and tired. 

 

I worked hard, packed my schedule, said yes to every new opportunity because I was thinking that if I just grind more, I’ll grow faster.

 

But the results weren’t matching my effort.

 

Instead of making more money, I was burning out and stalling because I didn’t have energy left for the things that actually moved my business forward.

 

Turns out that if you want to grow, you don’t need more hours — you need smarter systems.

 

You have a baseline of energy and focus you need to run, just like a car needs fuel in the tank before it can go anywhere.

 

And if you keep cutting into your rest, your health, or your creativity, you go into survival mode. 

 

Everything you do starts to feel heavier, harder, and slower.

 

Grinding more hours only works to a certain extent. Then you just hit a plateau — or worse, you shut down completely.

 

But here’s the amazing thing…

 

Your business can be set up in a way where it doesn’t run out of fuel.

 

By leveraging automations and systems, your coaching business can run 24/7, 365 without ever taking a break - even when you step away from it.

 

Building a sustainable 6-figure+ business  is a marathon, not a sprint.

 

But you have to set it up that way.

 

If you’re afraid to slow down because you think it’ll hurt your growth, don’t be. 

 

Sometimes slowing down is the fastest way to speed up.

 

As long as you’re working on the right things 80% of the time — the things that attract clients and generate revenue — your business will grow faster  than grinding ever could.

 

Leverage is the name of the game.

 

I wasted years trying to hustle my way to 6-figures. I followed all the popular productivity advice, but it just left me exhausted and stuck.

 

And maybe that’s your case too. Because doing more isn’t what creates growth — doing the right things in the right way does.

 

Most coaches don’t fail because they’re lazy — they fail because they’re working hard on the wrong things. I know, because I did it for years.

 

But once you start cutting the noise, simplifying your focus, and building smarter systems instead of grinding harder, everything changes.

 

You’ll finally have a business that grows without burning you out. One that works for you, not the other way around.

 

If you’re ready to see what that looks like behind the scenes, click the first link in the description and watch my free training.

 

I’ll show you exactly how to set up the systems that helped me break past six figures — and how you can do it too.