Why do people need your life coaching skills?  Do you have anything tangible to offer your success coaching clients?  It’s sad to say that most people in the U.S. are not happy.  They don’t have the relationships, jobs, lifestyle they want.  Whatever happened to the American Dream?  Have your life coaching and success coaching clients bought into the lie that the economy is the reason for their lack of success?

Your Life Coaching Clients Must Take Accountability For Their Beliefs

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Life Success Coaching Lie #1:  The reason why your life coaching clients are not successful is not external.  It’s not their choice of partner or their pain from a bad relationship.  It’s not because of their poor health, the health of the economy, or the health or their mothers in-laws.  Lack of success is based on your clients’ beliefs.  Beliefs dictate the quality and quantity of action, and action (or lack of) determines results.

Self Talk Will NOT Help Your Life Success Coaching Clients Gain Happiness

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Life Success Coaching Lie #2:  Self talk will not change your life coaching client’s core beliefs. Unfortunately, many people try to change their beliefs through adding positive affirmations to their daily rituals.  They cover up their beliefs, instead of dealing with them.  Just like covering liver in chocolate sauce will not get kids to eat it, covering up disempowering beliefs will not change your clients’ inner game.  You have to do something radical; like wrapping the liver in a napkin and throwing it over the back fence.  At least then the neighbor’s dog might eat it and get rid of it permanently.

In Life Coaching, Taking Action Does Not Guarantee Results

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Life Success Coaching Lie #3:  Changing your action doesn’t mean that your life coaching clients will get better results.  If you clients believe that they are unworthy for example, they will not consistently take the action needed to succeed.  If they don’t believe they can do the job, they will sabotage their efforts.  Something will go wrong.

So what can you do to improve your life success coaching client’s chances of reaching their goals?  You must transform their core beliefs.  Use your life coaching skills to help your clients identify their limiting beliefs, the pay-off they get from operating the way they do, and then help them replace their old beliefs with more empowering ones.  Help them see how living the way they have been will lead to their destruction, and that the only way to live the life they want will be to make drastic changes.  This is not the easy way, it’s not the fast way, but your client’s lives will never be the same.

Colette Seymann

JTS Advisors Bi-Designated Strategy and Accountability Coach

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Why do people need life coaching or life success coaching? It has been said that the story of the human race is story of men and women selling themselves short. So many of your life success coaching clients are not happy with their current job, but they don’t find something better. Your life coaching client may not be happy with their current situation, but they won’t take steps to improve it on their own.

Life Success Coaching: Help Your Life Coaching Client Refuse To Settle

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Your life success coaching client has been selling themselves short. Your life coaching client may settle for less than they are capable of, simply because they are afraid. They may have stayed in a job they don’t like or a relationship that doesn’t make them happy. They may even have habits that harm their health. If your life coaching client isn’t happy with their life, they can always pay the price to be free of the relationship, the shape they’re in or the job they hold. Your life success coaching client will know what that price is; they just have to be ready to pay it in order to refuse to settle for less than what they want.

Life Success Coaching: Have Your Life Coaching Client Start Asking For What They Want

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Your life success coaching client needs to remember that if they are not happy with something, they can always ask for something different. Whether that means a job, relationship, loans, or their health. Help your life coaching client understand the importance of asking. Before they ask, the answer is always no. If after they ask, the answer is still no, then all they have lost is a couple minutes of their life. On the other hand, if the answer is YES, it can change their life forever. Urge your life success coaching client to stop selling themselves short and always ask for what they want in their life and in their life coaching.

Kris Thompson
JTS Advisors Strategy Coach

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In your life coaching business, what life success coaching will your clients need first?  The first key to life success coaching is to help your clients set goals.  Why don’t they already have goals?  They did hire you to be their coach right?  Yes, but they usually have only a general idea of what they want.  In life coaching you quickly learn that clients need help taking what they want and turning it into a goal.  We will discuss two reasons your clients haven’t already set goals.

Life Success Coaching:  They Don’t Know How To Set Goals!

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The biggest reason your life success coaching is needed is because your clients don’t know how to set goals.  Think about when you learned to set goals.  You probably learned how to set goals when you learned how to do life coaching.  Most people have never been taught proper goal setting techniques.  A simple example would be a person who doesn’t ski.  The number one reason people don’t ski is that they don’t know how to ski.  Many people don’t set goals because they don’t know how to set goals.

Your Life Coaching Clients Don’t Know the Importance of Goal Setting

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Is it possible to become a millionaire without setting a goal of becoming a millionaire?  It is if you win the lottery or inherit a million dollars.  What are the chances your life coaching client will inherit a million dollars or win the lottery? The chances are not good they will make a million dollars without your life success coaching.  Goal setting is important because it dramatically increases the chances of your client getting everything they want out of life.  Goals also will help your client get what they want faster and easier than if they had no goals.  Once your client realizes how important goal setting is, they will immediately become a goal setter.

Kris Thompson

JTS Advisors Strategy Coach

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It’s common knowledge that procrastination is one of the greatest obstacles to success. Yesterday, I had a great life success coaching session with someone who was the king of procrastination. As a result of a previous life coaching session, I believed his lack of commitment was holding him back from achieving seemingly reasonable goals. But what I found out was that he was much more committed to something else than to his stated life coaching goals.

How Did the Life Coaching Session Begin?

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Here’s how our life success coaching session started: I called him because he was late for his appointment (that’s my accountability life coaching nature inside of me). I woke him up, because he had only slept 2 hours the night before and was napping. He had procrastinated again, and barely made a deadline. My first thought was, “This is the story of this guy’s life!”

After Waking my Client Up, Our Life Coaching Session Took Off

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In the next part of this life success coaching session, I began trying to figure out what the payoff was for this type of pattern. He admitted that this pattern was really hurting him in several areas of his life, so I knew that whatever the reward was it needed to be big. We came to the conclusion that by doing this in his life it was not only an efficient use of his time, allowing him to finish projects and still have time for fun and variety. Sounds like the end of a great life coaching session.

This Life Coaching Session Turned into A Life Success Coaching Session

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But this wasn’t your average life coaching session; it was a life success coaching session. We looked a step further. He mentioned he was perusing personal emails at 4 a.m., when the deadline was looming over his head only a few hours away, but why? I wondered, “Does this guy even try? What is he really commitment to? “

The Pinnacle of Our Life Coaching Session

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The pinnacle of this life success coaching session was when he realized that the real payoff was the adrenaline rush from waiting until the last minute to accomplish a project. He felt alive! It was a huge adventure and he was getting all his needs met through this activity. Significance if he could pull it off, and that he had an important deadline to meet. He was connecting with others via email. Since he had done this many times before, there was a great deal of certainty about how the feelings he would have and what he could expect. At the same time, he was preserving time so he wouldn’t loose the variety that he needed so much. This is more than enough to call it a day and end a life coaching session. Isn’t it?

The Difference Between Life Coaching and Life Success Coaching: Lifelong Changes!

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Sure, you could end a life coaching session here. Or you could turn it into a life success coaching session by taking it one step further. And the key ended up being to help him find the excitement he was looking for in his work by following his passions, taking on projects that really meant something for him, and ending his game of never having to play on the edge of what was really possible to achieve. He modified his vision board and shared his new life goals with his peer group. His life will never be the same.

Colette Seymann

JTS Advisors Designated Accountability Coach

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