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The Question: “How Can I Become a Life Coach?”

January 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Are you asking yourself the question, “How can I become a life coach?” If that’s the question, here’s the answer.

The Best Answer to the Question, “How Can I Become a Life Coach?”

You can’t become a life coach unless you have a passion for coaching. Coaching is as much a calling as it is a career. If you enjoy helping people improve the quality of their lives, you just may have the calling. If you have the calling, you have the first and best answer to that burning question, “How can I become a life coach?” Without the calling, forget about life coaching.

Do you want to take the next step towards answering the question, “How can I become a life coaching professional?” If so, your next move is to get training. Yes, it is possible to hang out a shingle and call yourself a coach. You may have the calling, and you may not be required to have training or certification, but it will be very beneficial to get trained. Now you’re asking, “How can I get trained?”

2 Ways to Get Coaching Training

You can get training in two ways. The first way is to work with a mentor coach. A mentor coach can help you understand the basics of the profession and the mechanics of running your own coaching practice.

The second way to get the proper training is to take courses from an ICF (International Coach Federation) accredited training program. The are hundreds of coaching schools, but many of them are not accredited. An ICF accredited school adheres to standards for instructor qualifications, content, and minimum hours. Training at an ICF accredited school will lead to ICF certification.

How Long Does it Take to become a Coach?

Are you asking, “How can I become a life coach in the quickest time and start earning some money?” As you can imagine, the answer to that questions varies greatly. In many cases, you can begin coaching and start earning some income in 3 to 6 months, but it may take 18 months or so to be a full-time coach with full-time pay. Much of your training will be concerned with marketing. To start making money as quickly as possible, you need to pay attention when learning marketing and promotional techniques, strategies, and skills. Without proper training in promotion, you might be struggling for a long time and wonder why you even asked the question, “How can I become a life coach?”

How Much Can You Make as a Life Coach?

Coaching is not a get-rich scheme. It takes effort and patience to make a good living. But, a good living is very possible in the industry. A recent study conducted by Price Waterhouse Coopers, and commissioned by the ICF, discovered that the average yearly salary of a coach was around $82,000. A part-time coach earned around $26,000.

Coaching is a growing profession. More and more people each year are asking the question, “How can I become a life coach?” Though the field is becoming more competitive, there’s still room for you. Jump in now and start your training and you’ll be on your way to a dynamic and profitable career.

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Fred Philips
Business Coach
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Really Make a Difference – Become a Mentor

January 19, 2012 By 1 Comment

What is a mentor? And how and why does one to become a mentor. The concept is almost as old as humanity. The role of the mentor was established in law by Hammurabi in his code, which is recognized as the first codification of civil law, about 1770 BC. The word “mentor” is derived from the name of the person entrusted with the education of Ulysses’ son, when Ulysses went off to fight the Trojan War, in about 1200 BC. The concept was institutionalized down through the ages in every apprenticeship and guild that has ever existed. But while every management book of our age raves of the benefits of mentorship, still few of us actually have mentors.

Formal Education and Ego Make It Hard to Become a Mentor

With the rise of generalized formal education, we have eliminated the role of “personalized” education. Today information, not practical wisdom, is valued. It is housed in books and transferred through lectures. Dates are memorized, but the lessons of history are not learned. Arithmetic is practiced by rote, but skills are not mastered. Theories are discussed, but sound judgment is not developed. Beyond limiting ourselves with this one-dimensional view of knowledge, we have inflated our egos with an “amateur- hour” view of the world which discounts the role of hard work, expertise and mastery. Sometimes, it is hard to see the point of having a mentor, or putting in the effort to become a mentor.

What Is so Important about Being and Having a Mentor?

To answer this question, you just need to look around. If you do, you will see people reaching adulthood without the basic skills or judgment needed for success in life. As they go through life they will learn by trial and error, paying far too high a price and wasting a tremendous amount of valuable time.

What Does It Take to Be a Mentor?

There are three components to become a mentor: First, basic coaching skills that will help you understand and communicate with your mentee. Second, practical wisdom acquired from a lifetime of experience and study. Third, a willingness to take the time to teach in a personal way that fully engages the mentee, and encourages them with a combination of acceptance and tough love.

Special Bonus – Learn 3 simple ways to become a life coach with the “30-Days to Become a Coach” video toolkit when you fill in the form at the top right and click the “Watch The Videos Now” button. You’ll learn how to change your client’s life in 45 minutes.

Dave Iuppa
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Personal Success Coaching- Essential New Year’s Resolutions

January 2, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Personal success coachingis involved with many different segments of a client’s life. From health to organization skills to work to relationships, personal success coaching covers it all.

One of the best times of the year to delve into all aspects of your client’s life is at the start of a new year. Everyone likes to make New Year’s resolutions, and the last session of the year, or the first one of a new year, is a great time to discuss resolutions with a client.

Personal Success Coaching and 5 Essential New Year’s Resolutions

Here is my list of the five essential New Year’s resolutions. Of course, some people may not need all of these, but all five should be discussed with your clients. If you, as a personal success coach, determine that a resolution is not needed by a specific client, move on to the next one.

  • Don’t wait – get your weight right. Weight management is important to everyone’s health and success. Not everyone can be a skinny model, but everyone needs to be concerned with proper weight management. Besides, dropping some weight may help your clients save money – less food costs and potential savings on life insurance.
  • Try something new – sooner rather than later. It can be a hobby, a new sport, a new job, or a new career. You know your clients best, so you should be able to offer worthwhile suggestions for something new. Trying something new keeps us young and promotes a positive outlook on life. If you can offer ways for your clients to stay young and happy, don’t you think your personal success coaching business will be a success? Damn right it will – clients will be lining up outside your door to get a session with you!
  • Money talks, BS walks. Making sure that your clients have their finances in order should be one of the basic tenants of your business. It doesn’t matter if they are rich or poor, white-collar or blue-collar, having finances in order is a foundation for achievement and happiness. That is where your coaching expertise comes in – you discuss the difficult subject of money and then suggest ways to ameliorate their financial life.
  • Take a break for your health’s sake! There is no doubt that success is achieved through hard work. However, everyone needs to recharge, refresh, and rejuvenate. Taking a break – whether it’s a vacation, a day off, or a long leisurely walk without any wireless devices – is one of the best things a person can do. As a coach, you need to make certain your clients understand the value of down time.
  • Surround yourself with success. In the personal success coaching business, one of the first things you learn is that successful people surround themselves with other successful people. Your clients needs to comprehend the value of their environment and the influence friends and acquaintances have on their personal success.

Yes, we all know that New Year’s resolutions are made to be broken, and that many people will have forgotten theirs by the start of February, but your

business demands that you ask the tough questions and determine whether your clients need to make these some or all of these essential resolutions.

Resolution are made to be broken?? Not when you’re the coach! You can give them the tools to keep those resolutions and enjoy success and happiness for the entire year!

Hope you took some great value out of this post today! I’d love to hear your feedback, so make sure you leave a comment with your thoughts or questions. And also, you can click on the Twitter button below to retweet this article… Thank you!

Fred Philips
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You Ask, “Do I become a Life Coach?” We Help You Decide

December 20, 2011 By 3 Comments

“Do I become a life Coach?” How many times have you pondered this question without knowing how to make the decision on your own? We want to help you decide. Is this your next big move in your professional career. Often times when we are trying to make a big decision we decide to focus on the pros and cons. To help you answer the question “Do I become a life Coach?” I decided to interview a professional coach and ask him about his list of pros and cons.

We interview a working life coach to help you decide, “Do I become a Life Coach?”

Jeannine: What was your biggest fear in deciding to become a life Coach?

Professional Coach: That I was not going to know what to do during a session to help a client.

Jeannine: How did you overcome that fear?

Professional Coach: I started out by coaching friends and family so I was very comfortable. I realized that it is okay to not always have the right answer. However, I always knew what to do and that was always to ask the client more questions on helping them to discover the answer for themselves.

We Narrow Down The Pros And Cons of  Becoming a Life Coach

Jeannine: When you were asking yourself “Do I become a Life Coach?” what was on your list of pros and cons?

Professional Coach:

The Pros for me were:

  1. I would spend my time doing something I loved to do
  2. I would be a contribution to helping people improve their lives
  3. I could make money by providing a service I was proud of
  4. I could work from home,
  5. I would be on my own time schedule
  6. I could own my own business
  7. I would be happier with my life and my career

The cons were:

  1. I would have to work really hard
  2. I would have to do a lot of prospecting by first reaching out to my family and friends. I thought this would be very annoying
  3. I would have to invest money into training
  4. I would have to step out of my comfort zone, which was new for me
  5. I would have to be responsible for myself
  6. If I didn’t put the time and effort in I wouldn’t see results
  7. I would have to work another job while starting my business to make money to feed and provide for my family
  8. Will I become a life coach who is unsuccessful

Jeannine: Can you tell us how those pros and cons have worked out for you?

Professional Coach: Everything on my cons list is slightly laughable now. Although I do have to say that some people feel they have what it takes to become a coach and are simply not cut out for the field. You have to be confident and be able to think on your feet. You also have to be wiling to work very hard and believe in what you have to offer. I mean sleepless nights building your business. Sleepless, excited nights investing time into your passion. So to answer your question the cons have paid off for me times ten. The benefit of my job is ever increasingly rewarding. I still have to work very hard but I love what I do. I’m so thankful my answer was yes to “Do I become a life Coach” or I wouldn’t be living the successful life I am today.

Jeannine: How would you advice someone new to the idea of becoming a coach on how to answer the question “Do I become a Life Coach?”

Professional Coach: I would tell them to follow their instincts. I would ask them do you want to become a life coach? How bad do you want it? Have you always had a natural instinct for helping people? Do all of your friends come to you looking to help and encourage them? I would ask them if they are ready to focus and concentrate all of their energy on learning as much as they can about how to be come a life coach. I would ask them to decide if they are ready to work really hard and invest a lot of time and thought into this practice. I would tell them not to let their fear and confidence stop them from entering into a truly rewarding and life-altering career. I would ask them to think about what is the worst thing that could happen to them if they answer yes to the questions “Do I become a life Coach?”

You’ve Heard if From The Pro Now It’s Your Turn to Decide

Well there you have it my friend. The inside scoop on what a professional coach who has answered yes to “Do I become a life coach?” has to say. We hope this helps you to make your decision and hope to see you out their in the world of life coaches changing peoples lives with dedication and passion. More then anything we hope you ask yourself one last time “Do I become a life Coach?” and make the decision that is right for you and only you.

By the way… you’re invited to claim your FREE step-by-step “30-Days to Become a Coach” video toolkit. Just go HERE now to get your30-day coaching blueprint videos.

Jeannine Yoder
Life Coach
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Here’s what You Need To Be a Coach

December 6, 2011 By 1 Comment

Straight from the heart, here’s what you need to be a coach. Just three things: competence, caring and capability. Do you have them? Can you get them? If not, set down the study guide from that online program “ become a master coach in 36 hours for $397,” and be glad you did.

Coaching Demands Competence

Of all the strengths you would like to have in the surgeon who is about to perform open-heart surgery on YOU, wouldn’t competence be right up there at the top of your list? You bet your sweet heart it would. It’s the same with coaching. If you don’t have a mastery of accountability, strategy and assessment coaching, don’t you dare call yourself a Master Coach. And if you haven’t a mastery of your primary area of coaching application – startup businesses, executive leadership, relationships, health, et cetera, then don’t dare to call yourself a Master Coach. Because what you need to be a coach comes down to knowing what the hell you are doing.

Caring that Goes beyond “Feeling Good” Is also what You Need To Be a Coach

The second requirement of coaching is caring. Caring that goes beyond feeling good. Tough caring, as in tough love. Caring that drives your motivation. And the sincerity which makes your tough message irresistible. It is easy to let your client off the hook. It is also, perhaps, the worst thing that you can possibly do for them. Coaching is based on the idea that each human being is capable of greatness, with an equally great impact on those around them and on the rest of the world, as well.

Finally, There Is the Element of Capability

So finally what you need to be a coach comes down to your capability to combine your competence with your caring to embrace your client’s aspirations. You must believe in them when they do not believe in themselves and you must help them step beyond their own needs and self-limiting beliefs to achieve their dreams. Now if you don’t have this capability, don’t bother to become a coach, because you might just do far more harm than good.

By the way… you’re invited to claim your FREE step-by-step “Master Coach Blueprint” video toolkit. Just go HERE now to get your master coach blueprint videos.

Dave Iuppa
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Failure And The Success Coach

November 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Failure and the success coach might sound like a contradiction but it’s not.

Are you one of the success coaches who is thriving? Don’t try to tell me that you haven’t had your fair share of failures. Your failure actually helped boost your success.

Failure The Key to Success

Failure is the key to success whether you are a success coach, any other coach, or even a client. The success coach gets to see this first-hand (not to mention, more often). Your specialty is success, so you know that without failure, you can’t have success. Failure and success go hand-in-hand.

Benefits of Failure That The Success Coach Will Point Out to You

  • Wisdom gained from failure. If you ask a simple question after every failure, “What can I learn from this mistake?” Those lessons then become the building blocks for the next success.
  • Better ideas come from failure. Research shows that innovations are often accompanied by a high rate of failure—look at Edison.
  • Failure motivates: You don’t usually change when you are comfortable and all is going well. You change when you feel the discomfort. Sometimes we need a little pain to get us to change and push us in a new direction. Sometimes it takes failure to make us do what we were meant to do.
  • Failure helps personal development. Failure is good for self-growth, personal development and cultivates character. There’s nothing quite like it to even the playing field. It’s a must have if you want to relate and have good rapport with clients.

Words of Wisdom on Failure From The Success Coach

  • The truth is, you usually never learn from success because you are glorying in your success instead of taking the time to analyze why you succeeded.
  • On the other hand mistakes are a learning process. You figure out what doesn’t work. If you are making the most of each failure you’ll figure out what does work.
  • Moral of the story is in order to reach your full potential, and even go beyond what you personally thought possible, you must have some failure.
  • The bad news is failure does not automatically give us the benefits of wisdom, new ideas, motivation, personal growth, or any of the other good things it does. Failure only brings forth the success if you milk it for all it’s worth.

The success coach will also tell you that if you’re wise you’ll use your failures to your advantage. Wise people make the most of failure. It’s a stepping-stone to greater success.

By the way… you’re invited to claim your FREE step-by-step “30-Days to Become a Coach” video toolkit. Just go HERE now to get your30-day coaching blueprint videos.

Dana Bosley
Spiritual Growth Coach
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The Success Coach Battles the Definition of Success

November 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment

The Success Coach finding the definition of SuccessThe success coach has a unique mission when compared to the words of our good friend Webster. Today the success coach and Webster fight it out and we will let you decide the definition of success you will carry on in your life.

Mr. W’s Definition of Success

1. obsolete: outcome, result

2. degree or measure of succeeding

3. favorable or desired outcome; also : the attainment of wealth, favor, or eminence

4. one that succeeds

What Web’s Words Mean to me

This definition is all about the end of the day. Webster, defines success as what is waiting for you at the end of your journey.

This definition tells me we are waiting on time to get us to this thing called success. We keep hoping to make it somewhere in time to feel success while there is still some available. So I have to wait? When I get there will I know it? When will I finally feel this wonderful thing for myself?

I’ve had days spent mindlessly working toward this idea of success, how about you? The day is lost when it’s all about the result. I’m not sure I like this. I’m ready for the success coach now.

Questions a Success Coach Will Ask You

What if success is not about the end result?

What if taking action now VS waiting for the end result is the instant path to success?

We are in a new age baby! The success coach recognizes that nothing is more powerful then this moment now and taking action!

 

The Success Coach Defines Success

1. Work hard

2. Increasing curiosity and eagerness to learn

3. Networking and Collaboration

4. Never ending investment in Personal Growth

5. Perseverance

6. Creativity

7. Passion

8. To be self reliant and take responsibility

9. Clear, defined, focused actions

10. Educated perspectives

11. Living in the present moment

12. Looking over the horizon when planning for the future

13. Value your time, life and relationships over comfort

14. Respond instantly

15. Take massive action

16. Always repeating, never ending

 

What The Coach’s Words Mean to me

The success that coaching brings to your life, can be felt stronger then it can be defined.

If you are looking for success in your life, get a success coach to hold you accountable to raising your standards. If you are a coach keep your clients in line and active with the success coaching definition above.

The success coach says it is about this moment now, your power and your standards.

How will you define success and invite more of it into your life today?

You are success waiting to happen. You are a few small shifts in focus away from owning success in this very moment. Reach out and

Grab it. Live it. Love it. Share it!

 

Hope you took some great value out of this post today! I’d love to hear your feedback, so make sure you leave a comment with your thoughts or questions. And also, you can click on the Twitter button below to retweet this article… Thank you!

 

Jeannine Yoder
Life Coach
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The Day When You Actually Saw Yourself As A New Coach

October 30, 2011 By 1 Comment

There is a day when you are a new coach. And there was the day – quite a while before – when you decided to look into being a coach. That was the day when you said to yourself that you already were a coach. Yes, a coach to the new guy at work and to the kids on your son’s peewee soccer team. Hell yes! You already were a coach! And a pretty darn good one. At least none of the kids had quit, and you had a winning season, more or less. Yes, you already were a coach!

Soccer – Life – Coaching Is Coaching

Sure, coaching is coaching. Well, yes and no, ‘cause one day you decided to push your future over the edge, and give it a shot. A different co-worker asked for some advice, and you just gave your opinion. You said to yourself: what harm could I do? After all, MY team has a winning season. So you plucked yourself up and decided to be a real coach. New or not, you opened your mouth and the rest is history.

The Real Decision for the New Coach Is to Cut and Run, or See It Through

In the aftermath, you had two choices as a new coach: cut and run, or see it through. You could either retreat or forge ahead. Which is to say, you could get some real and formal training or continue to rely upon your intuition and your dominance on the peewee soccer field. You choice the wiser later path – or is it the former. Whatever! You chose to seek out formal training.

Regrettably too many Coaches Decide to Wing It

In a virtually unregulated and unstructured profession, it is an easier path to “fake it until you make it”. By which I mean to rely on your intuition and a little flare to give people advice and charge them money, without the benefit of a formal and science-based education. As a new coach, please have the good judgment and integrity to seek out and take rigorous, science-based training.

And by the way, best of luck on the soccer field!

By the way… you’re invited to claim your FREE step-by-step “Life Coach Salary Secrets” video toolkit. Just go HERE now to get your Life Coach Salary Secrets.

Dave Iuppa
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A Life Coach For Personal Development Has Its Benefits

October 28, 2011 By 3 Comments

Become a life coach for personal development and benefit yourself and your clients.

Personal development for the coach is an important part of coaching. Don’t be surprised if you yourself have to go through some personal growth before starting to help others to do the same.

Developing Yourself First as A Life Coach For Personal Development

  • A life coach for personal development is on a continuous development and learning journey. Exploring and resolving personal issues is all part of the process, before you are ready to begin helping others to do the same. Some of the things you find out about yourself can be surprising. It may also take hard work to grow in some areas and it can be scary at times, but it is ultimately worth it for you and for your clients.
  • It is necessary for a life coach for personal development to become more in tune with yourself and confronting your own issues. Some of your issues you may not even be aware of until you start helping others to overcome certain problems in their lives.
  • Becoming a professional life coach for personal development is a great experience and gives you ample opportunity to build character and a new perspective to your own journey in life.

As You Develop Yourself You Benefit Your Clients.

  • As you develop your understanding of yourself, this aids you in being a good personal development coach, helping your clients in their understanding of themselves, their objectives, limitations, strengths and much more.
  • Clients want some one they can admire who is appreciative, upbeat and positive as a coach. Helping clients to reach their full potential through the appreciation approach produces great satisfaction, however, it takes work on your part to maintain this.
  • Being in partnership with the coach factor is very attractive to clients. When your clients can tell that you are on the journey with them it gives them the feeling of safety. It is empowering for them to know that you have gone through the growth process and survived.

Life coaching for personal development takes commitment not only to your clients but to yourself. It’s hard work to keep yourself growing but it is well worth it. It’s a wonderful feeling when you realize you have made a difference in someone’s life. As you will most likely agree, this is what makes coaching so amazing and worthwhile.

By the way… you’re invited to claim your FREE step-by-step “Life Coaching Business Blueprint” video toolkit. Just go HERE now to get your life coaching business blueprint videos.

Dana Bosley
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For the New Coach, It’s a Matter of Does and Don’ts

October 23, 2011 By 5 Comments

That’s right for the new coach, it’s a little scary. Do this. Don’t do that. But that is how to separate the coaches, new or old, from the non-coaches. That’s right: does and don’ts. To be effective, a coach, new or old – I mean new or experienced, must have the judgment to do the right thing, in the right way, at the right time.

Be Your Own Judge – Do You Really Care or Not

If you conduct yourself as a physician or a priest used to – untouchable in their integrity – then you will be a great coach, guided by your own compass to true north. Yes true north, comforted in the knowledge that it simply exists, even if you have lost your sighting of it from time to time. And then like everyone who has ever been encouraged by their hopes and dreams, you will dare to imagine that you can guide your life, and that of others, by the light of that guiding star.

For All Coaches, New and Old, Must Be Guided By Their Own Hearts

While a new coach may take some time to come to terms with it, they will eventually realize that the guiding principle, the true north if you will, is actually a force acting within their own hearts. Now it is only a matter of having the confidence to listen to the voice within.

The New Coach Faces a Crisis of Faith and Confidence

So we have seen that the new coach is challenged to do the right thing or anything or, worst of all, to cower away and do nothing. Certainly all new coaches must have inspiration and courage. Yet as experienced coaches we must take up our role and offer the guidance and encouragement, that comes from that mixture of knowledge, experience and genuine caring, that we share.

Hope you took some great value out of this post today! I’d love to hear your feedback, so make sure you leave a comment with your thoughts or questions. And also, you can click on the Twitter button below to retweet this article… Thank you!

Dave Iuppa
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