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Personal Development Coach? Do This For Client Success

January 29, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Personal Development Coach: What's the Right Mindset for your Client? | Image by aolhealthAs a personal development coach, you have a lot of ground to cover with your clients. Personal development coaching and personal growth coaching are umbrella terms. Because of that clients can come to you for help in taking action on anything from health challenges to relationships to planning for business development and growth. Whatever the specific focus of any given client, as a personal development coach your first and most important task is getting your client into a consistently empowered mindset. The right mindset is the key to your client’s success.

Safety or Growth?

Every human being has a need for certainty and safety. It’s one of the four basic survival needs that we all must fulfill at some level. For most of us, a mindset of worry and fear of the unknown fulfills our certainty need, at least in part. It’s natural. Our psychology is set up to keep us safe by sticking to the familiar and avoiding the risk of trying or even thinking something new. If we expect negative outcomes when we take action, we won’t be disappointed when that’s what we get. Unfortunately, fear often stops us from growing and causes intense frustration and discontent. When it gets uncomfortable enough, your clients find you–a personal development coach.

A Personal Development Coach Opens Possibilities

The most critical thing you can do for your client is to begin to shift his mindset away from fear and into possibility. Coach him to form new habits of mind that override or short circuit the fear. You can start this process by getting him to be honest about what his need for certainty is costing him. Then have him visualize the opportunities that will open up if he can put aside the fear. If he’s come to you for personal development coaching, he’s already committed to change. Your job is to guide him in the process and to coach him on taking responsibility for making it happen.

Life is always full of uncertainties. It’s how we approach them and manage our mindsets that determines the quality of our lives. As a personal development coach, you help your clients take responsibility for what happens and how they react. When they feel at cause instead of at effect, their decisions will come from power instead of fear.

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Dorine G. Kramer
JTS Advisors Strategy and Accountability Coach

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Life Coaching Business Struggles: How to Keep Climbing

June 17, 2010 By 1 Comment
Developing life coaching business is like climbing a mountain ©ground.zeroCreating a successful life coaching business is a lot like mountain climbing.  You need to develop the strength to climb, which is what happens as you hike in the foothills.  At some point as you climb, you’ll likely to experience altitude sickness.  Headache, nausea, vomiting, etc.  You’re body’s reaction to the new environment.  It’s no joking matter, and in fact for many people the only way to get rid of the symptoms is to go back down to the bottom of the mountain.  If you can make it through the first few days, your body will start to adapt.  You’ll become used to the new way of life.  What was once difficult will become easier and you can start climbing to new heights.

Business Woes and Altitude Sickness


The great thing is that those who survive the first few days of being at a high altitude and those who survive the first year in business is that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.  It comes down to survival of the fittest.   There are tips for making acclimation to a high altitude easier such as resting and staying hydrated, and there are coaching tips to survive your first year of your life coaching business.

Life Coaching Business Survival Tips


In order to survive your first year of business, you’ll need a mentor and a coach.  Would you climb Everest without a guide?  Would you rely on the advice of your friends?  No, you would get the best guide possible.

You’ll also need supplies.  Supplies for your life coaching business means some way of supporting yourself through the start-up phase.  You’ll need food, shelter, and other miscellaneous business expenses.  Ration your resources and use them wisely.

Develop the right mindset.  If you see a storm coming, take shelter.  Just as you don’t want to become a statistic on the mountain, you don’t want to become a business failure statistic.  Don’t close your eyes to danger, but don’t let obstacles stop you from succeeding.

When you’re in midst of throwing up on the side of the mountain, it can look bleak.  But if you acknowledge yourself for where you’ve come from, and focus on where you want to be you’ll soon find yourself climbing to heights you never dreamed possible.

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Colette Seymann

JTS Advisors Bi-Designated Strategy and Accountability Coach

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Success Coaching: Being A Personal Development Coach Starts With Getting Your Clients To Set Goals

December 26, 2009 By 1 Comment

Success coaching or being a personal development coach always starts with helping clients set their goals. Many people think they are already setting goals. Your success coaching client may be one of those people. In this post, we will look at two reasons why many people don’t set goals. Your job as their personal development coach is to show them exactly how to set and achieve their goals.

Success Coaching Clients Usually Think Goal Setting Is Just Deciding What They Want

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Most success coaching clients think they are already goal-setting. They think that if they know they want something, they are setting a goal. An example of this could be a high school student. This student could get a 4.0 Grade Point Average (GPA) if he applied himself. However, at the beginning of the semester, his parents ask him what his GPA goal is and he responds with, “3.5.” His parents are satisfied with the answer and move on to the next topic thinking that they’ve established his GPA goal. However, that is not goal setting. At the end of the story, the student may have finished the semester with a 3.0 GPA. While there is nothing wrong with the 3.0 he received, his original goal was to get at least 3.5. He could have even achieved a 4.0. If he had followed proper success coaching goal-setting techniques, he probably would have gotten a 3.5 or a 4.0. Instead, he gets a 3.0 and goes through the rest of his life with or without a personal development coach thinking that goal setting is just deciding what he wants.

If he had a personal development coach he would find out that there are more steps to goal-setting than just deciding what he wants. Success coaching clients learn that goals must be SMART: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic and Timely. The high school student in this example had a goal that was SMR and T, but not necessarily Attainable, because he could have done better. A good personal development coach would have seen that he could have achieved more and pushed him to attain a 4.0 GPA. This push could have been more motivating a goal that, in turn, could have helped him to push himself to reach it.

Clients Need Personal Development Coaching When They Don’t Have Any Goals

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In success coaching, you will meet several clients that think they don’t have any goals. This is not really true, though. They do have goals. They have just never taken the time to think about what they really want in life. Much of the time of a personal development coach is spent asking clients the right questions. If you have a client that says they have no goals ask them questions like these:

  • “Would you like to retire financially independent?”
  • “Would you like to have more energy?”
  • “Would you like to make more money?”

Your client will almost always respond by saying, “Yes,” to these questions and, when they do, they’ve discovered some of their goals and gained respect for you as their personal development coach.

Everyone has goals. Not everyone has taken the time to really think about what they want most in life, then write it down. That is going to be the first step to helping your success coaching client to get the results they want.

Kris Thompson
JTS Advisors Strategy Coach

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