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Stages in Your Quest to Become a Life Coach: Ready for the Next Level of Coaches Training?

February 28, 2009 By Jeffrey T. Sooey 2 Comments

 

There are 4 stages that you need to go through to become a life coach.

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Each stage will require different coaches training to get you to the next level.

The first stage to become a life coach: You’re INTERESTED. You think about coaching, check out some websites and blogs. You may even talk about wanting to become a coach or enroll in coaches training. But you don’t, because being interested alone never got anyone off their chair.

The second stage to become a life coach is COMMITTED. Now you know what you don’t know, and have signed up for coaches training. You are taking massive action, and have started to get some results. You start feeling like you are becoming a coach.

The third stage to become a life coach is EXHAUSTED. You have been taking so much action that you are burnt out, exhausted, and maybe wondering why you started doing this in the first place. But you keep going, get some coaching, and perhaps enroll in another coaches training to refine your skills so you are more effective.

The fourth stage to become a life coach is VICTORIOUS. What you created in the committed stage, and repeated again and again until you arrived in the exhausted stage, is now something that is effortless. Your friends and family are now taking your coaching advice and you have so many clients that you can afford to hire an assistant. You may even be leading a coaches training yourself. Of course you’ll want to pat yourself on the back and celebrate with your coach.

So which stage are you in? To become a coach you will go through all these stages at some point, and as you continue to grow you are certain to pass through them again. And if you are feeling like you are not improving as quickly as you would like, get support through coaching or coaches training.

Colette Seymann

Accountability Coach, JTS Advisors

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Do You Have What it Takes to Become a Life Coach With Your Own Practice? Or Should You Start Looking for Coaching Jobs Working for Others?

February 15, 2009 By Jeffrey T. Sooey 2 Comments

 

It sounds great to become a life coach and work from home, the beach, and make your own schedule.  And coaching jobs?  Working for only a small part of what your client pays?  Who needs that?  But before you quit your job, consider the following:
 
Do you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur? 
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You can’t just decide to become a life coach and start making lots of money right away.  

 

You might need to start by working harder than you ever have for anyone else, for little or no pay. You will have to make mistakes, fail, and learn some more.  If you aren’t willing to go through that, then start looking for coaching jobs.
 
If you want work for yourself and not have a boss looking over your shoulder?  Look through the help-wanted section for government paid coaching jobs.  
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If you decide to become a life coach you will have many bosses who demand results.  

 

You will refer to them as clients.
 
If you want to be able to do whatever you want to do, when you want to do it…you are better off in a job.  Coaching jobs or otherwise. If you want to become a life coach, you will have to devote your life to learning so that you may serve others.  It can not be about you, or the money.  That doesn’t mean that you won’t get anything for you, or that you won’t be looked up to.  You probably will.  That also doesn’t mean that you won’t make a lot of money.  You probably will.  But all that good stuff has to be about the service to others, and a desire to make the world a better place. 
 
If you are looking for job security…there is none.  Not in this environment, and especially for coaching jobs.  If you decide to become a life coach and go the entrepreneurial route, you will have more control over your destiny.  But you will also need to be able to take some risks.  You will learn that the process is often more important than the goal.  And you will have the potential to become a life coach who makes a dramatic impact on the world. 
 
Colette Seymann
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JTS Advisors Accountability Coach
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