Yes, since it is mind over matter, mindset coaching is the coaching that counts. Period. Even if you are a successful physical fitness coach, you are dealing with their mindset. If you don’t think so, just remember back to the last time a client cried all night for being over-weight, and then had a huge banana split for breakfast. If you ended up doing any good for your client, then you were coaching your client’s mindset.

The Fact Is our Mind Drives our Behavior

Every human’s mind chooses behaviors that it believes will satisfy the four fundamental human needs – the need for significance, connection, certainty and variety. It is the balancing of these four human needs, and choosing the long term versus the short term – mixed of course with the memories of the past – that makes it all so interesting. This is the heart of mindset coaching.

Don’t Miss the Real Physical Connection in Mindset Coaching

Amazingly, our strongest control of our mind comes through our physical state. By relaxing through our breathing or pumping energy into our system with intense physical activity, we can break through emotional funks and move on to happiness and fulfillment.

How Best to Make Lasting Change?

Easy. The secret to mindset coaching is to remember that in spite of any hysteria or other distractions is remembering the four fundamental needs and that for humans they are life or death needs. Calm your client, and reconnect with their reason. Ask them which of the needs they are fulfilling and which they are not. Ask how they are fulfilling them. Show them what they are doing is positive and what is negative. Explain through simple words if they are correct or not. Help them see behavior that will better meet all four needs better than now. When you do and if they accept the idea, they will adopt your suggestions and their behavioral changes will be self reinforcing and permanent.

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Dave Iuppa
JTS Advisors Strategy and Accountability Coach

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The greatest mindset coaching challenge your psychology coaching client will ever face in life is the conquest of fear and developing courage.  Fear is the greatest enemy for your psychology coaching client.  You must give your client mindset coaching to handle fear.  The motion of fear, rather than the reality of what we fear is what causes us anxiety, stress and unhappiness.

Mindset Coaching:  Help Your Psychology Coaching Client Develop the Habit of Courage

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When you give your psychology coaching client mindset coaching to develop the habit of courage and self-confidence, a whole new world of possibilities opens up for you.  The mindset coaching here is that courage can be learned through repetition.  Your client needs to constantly face and overcome their fears to build up the kind of courage that will enable them to deal with the ups and downs of life without fear.  The starting point for your client to overcome fear and develop courage is to look at the factors that cause them to be afraid.

Mindset Coaching:  Your Psychology Coaching Client Conditioning Can Cause Fear

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The root of most of your psychology coaching (mindset coaching) client’s fear is childhood conditioning usually associated with destructive criticism.  This causes fear of failure which comes out as “I can’t, I can’t”.  It also causes fear of rejection, which causes us to think, “I have to, I have to”.  When your clients are possessed by these fears, they become preoccupied with the possibility of losing everything.

Your mindset coaching client’s fears can paralyze them, keeping them from taking constructive action in the direction of their dreams and goals.  When they are in the grip of fear, they will hesitate or delay.  They will become indecisive.  They will procrastinate, make excuses and find reasons to hold back.  By helping your psychology coaching client master fear, you will empower them to break through any barrier.

Kris Thompson

JTS Advisors Strategy Coach

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How do you help your psychology coaching (mindset coaching) client to become a positive person? Many people believe they are a negative person. When giving them psychology coaching, you may ask them this question: “Why do you BELIEVE you’re a negative person?” They will probably say something like, “Because my family is negative.” Your mindset coaching client may believe that being a negative person is inherited, like blue eyes or brown hair.

Psychology Coaching: Mindset Coaching To Discover Your Client’s Mindset

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Your psychology coaching client may have a negative mindset. If your client needs mindset coaching, it will show itself through their beliefs. They will believe that good things only happen to people who “got lucky.” They often believe successful people probably got there by cheating, lying or stepping on a better person. They see victims and unfairness everywhere. They will often easily accept excuses that take responsibility for their life off of them, and onto someone or something else. This is where mindset coaching comes into play.

Psychology Coaching: Mindset Coaching To Create A Positive Mindset

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Your psychology coaching client will need powerful mindset coaching to change their negative beliefs. When your client is a positive person, they will believe the world is a good place mostly filled with good people. They will believe that this is the best time to be alive in the history of the world. They will not think that the problems in the world don’t exist. They will feel that problems have always existed and they will be focused on solutions and not the problems. They will be more interested in what can be done to improve things, rather than on who is to blame for what has happened in the past.

Help your psychology coaching client to understand, that their outside world will look just like their inner world or attitude. Give them mindset coaching to create doubt about the negative belief, and build proof that a positive view of the world is more accurate. Help your psychology coaching client develop an understanding that what happens to them in life, is caused by their actions. They are responsible for themselves and it isn’t anybody else’s fault. If you do this, they will become a person that stops making excuses. They will get busy changing things they are not happy with. If they can’t change it, like the weather, they will accept it. They will have more friends because they will stop complaining, and they will find that happiness and success is attracted into their lives.

Kris Thompson
JTS Advisors Strategy Coach

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In psychology coaching, what mindset coaching do you use to help your client to set and pursue goals? We all want to succeed in life, that is why psychology coaching is so important. Do you know anyone who enjoys the experience of failure? I sure don’t. For your clients to get on the path to success in life, they will need mindset coaching to help them handle failure better. Here are two ways to help your client set and pursue goals.

Mindset Coaching: There Is Risk In NOT Pursuing A Goal

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Many of your psychology coaching clients are so afraid of failure that they are reticent to set any goals. They have the vision and the dream in their minds, but they have never taken action because the thought of failure dominates their thoughts. The mindset coaching for your clients in that situation is simple: have your coaching client set small goals.

Small goals help to put your psychology coaching clients in the right mindset. Coaching then becomes an issue of taking steps rather than achieving large, sometimes overwhelming goals. When in this mindset, coaching becomes a practice in encouragement and staying on the path you’ve set before your psychology coaching clients. That will help them see how easy it is to set and make progress toward a goal. Once their confidence is up they can move on to bigger goals.

Your Psychology Coaching Clients Don’t Know That Goal Setting Is NOT A Belief Exercise

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If you believe that you don’t have the talent to write a book, would you ever set a goal to write a book? You would probably not. Your psychology coaching client’s beliefs have shaped their behavior. In most cases, they will only have set goals they believed they could reach. Every time they think of a compelling goal that excites them they think, “I could never do that.” The mindset coaching you will give them is that goal setting is NOT a belief exercise.

Goal setting is an exercise in mindset coaching that helps clients to clearly define what they want, write this down, create a plan and take action to reach the goal. For many of your psychology coaching clients, the light bulb will go on in their mind. Your client needs you help them to set goals and master fear of failure.

Kris Thompson
JTS Advisors Strategy Coach

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