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Starting a Life Coaching Practice – The Pleasure and Pain – Part 2

December 4, 2011 By Fred Phillips Leave a Comment

The previous post explored the pain of starting a life coaching practice; this post will explore the better half of the equation – the PLEASURE!

At the beginning, when you start a life coaching practice, it’s not all sunshine and rainbows; the pain is often the most dominant sensation. No money, no clients, no immediate prospects – that means pain! But, with patience, perseverance, and practice, your pain will turn to pleasure.

5 Reasons You Will Feel Pleasure When Starting a Life Coaching Practice

  • Clients! Yes, you will start to get clients. They will slowly trickle in. Do a good job and that trickle will become a torrent. Your very first client will bring you an enormous amount of joy. That first client means that you are officially a coach! Like businesses that frame their first earned dollar bill and hang it on the wall, you can frame a picture of client number one. That first person who pays for your coaching will always remind you of the starting point and will represent the genesis of a long and successful career.
  • Being the Guru! Who doesn’t want to be a guru; that magic man with all the secrets? As a coach, you are the guru. The feeling of having special skills that help people create a better life must be the same one Batman has when he saves Gotham City from another villain. Guru or not, and most coaches are mere mortals who have learned, developed, and perfected their mentoring skills, you still have to put in the time and effort. But the rewards are pure pleasure!
  • Helping people. This is what mentoring is all about. There is no greater joy than helping people achieve success, happiness, or a defined set of goals. By starting a life coaching practice, you will be entering a field in which you can bring happiness to so many different people.
  • Show me the money. Yes, starting a life coaching practice doesn’t necessarily mean instant success, but with hard work, the money will come. Network with other successful coaches and learn from them. Their stories of failure and success can be a foundation of your learning, and a stepping stone to your own success. Their stories will show you the money!
  • It’s a dynamic field! The coaching business is always evolving. There are always new things to learn and fresh methods to explore. It’s a dynamic industry where you not only teach your clients, but you can learn from them as well. Starting a life coaching practice not only sets you on a course for helping people, it also provides an arena in which you can continue to learn for the rest of your career.

If you love helping people and making money (eventually), starting a life coaching practice might be the best decision you will ever make. You make money by helping people; can you find a more rewarding career? Just remember that along with the pleasure, there will be pain. Endure the pain and learn from it; embrace the pleasure and go with it!

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Fred Philips
Business Coach
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What Does A Freak Show Have To Do With Coaching Techniques For PFTS?

December 3, 2011 By Colette Seymann Leave a Comment

One of the key coaching techniques for pfts (that’s code for profits) is to grab people’s attention. Did you know that it’s virtually impossible for us as humans to see another human in an unfamiliar position and to not look? That’s why we loved the book, “Ripley’s Believe It Or Not” as children and are drawn to shows like Circ de Soleil as adults. How can we use apply this to our coaching techniques and profit?

I Like Freaky Things And Other Coaching Techniques For PFTS

If you have a conversation with someone, it may or may not have a life changing impact. In order to change someone’s life in the context of a single coaching session you need to engage the other person at a deep emotional level. You need to stir things up a bit and not be just like everyone else in your clients’ lives who is willing to accept mediocrity and status quo. Freaky coaching techniques for pfts is not about your profit, although it can be, but your client’s profit from the conversation.

The Easiest Way To Get Someone’s Attention Is To Do Something Freaky

Just as we crane our necks to see an accident on the highway, turning someone’s life upside down like a wrecked car is a sure what to get someone’s attention. Giving someone a fresh perspective is one of the most common coaching techniques for pfts, but most coaches play too small. Look at Tony Robbins for example, he has thousands of people lining up to walk across fire at his events. That is freaky! Having a client visualize the pain she will experience if she fails to make immediate changes in her life until she is sobbing uncontrollably. That is freaky. Having someone visualize a painful experience from his past and then modify the memory so that he is unable to recall that event again without laughing is also freaky.

Challenge yourself and dare to make a difference by facing your own fear of the unfamiliar in your next session.

Give this strategy a try and see for yourself that it works. If you liked this coaching tip, leave a comment or use the handy bookmark buttons below to share it with others on Facebook, Twitter, Digg, etc. Thanks!

Colette Seymann
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Become A Coach Clients Flock To By Always Having This

February 26, 2011 By Dorine G. Kramer Leave a Comment

Integrity: Indispensable Quality To Become A Coach | Image by simplifythisIf you had to pick one quality or virtue you must have when you become a coach, what would you pick? Would it be honesty? Compassion? Business savvy? Well, for me the one indispensable quality is integrity. Without it, the services of the most knowledgeable, compassionate guru coach in the world will just make you feel like you need to take a shower.

So What Is Integrity Really?

Integrity comes from the Latin word for wholeness or completeness. It has several meanings, including acting according to a moral and ethical code, and acting congruently with the values and beliefs you say you hold. In the context of becoming a coach, and assuming you are a decent human being, it really comes down to honoring your commitments and keeping your agreements. When you become a coach through the JTS Advisors Master Coach University you learn this concept in the accountability training as “being your word.”

Become A Coach Who Is Unstoppable

Integrity is a quality that shows up, or sometimes doesn’t show up, in all kinds of ways when you become a coach. There are some obvious ones, like always being on time for your calls, returning calls or sending recordings or documents when you say you will, and following through in a timely way on any commitments you make to clients, colleagues, vendors, friends and family, and maybe most important, to yourself. Be aware that telling yourself “I’ll get that done tomorrow” is a commitment. Saying to someone else “I’ll give you a call next week” is a commitment. It’s best to specify the details of commitments, like time and date, but even if you leave those things vague, if you say you are going to do something, it’s critical that you be unstoppable in doing it.

Why Bother?

When you are a coach with integrity, you become someone that people can count on. Clients know what to expect from you. They may not always like what you say or do, but they can trust you, because you do what you say you will do. Likewise, when you are always true to your word, you know that when you make a commitment you are unstoppable in keeping that commitment. That gives you the power to get anything done that you want. If you commit to it, you know from personal experience that you can count on yourself to find a way to get it done.

Special Bonus – Learn 32 ‘Guru’ Transformation Techniques when you fill in the form at the top right and click the “Watch The Videos Now” button. You’ll learn how to become a life coach in 30 days.

Dorine G. Kramer
JTS Advisors Strategy and Accountability Coach

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Turn “Start Life Coaching Business Blues” Into Good News

October 27, 2010 By Jeffrey T. Sooey 2 Comments

Tips to Start Life Coaching Business | Image by IdeaChampionsIf you don’t already have the nasty blues trying to push yourself to start life coaching business on a shoe string, just wait a few months and you will be bleeding from head to toe and crying your heart out. Watch out for the big ticket price tag for great sounding, tantalizing coaching certification programs because you may be in for a big surprise. Stop and shove your fist through that persuasive online order now window. Say hell no! Hang onto your credit card and your hard earned cash until you read every bone chilling word of this start-up coaching article.

I have some good news you can use to avoid the heartaches and pains so many coaches have been destroyed by falling in love with the savory ideas of the freedom and money you can get from starting a coaching business. Many wounded x-coaches have spent a lot of money on learning how to coach to later find out it wasn’t right for them because they allowed their passion for wanting to make a difference in the world to dive into coaching, causing them to ignore the trials and tribulations every coach has to go through to become a great coach.

You may hate your job, but ask any successful coach and they will tell you that starting a coaching business isn’t easy for any naive person who’s running from another career for the freedom of becoming a coach .

What you should do before jumping in head first to Start Life Coaching Business?

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Because you’re reading my article, I know you are a person of action. You are someone who has what it takes to really start a coaching business. I’m going to give you a few simple steps you should take to ensure the practice of coaching is for you. You should know before doling out your hard earned cash for some high priced certification program whether running a coaching business is something you truly want to take on.

Do you already have the skills to run a business or are you willing to learn how to start a coaching business?

Coaching business Start-up tips

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Follow these tips to avoid the coaching blues:

The smart thing to do is to hire a coach and first see what it’s like being on the client side over the phone. You need to know the value a coach can deliver consistently every week. Paying for coaching will make you more believable when you start to enroll other people into your coaching program because you will know the value of coaching first hand. You’ll learn whether you’re coachable and the skills and talents you’ll need to motivate your clients to change or get things done.

Next get to know great coaches and ask them questions about how coaching is working for them and what it was like to start life coaching business. Zero in on how coaching has given them freedom to control their schedule and the flexibility to do interesting things like travel and be anywhere in the world and still coach and make money.

Probe to see what their biggest challenges were starting up their coaching businesses in the first year. The good and bad trends they’ve seen in coaching since they’ve gotten into the coaching business and the opportunities and challenges they think will happen in the years to come.

Digging in and getting to the bottom of what’s really going on in the coaching business is far more important than rushing into a certification program, which takes a commitment of time and money.

Get in to a quick start coaching program to start life coaching business which will cost you less money than a coaching certification program and it’s less of a time suck at the beginning to get a taste of the benefits and challenges of being a coach. Buy a home study DVD course or Watch free videos and read tons of articles on how to become a coach and the business of coaching. You’ll be so glad you dipped your toe in first before leaping head first into the business and practices of coaching and you avoided the coaching blues that so many green coaches go through in the first 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!

Donald R. Hunter, MBA, Certified Financial Planner
JTS Certified Accountability Coach

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January 5, 2009 By Jeffrey T. Sooey Leave a Comment

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