If you’re not yet where you want to be in your life coaching business, there may still be hope, unless you are the person who just learns and doesn’t implement. Are you waiting until you become the person who can succeed, or can you believe one thing and do something else? How do you get from where you are in your life, to where you want to be? Here are three coaching strategies you can use in your business and in your life. You Can Take Your Life Coaching Business to the Next Level by … [Read more...]
Archives for May 2010
Coaching for Success: Navigating Through Obstacles
When you’re coaching for success, your clients are bound to encounter obstacles. How do you guide them to success? They key to effective coaching is to realize one of the greatest threats to success is L.O.D.I., a term coined by a certain guru. It is the Law of Diminishing Intent. Simply stated it means that a goal is most powerful when it is created. Our intention to achieve it is strongest at that time, but gradually decreases over time. How can you navigate through this obstacle when … [Read more...]
Life Coaching Business Blunders: Don’t Forget to Factor in the High Cost of Success
Success in your life coaching business comes with a cost. But did you know it’s not just the cost of achieving success in your business; it’s also that once you are successful there will be costs in your life that you will have to pay? These are costs you must factor in and prepare for unless you want to be blindsided by them. Avoid honesty pitfalls. There is a lot of irrational stuff that happens. Emotional stuff that can get in your way. If you’re not honest with the price you have to … [Read more...]
Life Coaching Business: Persistence Is Key To Build Your Coaching Practice
Persistence is key to build your coaching practice or life coaching business. Building your coaching practice is one of the best challenges you will take on in your life and the most rewarding. Having a life coaching business will allow you to change lives forever, which is why most of us get into coaching. Successful business people and entrepreneurs seem to have unshakable persistence. Everyone in any field who succeeds greatly has to overcome tremendous adversity, often for many years … [Read more...]
Become a Life Coach: The Four Traits of Master Coaches
If you want to become a life coach, a master life coach, then there are four traits you will need to develop. When all four of these traits are present, true mastery occurs. Not just over your own life, but you become someone who has the ability to transform the lives of others. 1. Outstanding Results: Someone who has become a life coach who is a Master Coach is recognized by others for the results they produce. Those considered masters of coaching consistently produce outstanding … [Read more...]
How to Become a Life Coach Who Can Find Their Target Market: Become a Life Coach With a Hot Niche
One of the hurdles to become a life coach is to identify your target market. But how to become a life coach whose clients want their services is the question rarely asked. Beyond just deciding to become a life coach and hanging up your shingle, you want to make sure there are people who are looking for you. There are three steps to how to become a life coach who has identified a great target market. Use These Suggestions to Help You Become a Life Coach with a Hot Niche Market How to Become … [Read more...]
Coaching Strategy: Life Coaching Lessons From Sailing
Coaching strategy is more like sailing strategy than an originally thought. Sailing is all about dealing with circumstances, and in coaching we’re supposed to rise about our circumstances. In sailing you have to deal with the wind, waves, and weather; all of which are completely out of your control. So how do you navigate? Decide Where You Want to Go Before You Set Sail It’s amazing how few people really know where they’re going. In fact nine times out of ten people aren’t clear about what … [Read more...]
Coaching Tips Most Coaches Neglect: The Key Ingredient to Effective Coaching
Coaching tips are ineffective without one key ingredient. Effective coaching relies on getting your clients emotionally engaged. No matter how sharp you are or how many great coaching tips you know; you won’t have influence on your clients. It will be a nice conversation, instead of an effective coaching session. Using a wrestling metaphor, if you are just having a conversation with people it’s as if you are in kicking range. The client is so far away you don’t have much influence over … [Read more...]
Coaching Instruction for Speaking to a Group: Five Coaching Tips That Will Give You Confidence
When you’re standing in front of the room and getting ready to present, do you every wish you had a few coaching tips to boost your confidence? My friend Eiji Morishita just shared a few powerful tips at our coaches training seminar today. Not only are there some great coaching tips that are easy to implement on the spot, but there is specific coaching instruction that will help you prepare. The most valuable coaching instruction is to make sure you connect with your clients before you even … [Read more...]
Becoming a Life Coach Who Knows Your Niche: How to Become a Life Coach Who Knows Their Market
On the road to becoming a life coach everyone eventually asks the same question: Who is my ideal client? What is my niche? Many people get hung up on how to become a life coach that has a great niche without being too narrow. The real problem is how to become a life coach who is specialized enough to attract their ideal client. The first step in becoming a life coach who knows their niche, is to know yourself. And this is how to become a life coach who can do just that. When Becoming a … [Read more...]
