If you’ve read any of the Harry Potter books, you’ll know Harry has many resources for coaching for success. He has teachers, his godfather, and lots of magical sources. He also has an exceptional peer group, and that makes all the difference for him. It can make all the difference for your clients as well–not just in how successful they become, but in how successful they stay. Coaching for success can be helped or hindered by your client’s peer group In terms of a client’s results, peer group … [Read more...]
Archives for August 2010
How To Use Life Coaching Training Online In A Way That Works
Life coaching training online is available from many different coaches and organizations. It’s the main source of coaching information and training for a lot of new coaches and would be coaches. A lot of it is free promotional material and there are also many paid programs costing anything from $27 for some small piece to thousands of dollars for something more comprehensive. But what do you need to know to make the best use of the life coaching training online resources that are so numerous … [Read more...]
How To Build A Life Coaching Business: A Lesson I Learned From Will Smith
I know Will Smith doesn’t have a life coaching business, but he has the mindset to achieve whatever he wants to achieve in his life. On his U-Tube video he talks about how his father had him build a brick wall with his brother. The task looked impossible, but after a year they had completed the project. He learned the valuable lesson that he could create anything he wanted. Here’s how you can apply this mindset to your coaching business. Building Your Life Coaching Business One Brick At A … [Read more...]
Life Coaching Business: Tips I Learned By Walking Through Fire
If you’re going to have a successful life coaching business, you’re going to have to walk through some type of fire.Most likely on more than one occasion. This fire is of course a metaphor, although you could join 3 or 4,000 others at a certain guru's seminar and walk through actual fire. The fear alone would stop most people from moving forward, but as a life coach it won’t stop you from achieving what you want to do in your business. Here are some coaching reminders to make sure nothing … [Read more...]
Will Your Coaching Strategy Allow You To Survive Coming Financial Storms?
Winter is coming, and only the coaches with the best coaching strategy will survive. We are just transitioning into a new season, a new economy. The past 20 years has been the financial equivalent of fall. We’ve been enjoying the benefits of the harvest. We have been consuming like crazy over the past 10 years. In winter, however, there is less to consume. If you keep consuming at the rate you have been, you won’t survive. If you are like most people, you’ll feel you won’t survive and will stop … [Read more...]
How to Speak With Confidence: 3 Easy Tips You Can Use Now
If you want to learn how to speak with confidence in any situation, you may think it’s either nearly impossible or will take a lot of time to achieve. But that’s not true. I have a friend who was showcased during a 30-minute local news program. Unfortunately, she is very introverted, and in her mind it was a huge shift to attain the confidence she wanted to speak with. But all that was required was a 2mm shift—and here’s how she did it. How To Speak With Confidence Even When You’re … [Read more...]
The 3 Myths That Hurt Your Life Coaching Fees
Your life coaching fees are not dependent on your experience, your past outcomes or your market. What really determines your coaching fees is the extent to which your clients see you as the only way to get what they want. If their life is on the line, and you have the answer, they will do whatever it takes to get it. That’s one of the reasons creating a niche is so important when setting up your life coach business. But choosing a niche is not enough. The 3 Niche Myths That Harm Your Life … [Read more...]
Tips On Internet Marketing For Life Coaches
Marketing for life coaches is a challenge. Think about it. How do you feel about sales and marketing? Do you want to be writing sales copy or coaching clients? Probably you want to be coaching clients—enough clients to make a good income. The problem is you have to find them before you can coach them. How are you going about it right now? This week I'm in a JTS Advisors training on internet marketing for life coaches, and it's a real eye opener. Marketing may not be what you want to do, but … [Read more...]
Building A Coaching Practice Using Networking
Unfortunately for most life coaches, building a coaching practice requires more than coaching skills. For most of us, our coaching “hat” fits well and easily. But it is very different from our business “hat” which may not fit so well. While the helping and giving side of being a coach is what makes us who we are, it also makes turning our coaching into a successful business something of a challenge. Networking helps coaches to bridge the gap when building a coaching practice. Networking uses … [Read more...]
Coaching Success Stories: Don’t Forget To Celebrate!
Coaching success stories are what keep us going as coaches. Whether it’s my story or yours, it’s inspiring to all of us. We use coaching success stories to motivate ourselves, to motivate our clients and to help convert potential clients into paying ones. But for some coaches, and in fact many clients, it can be challenging to acknowledge the successes we’ve had and take credit for transforming ourselves into the people who could make those successes happen. When we don’t acknowledge success and … [Read more...]
