I've got a great life coaching business plan for you: Take your own medicine, Coaches! You know, walk your talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWFkbXixEqA&feature=youtu.be As a great coach, you know that when you mentor someone, you can change their life. • A great teacher changes a student's education plan. • A great coach changes a player's game plan. • A great parent changes a child's life plan. What's really funny... as a coach, you don't take your own medicine. I don't mean … [Read more...]
Life Coach Marketing: How To Blog Without Inspiration
Life coach marketing has to continue whether or not you are feeling inspired, if you want your business to succeed. Do you write and publish a blog as part of your online marketing plan? If you do, you probably know that posting every day is most effective in building your tribe and your presence in the search engines. It's certainly easiest to write articles when you are feeling inspired, but if you are writing 5-7 blogs a week it can be a challenge to find that inspiration. So what can you do … [Read more...]
Coaching Strategy To Use When You’re In Over your Head
Have you ever had a coaching session where you felt that your coaching strategy was inadequate to deal with your client's problem? It probably happens to every coach sometime in his early days of coaching. Maybe your client has an addiction problem, or maybe she is depressed over a marriage that is falling apart. Whatever the specifics, you are suddenly confronted with a client whose problem feels way out of your comfort zone. How do you manage? What strategy do you use? Manage Your Own … [Read more...]
Life Coach Career Outlook: 3 Fixes to Start Right
How do you know what your life coach career outlook will be? Do you watch the economy like a hawk to see if people will purchase your coaching? What about your prospects? Do you hang on their every decision? Perhaps you wonder what your current clients will decide to do tomorrow? Will they re-up for another month? The fact is that most of the things that life coaches think about, worry about, and stay up late thinking about, do not have any bearing on your life coach career outlook. Most … [Read more...]
Pain And Pleasure as a Coaching Strategy
There is really only one coaching strategy that works to motivate clients to change. That strategy is the use of pain and pleasure. Now hang on. Don't get the wrong idea. I'm not talking about whips and chains here. I'm talking about psychology and neurolinguistic programming (NLP). Why Pain And Pleasure? Psychology tells us that the only reasons people change in any significant way are to avoid pain and to seek pleasure. In NLP terms, you will hear the motivations described as moving away … [Read more...]
How to Get Coaching Clients: Stop Chasing Clients
Let me show you how to get coaching clients to beg you to coach them. If you’re tired of chasing coaching clients, this article will show you how to avoid the biggest mistake coaches make when trying to get a client to hire them. You Can Get Clients to Chase You One of the biggest mistakes I see coaches make is chasing a client in hopes that this will get them to eventually breakdown and hire them. When you chase a client, you look like a desperate coach. No one wants to hire a desperate coach. … [Read more...]
3 Saboteurs To Overcome As A Life Success Coach
As a life success coach, you take your client through a series of steps on the way to reaching his goals. No matter what your particular process is, most likely you work with your client to develop a strategy and action steps. Then, of course, your client has to take those steps in order to have the success he wants in his life or work. So why is it that so often he doesn't take the actions? What gets in his way? Sabotage From The Outside Every one of us faces all kinds of external saboteurs. … [Read more...]
Want Coaching Success Stories? End Sessions This Way!
Coaching success stories provide wonderful examples of what works in coaching. Recently a client of mine had a major breakthrough because of the technique I used with him at the very end of his coaching session. You've probably heard the old aphorism “You can bring a horse to water but you cannot make him drink.” Here is an example of success in getting the “horse” to drink the water. Happy Endings Can Translate to Coaching Success Stories Feeling down or unhappy can be a great motivator in … [Read more...]
Five Phases of Starting a Life Coaching Practice
When you get serious about starting a life coaching practice, you’ll go through five phases: an educational phase, a certification phase, a start-up phase, a transitional phase, and then finally enter into a full-time phase. Starting a Life Coaching Practice: The Five Phases: Phase 1: Educational Phase Starting always begins with education. You’ll get educated on the ins and outs of the industry. you’re learning ‘about’ coaching, and about yourself. During this phase, you might read about … [Read more...]
Speaking For Money In Your Own Life Coaching Business
Are you a coach who started your own life coaching business thinking that all you would need to do is coach? Well if so, you might by now be realizing that one on one coaching, while rewarding in many ways, is not the most lucrative way of building your business. If you check out any coach who has reached a 5 figure income, you will find that speaking is part of growing your business and boosting your income. Speaking at a Free Event Speaking at a free event is a common way to get the “one to … [Read more...]
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