It’s about your belief. It is about credibility. It’s about being the most powerful coach that you can be. How can you tell your prospect of the great value of having a coach, unless you have your personal coach supporting you? How can you present yourself as a great coach without having the benefits of personal coaching? You can’t. First, Establish the Value of Coaching in Your Own Mind What do you say to yourself when you don’t spend your own, hard earned dollars for coaching? Without your … [Read more...]
Life Balance Coaching – Thriving on Life’s Tightrope
Through life balance coaching, you help your clients meet the demands of work, family, and themselves. By understanding the four basic human needs and establishing strategies to increasing your clients’ fulfillment of each need, they will not only be happier, but their new positive behavior will be self-reinforcing. Each of Us Is “Hardwired” with Four Fundamental Needs Life balance coaching requires the understanding of our needs for Significance, Love and Connection, Certainty and Variety, … [Read more...]
Dude, Where’s My Life Coaching Client?
Sooner or later in your life coaching career you will face the problem of a no-show client. It's one of those events that is super frustrating. First, you feel you are wasting precious time that might have been scheduled for someone else. Second, you feel you are not being respected. And third, if you are anything like I used to be, you might feel how I used to feel--uncomfortable about taking someone's money without providing them with the agreed service. 5 Techniques For Managing Life … [Read more...]
Taking Your Life Coaching Career To New Heights in 2011
If you want more out of your life coaching career in 2011 than you had in 2010, you need to grow. As Calvin Coolidge said, “All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.” At the start of a journey, you usually have support. Think about the early world explorers or space shuttle launches. After the launch or send off, however, comes the long lonely process. That is where the challenges and obstacles come up. This same … [Read more...]
Life Balance Coaching: The Quickest Way Back To Sanity
Do you have life balance coaching clients who are out of control? They flip flop between working on fulfilling their dreams in one part of their life, only to lose sight of other areas? One of the most common patterns of this craziness is the battle between work and family life or leisure. It is the balance between getting their needs met for significance on one hand and love on the other. The Life Balance Myth That there is some type of balance point in your clients’ lives is a fallacy. While … [Read more...]
4 Keys For Committing Life Coaching Fraud For Dummies
Life coaching fraud is a serious and criminal act that can land you in a jail cell rotting away for ten whole years because you were a careless, dummy, stupid as a rock that wouldn’t listen to anyone screaming at you to try to get through to you how you put your clients in jeopardy with your borderline fraudulent coaching practices. My article gives you straightforward coaching advice in 4 keys to help you stay on the right side of the law. You don’t want to get sent to the slammer for … [Read more...]
Why Your Life Coaching Clients Need Accountability
Your life coaching clients need accountability more than they could ever realize. If your coaching clients’ beliefs drive their actions, and get the results they are getting in their life, there are only two ways to achieve their goals. The first is through dissecting out what those beliefs are and transforming them so thoroughly that they never go back to the old ways. The second way is to “just do it,” which requires accountability. 3 Ways Your Life Coaching Clients Sabotage Themselves … [Read more...]
3 Reasons People Don’t Change: Can Life Coaching Help?
Life coaching may not be the first recourse for someone who wants to make changes in his life, but it may be the best. People usually don't know why they are unable to change or make progress but they tend to get stuck where they are, and stuck in their stories about why they can't change. That's where you come in. As a coach, you are often their best bet, not just to work through what's stopping them but to get them into action. 3 Reasons People Don't Change 1. Change requires someone to … [Read more...]
The Terrible Truth About Life Coaching
Life coaching is a caring profession. That is probably the most significant reason most coaches become coaches. You probably have spent much of your life acting as friend and confidante for the people you know. You want to help people. You want to make things easier and alleviate your clients' pain. These are all noble aims of course. But guess what. While noble aims are wonderful and beautiful to have, the terrible truth about life coaching is that you have to be more than just a friend and … [Read more...]
The Ruthless Rules of Reality In Life Coaching
Before you decide to start your own life coaching business, you need to know the cold, hard facts. Most people sugar-coat reality. They don’t want to hurt your feelings or discourage you. And while these people may be your friends at some level, if you go out into a snowstorm without a jacket you’ll freeze to death. 3 Rules to Live or Die By 1. You have to sell. I’ll repeat it. You have to sell yourself, your programs, your materials, and even what your client says he/she wants out of life. … [Read more...]
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