What is a Psychology life coach? Is there even such a thing? To arrive at an answer we need to define a life coach and distinguish it from a psychologist. While the life coaching world is a bit like the wild west – anyone can set themselves up to be a life coach and make their own rules – there are some factors that define a life coach. A life coach is a trained professional who, through active listening and inquiry, helps clients define, create, and achieve specific goals. A life coach … [Read more...]
Life Coaching; How to Help Your Clients Keep Their New Year’s Resolutions
Life coaching is not a seasonal job, but during the holidays, you may have clients who make New Year's resolutions and are striving to keep those promises made to themselves. How do you help your clients keep those important resolutions? According to Kathy Kolbe, an author, theorist, speaker, consultant, and organizational strategist, there are four personality types, or universal human instinct behaviors, when it comes to tackling a task. Or making and keeping a New Year's resolution. She is … [Read more...]
Top Ten List for Best Practices in Coaching
Everyone has heard of David Letterman's Top Ten List, so to borrow from the late night host, this article will present the top ten list for best practices in coaching. Coaching requites skill, expertise, knowledge, experience, dedication, and plenty of passion. These best practices can be considered guidelines or principles for running an effective, ethical, and successful coaching practice. Best practices in coaching are a crucial part of training for anyone wishing to be a coach. Top Ten List … [Read more...]
Read and Write Life Coach Articles
Life coach articles can be informational and inspirational, but you don't become a life coach by reading articles. You become a life coach by living life, learning about life, experiencing life, and then transferring that knowledge to others. Life is your classroom, your lecture hall, and your seminar. There is no doubt that you need a proper education before becoming a life coach. A college degree, perhaps a post-graduate degree, and then a certification from an accredited life coaching … [Read more...]
Why People Don’t Do What Personal Life Coaches Tell Them to Do
Personal life coaches often give advice – they may not call it advice, and many master coaches advise against calling it advice, but you can't help giving advice when you coach. What is advice? Advice is merely knowledge that one person tries to transfer to another. As a coach, you may have plenty of knowledge because of experience and education. You probably have more knowledge on many subjects than your clients. For example, you may have a client who wants to lose weight and learn to live a … [Read more...]
Coaching and Positive Psychology Go Great Together!
Coaching and positive psychology go together like peanut butter and jelly, burger and fries, meat and potatoes, champagne and caviar…well, you get the picture. Positive psychology is a natural fit with the coaching profession. What is Positive Psychology? Positive psychology is a dynamic field that is concerned with the scientific study of the strengths, capabilities, and virtues that allow individuals, communities, and societies to thrive. Coaching and positive psychology are aligned and … [Read more...]
More of the Best Life Coach Books
Last month I posted about the top five life coach books. Here’s a continuation of that post with the next best life coach books. Life coach books offer additional training and knowledge for the dedicated life coach and serve as a great way to supplement the information needed to be a outstanding coach. These two life coaching book lists are not inclusive and not necessarily in any particular order. All of these books are extremely well-written and informative. Here are my selections as … [Read more...]
What is the Definition of Coaching?
Whether you are a potential coach or a potential client, it is good to have a clear definition of coaching. To come up with a good definition of coaching, it helps to know what coaching isn’t. What Coaching Isn’t Coaching isn’t consulting. Consultants often have experience in one specific area and are hired to solve a problem in that certain area. Consulting is specific while coaching can be both general and specific. Consulting is narrow; coaching is broad. Consulting is restricted; coaching … [Read more...]
How to Take Away The Fear Of Becoming A Psychology Life Coach
What is the difference between a psychology life coach and a psychologist? The main difference is the university degree and credentials that a psychologist has to earn before using the title. Unless you have the credentials, you don't want people to think you are a psychologist unless you want to get in major trouble with the law. There is a place for psychology life coaches, and without understanding human psychology. 3 Keys to Success as a Psychology Life Coach Understanding What People … [Read more...]
What are Holistic Personal Coaches?
Holistic personal coaches occupy a growing niche in the coaching industry. As people become more health conscious, a holistic approach to life becomes more appealing. For many people, the services of a holistic personal coach can help them find a balance in life. Holistic personal coaches work with clients on a variety of different levels and seek to find the balance between these levels. They analyze, assess, and ameliorate a client’s personal life, career, physical health, and mental health … [Read more...]
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