If you want to become a success coach you’ll need a lot more than a life coach degree. You may be thinking, what could be more important than a life coach degree? But it is your beliefs that supply the foundation for success. They are passive memory; the instruction manual for how you operate. Therefore, it follows that to become a success coach, you will need to make sure your beliefs support you.

The Importance of Your Beliefs When You Become a Success Coach

How do beliefs dictate the likelihood that you will become a success coach? Beliefs are the conductor in the orchestra of success; not you, your beliefs. While your triad (the combinations of beliefs, physiology, and language pattern) dictates how you feel and how well you’ll perform in any particular moment, the biggest factor comes into play from your beliefs. Your beliefs organize and command when you choose what state of mind to go into. Belief delivers a direct command to your nervous system. When you believe something is true, you literally go into the state of its being true. In fact, there’s no more powerful directing force in human behavior than belief. And while earning a life coach degree may help your beliefs about your ability to coach, the degree alone is worthless if your belief structure isn’t supportive of your role as a coach.

How Your Beliefs Affect Your Ability to Become a Success Coach?

How do your beliefs affect your capacity to become a success coach? Your beliefs are the central orchestrator of all the motivating forces in your coaching business. Your beliefs dictate:

• What you will attempt in your coaching.
• Whether you pursue a life coach degree.
• The way your treat your clients and partners.
• How you feel about your coaching business.
• Your perception of your coaching.
• What you focus upon and think is important in your coaching business.

Use Your Beliefs to Complement Your Life Coach Degree

How can you make sure you succeed in your attempt to become a success coach even before you earn a life coach degree? The challenge is the opportunity. Most of our beliefs about what is going to happen in our coaching business were created from interpretations of experiences in our past, even if we’ve never started a coaching business before. Most coaches don’t consciously decide what to believe about their coaching business, but the truth is, we all can. It’s up to us to decide what we will believe.

The first step to become a success coach who chooses their own believes about their coaching practice, is awareness. You can just as easily develop powerful or limiting belief about your coaching business if you just find enough references to build them up. You could easily find reasons to support your beliefs that clients are rotten, or that they are wonderful! Which on is true? The answer is that it doesn’t matter which one is true. What matters is that you can choose. And it doesn’t take a life coach degree to figure out that it makes more sense to choose the one that is most empowering.

Colette Seymann

JTS Advisors Designated Accountability Coach