I challenge you to see any similarities in your life coaching career and this story. A blind boy was sitting against a building on a busy city street. He held up a sign that said, “I’m blind, please help.” In an upside down hat between his feet some people had thrown a few coins. A man came up to him and asked if he could take his sign for a moment, and used the back side to create a new message. Soon the hat began to fill up as people read the sign as they walked by. When the man came … [Read more...]
Get Your Client Off The Teeter-Totter With Life Balance Coaching
Most of your clients will benefit from life balance coaching. They may not think of what they want in quite those words, but if they aren’t satisfied with their lives, or their level of success in their work or business, or their relationships, often times the cause is a lack of balance on the teeter-totter of their daily lives. The costs of an out-of-balance life An out-of-balance life can show up in your clients as almost anything. A successful business woman comes to you because her … [Read more...]
Life Coaching Sex Scandals: Using The Power of Coaching For Evil vs. Good
Recently there have been some life coaching sex scandals that have come up in the news. It reminds me of a quote by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton (1834-1902). He wrote, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” With so many life coaches out there aspiring to be great, it looks like more coaching scandals are store for the future. Life Coaching Technology Can Be Dangerously Powerful . The power to radically shift someone’s … [Read more...]
Life Coaching Seminars: Walking on Fire Comes to Long Beach
The grand-daddy of life coaching seminars is coming to Long Beach in a few days. One of the unique aspects of this seminar is to walk over coals of fire barefoot. It is an exercise of focus and determination. In the process you literally train your own nervous system to pursue whatever it is in life that you put at stake before setting off across the hot coals. I can’t wait. Fear is Relative . I have no fear of walking over fire barefoot; I am the mother of a 2 year old boy. My daughter … [Read more...]
Life Coaching Lessons From The County Fair: The Power of Peers
Life coaching should be fun and exciting, just like the county fair. In addition to a lot of great attractions and exhibits, there are a lot of interesting people to watch at the fair. From the moment you enter the mammoth lines to get into the fairgrounds, you become part of the crowd. I don’t know how else to explain it, but this crowd becomes part of your new peer group. Not Your Usual Life Coaching Peer Group Only at the fair can you buy a huge turkey drumstick and walk around eating it … [Read more...]
Life Coaching Pitfalls: The Tyranny of Template Coaching
Most life coaching programs teach the template method. Especially hypnosis and NLP coaching programs. It’s actually a good place to start, but there is another level. In the book, “Clinical Reasoning”, Mark Jones describes the differences between the novice and the expert clinician. The novice tends to relay more heavily on templates, and the expert is able to use their experience to recognize patterns and get results much more quickly. Just as it’s said there are no new stories in literature, … [Read more...]
Life Coaching Magic: Discover Your Clients’ Life Purpose
There is a simple formula that will help you discover your life coaching client’s life purpose within a single session. You can use it on yourself. These three easy steps will make you look like a wizard, and your coaching clients will get results like never before once they are clear on where they want to go. First, have your life coaching clients’ think of three separate times in their life when they felt really fulfilled or in the flow about what they were doing. Have them share the … [Read more...]
Life Coaching Rules of the Game: Three Strikes and You Win
How is it possible for you to win at the life coaching game when all the cards seem to be stacked against you? It’s the law of averages. If you can stay in the game long enough, you will begin to rise to the top. It’s not a sprint, it’s a marathon. Knowing that, how can you position yourself to survive until you reach the finish? . The Key to Survival is Treating Your Life Coaching Business Like a Business The most dangerous thing to your life coaching business is lack of cash. You … [Read more...]
Life Coaching Concepts: Life Balance Coaching Tools to Avoid Parkinson’s Law
Parkinson’s Law was named after Cyril Northcote Parkinson, who was not involved in life coaching at all. He was worked in the British Civil Service and in 1955 published an essay which began by stating, “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion” (according to Wikipedia). Just goes to show you that there are some people who work for the government who may actually be interested in life coaching to get themselves out of the ‘rat race’ we hear so much about. While the … [Read more...]
Life Success Coaching Your Life Coaching Clients to Become Risk Takers
Life success coaching your life coaching clients to become risk takers isn’t easy. It is human nature to be safe. Naturally, your life coaching clients will feel no differently. Nobody wants to take unnecessary risks. That being said, one reason your life success coaching client hasn’t created the results they want in their life is they haven’t taken enough risks. The future belongs to the risk takers, not the security seekers. Life Success Coaching: Help Your Life Coaching Client Switch … [Read more...]
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