{"id":1443,"date":"2009-06-05T13:00:24","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/?p=1443"},"modified":"2016-08-12T03:01:11","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T11:01:11","slug":"magic-key-to-motivation-life-coaching-education-become-a-motivational-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/magic-key-to-motivation-life-coaching-education-become-a-motivational-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"The Magic Key to Motivation: Life Coaching Education on How to Become a Motivational Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can be successful as a <a title=\"motivational coach\" href=\"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/2009\/06\/how-to-become-a-motivational-coach-master-coach-life-coach-tips-to-help-you-succeed\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>motivational coach<\/strong><\/a> with some basic <a title=\"life coaching education\" href=\"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/2009\/02\/become-a-business-coach-life-coaching-education\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>life coaching education<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 The magic key to motivation is that everything human beings do is either to avoid PAIN or gain PLEASURE.\u00a0 It\u2019s your belief that some actions will produce pleasure and others will create pain.\u00a0 Even if some things are painful in the short term, you may still associate longer term pleasure by taking action.\u00a0\u00a0 How can someone who wants to become a <strong>motivational coach<\/strong> put this <strong>life coaching education<\/strong> into action?<\/p>\n<h3>Making Magic with Life Coaching Education<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Step One: Determine Your Values.<\/strong> The first step in this <strong>life coaching education<\/strong> is to find out what you value most.\u00a0 In order to motivate yourself and others, the key is to find out what drives you.\u00a0 What do you value most in your life?\u00a0 Is it comfort?\u00a0 Love?\u00a0 Family? Significance?\u00a0 Start using this <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">life coaching education<\/span> for yourself right now to begin to get clear about what you value.\u00a0 Write it down.\u00a0 Now rank them in order of their value from highest to lowest.\u00a0 If you want to become a <strong>motivational coach<\/strong> or in the process of becoming a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">motivational coach<\/span> you can also use this on your next coaching client.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step Two: Identify the Pleasure. <\/strong>The next step in this <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">life coaching education<\/span> is to write down why becoming a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">motivational coach<\/span> is an important goal to achieve right now.\u00a0 Associate massive pleasure with becoming a motivational coach.\u00a0 Use a frame of reference that looks at short term or immediate benefits as well as longer term benefits that would result from achieving your goal right now.\u00a0 Make sure these are written down.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step Three: Identify the Pain.<\/strong> The final step in this life coaching education is to write down why failing to become a motivational coach right now would be painful.\u00a0 What will it cost you now, and what will it cost you in the future?\u00a0 Look at this pain with a magnifying glass and make the pain excruciating.\u00a0 Most people are more motivated by pain or fear than pleasure.<\/p>\n<h3>Bringing It All Together as a Motivational Coach<\/h3>\n<p>The key to success in becoming a motivational coach is to be able to connect the dots.\u00a0 Use this life coaching education to create a clear and compelling vision.\u00a0 This vision needs to be strong enough to make the obstacles that inevitably come up seem like small ripples of water on a pond instead of tidal waves.\u00a0 This clear and compelling vision will help create the motivation and focus needed for success for yourself and your clients.<\/p>\n<p>Colette Seymann<\/p>\n<p>JTS Advisors Designated Accountability Coach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can be successful as a motivational coach with some basic life coaching education.\u00a0 The magic key to motivation is that everything human beings do is either to avoid PAIN or gain PLEASURE.\u00a0 It\u2019s your belief that some actions will produce pleasure and others will create pain.\u00a0 Even if some things are painful in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[72,35],"tags":[871,844],"class_list":["post-1443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-life-coaching-education","category-motivational-coach","tag-life-coaching-education","tag-motivational-coach","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1443"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18409,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions\/18409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}