{"id":2458,"date":"2009-11-22T03:16:17","date_gmt":"2009-11-22T03:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/?p=2458"},"modified":"2016-08-12T10:45:52","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T18:45:52","slug":"want-to-become-a-life-coach-but-dont-know-how-to-start-a-life-coaching-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/want-to-become-a-life-coach-but-dont-know-how-to-start-a-life-coaching-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to Become a Life Coach But Don\u2019t Know How to Start a Life Coaching Business?"},"content":{"rendered":"

You want to become a life coach<\/a><\/strong> but don\u2019t know where or how to start a life coaching business<\/a><\/strong>?\u00a0 Most people who want to become a life coach<\/strong> have a passion for helping people.\u00a0 They are Givers and may have been asked for advice for as far back as they remember from their friends, family, schoolmates or colleagues.\u00a0 Desire to help people is a great start, but let\u2019s consider what the foundation should be to start a life coaching business<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Become a Life Coach or Start a Life Coaching Business by Asking What Knowledge or Skill Do You Have That Others Would Pay You For?<\/h3>\n

If you want to become a life coach<\/strong> or start a life coaching business<\/strong> you need to understand that people you meet don\u2019t know what a life coach is because the term \u201clife coach\u201d is too vague.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When the average person asks \u201cwhat do you do\u201d and you say, \u201cI\u2019m a life coach\u201d they don\u2019t know where to save you in their brain.\u00a0 There is no benefit communicated in the statement \u201cI\u2019m a life coach\u201d.\u00a0 They don\u2019t know if you help parents, marriages, dating couples, grieving widows, drug addicts or help people create life balance.\u00a0 If they don\u2019t know the benefits of what you do when you become a life coach<\/span>, they WILL forget about you.\u00a0 What knowledge or skill do YOU have that someone would pay you for?<\/p>\n

To Become A Life Coach Successfully You Must Communicate Clearly Exactly What Benefits People Get From Working With You<\/h3>\n

To become a life coach<\/a><\/span> or start a life coaching business<\/span> you have to be clear on exactly what area you are going to help people with.\u00a0 Then you have to be clear on exactly how you will help them get results.\u00a0 Once you are clear that you help busy professionals to create total life balance you can say something like this for example.\u00a0 \u201cI help successful professionals create and maintain balance in every area of life that is important to them so they don\u2019t have to choose between money and love and they can live the life they REALLY want.\u201d\u00a0 If you can communicate that clearly you are going to attract to you people interested in your coaching.\u00a0 They may even ask you for specific coaching before you even have a chance to offer them a free session with you.<\/p>\n

Kris Thompson<\/p>\n

JTS Advisors Strategy Coach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You want to become a life coach but don\u2019t know where or how to start a life coaching business?\u00a0 Most people who want to become a life coach have a passion for helping people.\u00a0 They are Givers and may have been asked for advice for as far back as they remember from their friends, family, […]<\/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":[8,243],"tags":[822,1023],"class_list":["post-2458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-become-a-life-coach","category-start-a-life-coaching-business","tag-become-a-life-coach","tag-start-a-life-coaching-business","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458","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=2458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18605,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions\/18605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}