{"id":2607,"date":"2009-12-24T13:00:40","date_gmt":"2009-12-24T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/?p=2607"},"modified":"2016-08-14T19:20:40","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T03:20:40","slug":"life-success-coaching-understanding-life-coaching-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/life-success-coaching-understanding-life-coaching-clients\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Success Coaching:  Understanding Why Your Life Coaching Clients Don\u2019t Have Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In your <strong><a title=\"life coaching\" href=\"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/2009\/12\/life-balance-coaching-life-coaching-results\/\" target=\"_self\">life coaching<\/a><\/strong> business, what <strong><a title=\"life success coaching\" href=\"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/2009\/08\/life-coaching-success-stories-why-some-people-procrastinate-and-how-success-coaching-can-help-create-real-excitement-in-their-lives\/\" target=\"_self\">life success coaching<\/a><\/strong> will your clients need first?\u00a0 The first key to <strong>life success coaching<\/strong> is to help your clients set goals.\u00a0 Why don\u2019t they already have goals?\u00a0 They did hire you to be their coach right?\u00a0 Yes, but they usually have only a general idea of what they want.\u00a0 In <strong>life coaching<\/strong> you quickly learn that clients need help taking what they want and turning it into a goal.\u00a0 We will discuss two reasons your clients haven\u2019t already set goals.<\/p>\n<h3>Life Success Coaching:\u00a0 They Don\u2019t Know How To Set Goals!<\/h3>\n<p>The biggest reason your <strong>life success coaching<\/strong> is needed is because your clients don\u2019t know how to set goals.\u00a0 Think about when you learned to set goals.\u00a0 You probably learned how to set goals when you learned how to do <strong>life coaching<\/strong>.\u00a0 Most people have never been taught proper goal setting techniques.\u00a0 A simple example would be a person who doesn\u2019t ski.\u00a0 The number one reason people don\u2019t ski is that they don\u2019t know how to ski.\u00a0 Many people don\u2019t set goals because they don\u2019t know how to set goals.<\/p>\n<h3>Your Life Coaching Clients Don\u2019t Know the Importance of Goal Setting<\/h3>\n<p>Is it possible to become a millionaire without setting a goal of becoming a millionaire?\u00a0 It is if you win the lottery or inherit a million dollars.\u00a0 What are the chances your <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">life coaching<\/span> client will inherit a million dollars or win the lottery? The chances are not good they will make a million dollars without your <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">life success coaching<\/span>.\u00a0 Goal setting is important because it dramatically increases the chances of your client getting everything they want out of life.\u00a0 Goals also will help your client get what they want faster and easier than if they had no goals.\u00a0 Once your client realizes how important goal setting is, they will immediately become a goal setter.<\/p>\n<p>Kris Thompson<\/p>\n<p>JTS Advisors Strategy Coach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In your life coaching business, what life success coaching will your clients need first?\u00a0 The first key to life success coaching is to help your clients set goals.\u00a0 Why don\u2019t they already have goals?\u00a0 They did hire you to be their coach right?\u00a0 Yes, but they usually have only a general idea of what they [&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":[194,220],"tags":[983,1004],"class_list":["post-2607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-life-coaching","category-life-success-coaching","tag-life-coaching","tag-life-success-coaching","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607","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=2607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18944,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2607\/revisions\/18944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}