{"id":2657,"date":"2010-01-01T18:05:09","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T18:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/?p=2657"},"modified":"2016-08-10T21:35:49","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T05:35:49","slug":"motivational-coach-make-your-life-coaching-client-go-after-their-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/motivational-coach-make-your-life-coaching-client-go-after-their-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Master Motivational Coach Technique: How To Make Your Life Coaching Client Go After Their Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re a <a title=\"motivational coach\" href=\"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/2009\/12\/life-coaching-how-to-be-the-motivational-coach-that-keeps-your-clients-taking-action\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>motivational coach<\/strong><\/a>, how do you keep your <a title=\"life coaching\" href=\"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/2009\/08\/life-balance-coaching-taking-your-life-coaching-skills-to-the-next-level\/\" target=\"_self\"><strong>life coaching<\/strong><\/a> client moving toward their goals? It\u2019s an age-old problem. When your client gets off their call with you as their <strong>motivational coach<\/strong> they are so pumped up! Then a few hours or days pass, and they go back to what they have always been doing. Why don\u2019t <strong>life coaching<\/strong> clients stay motivated and keep taking action toward their goals? Because they don\u2019t have a compelling enough reason to achieve them. We will now consider two things you must do to keep your <strong>life coaching<\/strong> clients deeply motivated to accomplish their goals.<\/p>\n<h3>As A Motivational Coach You Must Connect Your Client To The \u201cHell\u201d They Will Experience If They Don\u2019t Accomplish Their Goal<\/h3>\n<p>After you have your <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">life coaching<\/span> client write their goal down, have them write a paragraph about it. The paragraph needs to start with a description of the \u201chell,\u201d or consequences, they will experience if they don\u2019t accomplish their goal. What will it cost them in life and in their <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">life coaching<\/span>? At the end of the paragraph, have them write down the \u201cheaven\u201d that will result if they do accomplish the goal. If your client\u2019s reason for achieving the goal is greater than the obstacles they will face, then they will be much more likely to achieve the goal with you as their <strong>motivational coach<\/strong>. If not, you will have your work cut out for you.<\/p>\n<h3>Your Life Coaching Client is Motivated By Two Things: Gaining Pleasure And Avoiding Pain<\/h3>\n<p>Here is an example: Imagine you are one of your <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">motivational coach<\/span> clients. You have been smoking a pack of cigarettes every day for 20 years. You have had a goal to quit smoking for the last five years because you know smoking is bad for you. You\u2019ve tried hypnosis, gum and quit smoking seminars, but nothing seems to work. You go to the doctor. The doctor confirms your worst fears. You have lung cancer. If you quit smoking now you will have 10 years to live. If you keep smoking you will die in one year. Would you be able to quit smoking? I think most people would, with or without a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">motivational coach<\/span>. Even though for the last five years the goal was unsuccessfully met, you would instantly have a strong enough reason to accomplish the goal. In a way, you would become your own motivational coach.<\/p>\n<p>By writing down their life coaching goals, and the \u201cheaven\u201d and \u201chell\u201d associated with them, your clients are creating a tool that they can use whenever they need a dose of their motivational coach. Your life coaching clients can read the paragraph they wrote whenever they don\u2019t feel like taking action to give them a surge of motivation right when they need it most.<\/p>\n<p>Kris Thompson<br \/>\nJTS Advisors Strategy Coach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019re a motivational coach, how do you keep your life coaching client moving toward their goals? It\u2019s an age-old problem. When your client gets off their call with you as their motivational coach they are so pumped up! Then a few hours or days pass, and they go back to what they have always [&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":[194,35],"tags":[983,844],"class_list":["post-2657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-life-coaching","category-motivational-coach","tag-life-coaching","tag-motivational-coach","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657","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=2657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18098,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2657\/revisions\/18098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}