{"id":2702,"date":"2010-01-12T13:00:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/?p=2702"},"modified":"2016-08-10T21:27:22","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T05:27:22","slug":"life-coaching-business-of-your-dreams-building-a-life-coaching-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/life-coaching-business-of-your-dreams-building-a-life-coaching-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Keeping You From Having the Life Coaching Business of Your Dreams: How to Tell if Building a Life Coaching Practice is Right for You"},"content":{"rendered":"

Building a life coaching practice<\/a><\/strong> is not for everyone.\u00a0 There are a lot of great coaches who haven\u2019t built their own life coaching business<\/a><\/strong> yet.\u00a0 Being a coach takes a lot of skill and precision.\u00a0 Building a life coaching practice<\/strong> takes something entirely different.\u00a0 And what keeps most coaches from even starting their own life coaching business<\/strong> is the same thing that keeps people in any other field from succeeding: they\u2019re just not committed enough.<\/p>\n

Why is it Easier to Improve Your Skills than to Implement Basic Internet Marketing Tools Which Will Help You Start Building a Life Coaching Practice?<\/h3>\n

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It\u2019s amazing how many coaches who say they want to start building a life coaching practice<\/strong> but never make a real commitment to their life coaching business<\/strong>.\u00a0 How many coaches have actually implemented the basic internet marketing strategies of running an ad on Google, setting up a database, and hiring someone to create an opt in page?\u00a0 Why does it seem so much easier to just take another coaching course to improve your skills?<\/p>\n

Even Though There are Many Easy to Use Marketing Tools at Your Disposal Your Biggest Life Coaching Business Hang-up May be Fear<\/h3>\n

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The real reason that most people don\u2019t start building a life coaching practice<\/span> is that when you\u2019re all alone doing these things it feels like the stupidest thing in the world.\u00a0 Every fear and uncertainty cry out and keep you from taking the decisive action you need to do to create a life coaching business<\/span>.\u00a0 And this type of action naturally guarantees failure. You have to go against what you feel.\u00a0 The difference between the mindset of someone is building a life coaching practice<\/span> and someone who keeps dreaming of having their own life coaching business<\/span> comes down to commitment.\u00a0 An entrepreneur says, \u201cI\u2019m going to put all my resources into this project and it\u2019s going to work.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ultimately, if You are Committed to Building a Life Coaching Practice, You Have to Go For It<\/h3>\n

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But how can you start building a life coaching practice if you aren\u2019t sure that your niche is a good opportunity?\u00a0 Most successful endeavors look risky.\u00a0 There is no certainty.\u00a0 In fact, as soon as you are certain that your life coaching business niche is a good opportunity; you should start looking for other niches.\u00a0 Remember the mortgage industry, when anyone with little or no experience could make a six figure income?\u00a0 Within a year or two the whole industry collapsed.\u00a0 If you want to be certain that your life coaching business will succeed, start taking the action that seems scary.\u00a0 It\u2019s only by conquering your own fears that you will be able to lead others past theirs.<\/p>\n

Colette Seymann<\/p>\n

JTS Advisors Bi-Designated Strategy and Accountability Coach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Building a life coaching practice is not for everyone.\u00a0 There are a lot of great coaches who haven\u2019t built their own life coaching business yet.\u00a0 Being a coach takes a lot of skill and precision.\u00a0 Building a life coaching practice takes something entirely different.\u00a0 And what keeps most coaches from even starting their own life […]<\/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":[265,195],"tags":[1149,984],"class_list":["post-2702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-building-a-life-coaching-practice","category-life-coaching-business","tag-building-a-life-coaching-practice","tag-life-coaching-business","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702","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=2702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18088,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions\/18088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}