{"id":2721,"date":"2010-01-17T13:00:54","date_gmt":"2010-01-17T13:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/?p=2721"},"modified":"2016-08-09T13:34:14","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T21:34:14","slug":"building-a-coaching-practice-or-life-coaching-business-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/building-a-coaching-practice-or-life-coaching-business-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"When Building A Coaching Practice or Life Coaching Business, What You Focus on is What You Get"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In your <strong><a title=\"life coaching business\" href=\"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/2010\/01\/life-coaching-business-of-your-dreams-building-a-life-coaching-practice\/\" target=\"_self\">life coaching business<\/a><\/strong>, focus is necessary (especially early on) when <strong><a title=\"building a coaching practice\" href=\"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/2009\/12\/building-a-coaching-practice-through-public-speaking-why-you-can\u2019t-enroll-new-life-coaching-business-from-the-front-of-the-room\/\" target=\"_self\">building a coaching practice<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 Focus is required to make money when <strong>building a coaching practice<\/strong>.\u00a0 Here\u2019s an example to illustrate the value of focus in your <strong>life coaching business<\/strong>.\u00a0 You can take a flashlight and point it right at your eyes and it would irritate you a bit.\u00a0 No big deal.\u00a0 But if you took the energy of a flashlight and concentrated it into a laser, that laser can cut steel.\u00a0 Of course, you\u2019d never point a laser into your eyes because you might go blind.<\/p>\n<h3>When Building A Coaching Practice (Life Coaching Business) DON\u2019T Focus On What\u2019s NOT Working<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s say you don\u2019t have the amount of clients you want in your <strong>life coaching business<\/strong>.\u00a0 What a lot of coaches do (when <strong>building a coaching practice<\/strong>) is panic.\u00a0 They panic because they are worried about where the money is going to come from to pay their bills.\u00a0 Coaches only earn money when they have paying clients.\u00a0 If they don\u2019t have enough clients, they tend to focus on what is NOT working.\u00a0 It\u2019s the leads, it\u2019s the economy, I must not have what it takes to be a coach, etc.<\/p>\n<h3>When Building A Coaching Practice (Life Coaching Business) You Get What You Focus On<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you focus on what\u2019s not working when you build a coaching practice, you get more of what\u2019s not working.\u00a0 It\u2019s not going to move your <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">life coaching business<\/span> forward.\u00a0 It\u2019s not going to improve your situation.\u00a0 If you need more leads, then focus on what you can do to generate more leads.\u00a0 If you need a better script for your free session, focus on what you can do to improve it.\u00a0 If you\u2019re not using a script for your free session, then find one.\u00a0 Find out what the top coaches in your field are doing.\u00a0 Then do what they do, and you will produce similar results.\u00a0 If you focus on what you can do to create money in your\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">life coaching business<\/span>, then you will get what you focus on.<\/p>\n<p>Kris Thompson<\/p>\n<p>JTS Advisors Strategy Coach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In your life coaching business, focus is necessary (especially early on) when building a coaching practice.\u00a0 Focus is required to make money when building a coaching practice.\u00a0 Here\u2019s an example to illustrate the value of focus in your life coaching business.\u00a0 You can take a flashlight and point it right at your eyes and it 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