{"id":2824,"date":"2010-02-04T14:54:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T14:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/?p=2824"},"modified":"2016-08-11T02:22:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T10:22:57","slug":"juggle-your-life-coaching-business-life-balance-coaching-made-simple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/juggle-your-life-coaching-business-life-balance-coaching-made-simple\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Juggle Your Life Coaching Business: Life Balance Coaching Made Simple"},"content":{"rendered":"

Life coaching<\/a><\/strong>, like any business, is tough.\u00a0 You need good life balance coaching<\/a><\/strong> skills just to manage your own resources to really be successful.\u00a0 Thankfully there are only three variables you absolutely must manage to enjoy longevity and success as a life coach.\u00a0 These life balance coaching<\/strong> essentials are time, energy and money.<\/p>\n

Life Balance Coaching Essential #1: Time Management<\/h3>\n

Time is probably the most common life balance coaching<\/strong> challenge.\u00a0 If you can manage it with yourself, you have a better chance of managing it with your life coaching<\/strong> clients.\u00a0 Time is precious, and once you spend it there is no way to retrieve it.\u00a0 Choose to spend your time doing the things that are most important, not necessarily the most urgent.\u00a0 Emails, phone, sometimes even meetings will keep you from doing what you need to do to move forward.\u00a0 So next time you catch yourself doing something that you are comfortable doing, stop and ask yourself, \u201cIs this what I really need to be doing to take the next step?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019ve caught myself writing a blog article instead of a proposal for a speaking engagement and tried to justify the choice to myself.<\/p>\n

Life Balance Coaching Essential #2:\u00a0 Energy Management<\/h3>\n

Sure you need a lot of energy to effectively coach your life coaching<\/strong> clients, but true life balance is more about the inner game.\u00a0 It\u2019s a mindset such as, \u201cI have nothing to lose.\u201d\u00a0 My dad used to say, \u201cDrop me anywhere from an airplane with a parachute and I\u2019ll survive.\u201d\u00a0 He didn\u2019t spend energy worrying about food, shelter or clothing.\u00a0 He focused his energy on what he wanted to accomplish.\u00a0 Managing your energy in life balance coaching<\/span> also means budgeting energy to spend on making relationships successful.<\/p>\n

Life Balance Coaching Essential #3: Money Management<\/h3>\n

And the last, but certainly not the least, challenging life balance coaching<\/span> essential is money.\u00a0\u00a0 We are a consumerist society.\u00a0\u00a0 What would our society be like if we only spent money on things that would gives us a three-fold return on our investment?\u00a0\u00a0 But the truth is, most people won\u2019t do this.\u00a0 A life coaching<\/span> client was telling me of her financial woes.\u00a0 She felt like she didn\u2019t have any choices, and her family was on the verge of financial disaster.\u00a0\u00a0 They were only saving $300 per month.\u00a0 Upon further questioning she told me that she and her husband each had $200 per month budgeted to spend however they wanted.\u00a0 She was surprised when she realized that $400 per month was just slipping through their fingers when the rest of the budget was so tight.\u00a0 One rule of thumb is to only spend money on things that will give you a three-fold return on your investment.<\/p>\n

By managing the life balance coaching essentials, we really open up the possibility of achieving a life worth living.\u00a0 Once you start managing your own resources, you\u2019ll be better prepared to help your life coaching<\/span> clients manage theirs.<\/p>\n

Colette Seymann<\/p>\n

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

Life coaching, like any business, is tough.\u00a0 You need good life balance coaching skills just to manage your own resources to really be successful.\u00a0 Thankfully there are only three variables you absolutely must manage to enjoy longevity and success as a life coach.\u00a0 These life balance coaching essentials are time, energy and money. Life Balance […]<\/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":[215,194],"tags":[999,983],"class_list":["post-2824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-life-balance-coaching","category-life-coaching","tag-life-balance-coaching","tag-life-coaching","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2824","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=2824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18123,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2824\/revisions\/18123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}