{"id":2987,"date":"2010-03-04T13:00:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/?p=2987"},"modified":"2016-08-11T02:40:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T10:40:53","slug":"life-coaching-business-your-friends-cant-help-your-coaching-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/life-coaching-business-your-friends-cant-help-your-coaching-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Coaching Business Pitfalls: Why Your Friends Can\u2019t Help You With Your Coaching Career"},"content":{"rendered":"

You may have great friends, but when it comes to taking your life coaching business<\/a><\/strong> to the next level don\u2019t expect them to be able help you.\u00a0 They may care about you and love you, but if you do what you need to do to take your coaching career<\/a><\/strong> to the next level it will rock their boat.\u00a0 You may think you will have more to offer them and they may even believe it to some extent.\u00a0 But there will also be a great deal of uncertainty about your relationship if your life coaching business<\/strong> takes off.\u00a0 If your coaching career<\/strong> is successful will you still need them?\u00a0 Will you still have time for them?<\/p>\n

You Must Get the Wheels Moving if You Want to Take Your Life Coaching Business to the Next Level<\/h3>\n

I\u2019m not suggesting that your friends would ever try to purposely sabotage your life coaching business<\/strong> or would wish you less than success in your coaching career<\/strong>.\u00a0 They will even try to help you with advice or practical technological help getting your website up.\u00a0 But they can\u2019t help you with what you really need to do to take your coaching career<\/span> and your life coaching business<\/span> to the next level.\u00a0 That you will have to do alone.<\/p>\n

Your Coaching Career Will Only Succeed if You Can Overcome Your Personal Challenges<\/h3>\n

In any aspect of your life, from your personal life to your life coaching business<\/span>, your biggest enemy is yourself.\u00a0 Behind every goal, challenge or obstacle, is an emotional triad that wants you to stay the same.\u00a0 That triad consists of the old beliefs about yourself, the language you use to describe yourself, and the way you physiologically feel.\u00a0 Unless you change these, your coaching career<\/span> will remain as it is.<\/p>\n

So if you want to see a difference in your life coaching business or your coaching career, take a stand for yourself.\u00a0 Give yourself the time and resources you need to do the work that must be done.\u00a0 Obstacles are not always unpleasant.\u00a0 Sometimes they are disguised as invitations to lunch with a friend, getting your desk organized, or even reading emails.\u00a0 You\u2019re going to have to make choices when you don\u2019t have a boss looming over your head, and you may have to face looking like the bad guy at times to make your dreams a reality.<\/p>\n

Colette Seymann<\/p>\n

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

You may have great friends, but when it comes to taking your life coaching business to the next level don\u2019t expect them to be able help you.\u00a0 They may care about you and love you, but if you do what you need to do to take your coaching career to the next level it will […]<\/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":[112,195],"tags":[907,984],"class_list":["post-2987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-coaching-career","category-life-coaching-business","tag-coaching-career","tag-life-coaching-business","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987","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=2987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18143,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987\/revisions\/18143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}