{"id":3001,"date":"2010-03-07T13:00:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/?p=3001"},"modified":"2023-05-19T19:18:57","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T03:18:57","slug":"starting-your-coaching-practice-or-life-coaching-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/starting-your-coaching-practice-or-life-coaching-business\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Handle Problems That Inevitably Come Up When Starting Your Coaching Practice Or Life Coaching Business"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you start a life coaching business<\/strong><\/a> or any coaching practice<\/strong><\/a>, you will have problems from the start. As soon as you commit and start taking action in your life coaching business<\/strong>, it may seem that everything that can go wrong, will go wrong. You will learn more lessons in the first few weeks and months than you may have thought of in a year of planning a coaching practice<\/strong> from top to bottom.<\/p>\n

Your Life Coaching Business Will Be A Series of Two Steps Forward And One Step Back<\/h3>\n

When you start your life coaching business<\/strong>, you will make mistakes often. Probably all of these mistakes will cost you time, money and emotion. Don\u2019t be discouraged by this. There is no other way to develop the skills, knowledge and character you need to have a successful life coaching business<\/span>. Afer all, how can you teach someone about overcoming mistakes if you haven\u2019t made any in your own coaching practice<\/strong>?<\/p>\n

Your Coaching Practice Will Be Successful If You Take \u201cResponse-ability\u201d<\/h3>\n

Your journey toward a successful coaching practice<\/span> will have regular problems, setbacks and temporary failures. These challenges are impossible to avoid. You cannot have a successful coaching practice<\/span> without developing the skill of sticking to it. You will need to be able to overcome challenges and obstacles that will stand between you and the life coaching business<\/span> you desire.<\/p>\n

A successful coaching practice starts with expecting to experience problems. Coaches who fail in their life coaching business without expecting to have problems can become surprised and upset when things don\u2019t go the way they expected. They can get angry and may even lash out at others and blame other people for their failure. They might get depressed and irrational. You can control only one aspect of a problem in your life coaching business: your response to the problem. It is sometimes called your \u201cresponse-ability\u201d. If you learn and do what other successful coaches have done to have a successful coaching practice, you will have one despite any problems that come up.<\/p>\n

Kris Thompson
\nJTS Advisors Strategy Coach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When you start a life coaching business or any coaching practice, you will have problems from the start. As soon as you commit and start taking action in your life coaching business, it may seem that everything that can go wrong, will go wrong. You will learn more lessons in the first few weeks and […]<\/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":[248,195],"tags":[1027,984],"class_list":["post-3001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-coaching-practice","category-life-coaching-business","tag-coaching-practice","tag-life-coaching-business","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001","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=3001"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28962,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3001\/revisions\/28962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}