{"id":3088,"date":"2010-03-23T23:52:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T23:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/?p=3088"},"modified":"2016-08-11T02:27:07","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T10:27:07","slug":"become-a-coach-how-to-become-a-life-coach-that-conquers-your-weaknesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/become-a-coach-how-to-become-a-life-coach-that-conquers-your-weaknesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Become a Coach:  How to Become a Life Coach That Conquers Your Weaknesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do you <strong><a title=\"become a coach\" href=\"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/2009\/07\/become-a-coach-what-it-takes-to-earn-life-coach-salaries\/\" target=\"_self\">become a coach<\/a><\/strong> or <strong><a title=\"become a life coach\" href=\"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/2010\/03\/become-a-life-coach-now-what-become-a-parent-coach\/\" target=\"_self\">become a life coach<\/a><\/strong> that conquers your weaknesses?\u00a0 The first step is to <strong>become a life coach<\/strong> that recognizes you have weaknesses.\u00a0 When you <strong>become a coach<\/strong>, you won\u2019t automatically be good at everything.\u00a0 You will discover that you lack specific knowledge, skill and talents you need to succeed.\u00a0 What kind of weaknesses are we talking about?<\/p>\n<h3>Become a Coach:\u00a0 What Skills Most Coaches Don\u2019t Have When They Choose to Become a Life Coach<\/h3>\n<p>When you <strong>become a life coach<\/strong>, you may find that you are poor at time management or that you don\u2019t have self-discipline.\u00a0 You may not seem to be able to focus and apply yourself to your most important actions without getting distracted.\u00a0 When you <strong>become a coach<\/strong>, you will likely feel overwhelmed with too much to do and too little time to do it.\u00a0 You may have weaknesses in financial, marketing or selling skills. You may not know how to advertise effectively and attract clients.\u00a0 You may not naturally have the ability to delegate to your staff or supervise them well enough to make sure they get their jobs done well.<\/p>\n<h3>Become a Coach:\u00a0 Become a Life Coach That Never Stops Learning New Skills<\/h3>\n<p>The good news when you <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"become a life coach\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.payscale.com\/career-coach\/2009\/11\/should-i-become-a-life-coach.html\" target=\"_blank\">become a life coach<\/a><\/span> is discovering that these are all skills <em>you can<\/em> learn.\u00a0 The starting point of mastering these skills is for you to admit that you need them.\u00a0 To <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">become a coach<\/span> that succeeds you must never allow yourself to be held back because you are missing a skill.\u00a0 Instead, start developing that skill as a goal by getting a mentor, make a plan, and work on the skill every day until you have mastered it.<\/p>\n<p>Kris Thompson<\/p>\n<p>JTS Advisors Strategy Coach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you become a coach or become a life coach that conquers your weaknesses?\u00a0 The first step is to become a life coach that recognizes you have weaknesses.\u00a0 When you become a coach, you won\u2019t automatically be good at everything.\u00a0 You will discover that you lack specific knowledge, skill and talents you need to [&hellip;]<\/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":[3,8],"tags":[819,822],"class_list":["post-3088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-become-a-coach","category-become-a-life-coach","tag-become-a-coach","tag-become-a-life-coach","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088","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=3088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18128,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088\/revisions\/18128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}