{"id":3263,"date":"2010-04-23T19:30:07","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T19:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/?p=3263"},"modified":"2023-05-19T19:15:03","modified_gmt":"2023-05-20T03:15:03","slug":"what-it-takes-to-become-a-life-coach-steps-to-becoming-a-life-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/what-it-takes-to-become-a-life-coach-steps-to-becoming-a-life-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"The Frightening Truth About What it Takes to Become a Life Coach: Why the Steps to Becoming a Life Coach Are Not as Easy as They Appear"},"content":{"rendered":"

The steps to becoming a life coach<\/a><\/strong> may appear fairly simple, but few people who start out on this path ever become a life coach<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 Or at least one that is able to make a living as a coach.\u00a0 It\u2019s not that the steps to becoming a life coach<\/strong> are so difficult that only the extremely bright and talented can become a life coach<\/strong>.\u00a0 And it\u2019s not even that there are a lot of obstacles in the way to become a life coach<\/strong>.\u00a0 There is only one real obstacle.\u00a0 It is so menacing, however, that it makes the steps to becoming a life coach<\/strong> almost seems impossible.<\/p>\n

Exiting Your Comfort Zone is the Most Integral of the Steps to Becoming a Life Coach<\/h3>\n

The biggest obstacle to become a life coach<\/span> is moving outside your existing comfort zone.\u00a0 To do this you will experience pain of some sort.\u00a0 What this looks like is having everything that you want to achieve when you become a life coach<\/span> locked behind a door; a door that\u2019s guarded by a big, formidable creature, with a sword.\u00a0 As you begin taking steps to becoming a coach, you get closer to your opponent.\u00a0 He becomes a greater and greater threat and instinctively, you\u2019ll probably want to back away.\u00a0 If we\u2019re honest with ourselves, most of us are not like Rambo.<\/p>\n

Even Though Leaving Your Comfort Zone to Become a Life Coach Will be Painful, You Must Weigh the Consequences of Staying Where You Are<\/h3>\n

Taking those steps to becoming a life coach<\/span>, or whatever that big goal might be, come with pain and risks.\u00a0 But isn\u2019t staying where you are filled with pain and risk?\u00a0 When you think of it, if you stay right where you are, chances are that life will gradually get worse over time.\u00a0 If pain and challenges are going to come your way inevitably, why not become a life coach or go after your dream?\u00a0 At least you will have a chance of living the life you want.<\/p>\n

One of the most important things to understand if you want to become a life coach is that most people move to avoid pain.\u00a0 One of the steps to becoming a life coach<\/span> is to face your own fears and expand your own comfort zones.\u00a0 Don\u2019t lie to your clients and lead them to believe that you can help them achieve their goals without pain.\u00a0 Become a life coach who recognizes pain will come into our lives whether we take \u2018risks\u2019 or not.\u00a0 The only power is deciding to move forward and to control your own destiny.<\/p>\n

Colette Seymann<\/p>\n

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

The steps to becoming a life coach may appear fairly simple, but few people who start out on this path ever become a life coach.\u00a0 Or at least one that is able to make a living as a coach.\u00a0 It\u2019s not that the steps to becoming a life coach are so difficult that only the […]<\/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":[8,95],"tags":[822,890],"class_list":["post-3263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-become-a-life-coach","category-steps-to-becoming-a-life-coach","tag-become-a-life-coach","tag-steps-to-becoming-a-life-coach","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263","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=3263"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28911,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3263\/revisions\/28911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}