{"id":4490,"date":"2010-09-03T06:00:10","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T06:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/?p=4490"},"modified":"2016-08-26T10:25:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T18:25:56","slug":"get-your-client-off-the-teeter-totter-with-life-balance-coaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/get-your-client-off-the-teeter-totter-with-life-balance-coaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Your Client Off The Teeter-Totter With Life Balance Coaching"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most of your clients will benefit from life balance coaching<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 They may not think of what they want in quite those words, but if they aren\u2019t satisfied with their lives, or their level of success in their work or business, or their relationships, often times the cause is a lack of balance on the teeter-totter of their daily lives.<\/p>\n

The costs of an out-of-balance life<\/strong><\/h3>\n

An out-of-balance life can show up in your clients as almost anything.\u00a0 A successful business woman comes to you because her marriage is on the rocks.\u00a0 You identify her problem as one of not spending enough quality time with her spouse\u2013a time imbalance.\u00a0 Or perhaps she doesn\u2019t allow herself the opportunity to be feminine in her marital relationship\u2013a role imbalance.\u00a0 A father calls you looking for help with his out of control children and you find he never has time for them because he\u2019s always at work running a successful company.\u00a0 This is a life focus imbalance\u2013work vs. family.\u00a0 All of these situations and many more call for life balance coaching<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The steps of life balance coaching<\/strong><\/h3>\n

There are two over-arching steps in life balance coaching<\/span>.<\/p>\n

1) Diagnose the imbalance.\u00a0\u00a0 Find out what the problem is.\u00a0 It may not be what your client thinks.\u00a0 For instance, the business woman with the rocky marriage may think she and her spouse just aren\u2019t communicating anymore.\u00a0 Well, that may be true, but why?\u00a0 Is it because she is stressed out and busy?\u00a0 Or is it maybe because she hasn\u2019t learned to leave her more masculine, dominant, leadership role at the office and exchange it for her feminine womanly role at home with her husband?\u00a0\u00a0 Life balance coaching<\/strong> first addresses the what and the why of the problem.<\/p>\n

2) Get leverage for change.\u00a0\u00a0 Coach your client to find the leverage, the motivation to change what might be entrenched, well-anchored behaviors.\u00a0 Get your business woman to look at the cost of not changing.\u00a0 What will be the pain to her of divorce?\u00a0 What will it mean to her family life, to her ability to grow and contribute, to her finances.\u00a0\u00a0 Get that dad to imagine his son in jail for a DUI or drug charge, or even dead because he\u2019s hanging out with the wrong crowd.\u00a0 Whatever his worst possible vision of the future is if he doesn\u2019t change, that\u2019s what you want him to see.\u00a0 Then get him attached to the good outcomes that will result if he takes your life balance coaching<\/span> and redistributes his time and energy.<\/p>\n

How well is your own life balanced?\u00a0 Would you benefit from life balance coaching<\/strong>?\u00a0 If so, walk your talk, and bring it up with your own coach!<\/p>\n

Give this strategy a try and see for yourself that it works. If you liked this coaching tip, leave a comment or use the handy bookmark buttons below to share it with others on Facebook, Twitter, Digg, etc. Thanks! <\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Dorine G Kramer
\nJTS Advisors Strategy and Accountability Coach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most of your clients will benefit from life balance coaching.\u00a0 They may not think of what they want in quite those words, but if they aren\u2019t satisfied with their lives, or their level of success in their work or business, or their relationships, often times the cause is a lack of balance on the teeter-totter […]<\/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-4490","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\/4490","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=4490"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19165,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4490\/revisions\/19165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}