{"id":4786,"date":"2010-09-27T06:00:35","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T06:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/?p=4786"},"modified":"2016-08-12T05:19:50","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T13:19:50","slug":"life-coach-tips-for-when-you-dont-know-what-to-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/life-coach-tips-for-when-you-dont-know-what-to-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Coach Tips For When You Don&#8217;t Know What To Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I keep a little list of <a title=\"life coach tips\" href=\"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/life-coach-tips-serendipity\/4169\/\"><strong>life coach tips<\/strong><\/a> posted on the wall in my office. It&#8217;s been up there since I started coaching although I don&#8217;t use it much anymore. But it helped me out a lot in the past when I got in a panic on a call because I didn&#8217;t know what to do next. Do you ever find yourself in that situation?Maybe my list of <strong>life coach tips<\/strong> will help you out sometime.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>How Often Do You Ask Yourself These Questions?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>One particularly scary situation for a new coach happens in your head as least as often as it happens in reality, and that&#8217;s the \u201cWhat on earth do I say now?\u201d scenario. It dovetails very nicely with the \u201cWhat if I&#8217;m not good enough?\u201d concern so prevalent among new coaches in particular. If you find yourself getting freaked out either by not knowing what to say or by the fear that you won&#8217;t know what to say, do you remember what you need to remember? That&#8217;s right&#8211;the most important and helpful of the <strong>life coach tips<\/strong> is that when you coach it&#8217;s about your client and not about you.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Post These Life Coach Tips On Your Wall<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>So what do you do when you don&#8217;t know what to do? Here are the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">life coach tips<\/span> that helped me out over and over again:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Ask yourself \u201cWhat does my client need in this moment to move him toward his goal?<\/li>\n<li>Be committed to a result for your client. If you are truly committed you won&#8217;t let anything, including your fear, get in the way.<\/li>\n<li>Trust that you know what to do and what to say.<\/li>\n<li>Go with your intuition or your gut, however it comes to you. If you&#8217;ve been paying attention to what your client has been saying, the right words will come through you.<\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t think so hard. Just be in the flow.<\/li>\n<li>If you don&#8217;t know what to do, just try something<\/li>\n<li>If it doesn&#8217;t work, try something else<\/li>\n<li>If you get it wrong, your client will let you know and you can change course.<\/li>\n<li>The answers come from my client, not from me.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>What do you do when you don&#8217;t know what to do? I&#8217;d love to hear.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SPECIAL BONUS<\/strong><em> \u2014 If you would like step-by-step blueprints for generating a massive income from high paying coaching clients, I invite you to claim your <strong>FREE ACCESS<\/strong> to the \u201c<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coachestrainingblog.com\/sp.php?adsource=blogtext\" target=\"_blank\">Life Coach Salary Secrets<\/a><\/strong>\u201d video toolkit. Go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coachestrainingblog.com\/sp.php?adsource=blogtext\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a> to get it <strong>FREE<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Dorine G Kramer<\/p>\n<p>JTS Advisors Strategy and Accountability Coach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I keep a little list of life coach tips posted on the wall in my office. It&#8217;s been up there since I started coaching although I don&#8217;t use it much anymore. 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