{"id":7907,"date":"2011-07-06T08:00:38","date_gmt":"2011-07-06T16:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/?p=7907"},"modified":"2016-08-14T12:41:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T20:41:56","slug":"tough-coaching-questions-can-you-coach-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/tough-coaching-questions-can-you-coach-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Tough Coaching Questions: Can You Coach Happiness?"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the most controversial coaching questions<\/a><\/strong> is whether coaching can help people reach their goals of being happy? A better coaching question is what is happiness and how do you achieve it. According to Stephen P. Robbins PhD\u2019s book, \u201cThe Truth about Managing People and Nothing but the Truth,\u201d there is a happiness gene. Robbins goes on to say that 80 percent of people\u2019s differences in happiness are attributable to their genes.<\/p>\n

Is Happiness Genetically Determined?<\/h3>\n

Some people are just naturally more friendly, positive, and happy than others. Robbins advocates that based on research it is important to focus on hiring people with positive dispositions rather than spending dollars on training staff to \u201cmotivate\u201d and shape behavior. It\u2019s an uphill battle and most programs don\u2019t change behavior. It\u2019s an uphill battle for coaches. My mentor told me that it\u2019s easier to ride stallions than to drag nags.<\/p>\n

The Best Answer May Be Asking Your Clients Coaching Questions<\/h3>\n

I tell potential clients that I don\u2019t coach everyone. Not everyone is motivated enough, determined enough, or even interested in reaching their goals. One of the coaching questions<\/strong> I use is to ask potential clients if they want me to be their coach. I don\u2019t let them get by with answers like, \u201cSure, but\u2026\u201d It\u2019s a yes or no question and it separates the people who are not really committed. I can take someone to a place of significant emotional pain visualizing what will happen if they don\u2019t take immediate action and have them realize during a call that as bad as it may be, they don\u2019t really want to change. You can lead a horse to water, but you can\u2019t make him drink. The same with coaching. It\u2019s ok, because there are plenty of people who are ready to go right now.<\/p>\n

To learn more about how to generate an endless wave of high paying coaching clients, get your FREE Instant Access to our “Life Coaching Business Blueprint<\/a><\/strong>\u201d video toolkit when you go HERE<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Colette Seymann<\/strong><\/a>
\nJTS Advisors Designated Accountability Coach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the most controversial coaching questions is whether coaching can help people reach their goals of being happy? A better coaching question is what is happiness and how do you achieve it. According to Stephen P. Robbins PhD\u2019s book, \u201cThe Truth about Managing People and Nothing but the Truth,\u201d there is a happiness gene. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7908,"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":[8,266],"tags":[822,1150],"class_list":["post-7907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-become-a-life-coach","category-coaching-questions","tag-become-a-life-coach","tag-coaching-questions","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/images.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7907","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18813,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7907\/revisions\/18813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}