{"id":8077,"date":"2011-08-06T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2011-08-06T16:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/?p=8077"},"modified":"2016-08-14T13:28:13","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T21:28:13","slug":"personal-coaching-with-confidence-for-rookies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/personal-coaching-with-confidence-for-rookies\/","title":{"rendered":"Personal Coaching With Confidence For Rookies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When will I be confident in my <strong><a title=\"Personal Coaching\" href=\"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/what-good-is-personal-coaching\/7852\/\" target=\"_blank\">personal coaching<\/a><\/strong> ability? For most new coaches this is the question they don\u2019t even want to ask they are afraid of the answer. Months? Years? Decades? Of course the answer is personal and coaching skills do take time, but take heart. There is one thing you can start doing now that will improve your confidence in your ability to successfully coach just about anyone.<\/p>\n<h3>The Secret Ingredient To Coaching With Confidence<\/h3>\n<p>One of the reasons new coaches have trouble enrolling new clients is not really lack of confidence. Most coaches have confidence in at least one area of their life or they wouldn\u2019t have taken on the goal of starting their own life coaching business. It\u2019s lack of belief that <strong>personal coaching<\/strong> really can make a difference in someone\u2019s life. One of the biggest reasons new coaches lack confidence in coaching is because they look at the distance between where they want to be and where they are in their own lives and it seems like the Grand Canyon. The unspoken fear they express to their potential client is, \u201cCoaching is great, but I\u2019m not sure if it really makes a difference.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Stock Your Pantry With Personal Coaching Success Stories<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Personal coaching<\/span> success stories are the staples of your business. Of course when you\u2019re first starting out you may not have many of your own. Feel free to borrow some from other coaches and especially from your mentor. Ideally you should have at least one example for each client you are likely to meet. Making up stories doesn\u2019t work, because that is basically lying to your potential clients. Are you a relationship coach? Borrow a story. One of my favorites is a woman who really wanted to improve her relationship with her husband. They had been separated for over a year and when they started working together, the couple literally hated each other. The only thing keeping her in the game was that she didn\u2019t want to lose custody of her son. Within 6 months not only had they renewed their vows and moved back in with each other, but they started an entire new basis for their relationship with a newfound love and passion. Even better than the movie, \u201cWhen Harry Met Sally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, you\u2019ll want to stock up on as many different stories as you can so you can relate to as many different people as possible. But once you get started, you\u2019ll probably find these stories almost as entertaining as watching a reality TV show.<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Special Bonus \u2013 <em>Learn 32 \u2018Guru\u2019 Transformation Techniques when you fill in the form at the top right and click the \u201cWatch The Videos Now\u201d button. You&#8217;ll learn how to become a life coach in 30 days.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-top: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/bio\/colette-seymann\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Colette Seymann<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nJTS Advisors Designated Accountability Coach<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When will I be confident in my personal coaching ability? For most new coaches this is the question they don\u2019t even want to ask they are afraid of the answer. Months? Years? Decades? Of course the answer is personal and coaching skills do take time, but take heart. There is one thing you can start [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"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":[194,397],"tags":[983,1232],"class_list":["post-8077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-life-coaching","category-personal-coaching","tag-life-coaching","tag-personal-coaching","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8077","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=8077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18821,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8077\/revisions\/18821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coachestrainingblog.com\/becomeacoach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}