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Is Becoming a Life Coach Right for You?

Have you asked yourself if you would be better suited to another career? You might want to consider converting your skills and knowledge into becoming a professional life coach. But becoming a life coach is not for everyone. We will explore:

1. What does a Professional Coach do?

Life coaches are equal partners who assist their clients to become the world's leading experts on themselves, and assist their clients to take the actions necessary to achieve their personal, life, business and/or family goals. Coaches focus their full energies and attention on their clients, by becoming the totally objective, nonjudgmental, supportive mirror into whom they really are and what they really want to do. Coaches provide life options, new perspectives, encouragement, and concentrated attention to give their clients the insight, and confidence to take life-improving actions towards their goals.

2. What personal characteristics will you need to succeed at being a Professional Coach?

There are certain personal and professional characteristics that are much better suited for life coaching and are almost required to become a successful coach. Here are the most important characteristics:

A. A professional life coach must be totally trustworthy and have and maintain the highest integrity. Integrity is critical. A coach's integrity must be real, genuine and constant. True and effective coaching will not occur unless there is complete and deserved trust between the client and coach.

B. A professional life coach must have a very strong natural love and respect for other people. Coaches are equal partners, which can only be achieved through genuine and full mutual respect. Coaches, who do not respect themselves or others, develop attitudes. Coaches with attitudes cease coaching and begin judging or imposing.

C. A professional life coach must devote their full attention and energies on their client. Clients are always the center of attention. Coaches must be you people and not I centered. Coaches do not seek or accept credit, or fame for what their clients achieve. Coaches feel rewarded because their clients succeed. People with the “gift to coach” have a natural talent for focusing on others and have a genuine internal motivation to assist others to prosper. Helping others succeed fulfills their ego and life interests.

D. A professional life coach must have full control of and subordinate their own agendas, biases, and desire to judge or criticize others. Coaches must be able to make very objective observations and even more importantly, communicate the observations in a very clear and truthful manner to clients. Personal biases, agendas, etc. must be kept out of the process, especially in presenting bias as objective observance. People have biases, but coaches must involve their biases as rarely as possible and only in an open honest way to their clients.

E. A professional life coach must control their desire to advise, control, or manipulate their clients. The coaching process is like no other in that the path or route to get to the end goals (where clients achieve their goals) is not and cannot be known or organized in advance. The path constantly changes depending upon the client, and any control or manipulation of the client will, in essence, halt the coaching process. The thought or practice of telling a client they "should" must be eliminated.

F. A professional life coach must have a keen ability to listen and seek out the truth from their clients. Coaches must exert 100% effort to listen to all aspects of what clients are truly saying and meaning. A natural desire to tune into others is very helpful. One of the most difficult things any human being faces is to be able to clearly express their inner feelings and thoughts. It is very important for coaches to not only seek the true inner feelings of their clients by encouraging them to try to express their true feelings, but to actually discover what their true feelings are.

G. A professional life coach must have the ability to communicate their observations to their clients without any hint of expertise, or superiority. Once the inner most and normally very guarded feelings of a client are discovered, the coach must describe them to the client in a very supportive and clear manner, without any hint of judgment.

H. A professional life coach must be strong and firm with their observations and present the truth to their clients. Many clients seek and need "accountability" from their coaches. This is another way of asking for the continued presentation of the truth, without allowing the client to talk around the truth. Coaching, in essence, can be called providing true accountability with love.

I. A professional life coach must have excellent telephone communication and relationship skills. Over 91% of all successful coaching is conducted via the telephone. Telephone coaching is much more effective, efficient, convenient, confidential and much less costly for clients.

3. What are the three methods to become a Professional Life Coach?

1. Just call yourself a life coach. This method is the quickest and it is full of pitfalls. It will take longer (approximately five years) to reach a degree of consistent success. Unfortunately, some people feel that coaching is so similar to their current profession that they can call themselves coaches and learn along the way. However, this is rarely true. The coaching process has different purposes, and requires different skills and perspectives than any other discipline.

2. Attend one or more of the approximately 160 for profit schools that train people to become coaches. Training people to become coaches is big business. The variety in coach training schools is dramatic. A person can pay as little as $99 for a six week home study course to over $15,000 for a two year program. The quality of the training is difficult to discern and can normally make the selection process overwhelming. We recommend that you thoroughly research the coach training schools before you spend any money. The one location on the web that provides a current list of the coaching schools is: http://www.peer.ca/coachingschools.html.

3. Hire your own life coach. Through coaching, you will discover what your ideal career really is. If becoming a life coach is the ideal move for you, you are already ahead of the game. You will be certain that becoming a life coach is ideal for you and you will want to pursue it with your full commitment. You will personally experience the wonders of being coached. Being coached to achieve your coachable goals will provide you exceptional insight into assisting your future clients to achieve success.

You and your coach will develop your coaching practice to best suit your newly discovered passions, priorities, talents, and spirituality. Your coach will guide you to pick and choose the specific training that you will need to complete your coaching skills requirements. You will have an equal partner to assist you to do whatever it takes, but not more than needed to become a successful coach.

If however, you and your life coach discover that your ideal career is something other than coaching, you are also a winner. You will avoid wasting your time and money to become a coach, when you will be much happier and more successful in another career.

4. What are the benefits to become a Professional Life Coach?

If you see yourself naturally fitting the characteristics listed above, then coaching and you will form an ideal match. You will reap considerable emotional and personal rewards from assisting others. Here are just a few examples of the benefits you will receive:

A. Life Coaches do not have to spend more than 25 to 35 hours a week to earn a significant income.

B. Life Coaches work best out of their home in a very familiar and comfortable environment. Rush hour traffic is nonexistent and dressing up into corporate uniforms is not needed.

C. Life Coaches can earn a very solid living, but should not expect to get rich.

D. Life Coaches enjoy the terrific feeling each day of having contributed something positive to the world.

E. Life Coaches are their own boss and are free from politics and responding to the whims of bosses.

F. Life Coaches will be blessed with meeting a lot of very neat and interesting people.

G. Life Coaches get to assist people to do good and positive things for themselves, and will experience the joys and satisfaction of seeing their clients improve their lives.

H. Life Coaches join one of the most enjoyable groups of people in the world who would much rather help each other than compete.

I. The life coaching profession is a very credible and accepted profession that appears to double in size almost every year.

5. Conclusion

Life coaches provide wonderful value to others. Virtually any person in the world will achieve a whole host of extremely valuable future goals and grow and improve as a person at the same time by connecting with their ideal life coach. Becoming a life coach is not for everybody, but for those special few who naturally fit the characteristics of a life coach, the rewards will be outstanding.

Contact a life coach today to discover your ideal career, and if being a life coach is your ideal position, Welcome Aboard!

6. Teleclass on Is Becoming a Life Coach Right for Me?

Discover the facts about being a life coach, the life coaching industry, the statistics of possible successes, the latest trends, what your prospective economic rewards will be, the what to watch out for from sales pitches by coaching schools, and ask any question to get straight answers without any agenda. Become far more informed about life coaching before you spend any money or time to pursue this career. Bill has no follow up sales or program. This teleclass is discouraged by most coaching schools. Make the right decision for you, based upon more real truthful information.

This teleclass has a fee of $89.00 because it is costly to produce, the information is more than worth it, and considerable effort and time is expended to conduct the teleclass.

The coaching industry will be much better off if the best suited people enter coaching and become successful practitioners, rather than having masses of people being sold into paying for coach training and artificial certifications with false promises, then failing to succeed, because they were not best suited in the first place.

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