Coaching Business – How Knowing the Basics on How to Create a Coaching Practice is Key By

The coaching business is hot this season. This is because people generally feel more comfortable being counseled by professionals minus the stigma of being diagnosed as mentally “sick”. Everyone seems to be into the more positive approach of improving lives. As a professional concentrating in this field, you should know how to create a coaching practice. If you want to go into life coaching as a profession, you’re in luck. The certification for life coaching is slightly less stringent compared to psychotherapy. This is also because life coaches are given less responsibility as a counselor compared to actual psychologists who are licensed to diagnose clinical sicknesses.

As a life coach, you need to turn over clients whom you suspect have serious mental illnesses. Life coaches aren’t trained to treat clinical depression and other mental illnesses. To become a life coach, you need to familiarize yourself with the techniques and principles of the profession. There are schools and institutions that specialize in these training techniques. Ideally, as in other teaching professions, you will also need to look for your mentor. Make sure that your mentor has enough experience as a life coach, and that they are experienced in the field your looking for.

There is no point in going to a business coach if your having challenges in your relationship. Aside from the basic principles of life coaching, you can also ask you mentor how to market your services as a life coach. You can either look for clients online or offline. These marketing strategies should complement one another.

When you set up websites for your services, you should employ basic search engine optimization principles. It will also help if you include helpful tips related to life coaching in your website. This will also make you more credible as a life coach. You can treat these articles as “samplers” if you will.

Offline marketing strategies you can use for your business include networking and branding. When you give our business cards as a life coach, you should include your website’s URL address as well. You can also build effective mailing lists from guest lists if you were invited in a seminar as a speaker.

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Anne Geraghty, helps Coaches, NLP practitioners, trainers and consultants increase revenue and to have more free time. She has helped hundreds of companies with marketing, increasing revenue and spending less time in the office.

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Don’t give up.

Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As everyone of us sometimes learns,
And many a failure turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out;
Don’t give up, though the pace seems slow -
You might succeed with another blow.

Give me the wind

I can’t find who wrote this but I think it fits perfectly well in the business world:
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I am at my best with the wind in my face,
When overcoming the challenge, with pace.
The pace that requires more effort, more strength.
But once gained momentum endures with great length.
It’s easy to sit back, placid and calm
Comfort is only a relative balm.
It seems an advantage, better than strife,
but is dulled by stagnation, stifling life.
Progress needs movement, energy, drive,
No chance for improvement if you do not strive.
Nothing’s for nothing: cause and effect.
That which you work for, you’ve more chance to get.
So give me the wind, let it blow in my face,
the more I confront, the more strength I’ll embrace.
Steps are not mounted, nor challenges overcome.
Without certain courage or effort be done.

WRITE IT DOWN

The discipline of writing something down is first step in achieving it.
Lots of people are afraid of writing their goals on paper because they feel
“What if I don’t reach them and they are on the page for everyone to see”
“What happens if other people see them full stop!”

I believe in putting my goals on the notice board beside me each and reading them out loud each and every day. This helps me get in the zone and stay 100% focused on what I need to achieve each day.

Try it! Coaches tend not to do it even though they know the power of it!

Negative and Positive beliefs.

When you choose to belief something negative about yourself, you automatically give yourself a negative expectation on how things will work out,
Your ‘self talk’ is negative, you show self-defeating behaviour.
You focus (subconsciously) on getting a poor outcome and you will feel it is a poor outcome no matter what.

It is one big negative circle because as soon as you see your poor outcome, you tell yourself that you were right to have the negative belief in the first place and so the circle rolls again!!

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When you have believe something positive about yourself, you start to have a positive expectation. You become more confident in the way you talk and they way you conduct yourself. You strive for an excellent outcome and you always look for the good points in everything.

Again this works in a circle too, in the sense that, when you have an excellent outcome, it helps you stay positive and helps you focus on all the positive things again. Try it – it really works!!

If you think you can

If you think you are beaten, you are;
If you think you dare not, you don’t;
If you want to win but think you can’t;
It’s almost a cinch you won’t.

If you think you’ll lose you’re lost;
For out of the world we find.
Success begins with a fellow’s will;
It’s all in a state of mind.

For many a race is lost;
Ere even a step is run.
A many a coward fails;
Ere even their work is begun.

Think big and your dreams will grow;
Think small and you’ll fall behind;
Think that you can and you will;
It’s all in the state of mind.

If you think you’re outclassed you are;
You’ve got to think high to rise;
You’ve got to be sure of yourself before;
You can even win a prize.

Life’s battles don’t always go;
To the stronger and faster man,
But sooner or later the man who wins;
Is the person who thinks they can!

Would I make a good coach??

Ask yourself the following ten question and count up the number of ‘YES’ answers you get!
Be Honest.

1.      When you communicate with people, do they have a genuine connection with you?

2.     Do people find it easy to tell you their problems and do you enjoy helping them?

3.     Would you enjoy inspiring hundreds of people to live their dreams?

4.     Are you ready for a new life and an adventure?

5.     Are you ready to take control of your life?

6.     Are you ready to experience new levels of success and fulfilment in your life?

7.     Are you tired of working for someone else?

8.    Would you like more freedom in your life?

9.     Have you questioned if your in the right job?

10.        Do you dream of a career filled with joy, happiness and, above all, purpose?

How do I choose my planning method

Last week, I wrote about taking baby steps to working towards your goal and breaking down the big goals in to smaller lists to help with completing them.

A number of you  (3 to be percise) emailed me at info@mafcoaching.com and asked me how you choose your method. 

How?
When choosing your method, you need to check out:
firstly, which would your brain feel more comfortable with. 
If you prefer to;
 - Write down everything in month by month or week by week format and get it all down on paper so that you have a systematic plan to the very end date.
  – If seeing the entire plan down on one sheet will not over whelm you and will help you to focus month by month, then the six month plan is for you.

The ‘to do’ list version is more for someone who can see the priorities of now and can work towards each priority.  This tool is better for a plan that can not all be seen from the beginning. 
If you can’t tell what will happen in a month’s time because it depends on outcomes of this month, the ‘to do’ technique is a better one to choose.

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Baby Steps

One of the biggest secrets to achieving any goal is to break it down in to baby steps.  There are 2 ways you can do this.  You choose by deciding what best describes how your mind works. 

ONE
Give yourself a deadline.
Write out a monthly plan until you reach your deadline. 
Lets take a deadline of 30th December and today is the 30th June.
Write at to top of a page; June, July, August, September, October, November, December.
Under each month headline, make a list of everything you need to acheive in that month.  This way you have a systematic plan,  a smaller step by step plan that needs to be completed by that date.

TWO:
You are still giving your self a deadline because we all need to work to some sort of date.
Under this technique, you are working off a ‘To do’list.  You are listing all the things you need to be completed next in your plan, once completed you are creating a new list until you reach your goal.
Some make it a monthly ‘to do’ list, others make it a weekly list.  Once you’ve decided how your will work your plan, ensure that you are updating it consistently until  you have rached your goal, target.