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A Definitive Guide to Life Coaching

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The biggest reason life coaching gets results is that you are employing an individual with higher experience than you in a certain topic. Your coach can easily distinguish patterns which may not be clear to you. Then your private coach can help you create and execute solutions. When this works, it is actually an extremely high-leverage union. It can be one of the easiest ways to solve complicated problems. Businesses frequently hire outside experts to help solve important problems, and coaching is basically the individual equivalent of business consulting.

Offering advice and motivation to the client is just one part of life coaching. There is an idea that individuals who do not cultivate their inner selves could be more prone to anxiety, stress, and panic, and for that reason one of the objectives of coaching is to handle those potential problems and try to reduce or better get rid of them. This is achieved using intuition as the key coaching skill. There are many issues we are engaged on that the life coach (1) has already solved, or (2) know how to address in a variety of different ways.

In the same way, a good life coach will have superior knowledge and experience in the aspect(s) in which you prefer to improve. A coach can use all of his/her skills to be able to help you solve specific difficulties proficiently. This is fundamentally a variation on the theory of mind-boggling force. A challenge that may seem overwhelming to you might be a reasonably simple issue for a highly skilled coach.

The real challenge of life coaching is for your coach to help you in carrying these solutions out. Coming up with solutions is simple. Your coach will probably identify some good strategies within your free trial appointment. Implementing those solutions is the challenging part. That is where good coaching actually shines. Your coach can work as a guide to help keep you on the right track, leading you confidently through the problem of errors, blind alleys, and delays.

If you work with a life coach, your coach’s state of mind will gradually rub off on you. This is a thing when you find a coach whose state of mind already contains the solution to your issue. For instance, you are a chiropractor and you would like to develop your client base and at the same time learn the ropes in chiropractic business, joining some chiropractic groups or organizations can help you achieve your goals.

There are lots of benefits and uses of life coaching. Visit http://chiropracticlifecoaching.com for more chiropractic and life coaching guide.

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John C. Maxwell: Why John Wooden’s Teams Won

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My lesson today centers on a man who, in my opinion, was the best basketball coach—college or pro—to have ever lived: the great John Wooden.

To most he was known as the “Wizard of Westwood,” the UCLA basketball coach who guided the Bruins to an unprecedented 10 national championships over two decades. But for those who played for him, he was much more than a coach. He was a teacher, father figure, mentor and master motivator who got every inch and more out of his players.

When I heard of his passing last June, my mind was flooded with many memories of this great man, and the impact he had on so many people, including me. I was also reminded of memories and life lessons I shared with him personally.

I spent some time with Coach Wooden a few years ago at his modest home in Los Angeles, where he lived for more than 30 years. It would have taken several hours just to read all of the plaques, memorabilia and awards that adorned his walls.

For three weeks, I prepared for our meeting, and I had my questions ready. I came away from that day with stories I will treasure for the rest of my life.

Creed for Life

I want to share with you the simple creed Coach Wooden kept in his wallet since his father gave it to him at the age of 12. The words on this tattered paper served as his guidepost his entire life:

Be true to yourself.

Make each day your masterpiece.

Help others.

Drink deeply from good books.

Make friendship a fine art.

Build shelter against a rainy day.

Pray for guidance and give thanks for your blessings every day.

For 87 years, this creed molded Coach Wooden’s life. When I asked him how successful he was in keeping each of these principles, he said, “You know, John, we’re never perfect. But every day I still try to live up to the creed.”

What a great lesson to us all. Here was a man in his late 90s, at the pinnacle of success, telling me he was still trying to live up to those principles.

Most of you who are reading this are interested in winning and learning how you can get ahead at your own businesses. So let me share with you two things that helped set Coach Wooden apart from other coaches.

First, he achieved personal victories before he led his team to victory. When you look at John Wooden’s life, one of the things you come away with quickly is he was truly disciplined. Many people feel that a leader’s biggest challenge is leading other people. I don’t subscribe to this opinion. The biggest challenge as a leader is living the life of a leader. As I listened to Coach Wooden that day, I asked myself, how could he bring such success to the teams that he led? It was the victory he had over himself that allowed him to also help others become victorious.

Our standard of excellence and code of conduct can be summed up by Coach Wooden’s strategy to find happiness. He said happiness comes from making and keeping nine promises:

1. Promise yourself that you will talk health, happiness and prosperity as often as possible.

2. Promise yourself to make all your friends know there is something in them that is special that you value.

3. Promise to think only of the best, to work only for the best and to expect only the best in yourself and others.

4. Promise to be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.

5. Promise yourself to be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.

6. Promise to forget the mistakes of the past and press on to greater achievements in the future.

7. Promise to wear a cheerful appearance at all times and give every person you meet a smile.

8. Promise to give so much time improving yourself that you have no time to criticize others.

9. Promise to be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear and too happy to permit trouble to press on you.

As leaders, if we haven’t won our personal battles, we’ll never be able to lead other people to victories in their battles.

I truly believe that everything rises and falls on leadership. In my book The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork, I explain that the difference between two equally talented teams is leadership. When two teams come together with all things being equal—talent, experience, desire—the team with the best leader will always win. Coach Wooden had some of the most talented individuals in the country playing for him, but talent will only get you so far. It was his superior leadership that molded this talent into some of the best teams of all time. This is the second thing that set him apart.

Coach Wooden was a master at selecting players, and he knew how to motivate each person to fulfill his role on the team. Coach Wooden told me he recruited a lot of average shooters. But he also knew each player had a spot on the floor where they shot the best. He would design plays to get these players into the areas where they shot the best. If any player shot outside of their designated area, they knew they would be joining Coach Wooden on the bench. Everyone had a role, and the majority of his players mastered their roles on the team. Wooden said, “Teamwork is not a preference; it’s a requirement.”

He took that mantra of teamwork to heart. One of Coach Wooden’s sayings was, “If you listen to them, they’ll listen to you.” He told me that was a lesson he learned early in his coaching career. As a new coach, Wooden says he thought coaching meant pointing and directing players where they needed to be on the court. Five or six years into his career, he realized he was leading by assumption. He assumed his players had the basics under their belt; he assumed they knew what was happening in a game. That’s when he learned the only way to close these gaps was to listen to his players. Once he found out where they were in their learning and basketball knowledge, he could lead and give them direction.

I learned so much from John Wooden that day in Los Angeles. The time we spent together will be etched forever on my mind. His words continue to touch lives the world over. And I don’t say this about a lot of people, but after I left his home I said to myself, “I want to be just like him.”

I hope you will take some of these nuggets of wisdom and look at yourself; hopefully they will have the same effect on you as they did on me.

Thanks, Coach. You are missed.

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Brother’s (Goal) Keeper

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When New Jersey Nets CEO Brett Yormark needs to find ways to creatively market his NBA team, he doesn’t have to look in the mirror… though sometimes it may seem that way. Often, he calls his brother Michael, the other half of the only identical twins running professional sports franchises in the United States.

The two, among the most innovative minds in their industry, share the same grueling schedule, the same philosophy for success—and the same face.

Brett, who also serves as president/CEO of Brooklyn Sports Entertainment, and Michael, president of the Florida Panthers hockey franchise, have been capturing the industry’s attention for more than a decade. Named to “Forty Under 40” lists in several high-profile magazines, the Yormark brothers, at 44, are the youngest to hold their positions in their respective leagues.

Since joining the Nets in 2005, Brett has helped bring about a 15 percent increase in ticket sales and a stunning increase of nearly 200 percent in team sponsorships. He also managed a deal with the Barclays banking and financial services company that includes a 20-year strategic marketing partnership and naming rights to the Barclays Center under construction and slated to open in 2012. Additionally, he secured a dozen other major sponsors for the Barclays Center before the first shovel struck dirt.

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Michael faced the particular challenge of warming South Florida residents to the idea of a hockey team when he joined the organization in 2003. After taking over in 2007, he helped launch the team’s BankAtlantic Center toward becoming the fourth-highest revenue-producing arena in the country and increased suite sales by more than $2.5 million per year. The Panthers’ fan base continues to expand each season, as does BAC’s entertainment offerings, which now include the Sinatra Theatre and several high-end dining venues.

To understand the brothers’ success, it’s important to consider their childhood. Growing up in northern New Jersey, they watched their mother aggressively pursue a career as an interior designer after their father left. “When she was presented with the set of circumstances that left her with the sole responsibility of taking care of Brett, my sister and myself, she stood up tall and said, ‘I’m going to do my best to provide them with a wonderful life,’ ” recalls Michael. “She just set a terrific example because working hard is one thing, but without that passion or desire, it doesn’t matter. I have an equation I think of all the time: Passion + Energy = Success. We’d see our mother on her feet for 12 or 13 hours a day—that teaches a lesson on how to be successful.”

Brett and Michael loved sports but their athletic ability didn’t match their passion. So, in Brett’s words, “We had to find a way to get our foot in the door without being on the field.” The person opening that door, it turns out, was their mother, who provided introductions through her own client connections. She introduced Brett to a member of the Nets’ management and Michael to a partial owner of the Yankees, and both boys landed jobs within the organizations.

Brett eventually moved from the Nets to NASCAR, where he served as vice president and oversaw the largest sports deal in American history—the $750 million naming rights with Nextel—before returning to the organization that had given him his start. Michael transitioned from baseball to hockey, and arranged a co-promotional marketing agreement between the Florida Panthers and the Fort Lauderdale Strikers pro soccer team.

Both Yormarks consider themselves fortunate to work for organizations whose owners give them freedom to explore new ideas and take risks.

Some of Michael’s ideas included enacting the “Good Time Guarantee,” which promised a full-price ticket refund to any fan who didn’t enjoy his or her experience at home games in January. Another idea was to use the BAC’s glass elevator shaft for advertising space for home-security company ADT. Another light-bulb moment capitalized on LeBron James’ decision to sign with the Miami Heat; playing off his “King James” nickname, the Panthers offered “Seats fit for a King” and used James’ old Cleveland jersey number and new Miami jersey number as the starting price-points for the BAC’s tiers of seating. “It was the most successful promotion we’d ever done,” he says. “Heat tickets by that point had sold out and casual sports fans were still thirsty to attach themselves to something—and we were the next best game in town.”

For his part, Brett explored opportunities outside his team’s facility, enacting “Fan Appreciation Night” on the New Jersey Turnpike, with the Nets paying for one hour’s worth of tolls at Exit 16W. He also created the Nets Chamber of Commerce, in which season ticket holders can network with the team’s corporate sponsors. He also implemented the Nets Employment Program, inviting unemployed fans to send their résumés into the team’s offices, which were then forwarded to the Nets’ 120 corporate sponsors. Free tickets went to the first 2,000 people sending in résumés. And the Nets scooped up two of the applicants to join their sales team.

Brett also signed Wrigley as the official sponsor of the team’s off-season—an unprecedented move. He reasoned that since athletes do most of their endorsement deals, appearances and training during the off-season, “attaching a sponsorship during all that activity just made a lot of sense.”

But how do the Yormarks come up with the unconventional ideas? “For me, it’s a 24/7 deal that is part of our work lives and what we do every day,” Brett says. “Most of my ideas come spontaneously when I’m working out, which I do early every morning. That’s when my mind is most clear and I’m not on the phone or fielding emails. I’ll write the ideas on my BlackBerry and send to myself immediately after my workout.”

Brett also knows good ideas can come from any source: “I encourage fans to write me with ideas. I also use Twitter as a vehicle to connect with them. And I dedicate hours each weekend to reading publications to look for interesting trends.”

There’s another secret weapon each brother keeps in his arsenal: his twin. “Competition is healthy,” Michael says. “To have two brothers—twins—that are living, in many respects, parallel lives, especially in a career perspective helps to continually raise the bar. When Brett is successful, I’m his biggest cheerleader. At the same time, though, it raises the bar for me. I recognize I’ve got to work hard, do more. I’m a very self-motivated person. My boss doesn’t need to motivate me; my staff doesn’t need to motivate me. It’s just in my DNA. Your passion is your motivation. But with Brett, he does motivate me to continue to achieve, to push, to do whatever it takes to be successful. Because I know that’s what he’s doing in his world every single day.”

Brett says he doesn’t view his brother as “competition,” but as “someone near to me who I respect and admire who provides me with those checks and balances to make sure I’m on the right path every day, to make sure I’m on the straight and narrow on the way to being successful.”

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Questions People Ask About Your Coaching Program

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When you are signing clients up for your coaching program, people ask various questions, and if you aren’t prepared, you might not have the answer. So I have compiled a few of the common questions people ask but are rarely covered in coaching training and given you solutions and responses here:

Question: am I the only person in the coaching program?

Answer:

If I were to sign up the first client, I would tell them that before they signed up, something like this:

“John, this is a new coaching program, the normal price for this is $4000 a year, but since you are going to be one of the first to sign up, I am going to slash the price in half, the only thing I ask is that even if you don’t have any questions one week, you will still join the call and ask some questions so the call isn’t empty. And for awhile you are going to be getting one on one coaching for the price of group, is that okay with you?”

They all say yes:-)

Question: What if someone asks how many people are in my small coaching program?

Answer: Instead of being embarrassed that you only have 3 or 4 people in your coaching program, make it into a positive that you have a small program like this:

Once you have more than 2 or 3 (you have signed the first few up like that) then you tell them that its a small group of just 4 – 8 people depending on the week, and that the advantage to that is that they will get unlimited access to you – that since it is so small there will be more time to talk one on one on the call.

Question: What if I want to record the sessions for future use?

Answer: Tell your new client that you are going to offer him a discount for participating in the special new recording of your coaching program, and that he is going to be one of the first to get the training, and that it’s especially special for him because he will get the coaching live, instead of recorded.

Here’s the thing…if someone wants to be a part of your coaching program, they really don’t care how many people are in the program, their real concern is, “Am I going to get the training I need.” And as long as you can do that, you can create a positive out of every element in your coaching program.

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How SUPERMAN Can Help When You Have a Life Coaching Client Who Feels Stuck!

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One of the most powerful tools a life coach or a business coach has… is the questions they use.

There’s no substitute for a great question when you are wanting to help your life coaching client to identify a problem, clarify why something is important or really own a solution.

So… as a life coach… it’s always important to continue to look for strategies for creating effective questions.

Today… we look to heroes as our source for great questions.

Heroes… I love ‘em. Don’t you?

Superheroes… for example.

Ahhhh yes. Superheroes. They fill our 20-screen movieplex. They do cool stuff. They are strong, smart and have cool gadgets. Heck, sometimes they even make us laugh.

But let’s not limit our discussion of heroes to people who wear their underwear on the outside of their clothing!

Let’s talk about real heroes.

Heroes of industry who create globe-changing products. Heroes that create non-profit organizations who feed and clothe millions. Nameless heroes who give their time and money to serve the forgotten or the lost.

Yes… true heroes.

And yes… these real heroes are the inspiration for our Elite Life Coach Question Strategy today.

It’s something we call “HERO QUESTIONS.”

So, let’s dig in.

Here’s the scenario:

Your coaching client feels stuck. They have been wrestling with a challenge for a while and they feel like they have exhausted all of their options. They are out of ideas and they feeling frustrated.

You, as a coach, want to help them create and own a solution, so instead of giving them ideas… you decide to ask a question instead.

With a tip of the hat to heroes… let’s walk through this 3-step process.

STEP 1: IDENTIFY A HERO

First, we want to get our ally to start thinking of some people that inspire them. We want to get them envisioning someone who has come up against adversity in the past and broken through.

You can ask questions like…

  • Who is someone that has faced some big challenges and overcome them?
  • Think of someone that has inspired you because they have faced some serious challenges and pushed through.
  • Name someone who is a hero of yours because they came up against some significant obstacles in their life… and overcame them.

STEP 2: CONNECTING WITH THE HERO

Once your coaching client has a hero in mind, you might ask them a few questions. These questions will help them to connect with the hero at a deeper level. It might also help to establish a bit of a connection to their current situation.

You might ask questions like…

  • What aspects of that person make them admirable?
  • What did they do that inspired you?
  • Why do you think that person came to mind?
  • What’s an example of a time when that person faced a challenge?
  • What did they do?

STEP 3: WHAT WOULD YOUR HERO DO NOW

Then you move towards creating a solution. But instead of offering a solution to your life coaching or business coaching client, you ask another question that will help them create their own solution.

Basically, you can ask a question or series of questions that will help your client to see their challenge from a different perspective and open up possibilities.

So you can ask questions like…

  • If your hero was in a similar situation, what do you think they might try?
  • If your hero was facing a similar obstacle to this, what steps do you think they might take to break through it?
  • If your hero was sitting here, what advice do you think they might give you?

As you can imagine, this simple 3 step process can be wildly powerful and it can be fun too.

Let me give you an example of how this played out recently with a coaching ally (our word for “client”) of mine.

SPECIFIC SCENARIO:

My coaching ally was an entrepreneur with a growing business. He was interested in developing a consulting and speaking business on the side, but he wasn’t sure how to get started. He had tried some things, but his first attempts at starting something new had been pretty “bumpy.” He was still committed to the idea (hence he hired me as a coach), but he felt like he was out of ideas.

So as we talked through a particular situation where he felt very stuck, and I walked through this HERO process with him. Here’s how it went down.


ME: “So who would you say has been a hero of yours in regards to a person who has successfully launched new products or services?”

ALLY: “Hands down… Thomas Edison.”

ME: “Oh, going for the big dogs right out of the gate. I love it. Great. Let’s go with BIG TOM. Tell me a little bit about how he got things done. Why does he inspire you?”

ALLY: “Oh, well one of the things that he did was he surrounded himself with brilliant people from a lot of different specialties and fields. That way, if he ever got stuck or needed help with something, he could go to one of his people and get their thoughts and insight.”

ME: “Great, what’s another example of something he did?”

ALLY: “Um, well he didn’t give up easy. Even when something didn’t go well, he just crossed that option off the list and moved on. I think there is even a quote about him saying something like… When something didn’t work we didn’t think of it as a failure. We saw it as one more way it didn’t work and we moved on. I like that.”

ME: “Okay, that is awesome. Let me ask you another question. If our old friend Thomas was sitting with us here today, what advice do you think he might offer you in your situation?”

ALLY: “Oh, now I see what you’re doing. Um well, he would probably tell me to think about who I know who has some experience doing what I want to do and then reach out to them to get their insight or ideas. He might also tell me to try to surround myself with successful consultants and speakers as much as possible and grow that part of my network. And I bet he would tell me to not give up. Plus, I bet he would end his little advice giving session with a ‘Now, get back to work!’”

ME: “That’s pretty good advice. What do you think? Which part of Ol’ Tommy’s advice would you want to try this week?”

ALLY: “Well, there has been a guy that I’ve been thinking about reaching out to for a while, but I just haven’t done it. He’s been successful at making this transition and I like his style. I think I might try to reach out to him this week. Plus, I probably should not be so hard on myself.”

ME: “Sounds good. Let’s talk specific strategy for that…”

Okay, I’ll admit that it doesn’t always go that smoothly. This was pretty textbook. But I will tell you that 9 times out of 10, this 3 step strategy can really help your ally to see their situation from a different perspective and start to identify new solutions.

Just know that the heroes may vary.

I’ve had clients come up with examples of heroes that ranged from Tony Robbins to former Presidents… from celebrities to members of their community, and from parents to astronauts. So be ready to be surprised by who your client identifies as a hero. And in some cases… you might need to talk about a few heroes in order to find a right fit.

But by taking your ally through this simple but powerful 3-step process, your client will be inspired, encouraged and bolstered. And most importantly, you will help them to uncover strategies and solutions that they own.

And that is coaching at it’s best!

NOTE: I was going to wrap up this article with a… “Look! It’s a bird. No… it’s a plane! No… it’s a SUPER COACH!” reference, but that just felt too cheesy.

So I’ll simply conclude with a challenge: Give this 3-step super-powered question-asking strategy a try and see how your clients’ heroes inspire them to new levels of insight, strategies and break through!

Mitch Matthews, “America’s Dream Champion” has coached and certified hundreds of people through his coaching program “The Coach Mindset”. He is a certified life coach and has served on the Franklin Covey Coaching Innovation Advisory Board. He is a published author and his life focus is to Launch A Million Dreams and Connect A Million People. You can find out more about him and get other tools to help you grow a successful coaching practice at http://www.TrainingToBeALifeCoach.com.

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How Coaching Helps With Goal Setting

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This article has been written following a coaching session that I used to help me with goal setting. The revelation about how coaching helped me was not in the process of setting and working to the goal, it was how my coach helped me to identify the goal in the first place and how I became comfortable that the goal was truly what I wanted.

In my last coaching session there was a revelation for me concerning how we go about goal setting in the idea that there are three questions that we need to answer.

  • What do I want to have?
  • Who do I want to be?
  • What do I want to do?

And to do this in the context of four time frames:

  • 7 years
  • 1 year
  • 6 months
  • 3 months

Whilst most people read the above questions sequentially leading to a predetermined end – “If I had more (abc)……I would do (xy&z)…and I would be happy!”. How about turning it on it’s head and focusing first on what you want to be, then the rest will follow?

I chose (guiltily) like most to start to answer the “what will I have” because my thoughts immediately went to material possessions (well I am who I am) but as soon as I started to think about it the material possessions were there but there was something else that was more important.

My coach asked me to visualize the scene of my 7 year goal and I could see myself in jeans and t shirt, standing by the side of my white spots car (it looked like a Porsche but I can’t think why because they’re so immature) on Sawley Hill. What the image was reflecting was freedom to do what I wanted to do.

I found it very easy then to jump from the 7 year image to the short term goals but that just reflects the way that my mind thinks. I know what I need to do in the next 3 – 6 months but what I found difficult was to visualize what 12 months. It was looking like.

  • No worries over bills
  • Travel rep business sorted and internet business progressing
  • A little bit of time for me (to do what I want).

At the end of the session I felt energised and ready to move forward and I also know that if I was going to continue to get the most out of these sessions then I was going to have to do my homework and in order to get it going, there’s not time like the present. So lesson number 3, don’t just allow enough time in your schedule for your coaching session – double it and give yourself some time to reflect and also to take actions.

I’ve always thought that I don’t do enough reflecting but upon reflection (ha!) I think that maybe I’ve thought of the reflection process more as planning what to do next following a meeting or experience. Getting it categorized right is making me feel better as well!

We finished off by setting the goals for the next three months – my coach doing all of the writing. This is now being sent through to me to rewrite if necessary and I was left with one thing to consider over the next week – is there a fourth goal? A stretch goal?……so it’s time to think.

Paul Yates is a trained coach. In preparing this article, research used included setting effective goals and 10 tips for effective goal setting.

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Life Coaching for Teens

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According to research, youth who have 3 or more adult role models (in addition to their parents) are less likely to engage in unsafe behaviours including, sex, drugs, and alcohol. The adult role models can be athletic coaches, teachers, extended family members, or a member from the church/ temple/ synagogue. Unfortunately, today’s communities are larger and as a result are less intimate leaving teens without the support previous generations were able to give to youth.

Life coaching for teens has been increasing in popularity. Similar to other role models, life coaches are trained individuals (be sure to always check credentials!!) who can guide your teen to think and behave in a self-serving manner. Coaching is about teaching youth to CREATE their life as opposed to be swept away by it. The benefits of coaching are widely recognized.

The benefits include:

1. Guiding and teaching teens how to think for themselves

2. Helping youth develop a self-identity, including how to think about their place in the family, school, and community

3. Promoting positive relationships with family members

4. Understanding the meaning of responsibility and accountability (responsibility is more than just chores and homework)

In addition to the many benefits, life coaching for teens often focuses on the following area (depending on individual programs). The 4 components serve to provide guidance to teens as they transition from childhood to adolescence and over into adulthood.

1. Self-awareness: Sometimes it is difficult to connect how our actions lead to outcomes. Many individuals see life as unfair fate or just plain luck. Life coaches show teens how to make choices that are in line with who they are in order to create the life they want. This way they do not need to count on luck for things to go their way.

2. Self-esteem and confidence: Self-confidence is based on self-esteem and self-esteem is based on how we interpret events in the world, including how we interpret others’ comments, our setbacks, and what we think about our place in the world. It is determined based on whether we focus on our strengths or weaknesses on our success or our failures. Showing youth to put things into perspective will raise self-esteem and confidence levels.

3. Choose and plan goals: Everyone has values, strengths, and needs. It is important we choose goals based on strengths and values to ensure goals are fulfilling. Picking goals because others expect us to pick them almost always leads to disappointment. Life coaches show teens how to recognize the goals important to them from the goals important to others.

4. Empowerment: Increased self-awareness, raised self-esteem and confidence levels, and choosing and planning goals all give teens a new perspective on life. This new knowledge empowers and motivates them. They learn that life does not happen randomly and they learn that when something does not go as planned they still have a choice on how to react.

Best Wishes to Your Family!

Ivana motivates teens and adults in their 20s to approach life with desire, confidence, and passion.

Ivana also works with the following cases:
*Low motivation, *Stress & time management, *Anger management, *Social skills, *And more…

Life coaching is the perfect gift for your teen or young adult. It provides your child with an early start at success!

Ivana Pejakovic, B.Sc., MA
ivana@lifecoachintoronto.com
289.242.6219
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How to Use Article Marketing to Get Coaching Clients

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Based on my experience, getting coaching clients isn’t easy especially for those people who are relatively new in this endeavor. Posting ads on relevant sites and even on search engines would only do little for your campaign. Why? It’s because people focus more on credentials and reputation. Unless they have proofs that you’re a good coach and that you’re one of the best in your niche, they’re not going to sign up to your programs no matter how aggressive your online advertising campaign is.

My suggestion? Invest time and energy on content based marketing solutions like article marketing. By distributing quality information online, you’ll attract your potential clients, you’ll be able to establish your expertise in your niche, and you’ll be able to generate more attention and free traffic.

Below are article marketing secrets to help you get more coaching clients:

1. Commit to give your readers nothing but the best. Being committed to making your readers happy is what will make you extremely successful in this endeavor. I wouldn’t lie about it and tell you that it’s a piece of cake because it’s not. It will require so much time and effort but I can assure you that it’s worth it. Your readers will be happy if you give them direct answers to their questions, no nonsense approach in helping them solve their problems, and if you generously share with them a piece of your expertise. Of course, you’ll need to make your articles easy to understand, engaging, and interesting. If you do all of these, I am sure your readers will be impressed. When that happens, they’ll check out your other articles and they might even share your content via social networking sites. That is something huge for your internet marketing campaign.

2. Write more articles. Publishing 2-5 articles will not cut it. If you want to make serious noise online and if you want to boost not just your page ranking but also your traffic, you must produce several high quality articles. If this is the first time you’re doing this, you can start by writing at least 5 articles per week. Once you get the hang of it, slowly increase the number of your output until you can comfortably write 3-5 per day. Yes, it’s time- consuming and it can be overwhelming but here’s the reason why I would like you to boost the number of your articles; when people search for the keywords related to your niche, you would want hundreds or even thousands of your articles to show up on search page results. Obviously, that will give you better chances of getting at least one of your articles picked up. Also, this will help you show your potential clients that you’ve got enormous information to share.

3. Distribute your articles. Reach out to more potential clients by getting your articles published on as many websites as possible. Start with article marketing directories like EzineArticles and GoArticles. Then, use your articles when you’re doing guest blogging. You can also promote them on social networking sites to get more exposure.

By the way, do you want to learn more about using articles like this to drive traffic to your website and increase online conversions?

If so, I suggest you check this out: article marketing traffic.

Or do you want to learn more about how I teach my clients to build simple coaching programs that create much more revenue than just creating information products?

If so, download my free guide here: How to Sell Coaching

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Why You Should Create a Coaching Program

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Some of my clients often ask me this question. They want to know why they need to create coaching programs when they can just make money by selling eBooks and other low-end information products. Well, although designing and selling coaching programs is overwhelming and sometimes, stressful, it’s definitely worth a shot. You see, when you offer this type of programs, you’re taking another step in establishing and strengthening your expert status in your niche. As you know, only authorities are selling this type of product online. If you’re considered a go-to person in your niche, you can easily sell just about anything. That means, you’ll be able to double or even triple your eBook sales and boost your revenue by up to a hundredfold. Also, coaching programs have way bigger tag prices compare to low-end and middle-end products. So, if you manage to create and sell them, it’ll be a serious boost in your income.

One thing that I’d like to stress out is that creating and selling coaching programs can be learned and eventually, mastered. Just like with other endeavor, it’s only difficult in the beginning. But once you get the hang of it, you’ll find it much easier and even enjoyable. The keys here are determination and commitment.

Here’s a simple guide for you to start creating your first coaching program:

1. First, I would suggest that you start by designing email coaching programs for a simple reason that it’s less complicated compare to face-to-face or phone coaching. If you’re already written eBooks or recorded audio products, you’ll find this one a piece of cake.

2. Look for materials you can use for your content. Review the eBooks that you’ve published and identify those ones that sold like hotcakes. Their topics are the best ones to discuss on your email coaching. Use their content and add more in-depth information so you’ll be able to give your clients their money’s worth.

3. Decide on the length of the program. Depending on the depth of your programs, you can design monthly or comprehensive programs that can last from 3-6 months. Then, decide how often you’ll send email to your clients. Through this, you can plan your content accordingly.

4. Write your emails. In order to ensure that your clients will get your emails on time, write at least 4 in advance. Depending on what you’re trying to teach them, you can offer thorough explanation, tips list, how-to guides, offer insider tips and techniques, expert advice, etc. Aside from text, you can also use audio and videos. Just include the links where your clients can easily access them.

5. When writing your emails, ensure that they’re easy to read, easy to understand, concise, and to the point.

6. Make sure to offer at least once a month one-on-one follow-ups to ensure that your clients are making progress. You can use this for some question and answer portion, for doing case studies, and for talking about their areas of improvement. This can be done through phone or in person whichever is convenient for both you and your clients.

By the way, do you want to learn more about using articles like this to drive traffic to your website and increase online conversions?

If so, I suggest you check this out: article marketing traffic.

Or do you want to learn more about how I teach my clients to build simple coaching programs that create much more revenue than just creating information products?

If so, download my free guide here: How to Sell Coaching

Article Source:
http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Sean_R_Mize

Do Not Sell Your Coaching – Give It Back

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n a market where everyone has something to sell, and all of them want you to buy their product or service, it seems to be more and more difficult to decide.

On the other hand, let’s admit that coaching is not about selling something. And when you present yourself as a coach, your potential clients do not want to know what you sell, they want to know what you have to offer. When they have a problem and turn to a coach for help, people expect more than a product, a book or a programme they can buy off the shelf or online. They want leadership, they want someone to inspire and motivate them throughout the entire process. And they are willing to pay a lot for it, as long as you give them what they need.

Once you understand this, you will know that you are the one they are looking for. All you need to do is make yourself visible on the market and make your clients see you have exactly what they need. Most of all, show them that you provide, you do not sell. So show your clients the best of what you’ve got and that will make them decide to work with you.

Give them your value

Do not ever underestimate yourself and do not let anyone see or feel that you are not valuable. Even if you are a beginner, your value comes from what you’ve learned, but most of all, from what you naturally have. You can easily stand out from the crowd if you use all your talents, all your skills, all your assets to create genuine products, programmes and sessions which can help your clients achieve their goals.

Let them know you love your work and your work is very important, and that you do not come cheap because you know your value, your worth, and you know that you can get results in everything you do.

Give your expertise, your speciality

Become an expert in a particular area and the clients will come to you. When they have a problem or a goal, people look for a specialist, not a generalist, so make sure that they know who you are and what you can do for them. Every aspect of your work must demonstrate that you know exactly what their problem is, that you understand them and that you have the right solution for each client.

Offer them your passion

Nowadays, it is getting harder and harder everyday to find people who really love their work, and who do not do it only for the money. So if you really love your coaching (and I’m sure you do!), let others see and feel it! When you enjoy everything you do, it is reflected in every aspect of your work, and your clients and other clients as well will want to work with you, because your passion can be contagious! Your passion can inspire you to create better products and programmes, and will motivate your clients to find the strength to make it through to the end.

Share your own experience

As a coach, you can be an influential role model for your clients. The power of example works every time, and people want proof and facts to back up what you say you can do.

Feel comfortable in sharing your own experiences with them, tell them what steps you had to take, how many times you had to start over or how many situations you were faced with, when you thought you wouldn’t make it through to the end. Let them know where you found the strength to carry on, what motivated and inspired you not to give up and how you became the coach you are today.

This could be the one reason your clients need to hire you. Once they learn that you also had to face difficult times to get where you are today, they will be sure you know what they are going through and you also know what to do to help them reach their goals or solve their problems.

No matter what strategies you decide to use to develop your coaching business, do not forget that you do not need to try to sell them to your clients. First of all, show them that you have something valuable to offer, something they need and want, and then you will also get paid for it. Your clients expect you to take the first step, to give them something they can rely on, and then you will get the results of giving. After all, everything in life is about give and take, and coaching is no exception to the rule.

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