3 Myths About Becoming A Life Coach Today I’m doing some myth busting. My goal is to give you all the information, mentoring and support you need to become successful and to help you start a coaching business. Myth #1 Once you’re trained …clients will just show up at your door. Here’s the truth, you can be the best in the world and if you don’t market your services effectively you will have no clients and no successful coaching business. People will not be beating a path to your door. You have to go out and intentionally find and attract your clients. The skills you’ve learned are valuable and people would gladly want your help, but if they can’t...
Does anyone know you are open for business? If you’re a new coach or a coach who wants more business what’s holding you back from taking the next step to get paying clients? I really want to know, does anyone know that you are open for business? Does anyone know you are looking for clients? Or are you the world’s best-kept secret? It can be scary showing up and inviting new clients to work with you. It’s sooooo much easier to work on your branding, re-write a blog post or organize your office. But sometimes, you might realize that all you’ve been doing is dusting reorganizing and polishing everything to perfection. But you haven’t pulled up the blinds, turned...
Are you curious to find out what the word is? Just Think about it. How often do you sabotage yourself with this qualifier? Many of us, especially women, use the word “just” to soften the meaning of what we are stating. When you use the word just to describe who you are, what you do or to clarify your choice it devalues your abilities, your skills and shrinks your impact. Here’s an example. Read this sentence: I would just like to say that I feel that women undermine their credibility time and time again by using minimizing language. What do you notice? Using the word “just” and the phrase “I feel” undermines the writer’s own opinion. The writer appears to...
Are you overwhelmed with too many things to do? Do you feel frazzled and too busy to even think? If that’s you, it’s time to take a breath. You’re not alone in feeling this way. I’ve felt the same way too in the past, and while you’re reading this there are probably many other people out there who are in the same boat. So, what do you do after you take a breath? Three things. 1. First, instead of pushing it away and mentally beating yourself up, admit how you’re feeling. The easiest way to process this is by writing in a journal. Start with a brain dump. Vent all your frustrations onto the paper. The act of getting...
“Candy, what are you doing???? Why aren’t you wearing the shoes I got you?” I can just hear him now. This is what my husband often asks me when I walk back in the house from my she shed, which is my office. Maybe I should rewind. In case you didn’t know I work in my little ‘’she shed in the backyard. Here’s a photo so you can see what it looks like. Yes, it’s cute as a button and yes, I love it! But let’s get back to his question because it might help you too. I love to walk barefoot out in the grass and I do it whenever possible. Since I live on the “wet” coast...
