life coaching

A popular way to reach goals is life coaching. You hire a business/personal coach to team up with you and help identify goals, provide support, and often push you to end procrastination to reach success more quickly than you would on your own. Bloggers ask, what can life coaching do for me?

Life coaching emerged over 40 years ago as a helping approach in mental health, as consulting services in business, and as mentoring in education. Universities historically provided coursework related to the skills and knowledge needed to effectively coach, but without a specific 'life coaching' label. Courses are generally found in the mental health, business, and education disciplines. There is no professional license that defines and identifies qualified life coaches. Some offer caution about the risk to consumers of 'unqualified' coaches. Anyone can advertise life coaching services.

Since the 1990s, many life coaching specific organizations have appeared and assigned themselves the task of defining and setting their standards for life coaching. Today, there is a plethora of coach training programs, often online, offering their particular life coaching certificates/certifications. Life coaching programs can be expensive, with few (if any) criteria for enrollment.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “life coaching”

• Taking Responsibility for the Negative and the Positive You Create

  
  All About Life Coaching Dot Com — Authority: 134
  One of the things I teach my clients and practice myself is taking responsibility. I believe we fully create our lives by our thoughts and feelings. However, I don’t require my clients to believe like I do. I just ask them to try that perspective out and see if it works for them. So far, no one’s declined. So it ...
  10 hours ago

• Merger May Create More Jobs as Life Coaching Combines with High Tech Platform

  
  Welcome to The Coaching Commons — Authority: 139
  The fledgling field of web-based coaching can now boast a high profile merger. “This is a partnership that will move the industry forward,” said Pat Williams, founder of the Institute for Life Coach Training. His company has been acquired by LifeOptions, a company that provides web-based products to managed care ...
  16 hours ago

• Pointing Out Behavior That Gets in the Way Without Shaming

  
  All About Life Coaching Dot Com — Authority: 134
  If you read my earlier post called “To Coach a Friend or Not to Coach a Friend”, here’s the update. Friend and I had an appt. yesterday at 10a.m. I had offered to place the call because I have flat rate long distance service and I offer that to all of my clients if they want it. So I called at 10 and the line ...
  1 day ago

• Having a Long-Term Vision

  
  Marty Nemko — Authority: 106
  I invite you to take an hour to write a long-term vision: what youd like your life to look like decades from now. I did that yesterday. In deciding whether you want to do that, it might be helpful if I shared what I learned from doing it: Im getting a little tired of trying to make a difference. I think back ...
  1 day ago

• The 2-Step Marketing Plan For Your Life Coaching Business: Leveraging Results Through Group Coaching

  
  Coaches Training Blog — Authority: 127
  Marketing your life coaching business is really a two step process. First you need to find out what people want, and then find a way to give it to them. Oversimplified? Not really. Finding out who your target market is and what they want can be the million dollar question. [...]
  3 days ago

• To Coach a Friend or Not to Coach a Friend?

  
  All About Life Coaching Dot Com — Authority: 134
  It Depends on the Situation I have a friend for many years. When I first, formally started my coaching practice, she was one of my first clients. I wasn’t able yet to observe myself in the coaching process enough to be able to evaluate whether our life coaching was beneficial to her or not. I just used the “if ...
  3 days ago

• Keep Your Monkey in Check for Christmas

  
  Matthew Ferry — Authority: 119
  Monkeys got your back Your parents! Your in laws! Your siblings! Your children! Lions and tigers and bears…oh my! Instead of reacting to people this holiday, see The Drunk Monkey for what it really is; a biological mechanism designed to steer you away from danger. Notice that a difference of opinion from ...
  4 days ago

• Life Success Coaching: Understanding Why Your Life Coaching Clients Don’t Have Goals

  
  Coaches Training Blog — Authority: 127
  In your life coaching business, what life success coaching will your clients need first?  The first key to life success coaching is to help your clients set goals.  Why don’t they already have goals?  They did hire you to be their coach right?  Yes, but they usually have only a general idea of what they [...]
  4 days ago

• Kvelling About Clients

  
  All About Life Coaching Dot Com — Authority: 134
  Proud of My Clients I don’t know what the right word is to explain this feeling but I feel proud of the accomplishments of my clients. When one feels proud of their children, takes pleasure in their accomplishments, there is the perfect Yiddish word – kvell . Just found a good definition on a website called ...
  4 days ago

• Igniting the Fire Within – A Coaching Tool To Open Up People To Change By Taking a Stand For Them

  
  Keith Rosen's Executive Sales Coaching Blog on Selling, Leadership, Management — Authority: 109
  Everyone can benefit from extra support and motivation. Compound this with tougher times, igniting the fire that burns within each of us is more critical than ever before, especially when there are those of us that might be struggling to keep that fire alive. For managers, it’s essential that you are able to ...
  4 days ago

• Kill The Monkey In My Head!!

  
  Matthew Ferry — Authority: 119
  In my last post, I discussed a question I got from a client regarding the positive power of negativity .  After reading my post he responded with this, “I guess my problem is that I choose to suffer, get pissed off, become the victim, scream, ‘Why me!!!’ or go into a state of hopelessness…” Here’s ...
  5 days ago

• A Fun Way to Increase Life Coaching Business: Using Coaching Success Stories to Enroll New Clients

  
  Coaches Training Blog — Authority: 127
  Finding life coaching business is not about hard sells.  It’s been said many times, “Nothing sells like success.”  How often do you use coaching success stories when you are trying to get new clients to enroll in coaching?  Coaching success stories are one of the easiest and most fun ways to increase your ...
  5 days ago

• Frequently Used Forms a Life Coach Uses

  
  All About Life Coaching Dot Com — Authority: 134
  Coaching Preparation Form This form is widely used and often has slight variations. I’ve seen it used by Coaches Training Institute grads and CoachU grads. I don’t have a preference one way or the other for use with my clients. If it helps them, then it will help us. You can see how it can save time but since ...
  5 days ago

• How to get Life Coach Clients to Find You: Online Life Coaching Business Skills for ‘Dummies’

  
  Coaches Training Blog — Authority: 127
  Even if you’re not tech savvy, learning how to get life coach clients to find you and your life coaching business on the internet is not that hard.  I know, because I’m one of you.  So you needn’t be afraid of using the internet to boost your life coaching business.  You too can learn how [...]
  5 days ago

• Are your Goals accompanied with a Consistent Labor of Love?

  
  Intuition Girl — Authority: 120
  What actions have you determined are necessities in your life to keep you on track? If you’re pining for the straight and narrow path to success, then you must know that in order to achieve the affluence you so desire, you must love yourself first and be consistent in every one of your efforts. A few ...
  5 days ago

• Which Actor or Actress Represents Your Character Traits?

  
  Designing a Passionate Life — Authority: 408
  Designing a passionate life includes knowing your values, passions, spirituality, and character traits. My husband recently asked me a question that I found rather intriguing and thought provoking. So of course, I want to pass it onto you. If you...
  6 days ago

• The Positive Power of Negativity

  
  Matthew Ferry — Authority: 119
  A client read my 2009 Prophecy Letter recently and was perplexed by this statement that I’d made in the letter. “I have really mastered the use of negative experiences to my advantage. I can see more clearly then ever that negativity is awesome! So much good happens when something bad happens. So many new ...
  6 days ago

• Follow Your Star and Find Your Dream

  
  Parallel Mind, The Art of Creativity — Authority: 413
  When a dream takes hold of you, what can you do? You can run with it, let it run your life, or let it go and think for the rest of your life about what might have been. —Patch Adams, M.D. A few years ago, I lived in a condo complex where I met one of the people who changed my life. A quirky elderly white woman who ...
  6 days ago

• Banishing Phobias and Fears

  
  Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone : — Authority: 411
  About 10 years ago I was in a sales meeting with a customer who happened to be a psychologist. I can’t remember how we got onto the topic, but I was telling him about my sisters severe phobia of snakes that she’d had most of her life. When I say severe phobia, I mean really, really severe. I kid you not, she ...
  6 days ago

• Personal Growth Coaching: How To Get Your Life Coaching Clients To Achieve Their Goals

  
  Coaches Training Blog — Authority: 127
  In life coaching and personal growth coaching, helping your clients achieve their goals is key to success. Most of the time your life coaching clients will not know how to get the results they want. In personal growth coaching, you will have to help your clients put goals in writing. Most people [...]
  6 days ago

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