life coach

What is a life coach? To put it simply, a life coach is a person whose job is helping you to reach your goals. Striving for business success can be a lonely proposition, and it might be hard to find the encouragement you need to keep you on the right track. A life coach not only provides that encouragement, they can also provide real, concrete advice on what you need to do to take your career to the next step.

A life coach is most effective when their client fully trusts in their skills and abilities. So, when choosing a life coach, the first step is choosing someone you know has the proper life coaching certification. Another option is to talk to people who have had good experiences with life coaches, and ask them for recommendations. It’s easier to trust in a life coach’s ability to help you when you know they have helped other people in the same way.

More and more, people in the business world find themselves turning to a life coach to help them achieve greater success. It's no surprise that life coaching is such a fast growing profession. And there are several good life coaching courses available to those interested in pursuing this lucrative and rewarding career.

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• Is Life Coach Accreditation Important?

  
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  You have decided to become a life coach; should you be worried about life coach accreditation? If you are searching for advice, you may immediately get confused – some experts say “no”, while other experts say, “yes.” You will find many different opinions if you peruse the Internet. Who is right and does it ...
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• Coaching with Logical Levels

  
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  In this week’s guest post Phil Manington shares how he uses a specific NLP model. Coaching with Logical Levels By Phil Manington Anyone familiar with NLP will probably have come across Robert Dilts’s Logical Levels model. It is a great tool for exploring how and why we do what we do. It works at a ...
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• Ask the Right Questions Create a Better Life

  
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  Imagine finally taking off several layers of clothing youve been wearing on top of each other for years and years. Because youve done if for so long and its become your norm youve forgotten that other people consciously choose to live without layers of clothing on.You remember the possibilities of your childhood so ...
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• Meh to Marvelous Transformation: Day 26

  
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  In today’s “Meh to Marvelous” transformation video, Michelle checks in after her field trip on this busy, super fun day. She shares a really exciting chance meeting with someone who created the exact job they wanted. For her, it’s a powerful reminder that we are co-creators of our reality. That’s a pretty ...
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• Who motivates and inspires you?

  
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  Augusten Burroughs (Best selling author of Running With Scissors) motivates me to write without fear. Life coach Tony Robbins motivates me to make changes in my life so I can continue to grow and achieve my goals. People like Oprah Winfrey that exhibit an infectious energy in connection with their passion help me to ...
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• Why Is Life Coaching Growing?

  
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  Many people have an attitude that “competition is heavy in today’s world and everybody needs to take advantage of any edge they can get to get ahead and live the life that they would like.” Some people feel that attitude this is why life coaching is growing by leaps and bounds. It may be that the growth of ...
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• Young Guns

  
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  What happens when you put a real gun in the hands of young children? Real death. read more
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• How to Master Your Emotions

  
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  How to Master Your Emotions 5:04 Motivational speaker Tijuana Jackson teaches you How to be the "Master of Your Emotions!"STILL DONT GET THE MESSAGE? - CLICK HERE: http://youtu.be/oHDSEAbNLNMFOLLOW A NIGGA:*TWITTER - http://twitter.com/TijuanaJackson*FACEBOOK - http://FaceBook.com/TJCanHelp*INSTAGRAM - ...
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• Achieve your career goals: Let’s lean in together

  
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  In this week’s guest post Gina Visram discusses a book that inspires her and shares her own thoughts and experiences. Achieve your career goals: Let’s lean in together By Gina Visram As coaches, we tend to be avid readers. From industry ‘classics’ like Stephen Covey’s The 7 Habits of Highly ...
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• When Bragging is NOT Bragging

  
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  . You are not bragging when you feel your truth and you tell your truth without shame to others. My truth is I am the most effective life coach on the planet. Ask any of my clients, they will tell you so. Why am I so effective?  Its simple, I never, ever get plugged into peoples drama. What I do, instead, is  hold ...
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• Hi Low Dress Refashion

  
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  This post is brought to you by Amanda . All rights reserved. Several months ago, I bought a huge box of somebody’s old clothing for refashioning purposes. Although there were lots of great clothing (WAY bigger size than what I normally wear), this great experiment went nowhere because the holidays came and I ...
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• 4 Rules for Supreme Productivity

  
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  Ive spent the last several months launching a startup for life coaches while also working at my day job. Ive had to work productively and effectively to get a lot of things done in a very short amount of time.Today Im sharing with you the top 4 guidelines that Ive distilled in my pursuit of supreme productivity. It ...
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• Questions to Ask Before You Become a Personal Coach

  
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  Before you to decide to become a personal coach, a few pertinent questions must be asked. Becoming a personal coach requires dedication, passion, and effort. Coaching is a great gig, but it is not an easy one. Coaching comes with great rewards, but you must work for them! Some experts subscribe to the belief that [...]
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• Meh to Marvelous Transformation: Day 21

  
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  It’s Day 21 of her Meh to Marvelous Transformation and Michelle just got off the phone with Jeff. She talks about some changes coming to her videos. She admits her lack of tech-savviness and talks antique cell phones. As she makes some deep internal shifts through coaching for her personal life and in business, ...
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• Search warrants issued as investigation continues in Steubenville

  
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  Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine is making good on his promise to investigate and hold accountable those who failed to speak up after two Steubenville High School football players raped an unconscious 16-year-old girl last summer. Following the March guilty verdict against Trent Mays and Mal’ik Richmond, DeWine ...
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• Meh to Marvelous Transformation: Day 20

  
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  In today’s “Meh to Marvelous Transformation” video check-in Michelle talks about her amazing neighbors and how important they are to her and her family. Living in community is something that’s super important to Michelle. She and the girls talk about gardening (and horse poop) and get a little carried away. We ...
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• Big Faith Big Power: What do You Believe?

  
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  Believing in yourself is an essential element in achieving personal success. Without self-belief, wetend to make poor decisions based on self-doubt and fear rather thanwhat’s best for us. These decisions may lead to self-destructivebehavior such as working at a job you hate because you believe youcan’t find a ...
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• Weight Loss Wisdom: All Is Forgiven, Move On?

  
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  Recently, I was speaking with a client who was very (very!) upset! "I weighed 170 last week," she said,  "and this morning, I weighed 173."   Apparently, she had what she considered to be a horrific week and for a myriad of most excellent reasons; mind-twisting, life and death reasons, she ate and ate some more and ...
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• Addictions To Work?

  
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  Workaholic Who Loves Her Work? Do “good” workaholics figure out how to love their work so they can still work a lot? I think society defines a workaholic as someone who uses work as an addiction. And addictions are supposed to be about running away from feelings or dealing with feelings in an unhealthy manner. ...
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• Moms Midlife Makeover: What I Learned from My 6th Grader

  
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  Like so many hardworking, midlife mom, taking care of myself is very low on my list. I decided to try to get my post-divorce, midlife self together. When you must force yourself to think about hair, fashion, foundation, boys(?) who you gonna call? A team of brutally honest middle school girls! Can my daughters posse ...
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