If you think getting a certificate will do it for you,
it will not.
Hi, this is Ajit Nawalkha
and today we are talking about
If you are here, you are obviously curious about this topic.
Else why would you be here?
Like, really...
Why would you be here?
In this video, we will explore two areas of becoming a life coach.
First is the skill of life coaching.
Second is the business of life coaching.
Let’s talk about skills first.
The most important part of being a coach is
Of course, it says it in the name.
It is often misunderstood though,
and we end up meeting life coaches
who don’t really know how to coach.
They are like your aunt Nila.
They have a lot of things to say, but it is often bad advice.
If your intentions are right
and you mean serious business with your life coaching career,
here are three levels you want to consider in order
to build a solid coaching foundation,
so you can coach anyone and
help them live a greater life.
The first level of transformation in someone's life is
Often repressed emotions become the reason
for various health challenges in our lives.
It can cause an increase in stress, anxiety,
and often leads to sour relationships.
Let’s be honest, as much as we love some drama in our lives,
if it turned into the final scene of Titanic over and over again,
we would probably hate our lives as much as we hated this scene...
[Rose] Jack?
Working on the emotional level with our clients
means we help them process unresolved emotions they might have.
Sometimes that could have been a traumatic experience in their lives
or something that is happening in their lives right now.
I want to be careful here.
Processing past emotions can be really tough.
Sometimes these emotions are deep seeded
and you might need to refer your client to a therapist.
Fortunately, most of your clients won’t have such deep seeded emotions
and your ability to ask questions and rationalize their unprocessed emotions
should get you through that coaching session.
The second level to transform someone’s life is
This is the level where we work with our clients’ set of beliefs.
Beliefs are like the hidden operating system that makes us act in a certain way.
It would be like when my wife asks me to go to a party,
my first answer is always no.
Because I firmly believe that everyone at a party
is only trying to talk each other’s ears off,
and I like my gorgeous ears...
Leave my ears alone, Jackie!
When we work on the mental model of our clients,
we have the ability to completely reframe their story.
We have the opportunity to show them a new reality
that they otherwise thought was impossible.
Asking questions and offering a different perspective to the same story
can be wildly valuable to your clients.
Without a coach, it is almost impossible
to create these reframes that would offer
your clients a better world view.
The third level to transform someone’s life is
Behavioral change is talking about the before mentioned
models and shifting how your clients act.
It’s like how going to the gym becomes a habit
not by only knowing you should go to the gym,
but by actually going to the gym.
Again and again and again...
Behavioral change is hard.
If we develop the right motivation and the right goals,
we can help our clients pass the barrier of their current behavior
and transform their lives with a new one.
You could support behavioral change
by dissecting why your clients have the current
behavior and what could be the motivations for them
to change it.
And then, have a strong follow-through plan
as additional support when they are just starting
the process of changing their behavior.
That was the first of the two parts of becoming a life coach.
The skill of coaching.
The three levels of change that you want to consider and want to get cracking on.
As you start your study around these levels so you can shift your clients life
and be the best life coach you can be,
I want to extend an invitation.
World famous master coach, Christine Hassler, shares how to cause these shifts
with a lot more depth in a profound masterclass by Evercoach.
In the class, we break down not only these three levels,
but a fourth one.
Not as known as the first three, but just as powerful.
It's called the Spiritual level.
More on that in the description of this video.
Go check it out and see if it is for you.
Now, let’s get to the second part of becoming a life coach.
Life Coaching is both the easiest and
the most difficult type of coaching business to have.
Think about it like this...
Life coaching is like the United States of America.
The country comes up with amazing breakthroughs
like the Tesla cars and Apple computers,
and then also says dumb sh*t like this…
[Interviewer] Should Wakanda be forced to share their vibranium?
[Respondent] No.
[Interviewer] Why?
[Respondent] It's theirs, it belongs to their country.
Come on, America!
It’s the easiest business because clients are in abundance.
Everyone who is interested in becoming a better version of themselves
should be interested in working with a life coach.
Which is also the biggest challenge of this business.
Because everyone could be a client,
it often causes life coaches to get confused
and distracted by every new tool and tactic.
And because life coaching can be everything,
it ends up being nothing.
It gets extra confusing, making it tough for potential clients to enroll.
So, what can one do as a life coach to make their business work?
First of all, you have to get really clear
about who you want to work with.
While everyone could be a client for a life coach,
when you know who really is a great match for you,
it makes your efforts more concentrated and accurate.
Doubling down on a type of person you want to work with
also helps with honing your skills because you are focused.
It also becomes easier to adjust your communication
because you know exactly who you are speaking with.
Once you are clear about who you are speaking to,
approach and speak to them.
The best way to attract a client is
to be able to show your clients that you have
the ability to create results.
Which brings me to the final point.
To build a real career in any industry,
you need to able to get results again and again.
It’s the only way to really be successful.
You have to be the Leonardo DiCaprio of acting.
Not James Franco.
As you start to get better and more consistent results when you coach,
you will see you will not only become a life coach.
You will become a successful one.
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