Thursday, 5 May 2011

What is Self Coaching?

Self Coaching is when instead of paying a professional such as a life coach or counsellor to help you make changes in your life or deal with problems, you use some of their techniques to do it for yourself!

The advantages of this are that you save money and you may also gain in confidence from seeing that you can achieve change on your own.

If you think you might want to learn how to coach yourself then click on the link below:
For information about Life Coaching go to: Life Coaching Service
For Life Coaching Books and Resources visit: Life Coaching Books

Becoming a Life Coach

Like most life coaches I have found that a number of those who visit my Life Coaching Website  are themselves interested in becoming life coaches (or in some cases they already are life coaches!).

There are a number of attractions to being a life coach, including:
  • The enjoyment and personal reward that comes from helping people to do what they want or to overcome problems
  • Being able to take control of our own business and organise your life accordingly
  • Being in a role where you continually learn and develop.
However, despite the numerous life coaching courses out there who make it appear as if training to be a life coach is a simple way to guaranteed personal and financial success there are also some pitfalls to being a life coach, such as:
  • Starting any business is challenging and this applies as much to a life coaching business as to any other
  • Making decisions such as how to market your business and how to develop a website require thought and research
  • It is important to reflect on how to keep appropriate boundaries in your work with clients who may be vulnerable people and how to ensure that you are providing a service which is worthwhile and effective
To help you decide if you want to become a life coach, I run a Be a Life Coach Newsletter which gives you the benefit of my own experience to help you navigate your way through the potential issues involved in becoming a life coach.
To find out more, click on the link below:

For information about Life Coaching go to: Life Coaching Service
For Life Coaching Books and Resources visit: Life Coaching Books