Would you like to be a Life Coach?

By Georgina Kirk

Life coaching is certainly a gratifying occupation. Every day, life coaches facilitate decisions that propel people towards fulfilling their dreams. And, if they want to, coaches can work from home. If a job like this appeals to you, you might make a good life coach.

Setting up as a life coach is not difficult. As it stands, the law does not require you to have any qualifications. Anybody can put up a plaque and start practising as a life coach, if they can find the clients.

However, it is not as simple as it sounds. Although encouraging people to aim for – and reach – the stars may seem straightforward, actually it requires a good deal of skill. If the client hasn’t achieved his/her goal already, there is a reason for this, which can be deeply entrenched and sometimes difficult to identify, let alone remove. A life coach is more than just a friendly bystander; he/she is an expert. You wouldn’t consider setting up as a football coach without undertaking some training and it is the same with life coaching. Just because you know about life, it doesn’t necessarily mean you can coach someone else.

For your own sake, as well as your clients’, then, it is definitely a wise move to invest in some training. There are many, many life coaching courses to choose from so, whether you would prefer to study intensively or over the longer term, in a class or by correspondence, you will find a course to give you what you want.

Alongside the training, something else that will benefit you enormously is to have some life coaching yourself. If you really want to be a life coach, you coach will keep you focused and help you to maintain your enthusiasm through the first few months. Also, watching an experienced coach in action will give you a clearer idea of how the process works.

Although it is possible to make a lot of money through life coaching, if you go into the profession with that as your goal, you will probably neither enjoy life coaching nor succeed at it. To an extent, life coaching is a vocation, like teaching or nursing. If you are doing it for the money, you may not find it worth the effort.

A further point to bear in mind is that you will be paid only for time spent working directly with or for a client and, when you first start coaching, this may not be enough to live on. If you are employed and thinking of packing it in to become a life coach, perhaps see if you can go part-time for a while, so you have got some regular income while you build up your client base.

Because life coaching is still a comparatively new phenomenon, there is still plenty of scope for working in this field. As word spreads of the power of coaching, demand for it is rising. On the other hand, new life coaches are emerging every minute, so, if this is what you want to do, seize the day.

It is hard work being a life coach but it is also hugely rewarding. If you have got the potential to change people’s lives, start by changing your own – right now!

To find more details on how to become a life coach, visit our website, which contains lots of useful life coaching resources.

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