| Coaching is a very personal experience, but we all | | | | even quit. |
| share in the benefits that coaching brings to our clients | | | | 6) Coaching creates continual personal growth |
| and ourselves. If you're thinking of becoming a coach, | | | | By asking a lot of your clients, you'll find you naturally |
| this list may persuade you to take the leap. If you're | | | | begin to ask a lot of yourself. You cannot help but |
| already a coach, it will remind you how lucky you are! | | | | grow and expand, and achieve results as you ask |
| 1) Coaching is extremely fulfilling | | | | them to grow and expand, and achieve results. |
| You get to partner with people in whichever area is | | | | Imagine reaching a startling insight for yourself in a |
| MOST important to them right now. You can make an | | | | coaching session, and you're getting paid for it! |
| enormous difference to their life, and watch the results | | | | 7) Your personal development is tax deductible! |
| unfold. Find out what areas are most fulfilling for you, | | | | Any course you do related to personal growth, |
| and work with clients who are pursuing them. | | | | including any travel you need to do to take the training, |
| 2) Coaching lets you work from home or anywhere | | | | is generally tax deducible (check with your accountant). |
| else! | | | | Want to learn Reiki? Yoga? Management skills? If |
| Stroll around your front yard using a cordless headset | | | | you're passing it on to your clients and getting paid for |
| phone, coach from a quiet meeting room at work, or | | | | it, it's a business expense. |
| even from the beach. Due to the growing popularity of | | | | 8) Coaching allows you to network with other winning |
| phone coaching, you can now travel or live in any | | | | coaches |
| country in the world, and keep your coaching practice | | | | You become part of a dynamic worldwide community. |
| going. | | | | Need a contact in London? Visa information for |
| 3) Set your own work hours e.g. Mon to Wed, 10am - | | | | Canada? Advise on coaching while traveling the |
| 1pm? | | | | world? You'll find the coaching community surprisingly |
| You decide when you coach, and when you'll have | | | | generous and supportive. |
| free time to create other projects. Prefer to coach in | | | | 9) Coaching equals creativity |
| the evenings? Want 2 hours for lunch? It's your choice. | | | | Coaching clients regularly is an amazing structure for |
| 4) Coaching pays well | | | | creativity in your life. The world becomes a huge |
| Good coaches are exceeding six figure incomes. | | | | palette where your job is to help brainstorm ideas and |
| Suppose you charged in your early stages only $250 | | | | strategies for your clients. It's impossible for you to not |
| per month and provided 30 minute sessions. You could | | | | come up with ideas and strategies for yourself and |
| spend two days a week coaching 20 clients, and still | | | | those around you! A new book? A series of audio |
| make $60,000 that year. And, if you worked up to 30 | | | | tapes? How to reduce hunger? A web course for girls |
| clients at $400 per month, we're talking $144,000 for | | | | hitting puberty? Who knows where you will end up! |
| coaching three days a week. | | | | 10) Get in at the ground floor of an emerging |
| 5) Coaching offers you your own business with VERY | | | | profession |
| low overhead | | | | As a profession, coaching is in its infancy. It is less than |
| Running your own business gives you a LOT of | | | | 15 years old in the US. If you start now, in five years |
| freedom and room for creativity. And there are not | | | | you could be a leader in your profession. |
| many businesses you can enter with the investment | | | | By David Wood and Geoff Grist |
| of nothing but your coach training, a computer and a | | | | I encourage you to share, replicate or forward this |
| phone. You can also transition safely into the | | | | article as long as the author links, and copyright |
| profession by developing a client base BEFORE you | | | | information are kept intact. |
| cut back to 3 days a week at your regular job, or | | | | |