Mental Detox?? Do you or your Life Coaching client have “Mental Toxicity”? If so, you might need to do – or suggest – a “mental detox” so you can start eliminating self-sabotage in some area of your life, and simultaneously discover your vast inner potential.  Here’s how it works…  Let’s say you have a problem you want cleared up.  Somehow, though, it always seems to hang around and return in your life over and over again.  I call this ‘mental toxicity‘ because you are still running subconscious programs that keep attracting... (Read More ...)

Do you believe in the Law of Attraction?   If so, you are in good company.  Some of the most successful people in the world do also. “But,” you might add, “it doesn’t really work for me or my Life Coaching clients.” Doesn’t it?  Or does it work precisely because you (or your clients) don’t believe it can?! Let’s look at this a little deeper . . . The Law of Attraction states, in essence, that you attract into your life PRECISELY what you believe. However this law, like the law of gravity, also operates without judgment, favoritism, morality, or... (Read More ...)

Life coaching courses can be found everywhere.  Do a Google search and you will come up with coaching training programs that range from a simple E-Course for $49 to those costing thousands of dollars. The main reason for this is simple:  Life coaching itself has no specific requirements, can be done by anyone who wants to call themselves a “life coach,”  and life coaching courses themselves are based ona wide-open field of study – one that involves both life experiences as well as skills.  So if you are thinking of becoming a life coach, where do you start?  The first place... (Read More ...)

We arrived in Munich on December 15th to spend Christmas in Germany with my wife Brigitte’s family and friends.  First stop was her sister Uschi, then on to Freiburg and the Black Forest where “Tante Erika and Onkel Ekhart” live.  Today we drove up to the snow trails of the Black Forest and ran into a small traffic jam . . .the “Ziegen” or mountain goats! Sometimes you just have to take a break from coach training. . .  (Read More ...)

Results Coaching Update: When you hear the term Results Coaching what do you think of?  Normally you would think of trying to elicit a specific outcome from coaching, right?  Obviously, but the best results coaching method is often elusive for several reasons: The goals or aim is not clearly defined The client is unaware of his or her own hidden agendas, Both coach and client are trying to “Fix” a condition that is subconsciously locked in., and The “Lag” time between the stated goal and the results is often too long. Unless you as a coach have the right tool to ACCESS... (Read More ...)

Can you actually earn money doing what you love? If you love to listen to others, share life experiences, and guide people to taking action on that which they already know they want to do, then the answer is a resounding “YES”!  You are already qualified for life coach training! Life coach training gives you permission – if you will – to do that which you already love, which is to counel others on matters of life importance.  Life coaching itself is a term that can be defined quite simply as “helping others to maximize their effectiveness in everyday functioning... (Read More ...)

Life coach training – just like people – comes in many different shapes, sizes and colors. Before they became life coaches, most of them were already grounded in certain types of therapy, whether it be psychotherapy, hypnosis, law of attraction, NLP or relationship counseling. It stands to reason, therefore, that their approaches would be different. But so are the results. Let me explain… Some therapies, quite frankly, bring about little or no lasting results. I call these the “feel good” modalities – things like affirmations, most energy work, and invocations... (Read More ...)