Top Ten Benefits of Becoming a Coach
Coaching is a very personal experience, but we all share in the
benefits that coaching brings to our clients and ourselves. If you're
thinking of becoming a coach, this list may persuade you to take
the leap. If you're already a coach, it will remind you how lucky
you are!
1) Coaching is extremely fulfilling
You get to partner with people in whichever area is MOST important
to them right now. You can make an enormous difference to their
life, and watch the results unfold. Find out what areas are most
fulfilling for you, and work with clients who are pursuing them.
2) Coaching lets you work from h-o-m-e or anywhere else!
Stroll around your front yard using a cordless headset phone, coach
from a quiet meeting room at work, or even from the beach. Due to
the growing popularity of phone coaching, you can now travel or
live in any country in the world, and keep your coaching practice
going.
3) Set your own work hours e.g. Mon to Wed, 10am – 1pm?
You decide when you coach, and when you’ll have free time to
create other projects. Prefer to coach in the evenings? Want 2 hours
for lunch? It’s your choice.
4) Coaching pays well
Good coaches are exceeding six figure incomes. Suppose you charged
in your early stages on'ly $250 per month and provided 30 minute
sessions. You could spend two days a week coaching 20 clients, and
still ma'ke $60,000 that year. And, if you worked up to 30 clients
at $400 per month, we’re talking $144,000 for coaching three
days a week.
5) Coaching offers you your own business with VERY low overhead
Running your own business gives you a LOT of freedom and room for
creativity. And there are not many businesses you can enter with
the investment of nothing but your coach training, a computer and
a phone. You can also transition safely into the profession by developing
a client base BEFORE you cut back to 3 days a week at your regular
job, or even quit.
6) Coaching creates continual personal growth
By asking a lot of your clients, you'll find you naturally begin
to ask a lot of yourself. You cannot help but grow and expand, and
achieve results as you ask them to grow and expand, and achieve
results. Imagine reaching a startling insight for yourself in a
coaching session, and you're getting paid for it!
7) Your personal development is tax deductible!
Any course you do related to personal growth, including any travel
you need to do to take the training, is generally tax deducible
(check with your accountant). Want to learn Reiki? Yoga? Management
skills? If you're passing it on to your clients and getting paid
for it, it's a business expense.
8) Coaching allows you to network with other winning coaches
You become part of a dynamic worldwide community. Need a contact
in London? Visa information for Canada? Advise on coaching while
traveling the world? You'll find the coaching community surprisingly
generous and supportive.
9) Coaching equals creativity
Coaching clients regularly is an amazing structure for creativity
in your life. The world becomes a huge palette where your job is
to help brainstorm ideas and strategies for your clients. It's impossible
for you to not come up with ideas and strategies for yourself and
those around you! A new book? A series of audio tapes? How to reduce
hunger? A web course for girls hitting puberty? Who knows where
you will end up!
10) Get in at the ground floor of an emerging profession
As a profession, coaching is in its infancy. It is less than 15
years old in the US. If you start now, in five years you could be
a leader in your profession.
By David Wood and Geoff Grist
David Wood is a Professional Life Coach, and author of
the powerful Free Download: '50
Life Coaching Questions to Take Control of Your Life and
Help Your Clients'. He helps coaches, consultants, speakers
and trainers to build their businesses via his popular ebook:
"10 Super Coaches Share Their Secrets" and his
audio ebook: "Getting Your First 50 Clients".
"David Wood is a personal and business coach, and
an original founder of the International Coach Academy -
a global coach training school"
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