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Oct 07 2007

Some Help in Your Career as a Life Coach

Published by Jennifer at 3:05 pm under Life Coaching

Let me help you in your quest for a career as a life coach by offering you answers to some of the questions you will be fielding from friends and family as you announce to them that you will be pursuing a career as a life coach.

The first question will be “What is a life coach?” and it is a completely legitimate question. The answer is that a life coach is a mentor that helps people focus on their goals and achieve their goals. You are not a therapist you are more like a guide in your career as a life coach and you simply want to help people find the path to their own success.

From there the next question would be “Are you serious?” Ha! Ha! of course you are serious. You have chosen a career as a life coach carefully from all of the careers listed on the back of the matchbook from that motel you stayed in last week and life coach sounded like the best one.

Next will be the inevitable “Are you nuts?” In choosing a career as a life coach you will face this question regularly. The correct way to answer is to make some sort of direct comparison between the question asker’s mother and the zoo animal of your choice. From there the really intelligent dialogue can begin.

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Well, aren’t you the persistent one? The next question you should be prepared for in your career as a life coach is “You get paid to do this?” Your answer needs to be created by using carefully chosen words put together in a professional manner that will let the asker know that you most definitely will get paid for being a successful life coach and then you should probably make a follow up comment about the question asker’s sister or brother and the zoo animal of your choice.

Your final question before the asker gives up will more than likely come from your mother and will be along the lines of “Why can’t you get a real job like your brother has?” You simply inform that being a life coach is important work and that you have the opportunity to have a positive effect on the lives of many people throughout your career as a life coach and then you should remind your mother that your brother’s job as the janitor at the Elk’s Club hardly constitutes a great career option.

So that is just some of the questions you can expect when you announce your choice of a career as a life coach. We know that you will find your new career fulfilling and exciting and never forget the life coach’s motto which is “Always get the deposit in cash.”