Overcome Pride with a Beginners Attitude to Achieve Success in Your Coaching Business
I have found it very surprising how starting a coaching business and marketing on the internet has affected me emotionally! I have observed myself and several other colleagues go through some very challenging and uncomfortable emotions while creating the dream of being an entrepreneur.
It seems that the process forces one to address many limiting thoughts and beliefs and overcome them if we are to have success. It also seems that these emotional challenges came as a complete surprise to each person and in many cases were the downfall of their coaching business. I want to address these seemingly predictable and normal emotional hurdles so that you can be prepared for them and have a plan for working through them on your way to success as a coach.
Creating and Maintaining a Beginners Attitude
Try to think back to the time you were learning to ride a bicycle and how you approached the challenge and how you achieved the goal you highly desired. The first thing you may remember is you knew you did not know how to ride a bike. You had some knowledge of how to ride a bike because you had observed others and you had practiced the activity in your mind but you were keenly aware that you had no experience or proven skill for riding a bike. You were probably eager and willing to listen to others who had bike riding experience and follow their direction and guidance.
This is a great way to approach starting your coaching business. You have seen others who have become successful coaches so you have made observations and have some knowledge. The key is to find a person who can help you with what you do not know. You must accept that though you have completed coaching school there s still a lot that you may not know about having a successful coaching business.
Seek a Mentor and Instruction
You will need to learn more about the business aspects of coaching so you should seek assistance from a reliable resource. It is important to be teachable and to be willing to accept instruction. Pride is the emotion that often enters the process at this point and many coaches feel that they have graduated from coaching school so they do not need any additional help starting their coaching business. Their ego and pride says they can do it alone.
Be Willing to Follow Instruction
Willingness is key to achieving success as a coach. I have also witness pride prevent people from following the advice and instruction they have paid for. In many cases a teacher will suggest a way of doing something and rather than simply following the steps laid before them, the student will decide that they know better and will try their own methods.
I have seen people pay hundreds even thousands of dollars to learn from a "guru" in their niche then completely reject the teaching and strike out on their own path with unproven business tactics rather than simple follow the direct from the experienced guru. The result is not usually positive so the trainee decides that coaching is not a sustainable business for them.
I suggest that you find a mentor, develop a teachable beginner's attitude, and be willing to follow direction as you begin your entrepreneurial venture as a coach.
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