Mindset

Can You Be A Successful and Effective Life Coach If You Don’t Have Your Life Together?

Can You Be A Successful and Effective Life Coach If You Don’t Have Your Life Together?

One of the most common misconceptions we hear from people about life coaching is that you must have your life entirely ‘together’, (aka borderline or actually perfect) to be a good coach. Whether you’re thinking about stepping into life coaching as a career, a trainee life coach, newly graduated or even well established, this is a pervasive narrative we regularly hear whereby life coaches should be perfect or near to it, including having perfect lives, never struggling with things like mental health difficulties or relationships and that their lives and businesses should be on a straightforward trajectory upwards, never experiencing anything challenging or difficult. And so when we were asked this question for an episode of Inspired Coach Podcast by Beautiful You Coach Tanya Jones...

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Must Read Personal Development Books For An Amazing Life (Especially If You Are Thinking About Becoming a Life Coach!)

Must Read Personal Development Books For An Amazing Life (Especially If You Are Thinking About Becoming a Life Coach!)

Here’s something we know for sure... People start to feel a desire to become a life coach for many different reasons. It can be a life altering event. A spiritual awakening. A great experience of being coached themselves. Or simply a longing and desire they have in their heart to be in deep service to people in an amazing way.   Along the way to exploring the path of becoming a life coach, or actually making the leap to becoming one, incredible and life affirming BOOKS are so often a welcome companion on that path. Books that are inspiring, challenging, heart opening and more. If you are considering becoming a life coach the following books are ones we highly recommend as amazing reading for your personal development and growth. Each of them will support you in different ways to...

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Seven Myths About Being a Life Coach We Need To Talk About!

Seven Myths About Being a Life Coach We Need To Talk About!

Life Coaching is a truly amazing way to be in service to people and create your own business.  We should know! We’ve now trained over 2,500 life coaches from all corners of the globe - with we know more to come. And we’ve seen countless times what people can achieve in their life when they have the support of an incredible life coach AND what coaches can achieve in a business of their dreams too.     Every day we speak with people dreaming about taking the leap to become a life coach. Yet one of the things we see, (more often than we’d care to!) are incredible humans who want to make a difference, see others grow and shine, work with people they love and create their own incredible business and a life they love, hold back from stepping fully into that dream because they’ve been...

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inspired COACH Magazine with Jolinda Johnson

inspired COACH Magazine with Jolinda Johnson

We are incredibly excited to share the first inspired COACH magazine for 2018! This heralds the arrival of a new direction for the magazine and we are thrilled to be focusing on our very own Beautiful You coaches and sharing more information, features and insights that will help you in the early years of building your coaching business or even before you have started your training.  The glimmer of becoming a coach may still be in your eye! We are delighted to have the radiant Jolinda Johnson grace our cover this quarter. Jolinda is a fertility coach and she shares how to go about choosing the right coaching course for you, questions to ask when doing your research and how to make the most of your training so that you can emerge as the best coach possible! This edition also features an...

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How To Break Through Negative Core Beliefs and Build The Business of Your Dreams

How To Break Through Negative Core Beliefs and Build The Business of Your Dreams

You could have the best client attraction strategy, beautiful website or well-connected networks and yet there’s one thing that can potentially derail your best business building efforts…your mindset. As a coach, you are likely to be very familiar with how a negative mindset can impact the lives of your clients, but what do you do when you get pulled into a negative internal spiral yourself?  Well, even though you may think it is cause to - don’t fret - because we ALL experience these fears and doubts and it’s totally normal.  It can in fact be a ‘blessing in disguise’ and a great teacher sent to help you learn more about yourself as a coach and a person. As you work towards building your coaching business, the types of thoughts that can cross your mind whenever you step out of your...

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The Truth About Perfectionism and Procrastination and How It Can Jeopardise Your Life Coaching Business

The Truth About Perfectionism and Procrastination and How It Can Jeopardise Your Life Coaching Business

Opening up the doors to your coaching business as a brand new coach is a very exciting time. There are plans and ideas to move forward with, potential clients to meet, and of course there’s the thrill of launching your incredible services to the world. In the initial stages, the excitement and passion of becoming a life coach is often what propels you forward. You can’t wait to follow through on your dreams and you’re committed to taking action and inspiring others. However, with any new venture, an overwhelming feeling that ‘it’s all too hard’ can wash over you at some time and this overwhelm can often lead to two things: Perfectionism Procrastination Perhaps it’s perfectionism that evolves into procrastination, or it could well and truly be the other way around – either way, they both...

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