2: What It Takes to Be Successful In Your Coaching Business

This episode might surprise you. Find the full transcript at prosperouscoach.com/2.New coaches often ask me what does it really take to be good at this ... to earn a good living at coaching by running your own business? Great question!Welcome to Your Coaching Business JourneyYou want to make a good living at this, help people, and be the director of your own career and lifestyle. Your coaching business can bring you all of those things and more.After 20+ years growing my own coaching business I've realized that it's been the territory of my greatest personal transformation. It’s been a spiritual journey because I’ve raised the courage to stay in it and ride all the waves. I’ve evolved and have more to do there.So here's my invitation to you … if you're going to build your own coaching business — go for it without limits. Stay the course. Keep the faith. Believe in yourself even and especially through the down times when you're not meeting your goals or feeling stuck.Let’s explore what it really takes from two angles:First, mindset shifts you’ll need to make.And two, actions you’ll need to take.As you listen think in terms of your potential rather than what you have to have achieved already. Wherever you are on this journey, you’re in the right place to move forward. Forward is always the best direction.Let’s start with the most crucial mindset …Mindset #1 - Embrace Being a BeginnerLearn to be okay with not knowing everything and with being bad at some things until you get better at them.Explorers and scientists get the value of this mindset. They know that first you summon courage and that most mistakes made along the way are happy accidents.I've never liked the phrase "fake it ‘til you make it" because you can be totally authentic while you're learning things. Be transparent.·      You can tell your clients you're new at this.·      You can flub up and just bounce back.·      You can apologize for mistakes and learn from them.No one will mind. In fact we're living in times where vulnerability is appreciated. Don't perform. Connect. Don't judge yourself. Allow yourself to grow.To read the other 3 mindsets and 3 actions to take to be successful as a coach go here.