We believe strongly in coaching, promote coaching, and help support coaching businesses because, fundamentally: a surgeon cannot operate on herself. However, there are many skeptics, cynics and critics who hate life coaching.<\/p>\n
How does being a life coach work they slowly dismantle your horrible childhood and replace it with a new one? Like “Total Recall”?<\/p>\n
\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Jenn Tisdale (@Jenn_Tisdale) March 25, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
There are many reasons for this kind of thinking, from pop-culture stigma<\/a>\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0to the fact that coaching is an unregulated industry.<\/p>\n
The Top 5 Reasons Coaching Has a Bad Name<\/h1>\n
1. Wannabes<\/h2>\n
Many wannabes get into the business by simply printing a business card. Sold yoga gear in the past? \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0You can always become a life coach because the industry is self-regulated!<\/em><\/p>\n
When the only credentials a coach has is establishing \u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0great rapport with the client, they are giving the industry a bad name.<\/p>\n
2. Skeptics<\/h2>\n
People who don’t need or want coaching are\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0skeptical and feel negatively about the profession without even experiencing life coaching.<\/p>\n
Categorizing life coaches as armchair critics, career hoppers who are without specialty, or new-age woo-woo hippies gives all coaches a bad name.<\/p>\n
3. Perspective<\/h2>\n
Some people\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00a0just cannot be coached. They are not ready to do the work, do not want to change or require other support.<\/p>\n
When on the defensive, we don\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t like to hear hard truth or about perceived weaknesses, so it’s easier gripe behind the coach\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s back than change.<\/p>\n
4. Inaction<\/h2>\n
Many life coaching websites and coaches promise the moon, but coaching is not a one-way street. The coach does not drag the client along to their dream life\/career\/relationship.<\/p>\n
Coaching is a partnership where success is completely<\/strong> dependent on the client\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s action. People who buy sales promises without understanding their responsibility get frustrated when they don’t get the results they paid for.<\/p>\n
5. Grandeur<\/h2>\n
Some coaches paint a very rosy picture \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u0153 vacations, yachts, 6-figure incomes, and on. It\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s hard to buy these stories when the life coach does not own these goodies or have this success themselves.<\/p>\n
When clients hear about results that the coach hasn\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2t achieved, they grow skeptical about the reality of the profession.<\/p>\n
1. Change your name to Gordon Bombay2. Become a life coach3. Move into your new mansion made out of million dollar bills \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Dan Duvall (@lazerdoov) March 4, 2013<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n