How to Find the Perfect Life Coach?

1.What is your track record of success?

Some coaches may be just starting and don’t have much experience. If you hire someone like this, prepare to be a guinea pig. This isn’t necessarily bad, that is, if you’re ok with it. Just realize there’s a spectrum here. And if you want to accelerate your results in any area of your life truly, you’ll want to look for clues that your prospective life coach has a solid track record. They should have at least some success and should be dedicated to this field to make a positive impact and serve fellow humans.

Do you have experience in overcoming your own challenges? There’s a coach for everyone, no matter what your needs might be. If they have this, then they will be able to provide support specific to your needs. , A great coach with experience has the ability to hold space for anything that may come up in a healing session, which allows you the awesome feeling of relief and exploration. This feeling comes from a big release of old negativity.

2.Are you way ahead of me?

Maybe you’re just starting and exploring the world of personal growth and development and have never had a coach. Or maybe you’ve just read a few self-help books and dabbled with improving yourself. If any of these are true, you probably wouldn’t want to take direct advice from someone a decade ahead of you. Although this may inspire you, it’ll be overwhelming. This is especially true in business development and leadership training. I’ve made this mistake myself.

I’ve taken advice from multi-millionaires running multiple successful businesses with a strong social media following and tried to implement their advice. It didn’t work. Their advice didn’t translate to my needs because they weren’t baby-stepping it enough for someone in my position.

3.Do you have a proven step-by-step process?

Not only should they have their own process, but they should also provide flexibility and personalized support for your circumstances. The problem is, most personal growth/coaching programs have you sign up, take your money and then flood you with information. This may include a membership site with a wall of teaching modules built with a specific sequence of steps that happened to work for them. And, according to these programs,

if you follow every step exactly as they laid them out, you’ll get the same results they did. Unfortunately, life doesn’t work this way. All people are different. Their proven process needs to allow for you and the way you interpret your reality, the way you process information, and the challenges/experiences only you will have.

4.Do you practice what you preach?

Every coach should seek the next level for themselves as they guide you to the next level for yourself. You definitely want your coach/mentor/healer to continually re-invest in themselves because this allows them to be of greater service to you. What’s more, their philosophy should be clear and congruent with how they’re living. After all, the demonstration is one of the best ways to teach and create learning. More questions: Do you have a mentor or coach? What area of your life are you currently working on? You definitely want a coach who is dedicated to their own growth.

How easy is it to access your support?

When embarking on a journey of learning/growth, there are bound to be some unknowns involved and some unpredicted obstacles (these are actually a good sign), which you may not know exactly how to navigate at every moment. Therefore, you need convenient support at your fingertips. To establish this with your prospective coach, consider asking them these additional questions: Are you active in your community? Do you provide plenty of personal interaction and weekly Q & As to help me stay on track? Is there easy access to your materials (a link or email)? Speaking of accountability.

5.Do you offer a money-back guarantee?

A great coach should stand behind their service/programs even when they are helping you with deeper transformational work. An action-based guarantee, for instance, provides an incentive for both parties to create amazing results together. It creates clarity of what exactly it is you’re working on and where the finish line is. It also builds trust that your investment will be well worth it---if you follow all the steps of the program.

Be sure to ask your coach if they offer any guarantee on the investment you’re making. Most often, in situations where the client has to take certain actions to get the results, the guarantee will be action-based, and they may continue to work with you until you reach the finish line. That is, as long as you have documented proof that you took all the steps prescribed in the specified time frame.