{"id":1345,"date":"2012-04-23T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T18:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/?p=1345"},"modified":"2012-02-01T23:06:54","modified_gmt":"2012-02-02T05:06:54","slug":"work-toward-inspiring-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/work-toward-inspiring-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Work Toward Inspiring Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an excerpt from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.topcoachingtechniques.com\/\">Top Coaching Techniques<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of floundering around, you\u2019re actually working on some exciting, inspiring goals. So, you start with what do you want, and help them. Some questions you can ask that might help elicit that are things like, \u2018What\u2019s one thing you\u2019d love to change?\u2019 \u2018Is there anything in your life that you hate?\u2019 \u2018Is there anything in your life that you\u2019d really love to have more of?\u2019 Another good one is, \u2018If there was a goal that might be even too big for you to achieve &#8211; but if you could have anything in the world, you\u2019d probably go for it &#8211; what would that be?<\/p>\n<p>Client: OK, yeah.<\/p>\n<p>David: OK, now another way to break that down when people are having trouble, is to ask them about different areas of their life and go through the standard areas; relationships, finances, health, career. Go through that and just ask them to maybe score each one out of ten. That will tell you pretty quickly if the client is saying, \u2018Oh, I just have no idea what I\u2019d work on with a coach.\u2019 That will tell you pretty quickly which area is not so hot.<\/p>\n<p>Client: Yeah.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>David: Then you can work with them on creating a goal. Now a lot of people can tell you what they don\u2019t want. Part of your job is to spin it around. Haven them tell you what they do want that could replace that. So, no negative goals &#8211; no, \u2018Oh, I want to get rid of my partner, or my relationship.\u2019 You want to turn that around\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an excerpt from Top Coaching Techniques. Instead of floundering around, you\u2019re actually working on some exciting, inspiring goals. So, you start with what do you want, and help them. Some questions you can ask that might help elicit that are things like, \u2018What\u2019s one thing you\u2019d love to change?\u2019 \u2018Is there anything [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[159],"tags":[188,41,160],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1346,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions\/1346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}