{"id":1849,"date":"2012-12-04T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T18:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/?p=1849"},"modified":"2012-02-08T13:28:33","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T19:28:33","slug":"work-on-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/work-on-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Work on Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Excellence in coaching comes down to excellence in the coach.<\/p>\n<p>If you pursue excellence in your own life, you will expect it for your clients.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re willing to pick up the phone and call someone you\u2019re terrified to talk to, you\u2019ll then be a stand for your client to do the same. When\u00a0you are honest in all your relationships, you\u2019ll expect your client to tell the truth. If you\u2019re looking after yourself, you\u2019ll be firmer with a client who is letting their body go.<\/p>\n<p>When you are out of integrity or living way below your vision of yourself, your self-assurance drops. Conversely, living a life of excellence will give you confidence as a coach, and potential clients will feel it. Every time you make choices that bring you closer to who you want to be, you gain confidence. And confident coaches will ask more of their clients.<\/p>\n<p>Work on yourself as much as you work on your business. Don\u2019t just take business classes or coaching teleseminars, take personal growth seminars, read as much as you can, listen to motivational tapes, grow in your relationships, challenge yourself. Know yourself and know your issues, so you continue to grow. Track down Paul Lowe, David Deida, the Human Awareness Institute, Landmark Education, Byron Katie, Tony Robbins \u2013 find your \u2018gurus\u2019 and learn from them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excellence in coaching comes down to excellence in the coach. If you pursue excellence in your own life, you will expect it for your clients. If you\u2019re willing to pick up the phone and call someone you\u2019re terrified to talk to, you\u2019ll then be a stand for your client to do the same. When\u00a0you are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[286,349,59],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849"}],"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=1849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1850,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1849\/revisions\/1850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}