{"id":1894,"date":"2012-12-23T12:00:42","date_gmt":"2012-12-23T18:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/?p=1894"},"modified":"2012-02-08T15:01:48","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T21:01:48","slug":"ginger-cockerham-on-practice-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/ginger-cockerham-on-practice-building\/","title":{"rendered":"Ginger Cockerham on Practice Building"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following is taken from David’s interview with Ginger Cockerham in\u00a010 Super Coaches<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What was most disheartening for you while building your practice?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Why give up a lucrative business before I am sure I can be a successful coach? Giving up a business that was successful but stressful and transitioning to coaching full time was a HUGE decision for me. If felt like jumping off a cliff and hoping the parachute would open. It was necessary to make that choice to have the time and commitment to coaching \u2013 but it was very scary.<\/p>\n

One morning I got up and spent the entire day coaching \u2013 doing what I loved and being on my life mission and I realized that it was worth stepping through the fear. In addition, I have had fabulous senior mentor coaches in the 8 \u00bd years I have been coaching. It was with the support and encouragement of a coach who was ahead of me on the journey that gave me that courage \u2013 I was not stepping out alone.<\/p>\n

The second block was the plateauing. In the first two years, I built my client base to 10 or 12 clients consistently but I could not get past that number. It was then I read the anonymous quote \u2013 \u201cIf you can do it yourself, it\u2019s not a big enough dream\u201d \u2013 so I started building and increasing my network so that referrals come regularly from clients, from networking groups, for alliances, from other coaches, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following is taken from David’s interview with Ginger Cockerham in\u00a010 Super Coaches. What was most disheartening for you while building your practice? Why give up a lucrative business before I am sure I can be a successful coach? Giving up a business that was successful but stressful and transitioning to coaching full time was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[123],"tags":[144,122,59,137],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t