Discover what life coaching is all about!

Athletes have been using sports coaches and personal trainers for years to greatly improve their performance. Michael Jordan had a “shooting” coach (among the other 5 coaches he used) to win 6 championship rings and untold MVP awards. Tiger Woods used a “swing” coach before he won the four consecutive major golf tournaments. Yes, they were good, but they became great winners because of individual coaching.

The life coaching process is not limited to athletics or personal training. The life coaching process will assist you to achieve a vast array of goals in the personal, business, work, and family areas of your life.

Here are just some of the topics covered on this page:

What is life coaching?

The coaching process is the only human improvement process that focuses completely on YOU! Coaches are equal partners who assist you to

improve and grow as a person as the means to achieve your goals. Coaches assist you to become the “World’s Leading Expert on YOU!” Coaches also assist you to execute the actions necessary to achieve your goals. You will have virtual control over the results you achieve through coaching, because you set the coaching goals, and the coaching process assures that you will achieve them.

Why hire a life coach?

You hire a coach to achieve your personal, spiritual, family and business Coachable Goals, much more effectively, more efficiently, more completely, with more fun, and in less time than any other human improvement process. Coaches assist you to: overcome obstacles and fears, focus on solutions, have someone to bounce ideas off, no matter how silly they may seem, discover truths about you, and how you can improve, accomplish more than you thought possible, and achieve balance in your personal, work and family lives. Your coach will UNLEASH YOU, to become the person you always wanted to be and were capable of becoming.

How does life coaching work for you?

Typically you interact with your coach over the phone. You and your coach will develop an ongoing partnership, based upon trust. Your coach will focus his or her full energy and attention on you achieving your goals. Your coach will become the totally objective, nonjudgmental, supportive mirror into whom you really are and what you really want to do. Your coach will provide life options, new perspectives, encouragement, and concentrated attention to give you the insight, and confidence to take life-improving actions towards your goals. Your coach will assist you to identify your self-imposed obstacles and further assist you to overcome them to reach your goals.

How to get the most from life coaching

The coaching process works exceptionally well at assisting you to improve your life, business, relationships and your work. But like anything else, coaching works best under the right conditions. You will want to make sure the following Four Key Conditions are met before you engage a coach, whether you use The Coach Connection or not. These conditions are universal. Just like you will want to go snow skiing in Colorado in February, versus in Miami in June.

The Four Key Conditions to reap the most rewards from Coaching are:

You have at least one Coachable Goal that is best achieved through life coaching
You are ready to get the most from coaching
You are matched with a coach who is ideal for you
Your coach has considerable experience and a strong desire to coach YOU to your best

What do life coaches charge – in general?

Life coaches, and business coaches in general chare excessively high fees and charge all over the map for their services. It has been reported that the average coach (including over 60% who are rookie coaches) charges $187 per hour. Unfortunately, over 50% of the life coaching web sites dot NOT reveal their pricing structures, on purpose. They are taught to talk to discover payment capabilities from potential clients first before discussing prices. Not a good way to start a supposedly “trusting” relationship. You can reduce your costs by purchasing a bundle of sessions with your coach. Even with bundled session discounts, the prices for one on one individual telephone coaching will run between $300 US to $2,000 US for three (3) to five (5) coaching sessions per period. Specialized executive and corporate coaching will exceed $3,000 per periods for up to 8 coaching sessions and 24/7 hour on call availability. Coaching Programs named after well know people (Tony Robbins, Steven Covey, Jack Canfield for example) normally entail long term contracts from 6 months to a year exceeding prices of over $15,000, and having to deal with commissioned salespeople.

Compare to life coaching fees through TCC

Initial Money-Back Guarantee Coaching Period-a flat $389 for a minimum of Six (6) sessions. (One each with a minimum of three personally matched coaches and three more with the coach of your choice) You may ask for and you will receive your full money back anytime during your Initial Money-Back Guarantee Period.

Second and subsequent coaching periods prices range from $300 to $475 for three (3) to four (4) sessions. Includes short between session calls and unlimited e-mail support at no extra cost. You are not on the clock. You decide to continue into each cycle, on a cycle-by-cycle basis, until you feel you have succeeded in achieving your coachable goals. There are no contracts to confine you.

TCC represents you. TCC provides you special Price Protection because TCC Regulates the prices of our Member Coaches by insisting that the prices charged to you, OUR CLIENT, are not one penny more than what they charge others (no mark ups allowed). Price checks have revealed that approximately 35% of TCC Member Coaches charge TCC clients less than they charge others, because they know they will be matched with their ideal clients.

What is the best way to compare prices for life coaches?

The prices charged by coaches will NOT be an indicator of the quality of coaching they will provide you. You will not necessarily receive higher quality coaching from coaches who charge more or lesser quality coaching from coaches who charge less. Selecting a coach based upon their ideal match up with you is far more effective than using price to pick a coach. Try to avoid coaching contracts, especially for periods over 30 days. They are written to protect the coach at your expense. In fact, The Tony Robbins coaching contract “absolves Robbins of any salespeople claims or promises, any advertising and/or any prior representations.” Neat Robbins’ advertising and sales people can promise and claim anything to get you to sign the contract and do not have to deliver.

How long should you expect the life coaching process to last?

Normally, you can expect to achieve your coaching goals within 4 to 6 months, when you connect with your true ideal coach. (A cycle normally takes about one month to complete) We have found that it takes 12 to 16 months if you are not matched with your ideal coach. However, the more accurate length of time will depend a lot on you. How fast you take to coaching, how quickly you take the actions you and your coach discover to be necessary to achieve your goals, and the nature of your goals will impact how long coaching will take to achieve your goals.

How will you know when it is time to stop life coaching?

You will want to stop coaching when you have achieved your coaching goals. However, many people continue the coaching process to achieve new coaching goals, or to continue a reminder or maintenance program.

When is the best time to spend money for life coaching?

You only want to engage the services of a coach, if IT WILL NOT CREATE A FINANCIAL STRAIN on you. Being able to invest in yourself without the burden of serious financial constraints is critical to allowing you to focus on the most important thing in your life: YOU! You will want to budget for, at least, six coaching cycles to allow you to reap the full benefits from coaching with your ideal TCC Member Coach. Luckily, this is much less than having to budget for ten to fifteen cycles elsewhere.

Why is life coaching worth so much?

The value of the goals you achieve will greatly exceed what you pay for coaching. You set your coaching goals and you will surely set goals that are the most valuable and important to you. In fact, coaching clients have found that the value of the goals they achieve through coaching are inevitably priceless.

There are also other, more hidden benefits of coaching that are frequently worth more than the value of the goals achieved. The benefits from improving as a person to achieve your coaching goals are frequently priceless. Getting your ideal income position (A very common coaching goal), will frequently entail reducing or eliminating your life stresses, improving your attitude about life, improving your relationships with others, etc.

Your Expected Return On Investment (ROI) from life coaching

Studies have shown that the Return On Investment (ROI) that you can expect from being coached exceeds 500%. Which means you will receive five (5) times more out of being coached than you paid to be coached.

This 500% ROI probably sounds much too good to be true. It is supported by the in-depth study on the ROI of coaching, and you can read it for yourself. Even if you only receive half the ROI, as reported, you will achieve a great Return. Paying for a Coach is an Investment in You! Your Growth! Your Improvement! Your Life Balance! Your Happiness! Your Health! Your Advancement! Your Career Improvement! Your Sales Improvement! You determine your own coachable goals and set the values of achieving them. We want and expect you to set very valuable and worthwhile goals (To you).

Why is it vital that you have at least one Coachable Goal?

The reason you hire a coach in the first place is to achieve your Coachable Goals. You must have at least one coachable goal that is best achieved through coaching, to benefit from coaching.

How will you know if you have coachable goals?

A “coachable goal” is a future place you want to be as a person that requires you to grow or improve as a person to reach it. Coachable goals always involve moving forward in your life and refrain from reviewing to past to overcome past events.

Some examples of coachable goals are:

Discover and obtain your “Ideal Income Position”,
Convert Your Motherhood into a new and enjoyable career,
Become a successful “First Time Manager”,
Become a more Productive and Successful Business Owner,
and much much more!

Why is it vital that your life coach be ideal for you?

You will achieve your goals quicker, with more fun, with less cost, more smoothly, and more effectively with a coach who is ideal for you. The coaching process is based on trust. You will want to select that special coach whom you trust and enjoy enough to develop a very close and trusting relationship.

How will you know when you have found your ideal life coach?

You will know you have found your ideal coach when:

You feel a very strong mutual trust with your coach
You feel a very strong mutual care and respect with your coach
You feel the power of the full attention and energies from your coach
You feel the confidence and experience of your coach to guide you to your goals
You know that your coach chose to specialize in coaching you as their ideal client before he or she met you. How do you know if you are ready to be coached?

What is the “Gift of Coaching?”

Coaches have the “Gift of Coaching” when they naturally care more about others than themselves. Coaches with the “gift” place the success of their clients first and completely, because their ego, their intuition, their passions, and their personal values revolve around assisting others. Coaches with the “gift” are “you” focused and are rarely “I” centered.

How is life coaching different from consulting?

Consultants are recognized experts in their fields, who either sell their expert advice or perform their expert actions (or both) to complete a task on behalf of their clients. Consultants are hired to solve problems. With consulting, you have considerable control over the process and virtually no control over the results. Consultants normally seek and take credit or acclaim for work done or achievements. Consultants must maintain their superior (expert) position and rarely form a close relationship with their clients. Consultants rarely affect the personal improvement of their clients.

Coaches focus on you (the client) to achieve your chosen coaching goals. Life coaches are equal partners who assist you to improve and grow as a person as the means to achieve your goals. Life coaches assist you to become the world’s leading expert on you and take the actions necessary to achieve your goals. You will have total control over the results you achieve through coaching, but little, if any control over the process. All of the credit and acclaim for results achieved is directed to you, and not the coaches. You will form a strong confidential bond with your coach.

How is life coaching different from therapy?

The therapy process focuses on helping clients overcome past problems that impede their ability to function in a normal day to day manner. Therapists direct their clients to revisit past events to discover and resolve conflicting issues that have burdened them. Therapists are experts in their field. Therapists are not equal partners. Therapists and their clients frequently form a very strong confidential bond.

The coaching process focuses on you (The client) achieving your chosen future coaching goals. Coaches are equal partners who assist you to improve and grow as a person as the means to achieve your goals. Coaches assist you to become the world’s leading expert on your and take the actions necessary to achieve your goals. You will have control over the results you achieve through coaching. You will form a strong confidential bond with your coach.

How is career coaching different from career counseling?

Career counselors help their clients to get a job. Career counselors might repackage clients to appear more desirable for their job interviews. Career counselors do not help clients to become business owners or independent contractors. Career counselors are mostly loyal to whoever pays them, and rarely form a strong bond with their clients.

Career coaches assist their clients to discover their “ideal income position” or career. With their ideal career, clients will be able to “Go to Play” every day because they are doing what they love and excel at. Career coaches then assist their clients to get their ideal position or career, which may include becoming a business owner, an independent contractor, or an employee. Career coaches are totally loyal to their clients, and form a strong confidential bond

How is life coaching different from training?

The training process focuses on teaching you (The client) how to perform something. Trainers are experts in their fields and teach you various processes, methods, and or skills, to do something in a predetermined manner. Trainers do not focus on you improving as a person. Trainers only focus on teaching you a particular process. Trainers and their clients generally form a loose teacher-student relationship that is not close and is not held confidential. With training, you are instructed what to do and how to do it. You have little control over the process or outcome.