Your Career As a Life Coach

Ok, I’m going to help you in your quest for a career as a life coach by offering you answers to some of the questions you will be asked by friends and family as you announce to them that you will be pursuing a career as a life coach.

The first question will likely be “What is a life coach?” which is a completely natural question. Your answer should be along the lines of that a life coach is a mentor that helps people focus on their goals and achieve them. It’s important that you make it clear you are not a therapist. As a life coach you’re more like a guide and you simply want to help people find the path to their own success.

The next question will be “Are you serious?” Yes, you say, of course you are serious. You have carefully chosen a career as a life coach from all of the other careers listed on the back of the matchbook from that motel you stayed in last week.

Then, they’ll ask you the inevitable “Are you nuts?” You might as well get used to this now, because in choosing a career as a life coach you will face this question regularly. The correct way to answer is to make some sort of direct comparison between the person’s parents and the zoo animal of your choice. From that point on the really intelligent dialogue can begin.

So, do you still want a career as a life coach?

Well, aren’t you the persistent one? The next question you should be prepared for in your career as a life coach is “You get paid to do this?” Your answer needs to be created by using carefully chosen words put together in a professional manner that will let the asker know that you most definitely will get paid for being a successful life coach and then you should probably make a follow up comment about the question asker’s sister or brother and the zoo animal of your choice.

Your final question before the asker gives up will more than likely come from your mother and will be along the lines of “Why can’t you get a real job like your brother has?” You simply inform her that being a life coach is important work and that you have an incredible opportunity to have a positive effect on the lives of many people throughout your career as a life coach. Then you should remind your mother that your brother’s job as the janitor at the Elk’s Club hardly constitutes a great career option.

So that is just some of the questions you can expect when you announce your choice of a career as a life coach. We know that you will find your new career fulfilling and exciting, but never forget the life coach’s motto which is “Always get the deposit in cash.”