3 signs you need a business Coach

Picture this...you've started working on the next chapter of your life or your business and you don't know where to go next. You've tried making to-do lists, have a hard time sticking to them, and struggle to see the progress you're making toward your goals. Are you making progress toward your goals? You may need someone from the outside looking in to encourage you, see you, and empower you to take the next steps

Iron sharpens iron.

You know when you want to get better, you have to have a coach. When you want to get to a point in your growth when you’ve accepted there’s more work to do, you have to have a team. Multiple mentors, a therapist, and multiple coaches. 

Here’s the top 3 signs you are ready for a coach.

Sign 1. You feel out of alignment. 

You feel scattered and not sure of your path. You have a lot of brain fog and a lot of uncertainty in your next steps in life. Take athletes, for instance. Sometimes athletes don’t have a goal. They don’t have a plan. They don’t know how to eat properly. Most of these people who are ready for a coach are also on the journey of self-discovery. 

I work with a lot of creatives as well. Creatives spend a great amount of time learning. You might know you want to learn more and do more. 

You might be saying to yourself, “I know I have to build something, but I’d rather build something with somebody.”

Sign 2. You’re super driven and you need support and accountability.

You’re doing all the work and you want to level up and you know that the level up is the coach.

Take any singer, for instance; they start singing in the shower then they start singing in school. Next thing you know, they’re on American Idol, and want to be a recording artist. They’re going to get a mindset coach and a vocal coach. 

If you’re like this singer, you’ve worked so hard to get where you are and you know the next step is to get a coach. These people go out and seek a coach. They are more transparent about what they want. They can tell their Coach, without fear of judgment, each step they took (or didn’t take), what they accomplished, and what goals they want to be able to hit by when.

If you’re this person, you just need consistency—you need to be reminded that you can do it, when all else fails and you are unsure you are able to make the next step. Thats the hardest part of coaching.

Sign 3. You are at rock effin’ bottom and you need more support than just therapy. 

When that rock bottom hits you need all the support you can get. It takes surrendering that you can’t figure it out by yourself. 

An honest response from rock bottom sounds like, “I simply don’t know what to do.”

Someone here is in a hole. They’re in therapy. They know they have a mountain of things to do, and just need a hand.

These people want to master their purpose, and in order to do that you have to be able to receive, and accept, critical feedback. 

Often times when you go to therapy they don’t give you critical feedback. They make you dig deep. And this is important work too. You should love the introspective journey you have in therapy, to dig up the stuff you need to dig up to get better. 

From therapy, you have this new soil. Now you get a coach to see the ground again and begin to grow something new. Clients I see in this position often ask themselves, “Now that I’ve left the construct of corporate America, what can I do on my own?”

Therapy helps you learn about yourself. Coaching helps you learn about your potential and what you can do when you know everything about yourself. 

Therapy allows you to forgive yourself in a way, for not knowing what got you here. Coaching helps you change the trajectory. 

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The commonality is that all three of these people realize they don’t have it all figured out. Most authentic coaches are invested in every one of their clients. A master coach has to master clients, and never, ever give up on their client.  And, most importantly, to not let them give up on themselves. Coaches hold you accountable to take the next steps to better yourself in your life and in your career.

Coaching creates clarity.

Great coaching doesn’t require a specific prompt, it’s really about figuring out what’s true for you. 

It helps you see how you’re standing too close to your comfort zone. As humans, we are designed to operate in comfort, not clarity. We make decisions based on comfort not clarity. 

For instance, I’m comfortable where I’m at so I’m not going to move in another direction until I get all the information.

Coaching teaches us about letting go of perfection and control. That’s where you get the greatest clarity; you’re not perfect, you’re never going to be perfect. Your job is to enjoy the journey. Coaching gives you the additional clarity you need outside of yourself. 

I never believed I could hit a home run until I did it. It was all the little details: slow down, drop your elbows, turn your hips, exhale. 

The same goes for your career and your life goals.  When the coach is able to challenge you because they know you can do it, that’s when the clarity and confidence set in.

You might be asking yourself, “What transformations will happen if I invest in coaching?” 

The simple answer is, you write the best chapter of your life. 

You become the person that you want to be. You accomplish the goal you want to accomplish. You find the clarity that you need. You find the passion again. You find love. You find purpose. 

What does purpose mean to you? 

You find that in coaching. Mine is to impact one person every day. Looking at life through that lens, I get to be a character in everyone’s life. People come to a coach to be better in every facet of their lives, whether it be spiritually, mentally, emotionally, career-wise, or simply as a greater human in society.

The foundation for aligning yourself with your goals is the vision, the truth, and the purpose. ​Truth is what keeps you moving forward. ​Then you have to understand the vision. Vision is the victory that lifts you back up. ​Purpose is the gift that you receive. Your purpose is ‘why are you doing what you’re doing?’ 

It’s time to raise your frequency-it’s the spiritual side that comes with coaching. It’s quantum physics. It’s the truest form of inter peace. In order to elevate to that level of mind, body, spirit, you have to align with your purpose your vision and your truth.

Melody Beattie says “It’s not what we don’t know that hurts us, people say. It’s what we believe is true that isn’t that does the damage.”

If you're starting to think that having a coach might be the next step in your personal or professional future, click the link here to book your FREE Discovery Call.