And how do I become one? They seem to make lots of money or so I've been hearing!
2006-10-08 10:52:37 · 9 answers · asked by Purple 3 in Business & Finance ➔ Careers & Employment
A life coach is someone with the wisdom to direct an individual to seeing the more positive aspects of themselves and to attempt to organise an individual onto a path of guidance which will enable them to reach there true potential.
Most life coaches train as counsellors or psycho therapists or hypnotists or dieticians and nutritionalists There is no set guidelines on what a qualified life coach is likely to need in the same way as so many other alternative practitioners of the many therapeutic routes to achievement or good mental health.
In days of yore a life coach would merely be someone whose opinion you value and seek. Take kindly the counsel of the years, to become a life coach age could well be a barrier the majority will be well over 40 experienced in the world of work, careers, family life, education, and content to make a modest living..
Most life coachs have a serious interest in helping people and it can become a full time job plus with no real financial gain.
Think long and hard before engaging in this type of career for yourself. Ask yourself am I old enough to have gained enough worldly experience? Do I know of how to find correct information if details are required? Please note if you give employment contract information or careers guidance without a license you are commiting an offence.
Seek advice first and think again before you label yourself a life coach. Some are members of institutions with a list of qualifications as long as your arm others are not. But if the industry decided to seek legislation to regulate itself would you still want to become a life coach?
Reality TV has given the viewer a bad representation of the life coach, sadly bullshit TV does this with everyone.
2006-10-08 12:22:41 · answer #1 · answered by Nosey parker 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
In the cases where adoption is really needed and the birth mother really knows she cannot provide for her child, the following are things that adoptive parents may be able to offer a child that a birth mother cannot: a stable home with parents emotionally prepared to parent (hopefully, not that all adoptive parents are), a home that is safe, parents with a support system, parents with enough money to provide the necessities for a child (some birth parents truly do not have money to support a child, and I'm not talking about a pottery barn nursery), parents who do not have substance abuse problems (I'm NOT saying all birthmothers have substance abuse problems, I'm saying this is one thing that could be a factor). I guess I could go on. Of course, no adoptive parents can offer a life without the wound of being separated from their biological mother. I guess each birth mother must evaluate in her individual circumstances whether the things she is not able to provide for her child add up to more than that wound. I truly believe that sometimes they do and adoption is the best thing for the child. I also believe that there are many times the things the birthmother cannot provide do NOT add up to being enough to justify the loss of separation, but she is pressured, or coerced into thinking that it is. I know some view infant adoption as wrong in every case (or almost every case) and some view it as the best thing almost always. I can't say either. I don't think it's that black and white.
2016-03-18 06:36:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A life-coach is basically a bull shitter. They act somewhat like psychologist, but they have no actual training. What they do is help direct people's lives, at a nominal fee, of couse. They tell people what they should do to make thier lives better. In the process, these numbskulls who go to see "life-coaches" get addicted to someone else solving thier petty problems, and so the life-coach continues to rake in the dough from the retards who visit them.
2006-10-08 11:10:54 · answer #3 · answered by Gabe R 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Somebody - usually for an older woman a younger man - who takes money for telling them how to run their life in much the same way as they've always done only this time for money in the vain hopes that it will make them feel better and even more, LOOK better in the eyes of their friends. Otherwise known as a professional bullshitter.
2006-10-08 11:49:50 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A "life coach" is a professional a-- kicker.
2006-10-08 10:58:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A modern name for an unqualified counsellor. I would take a course in counselling. There is an introduction course, then a year to get a certificate in counselling and another year for the diploma.
2006-10-08 11:08:32 · answer #6 · answered by Mike10613 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They make loads of cash by telling people how to make their lives better. There is no recognisable qualification required so anyone could do it. It is really for the bored rich as most of us rely on friends and sites like this to keep us sane.
2006-10-08 11:03:07 · answer #7 · answered by helen p 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Someone who takes all your money and then tells you that you need to take control of your life!!
2006-10-08 11:00:04 · answer #8 · answered by Jude 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Parents" are the 'real' life coaches. So this is how you become one. 1st, you get pregnant, 2nd you get..........not much money though!
2006-10-08 10:55:46 · answer #9 · answered by Legend 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋