Understanding your coaching style is important. Knowing your coaching super power is even more important. My coaching style is fast, intense, blunt, belief slaying, with a heap of love thrown in. My super power is coaching  fast. I can get to the issue and through it faster than most coaches.  Other coaches are more patient. More kind. More empathetic. It doesn't mean they are better or that I am better. Just different. This means we will attract different people, different clients. Great news. I think this is

By Master Coach and Life Coach School Instructor-Meadow DeVor Sometimes it seems that life wants to give you a message. And if you don’t listen, that message gets bigger, stronger, louder.   Well, yesterday was one of those days.    A Rowdy posted one of our workbook questions on our forum, which opened a discussion.    The question: What does the truth mean to you?   Without hesitation I wrote:    The truth means living without apology.   I looked at that sentence for a long time, kind

New coaches want to coach their clients "right" They want to do a good job. They want their clients to be helped. But there really is no "right" way to do coaching, just like there is no "right" way to do life. Coaching is an art. Just like creating a painting, there are tools and skills to make it easier to do, but their is no "right" formula to follow to create a great piece of work. A great piece of work will come from your heart,

So what happens when your client comes to you and they want to lose weight, get a job, get out of debt, find a mate, or run a marathon. And they don't? This might be one of the hardest things for new coaches. And here's why… We want to define our success based on their success. If my client loses weight-then I am a good coach. If my client makes more money-then I am a good coach. If my client gets results-then I am a good coach.

I have a client who wants me to give her permission to quit her job. First of all, she doesn't need my permission to do anything. Second, I don't think she should quit this job she hates. I know this might seem like the opposite of what a life coach would tell their client, but for me it's what I always tell my clients when they are in a hurry to quit a job, marriage, or weight they hate. Your purpose in life is not the job

If you don't already read Meadow DeVor's blog, stop embarrassing yourself and subscribe right now:  www.meadowdevor.com. Here is her latest rockin awesome post:   Thank Goodness That Life Isn't Fair Monday, March 28, 2011 At 09:03AM Last week, one of the Rowdies was having a bit of a pity-party on our private forum. We've all been there. Kind of run down. Tired. Wanting help. Wishing life was different. Easier. The reason why she felt this way, really isn't important. What matters? She was believing the thought "Life isn't fair." I

All of the coaching we do it to increase consciousness and awareness. Most of our clients come to us not fully alive, not aware of their own mind, and in pain. It is our job, as their coaches, to guide them into more awareness. But they might not want to. Or dare I say, they might want to stay in "avoid-ness" They want to eat rather than feel. They want to spend rather than feel. They want to blame rather than feel. They will tell you that