Coaching
Coaching and its merits
Was in my car, driving to a client, (about six hours away), with a friend's friend sitting in the passenger seat. She was a struggling artist - no, not one that paints, but, one that writes; and she writes plays - musicals.
So, we were talking about what she was working on lately, and of course, I started thinking about how she should market it, get it into the mainstream, become noticed, so that she can get her plays on Broadway (or even off-Broadway).
After she told me how the "business" is done in her field and what it takes to get noticed, I jumped in a completely different direction on how she can get noticed. For those of you who know me, you know how I think - differently then most people out there. Well, I guess I kind of blew her away with how I would get my plays noticed, because that is all we could talk about the rest of the trip.
After awhile, she said that I should do this for a living - lol - and that I should go and meet with people and help them solve their problems. Which I informed her that there are people who do that, called Life Coaches; from personal lives to business to financial, there is a "coach" for anyone out there and that it is a growing market for this type of person.
So, I am now going through the delimma of should I start a Life Coaching business. My sister told me a year ago to start doing this after she observed me at one of her dinner parties helping some friends of hers - which, to me, is not helping, but, just common sense on what to do to be more successful, personally and financially.
Should I or shouldn't I? To me, this is just basic thinking - to continue to go out with that boyfriend or to grow the business in a new way or to invest in gold or whatever. But, whenever I have a chance to talk to people, we always zero in on what is troublesome in their lives and then I suggest new or better or different ways on how to approach it - without damaging the "self" or doing something morally or ethically wrong.
So, if one day you happen to be surfing the net and see a website with my name on it as a Life Coach, then you will know that I started this business and am pursuing the opportunity to help people become better (at whatever they need to become better at).