How to Find the Perfect Life Coach

Where are you in life? Do you want to reach a new level of success, but you’re not sure how to proceed? Have you been wondering how to find a life coach? Maybe you know you need a major change, but feel paralyzed by indecision. No matter your goals, working 1-on-1 with a professional coach can help. With a coach by your side, you’ll stay focused and accountable to the goals you set. The best life coaches can teach you proven strategies and tools that turn your dreams into reality.

HOW TO FIND A LIFE COACH THAT ELEVATES YOUR LIFE

“If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want, copy what they do and you’ll achieve the same results.” – Tony Robbins

Life coaching – what we call Results Coaching – can be an incredibly powerful tool for achieving your most important goals. The best life coaches become mentors and guides, helping you through life’s challenges and strengthening your mindset so you can achieve anything you set your mind to.

The challenge in knowing how to find a life coach is filtering out all the noise. To find a life coach that can change your life, you need to cut through the noise by first understanding the shared attributes of the most successful life coaches. When you know what to look for, you can quickly find the best life coaches that will help you achieve your goals and live the life of your dreams.

KEY ATTRIBUTES OF SUCCESSFUL LIFE COACHES

When you search for the right life coach, knowing what to look for can be tricky – especially if it’s your first time working with a coach. So, one of the best strategies is to know the attributes that make a great coach. That way, you know exactly what to look for when approaching potential life coaches. With Tony Robbins having pioneered the life coaching industry, you can be confident these qualities, distilled from his extensive experience, will serve as a valuable benchmark in finding the right life coach for you.

GREAT COACHES HAVE STRONG RAPPORT AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS
When searching for a life coach, look for someone who asks meaningful questions that make you think about things from a fresh perspective. Ideally, the coach makes you comfortable enough for you to open up about your goals and desires. This requires you to be honest and for the coach to have strong rapport skills, such as adapting to your communication style.

Communication also goes beyond talking – it’s about listening deeply. Life coaching is about you, your goals or outcomes, and your path toward making them a reality. The top life coaches are always ready to listen so they can truly understand you. They will make eye contact, provide nonverbal affirmations and follow up with insightful questions that show they were listening carefully.

Strong rapport is critical, but it’s also worth remembering the real value of a coach goes beyond an engaging conversation – it involves genuine accountability. They are not there to hand you all the answers, but rather help you explore your problems so you can find the solutions within yourself. After all, you won’t gain much “personal” growth if all the answers come from an external source. Plus, the solutions are more relevant and personal when they come from within. As a result, this leads to both more fulfillment and more confidence in your ability to turn your dreams into reality.

GREAT COACHES SEE THINGS AS THEY ARE
Great coaches are honest and see things as they are – not worse than they are and not better either. If reality is distorted through either an overly pessimistic or optimistic lens, it will be more difficult to reach your goals. Seeing things as they are includes understanding where you are in your journey – your current strengths, your current goals, and your current beliefs about who you are and what you believe is possible. Coaches are realistic in a non-judgmental manner and willing to call you out in a gentle yet honest way if they see you impede your own progress. A successful life coach walks the line between being a trusted confidant and professional consultant. They nudge you outside your comfort zone to where real growth happens and can only do that by seeing things as they are.

GREAT COACHES KEEP YOU ACCOUNTABLE

Since a great coach sees things as they are, that means they have an accurate view of how you’re progressing toward your goals. This makes it much easier to keep you accountable because it prevents your brain from distorting reality while also giving you an honest assessment of whether you met your goal. If you meet your goal, your coach can help you celebrate and build upon your success. If you don’t, then it’s a valuable opportunity to learn, grow, and adjust your approach until you succeed. Over time, this accountability coaching helps you develop a growth mindset and you’ll realize how many incredible things you’re truly capable of.No matter your specific journey, a great life coach can shed light on where you are, how you’re progressing, and what remains for you to get where you want to be in life. These invaluable reminders provide accountability, opportunities to grow, and a path to living an extraordinary quality of life.

GREAT COACHES HAVE VISION
A great coach also has vision. They can see things better than they are, helping you identify a compelling future. A future where you live life on your terms. A future that YOU want to create. When this future vision of your life is compelling, setting goals becomes easy and you’ll feel driven to make it real.

Like a great leader, a great coach inspires you to not just see this compelling future as possible but that you’re capable of making it real. One way they can do this is by recommending a roadmap that takes you from where you are now to where you want to be. When you visualize your future with enough detail and emotion, the brain experiences it as real and finds a way to make it happen.

If you’re committed, there is always a way. – Tony Robbins

GREAT COACHES UNDERSTAND STRATEGY

The greatest coaches know that transforming a vision into reality requires strategy – like making incremental changes that amounts to radical results. They realize that the best strategy is not always about the available resources – it’s about being resourceful. How do you maximize the resources that are available to achieve your goals? Resources like creativity, courage, faith, and determination can all play a critical role in designing a strategy for success. Tony Robbins Results Coaches understand this at a deep level and also have access to the same strategies that Tony Robbins has used for decades to coach both top performers and millions of others around the world to change their lives.

“The right life coach can help you reach and even exceed your biggest dreams and goals” -Tony Robbins

FINDING THE RIGHT LIFE COACHING SYSTEM FOR YOU

Different life coaches use different systems, or methods, to help you meet the outcomes that matter most to you. Once you find a life coach, you’ll also need to consider the specific coaching system they use. Here are a few tips on what to look for in finding a coaching system that’s right for you:

Look for proven success. The most successful life coaching systems have a strong track record that gets you results and stands the test of time. For instance, all of Tony Robbins’ Results Coaches receive over 250 hours of training on the very same coaching system Tony has refined over four and a half decades of experience. This Results Coaching system has transformed millions of lives around the world and uses proven strategies for success that he learned by modeling his mentors and several other highly successful people he’s met over the years. Working with a proven system gives you confidence in the effectiveness of the coaching methods, and equips you with the psychology of success that brings you to where you want to be in the fastest way possible.
Focus on the specialty of coaching. Every person has a different area of life they want to improve. Maybe you’re trying to revive the passion in your relationship with your partner or maybe you’re looking for help on improving your personal finances. While the specific areas of improvement may differ, the formula and strategies for success stay the same. This is why Tony Robbins has been able to successfully coach people in a diverse range of fields ranging from politics and business to sports and relationships. When the system focuses coaching skills instead of a specific niche, it allows the coach to be more effective and efficient while also widening the scope of what they can help you achieve.
Perspective. You want a coaching system that produces a different perspective than your current one. It should help you see your life from a different point of view – one that challenges you and one where you have the right strategies to transform your life. The best life coaches are the ones who help you change your mindset and see new possibilities for improving all areas of your life.

BECOMING RESOURCEFUL WITH INTERACTIVE TOOLS TO FIND YOUR IDEAL COACH

If you never had a coach before, getting started can be a challenge. How do you know where to start your search? Which area of life do you focus on first when meeting potential coaches? Are there any free resources to prepare ahead of time before making the call? The great news is that there’s a wealth of resources that can equip you with more than you need to find the right life coach and prepare.

One of the most powerful free resources is the Wheel of Life tool that Tony Robbins designed for you to take an objective look at your life. It’s designed to help close the gap between where you are and where you want to be by getting clear on exactly where you are. One of the best parts is that it covers all major areas of life.

On the other hand, ff you prefer talking things out first, you may want to start by simply scheduling calls to meet potential life coaches. Whether you use interactive tools to prepare or jump straight to scheduling calls, the most informative way to find the perfect coach is by meeting them.

MEETING WITH YOUR POTENTIAL LIFE COACH

Perhaps the most valuable resource to keep in mind is an introductory call with a potential life coach. Most life coaches offer a complimentary consultation for you to see if the life coach is a good fit. This initial session can be incredibly helpful in finding the right coach because it offers an opportunity to learn more about the coaches and lets you evaluate their coaching system.

DECIDING YOUR GOALS

One of the first things a life coach will dive into is a conversation where you start getting clear on your goals. It might involve talking about your values, why you want to achieve your goals, or simple questions to get to know you better. They may even provide you with a questionnaire to fill out beforehand. Some example questions they might ask are: