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In my opinion, successful life coaching is about giving your clients the knowledge and tools that they need to overcome their challenges and create a successful, empowered life. In this article, I have listed seven powerful success secrets that, if applied, can help you create the lifestyle of your dreams.
Secret #1: Empower Your Beliefs
If you could peek inside the minds of the most confident, successful people on the planet, you'll find that they all have a powerful belief system backing them up as they move through the world.
Taking a page from their book, if you truly wish to enjoy a happy, successful life, you should thoroughly examine your own beliefs to make sure they're aligned with your future goals. If they're not, just "fake it till you make it" in the meantime while doing your best to eliminate your limiting negative beliefs.
Secret #2: Create Confidence on Command
Most people have difficulty performing their best in certain situations because they feel that they lack confidence. But what they don't realize is that confidence is nothing more than a state of mind that can be created on command. The following exercise shows you how.
Exercise: (notice how you feel before you begin this exercise) Stand up, close your eyes, and remember a time when you felt totally confident (take a minute or so to do this). Take some time to become fully immersed in that memory, allowing yourself to fully remember what it feels like. Now, open your eyes and take notice of your body posture. Exaggerate it by standing up even taller and pretending that you're the size of a skyscraper.
Allow yourself to breath more forcefully. Do this for thirty seconds, then pick a "power phrase" like, "I'm unstoppable!" and say it over and over in your mind, making that internal voice louder and more forceful with each repetition. Feel a big smile come over your face as you realize that you have the power to pull off anything you can possibly imagine. Notice how this makes you feel.
Secret #3: Saturate Your World With Positivity
Science has proven that the quality of your thoughts can have a tremendous effect on your emotional states as well as your health. Not only that, but you will tend to attract back to you the kind of energy you put out. Because of this, it's a good idea to make sure you are constantly radiating a positive vibe to everyone around you. Focus on creating good feelings for everyone you come into contact with and many new doors will open for you.
Secret #4: Stay Focused Only on What You Desire
Simply put, if you constantly expect things to go wrong, you are increasing the probability that your predictions will come true. If you want to achieve success as quickly as possible, you need to minimize distracting thoughts and place all your focus on moving forward. And while it's a smart idea to prepare for possible setbacks and disappointments, you must never take your eyes of the finish line. This kind of laser-sharp focus ensures that you'll get to your destination as quickly as possible.
Secret #5: Speak to Your Mind in the Language it Understands
Any life coach worth his salt will instruct you to first envision success in your mind, imagining what it looks like, what it sounds like and what it feels like. As you do, you will be communicating to your brain in the language it understands while giving it a signpost to move towards. Never underestimate the power of creative visualization because almost all successful people use it in one form or another.
Secret #6: Learn to Engineer Your Emotions at Will
I can say with absolute conviction that once I decided to take responsibility for my emotions and make sure that I was feeling good 90% of the time, my entire life started to change for the better. Learning to control your emotions will have such a tremendous impact on your future, that you should make it one of your top priorities. In my life coaching practice, I use a variety of methods to make sure my clients are able to master this highly important skill.
One quick way to get started is by learning how to "reverse engineer" positive emotions. For instance, it's no secret that people smile when they feel happy. But not everyone knows that the act of smiling itself can help create the emotions of happiness. Check out the following exercise.
Exercise: (take notice of how you feel before you start this exercise) Think of something that makes you smile (a real, full smile where the skin around your eyes starts to wrinkle a bit). As you find yourself smiling, hold it, and keep your face in the exact same position for at least a minute. It may feel a little awkward to keep it going for more than a few seconds, but persist for the full minute. Afterwards, notice if you feel differently than before.
Most people find that they felt better after holding that smile for a bit. This is because you can "backwards engineer" emotional states by assuming the body positions and breathing styles that are associated with each state. Be sure to use this secret to your advantage.
Secret #7: Form Powerful Alliances
I've never heard of any successful person who made it to the top while isolating themselves from other people. Whether it's advice from a trusted life coach or mentor, new opportunities made possible by influential connections or the support of a great group of friends, the benefits of a strong social network are infinite. Because it's almost impossible to succeed without the help of others, you should be constantly networking with successful, intelligent people. The small time investment will net you big results in the future.
In my opinion, successful life coaching is about giving your clients the knowledge and tools that they need to overcome their challenges and create a successful, empowered life. In this article, I have listed seven powerful success secrets that, if applied, can help you create the lifestyle of your dreams.