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How To Become A Life Coach + 56 Coaching Niches

So you want to become a life coach?

Not too many years ago, the term “coach” referred to the person encouraging you to run faster or throw further on a sports field.

Today if someone says, “I'm working with a coach,” they've likely hired someone to help them facilitate change and reach their goals. As a certified life coach myself and someone who has had a coach, I can attest to the powerful benefits of coaching.

Whatever you want to achieve, coaching helps you real your goals faster, with more clarity and confidence.

If you have toyed with the idea of becoming a life coach, you're considering a profession that truly changes lives for the better.

Whether you work with individuals or in a business setting, you'll help people become more capable and resourceful and enjoy more satisfaction in all areas of their lives.

57 Uplifting Compassion Quotes

by Barrie Davenport

woman jumping up Uplifting compassion quotes

You don’t understand the importance of compassion until someone treats you with the opposite — when someone sees you only as someone deserving of judgment and contempt.

We all fail. We all need to receive compassion — at least from the people we trust.

And we all need to practice compassion in order to grow and to help others do the same.

The 57 compassion quotes in this post can help you to both give and receive compassion with grace and gratitude.

21 Creative Hobbies To Try No Matter What Your Mood Is

by Barrie Davenport

When the stress of getting things done, meeting expectations (and deadlines), and planning for the next ones gets to be too much, few things restore a sense of relaxed well-being like time spent with creative hobbies.

To that end, we’ve curated a list of creative hobby ideas for you to try, no matter what your current mood is or how many demands you have on your time.

Many of the hobbies listed here have a way of giving you more time to breathe and to enjoy your creative gifts and potential.

A few of them can even turn into a side business, but they don’t have to.

From artistic hobbies to hobbies that unify and restore your entire body and mind, you’ll find something here to make your every day (or every week) more fun.

The Ultimate Self-Care Checklist Of 101 Soothing Actions in 2021

by Barrie Davenport

When life is stressful and resources are dwindling, it’s all too easy to justify ditching self-care in order to whittle down your to-do list.

But what about your self-care list?

If you don’t have one, I can pretend to be shocked, but I probably won’t pull it off convincingly.

Most of us cheat a little (or a lot) on self-care when we’re stressed.

But, ironically, that’s when you need it most.

No matter how busy your life gets, you need a daily self-care checklist to stay on the right track without sacrificing your health and well-being.

Use our ultimate self-care checklist to create one that fits your life and makes it better.

Simplify Happiness: 50 Easy Actions for Joyful Living

by Barrie Davenport

Are you waiting for happiness?

Do you think you will find it when you make a certain amount of money, or achieve something big, or maybe find the perfect relationship?

Happiness is at hand right now.

It's right in front of you, but sometimes we miss it because we are so busy looking for it.

If you have attained some of those big things in life that you felt would bring you happiness, you might have found it — temporarily.

Have you noticed how once you get what you want, it's wonderful for a while?

But then you want something else, something bigger or better.

You grow bored with the new thing or accomplishment.

It takes a lot of hard work and stress and worry to secure your happiness goals. And then, after all that work, the happiness begins to dissipate.

What if you didn't have to work so hard for it? What if there were a simpler way to be happy?