More and more people want to become a life coach or business coach these days.

You too may be caught up in the excitement of how rewarding a career as a coach could be both professionally and financially.  The only problem is you be may be overlooking the realities of what is involved in starting a coaching business.

There are 5 keys areas in understanding the truth about what it takes to become a coach:

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Before you can become a life coach, you need to know what coaching is and where it comes from.

If you’ve looked at various sites on personal or life coaching, you’ve probably noticed that their definitions of coaching vary.  There isn’t a standard definition.

Before an attempt is made to define coaching, let’s start with a bit of history.

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Another decent introduction to life coaching that focuses on two women with very different backgrounds.  Maurine Patten is a clinical psychologist who added coaching to her practice while Ana Webber has been a business leader for 17 years.  In the article the women share (very briefly) about coach training, their specialties, and the fees they charge.

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Here’s a second article by the same writer.  This time he talks about the coaching session he had with Maurine and with Ana.

Reporter gets a firsthand look at life coaching