7 Signs You Were Born to Be a Life Coach
You didn't Google "should I become a life coach" because you're bored. You Googled it because something keeps pulling you back to this idea, and you can't quite explain it to the people around you.
The truth is, life coaching isn't a career most people choose the way they choose accounting or marketing. For the people who are truly built for it, it feels more like something they can't keep ignoring.
These 7 signs will tell you if that's you.
1. You have natural empathy and compassion
You have this natural ability to deeply understand and empathize with others. People often come to you for advice and support. And they walk away feeling better, finding solutions, feeling naturally motivated, and taking action in new ways in their life.
How do you know? Complete strangers open up to you out of nowhere
You could be at the library, sitting on a bus, or at the grocery store, just having a short, quick, casual conversation with someone. Then all of a sudden, they feel this energetic invitation from you that it's safe to open up. And before they know it, they are spilling intimate life secrets they have never told anyone before.
If this happens to you regularly, you've already heard the phrases: "Oh my gosh, I don't know why I'm telling you this," and "I swear I've never told anyone this before."
What it means is that people feel safe around you. You have a very grounded presence, and they feel like they can trust you.
That pull people feel toward you is not something you can fake, and it's one of the most consistent signs that this kind of work is a natural fit.
2. You're obsessed with personal growth and self-development
You probably have all of the self-development books around your house. You have a library full of podcasts and YouTube videos that you watch or listen to every day, which is just helping you to become the best version of yourself.
While most people would rather spend their weekends going to a bar or watching sports, deep diving into your own patterns, wounds, and inner work just sounds like fun to you.
You love to heal and fix yourself, and you can't stop. You're always looking to take your life to that next level of growth and awareness.
3. You've been through a lot, and you feel like it happened for a reason
You're a naturally resilient human. You can navigate setbacks, and now all of the life lessons and wisdom that you've gained from whatever it is that you've gone through, you want to help others navigate similar types of situations
Maybe you've gone through a divorce, or homelessness, or you're overcoming addictions, or cancer, or domestic violence. Maybe you've gotten fired multiple times, and now you feel like you want to do something with all of it.
It's like you feel like all of this happened for a reason, and now you really want to help other people so they don't have to go through it alone and struggle as much as you did.
It's often what helps shape your future niche as a coach. The people who tend to find you, and who you're most naturally meant to work with, are often the ones facing exactly what you've already lived through.
4. You naturally coach people, even when you're not trying to
You have great communication skills. You are a great listener and are naturally curious about people. You might also already be asking really great, thought-provoking, open-ended questions.
When you hold normal conversations with people, they have breakthroughs and make big life decisions.
You're not even trying to coach. You’re just being you. And yet, that seems to help people.
The key distinction worth knowing here is that great life coaching is not about giving people answers. It's about helping people find the answers within themselves, through curiosity and presence.
5. You can see people's potential more clearly than they can
You get intuitive downloads about people and can see the big picture for them about what their next steps are in life.
When you're spending time with people, you often can probably see that they are unhappy in their job and need to leave. Or that they're most likely going to get divorced in their relationship. Or maybe they need to set a boundary. Or they're playing too small.
You just have this inner sense of knowing of what's keeping them stuck and where their gaps are in order to help them to really thrive in life.
You love your friends, but you think, why can't they just take action? You can see their gaps and their blind spots so clearly. You can picture the vision that they're meant to have before they even realize it themselves.
You might have even heard some of them tell you, "Oh my gosh, you were so right. I did need to leave that job or I did need to leave that relationship, and I just wasn't able to see it at the time. How did you know?"
6. You feel energized by deep conversations and drained by everything else
You might feel burnt out, exhausted, overwhelmed, and depleted after working on your own. This is not what you were put on this earth to do, and it does not light you up from the inside.
But the minute you get to be one-on-one with someone, and they are opening up to you, and you are getting to hold space and listen deeply, and you help them have perspective shifts and breakthroughs by asking them really deep, thoughtful questions? You just feel so lit up and buzzed. It's like you just drank a large cup of coffee.
When you are holding space and helping someone, and you know that you're in alignment, you feel it. That feeling is worth paying attention to.
7. Your current work leaves you feeling like something's missing
You feel coaching is a calling for you. This is not just work to earn a paycheck. You deeply feel that you were born to be a life coach. This is a higher calling, a bigger part of your life's purpose, of why you came to this earth.
Your current job does not feel fulfilling. You might know you're helping people. You might know it's a stable profession. But you have trouble sleeping, and you wake up thinking, “I just feel like there's something bigger I'm meant to do than what I can do in my job right now.”
That feeling won't go away. You feel called to something you can't fully explain, and when you try to describe it to people, they don't understand. But deep inside, you know. You want your work to really matter.
Becoming a life coach is a way to answer that calling and to do more fulfilling work on your own terms.
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Hey There! I’m Krista
A Retired Nurse Turned Professional Certified Life Coach, Spiritual Business Mentor, Hypnotherapist, World Traveler, Author & Mama to Lincoln.
I was born to be a coach and live a life beyond the white picket fence. I was never designed to struggle through a 9-5 job and sell my soul to the devil.
Now I work with heart-centered humans all over the world showing them how to become life coaches and start their own online businesses.
Hopefully one day I’ll get to work with you inside one of my coaching programs too. Because you deserve to have a life and career that brings you the ultimate freedom and flexibility so you can do the work you were born to do.
Xo,
Krista Kathleen, MCC