Confidence is often the missing component when setting your ideal income goals. If you don’t believe they’re possible to achieve, if you don’t believe you belong in the “club” of success (however you define success)… you’ll struggle to accomplish your goals, income or otherwise. However, as you work on confidence, it’s also important to check in with yourself: Why do you want what you believe you want? What is fueling your confidence?

Charging for your coaching can be uncomfortable, maybe even a bit scary. It might feel as though it’s taking away from the good that you’re doing or that, somehow, it doesn’t fit your character because you’re not money-motivated. 

Your ability to grow your business is thoroughly interwoven into being a mission-centered coach. It is connected to your message, your expertise and your confidence. To be a mission-centered coach is to be a heart-centered coach. But what exactly does that mean? 

There’s always a nearly inexhaustible business To Do list. As coaches, our brains naturally bend toward caring for others, toward inner work and healing, yet so much of what we need to do is outer work: sales, marketing, accounting, and the like. For many of us, it’s like learning a foreign language and thus takes a lot of time. But in accomplishing all the business things, are you carving out enough time, booking enough sessions, to bring in the money you need? 

Getting any kind of break from your growing business may seem impossible. There’s always something that needs attention. As ambitious coaches, determined to accomplish big things for ourselves and our businesses, we can allow far too much time to go by between breathers. We easily assign more to ourselves than any human being can really realistically accomplish. Of course, the biggest danger in this fast-paced, intensely focused business building is we can burn out.

In this episode, I hope to help guide you into developing the 5 traits of a masterful coach. As you listen, I encourage and challenge you to ask yourself: How are you doing? What are you already doing well? What could use some tweaks? What plans can you make to continue to grow in your niche as a masterful coach?