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# How to Become a Coach Successfully

[Julia Stewart](https://www.schoolofcoachingmastery.com/coaching-blog/author/julia-stewart)

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### **![become a successful coach](https://www.schoolofcoachingmastery.com/hs-fs/file-14049526-jpg/images/dollar_spiral.jpg)Today one of my mentor coaching clients said something brilliant.**

**She said she realized that she'd been expecting to 'manifest' her successful coaching business with about 20% effort and she needed to go full out for it.** That's one of the main reasons some coaches fail. Even if they're doing the right things and even if they aren't doing them the wrong way, often they just plain aren't doing *enough*. 

**Owning your own business and making money doing what you love has so many benefits**, that if it were as easy as getting and keeping a good job, everybody would be doing it. And yet, some coaches plod along doing about as much as they would have at that dead-head corporate job they escaped from and they wonder why they don't have enough clients!

**If there's one thing I love about being a coach, it's that I'm passionate about it.** That passion drives me forward to be, do and have everything I want by creating value for my clients. It's known as the power of full engagement and making money is just a byproduct.

**If you love coaching, tap into that passion and let it drive/pull you forward.** Show up fully everywhere you go and have faith that you're creating the life and business that you really want. 

**However, if you're just playing it safe, not taking risks, not willing to be vulnerable, waiting until everything is perfect, setting intentions without changing behaviors, or just trying to do enough to get by, you're not ever going to get there.**

**That reminds me of something a member of our Free Coach Training Program asked me today.** Is the Free Coach Training everything you need to start a coaching business? For some people it will be, but others will either want much more or need much more. That's why we have more!

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