As a result of my frustrations I took a break from life coaching for about 18 months and dabbled in another business, which thankfully didnt quite work out. However, over this period of time I had a chance to reflect on my coaching business and the mistakes I had made.

What I realized was that I needed more structure and maybe even a framework for coaching that would help guide me during each one of my coaching sessions more effectively.

At the time I also began incorporating mind mapping into my work. As a result I decided to start piecing together a coaching framework that I could begin to work with during each coaching session.

At first I found it extremely difficult to piece everything together. I had good knowledge, however everything was just jumbled up and completely disorganized in my head. However, over time as I coached more clients and picked the brains of other life coaches who had been in the industry for many years, all the pieces started to fall into place. Then eventuallythe time and effort I put into the framework started paying off as I began to incorporate this coaching framework into my coaching practice.

Today I use this coaching framework as the basis for about 80 percent of my coaching work. Furthermore, roughly 9 out of 10 clients invest in additional sessions after receiving their initial complimentary session.

This framework like many others is of course not all-encompassing, but what it does do is it gives you enough of a structure and possible pathways that will help you guide your client in the most optimal way. I would literally feel lost without it.

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