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3 Reasons For A Career Coach For Mom

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You used to have a good corporate job that you loved, now you have 2 kids under the age of 10, and while you love your family more than anything, you miss your old career. You have more time now that the kids are older, but you’re not sure what to do. Should you go back to your old job, or can you really work from home?

You can find success starting a new a career from home, on the internet, if you have the right focus and mindset. If you discover what you truly are passionate about, whether a field you’ve always worked in, or something totally new, you can find success. It’s a balance act, but the right people can teach you how to do it.

Who better to show a mom how to succeed with their own online business than a mom who has done it before? This is where a career coach for moms comes in handy: someone who can show you the ropes and what to do and what no to do. There are 3 good reasons for a career coach for moms:

1) Calling. A good career coach will show you where your passions lay, and show you how to cultivate them to find success. Whether renewing an old career path, or starting something totally brand new, when you connect passion with purpose you are eventually guaranteed success. A good career coach will help you choose the right home business path.

2) Motivation. Having someone to guide you is indispensable. Having someone motivate you and show you that is possible to be a good mom and business woman at the same time is priceless. Having someone there as you take the first step out of your comfort zone and the first steps into your very own home business is invaluable. Motivation is essential to success.

3) Vicarious success. The career coach’s enthusiasm and prior success will rub off on you and inspire you to get moving and have your own success. Life experience makes the difference and your coach will give you the wisdom you need to avoid mistakes and stick to the course. Sports coaches help teams win games, and career coaches help new businesses succeed.

It’s important that you find the right career coach for moms, because being a mom is a singular experience, and running a home business and a family takes the right combination of motivation and passion, and the right person will help you get started the right way. A good place to discover more about coaches is moms-u-can.com.

Coaching Better Tennis In Practice

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Tennis coaches who are teaching high school and college teams, need to always focus on getting better at coaching during practice.

This is part art, part psychology and strategy.

That means you have to be able to get the most from your players in practice and then, help them to develop faster, by setting up a system, that will help them to discover their own playing style.

The first thing we need to do as a coach, is look at what we are doing now in practice and then try to improve on it daily, everyday, you should feel that you are getting better at coaching during practice.

Just don’t come with the same game plan and energy everyday.

Coaches, players and parents, need to stay in learning mode and also work together as a team, with the same goals in mind.

Tennis coaches should experiment with these tips here.

Let the reps do their part

The repetitions will develop the techniques and the mechanics for your players.

Coaches should leverage the reps in practice, by first introducing the drill or pattern of play and then stepping back and observing, encourage them to keep adjusting their swing and focusing in on timing and FEEL while doing the drills.

But don’t stop the drill, because then you will be breaking their rhythm for doing it, I see this a lot from coaches over here.

Tennis is a timing, rhythm and feel sport, so allow the reps to do their part and talk to them and give advice, while they are taking a break.

Another thing coaches can do during practice is, ,

Ask powerful questions

Don’t just say nice shot.

Ask them why was it a nice shot?

Don’t just correct them in practice.

Ask them why do they think they miss that shot?

Most coaches don’t realize that, the person who is doing the questioning, is the one who is controlling the conversation.

So, stop talking so much and start asking more deep questions, to get your point through and across to them.

Coaches can use practice, to help their players internalize tactics, strategies and mental toughness.

But to make sure that this is happening, coaches have to stay on top of their coaching game.

These are 2 good coaching tips, to build on in practice, but learn some new methods for coaching better in practice everyday, by studying the best coaches from all other sports.

Then take their philosophies and synthesize them with your own coaching style.

“Look at practice time as your own piece of art work and everyday you are creating something and adding on to it, until you have a masterpiece of a tennis team. “

Start the season and keep the end goal in mind, for your team.

Good luck with the season coach!!