Start Your Own Home Business After 50. Robert W. Bly

clients sign release forms if insurance is too expensive for the type of business coaching you are conducting. Check with a lawyer. Also, be aware of neighborhood zoning issues that might prevent you from bringing people to your home in a business capacity.

      Maybe your way of relaxing from your stressful job for the past few decades has been to head to the shooting range or enter shooting competitions. You could turn that hobby into a coaching role. If you haven’t already, take the programs offered by the National Rifle Association (NRA), which certifies you in pistol, rifle, shotgun, and home protection. Once you go through the program, you will most likely start out working with other coaches in group situations, possibly as part of community service with a firearms club.

      When you have enough experience training others in this type of setting, you can start your own coaching service. Take advantage of local and regional shooting competitions, which teach you to perform under stress and will be a great place to publicize your skills and your business. Normally, private coaching fees can run from $50 to $100 per hour, depending on whether you are working with a new client who has never shot before or someone who already shoots pistols but wants to learn how to handle a shotgun.

       COACHING LIFE SKILLS

      Motivational coaching, along with life coaching, can cover many areas of life, including the two previous examples of ballet and firearms coaching. Instead of teaching students how to perform the physical moves needed to succeed at a difficult ballet variation or timed shooting competition, you could teach what mental adjustments could help a client be successful.

      For example, dancer may fear having to make a series of difficult turns during a variation. A motivational coach can help the dancer mentally picture a successful completion of these turns ahead of time, lessening the fears of those turns. The pressure of having many people watching during a competition can be intimidating and stressful to shooters. A coach could train the shooter to forget the audience and improve concentration and focus.

      Being a motivational and life coach can be very rewarding when you see your clients overcoming personal hang-ups and pushing forward to accomplish what they want to do. Motivational coaches can help people in any number of professions or lifestyles. A mom who is home all day with young kids may need a life coach to help her accomplish more at home and take control of her lifestyle. The coach goes into the home, watches what goes on there for a day or two, and then offers the mom some ideas about how she can more effectively accomplish what she needs to do in a way that is more fulfilling to her. This type of coaching is ideal for women who have successfully navigated similar passages in their lives and have developed strategies that could be helpful to others.

       CONNECTING REMOTELY