LESSON 4 STUDY GUIDE

What Makes
The Jay Shetty
Certification Unique?

MODULE 1 - COACHING FOUNDATIONS

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Lesson Summary
A certified life coach has an added layer of accountability and a
standard set of knowledge. We fulfill that standard and then go
beyond. We want to provide you with all the tools to help clients
overcome their most common personal obstacles. By doing so and
helping them learn how to overcome these obstacles on their own,
you will start to see real change not only in your personal clients,
but in those around them as well, due to the ripple effect. That is
facilitating real change in humanity.

The tangible outcome of this lesson: To know why getting certified

as a coach is important and what the Jay Shetty Certification Course
offers to reduce common barriers to coaching success.

The main goal of this lesson is to understand the value of an

independent certification as being acknowledged to possess an
acceptable level of knowledge and skills to coach effectively and
manage common barriers to coaching success.
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STICK Y MESSAGE

To help a client become their best self, you have to help them
overcome their personal obstacles. The more wisdom you have, the
better you will become at assisting your clients in this manner.

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A true coach does not have the
desire to fix their client, but a
desire to serve them.
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The Desire To Serve

Coaching as a career choice emanates from a position of wanting to
serve humanity.

By helping every individual client to become the best they can be,
coaches cumulatively improve the human condition.

Empathy is at the core of Whether a client pursues

upliftment wealth, health, happiness,
or another dream, a coach
helps lift them up to their
ideal place.

Facilitating small Therefore, by coaching

victories at first build the someone properly, you are
confidence to lead to larger making humanity better – not
accomplishments. just for one individual, but
for society as a whole.

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Jay Shetty coaches are certified,
not because it is required of them,
but it is desired by them.
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Personal Obstacles
The key of a good coach is to identify the client’s obstacles before
guiding them to:

1. CLIMB

2. TRAVERSE

3. REMOVE

4. GO THROUGH THE OBSTACLE

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The most common obstacles preventing people from moving

forward are,

1. 2. 3.
Bad assumptions Seeking external Lacking
fulfillment or motivation
recognition

4. 5. 6.
A reluctance to An unwillingness Shying away from
share information to admit past embracing past
failures successes

7. 8. 9.
A lack of Communication Resistance
knowledge barriers to change

10. 11.
A fear of Being defensive
being judged

A good coach helps clients to celebrate their strengths and victories,

accept and embrace their imperfections, and articulate and share
their good and bad experiences. Only then can a person strive to
reach higher dreams.

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Everyone can defeat their personal
obstacles. It is only a matter of choosing
among climbing, traversing, removing, or
going through those obstacles.
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How Certification
Helps Clients
The Jay Shetty certification program is designed to develop coaches
to achieve these values in clients by alleviating fear, building trust,
supporting informed decision-making, and sharing methods and
techniques.

Being accredited as a coach means that you are certified to practice

by an independent, third-party assessor, which instills confidence
in clients.

The Jay Shetty The intent is to The certification

name represents provide the same represents the
an impeccable wisdom, the most up-to-date
experience and same presence, and effective
approach to the same energy methodologies to
coaching. that made the facilitate change.
Jay Shetty brand
great.

So, as a Jay Shetty-certified coach, you represent my ideals and

vision, namely, to make wisdom go viral so that we can facilitate
positive change in humanity as a whole, making the change
client-by-client until we reach the unstoppable threshold.

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The strongest person is the one who
can admit their failures – and then
learn from them moving forward.
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Facilitating Real
Change In Humanity
A Jay Shetty certified coach is trained to ask the right probing
questions with which clients can question their assumptions and
formulate a personal vision based on true values for the greater
good.

Internal change is based on a process of inner exploration

and self-discovery led by a qualified coach.

Sometimes a client may have the right answers,

but to the wrong questions.

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RE FLECTIO N P O ND

Time For
Reflection
I suggest that you plan to take 10 minutes off from any distractions to
focus on the following reflection when you have a spare moment.

You may want to write down notes of the questions so that

you can reference it later during your reflection time.

What are some of the obstacles that you see most commonly?
- What are some that you personally are experiencing
when it comes to this coaching program?
- Share these thoughts with the group.

Don’t forget to use your self-study and reflection journal to track the time
you spend on reflection, reading, and exercises as it counts toward your
certification requirements.

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EX ERCISE TRACK

Homework
Before you join the next lesson, please briefly answer the
next few questions.

1. What was your one biggest take-away, or message

learned, from today’s lesson?

2. What is the one thing you wish we would have discussed

that we did not?

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EX ERCISE TRACK

Date

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S ELF S TUDY - ADDITIO NAL R EADING

Think Like a Monk: Train Your Mind

for Peace and Purpose Every Day
By Jay Shetty

2010, New York: Simon & Schuster

Don’t forget to use your self-study and reflection journal to track the time
you spend on reflection, reading, and exercises as it counts toward your
certification requirements.

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External References:

Galilei, G. (2018). We cannot teach people anything, we can only help

them discover it within themselves. Attributed in Richard M. Grinell &
Yvonne A. Unrau, Social work research and evaluation (11 ed.), p.7.

Gandhi Research Foundation. (2019). Service to humanity. Retrieved

from https://www.mkgandhi.org/articles/servicetohumanity.htm

Ruiz, D. M. (2012). The four agreements: A practical guide to personal

freedom. San Rafael, CA: Amber-Allen Publishing, p.48.

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