Notes

Again I want to use my own words which may not be as scholarly as the words used in these lesson plans.

I don't think coaches should have 'egos' (Well we all have egos to a certain degree, but during sessions that ego should in no way spill out or effect relationship with client)
Unlike athletics, a life coach is not there to 'win for self', while simply using client as a tool towards self gratification.
So I guess I'd have to say one quality to an outstanding coach would have to be humility, as a coach you must have humility.
Another quality, of course, is patience, a coach has to have patience, and can't sit there looking at the clock on the wall and wondering when his client will finally 'get it', for to me they will 'get it' when you've done your job well....and even then even if they don't 'get it', the way you think they should have, well that's when quality 3 comes into place which is 'temperament', a stable and even keeled one that is.
For although Coach may think he's studying the client, what coaches need to realize is the whole time your client is studying you right back, coaches should never forget that.
A coaches temperament will, in my opinion, greatly effect how client relates to you, how at ease they are with you, a drill Sergeant temperament vs a friend or their own inner voice.
A coach is not a drill Sergeant (something they could add to the course list of what coaches are not, believe me I know as a Former Navy personal)
But at the same time, again using my own words, a coach cannot be to overly mushy, for after all a coach is hired, services utilized to help 'correct' or guide one on a desired path, not to just agree, for the sake of agreeing, client sought out a coach for a reason, if all were fine in their life they would not have sought out a coach, so a coach shouldn't be afraid to show a little 'tough love', but in appropriate ways, cause in the end, when client sees results, that's what they'll thank you for.
A few more qualities a outstanding coach may have are
1. Acuteness, awareness
2, Keen
3. Patience
4. A desire to help
5. Humor (Yes, in my opinion even a bit of humor can go a long way in putting others at ease, I know humor or sense of humor is not a fancy word, but can be effective none the less)
6. Loving - I know that sounds a bit Corny, and 'story book', but yes, Love and kindness towards others is a quality Life coaches should have.
7. Flexible or malleable, meaning not overly rigid, if one method doesn't work, so what, try another, that's also where not having a ego comes into play.
8. Organized - To be a coach you must be organized, I mean it's one thing if own life not organized, but when it comes to client, being organized is of the utmost importance, meaning being able to keep track of sessions and progress of client.
And I'll stop there, but could go on, basically just be a decent person.

5 capacities that will influence your connection

1. Identifying Patterns and Habits in their life, these are the things we tend to do automatically without much thought.

(On a personal note, and in my own life, I've long recognized when we make something a habit, it becomes a breeze, as in working out, until working out becomes a habit, it can feel very disruptive)

But that can work both ways, in that we can have destructive habits in our life that get in the way, or take up energy, of more constructive 'things', we or client could desire, but instead energy spend on destructive habits instead.
A life coach should be able to observe which patterns and habits exist in the life of their client through skillful questioning and listening.

2. Skills, or I prefer 'skill set', a specific set of learned tech skills needed to perform a specific job or activity.

Capabilities, on the other hand, according to lesson plan, are qualities that can be developed as in 'patients', or learning to be less bias towards others, and so forth.

3. Focus, or focusing

A couch should be able to help bring clarity to clients desires and ambitions

4. Mindset, to me, is kind of like a mental pattern or mental habit, which in the end doe effect physical outcome, so it's important to get to know the clients mindset.
Attitude, to me, effects the mindset of someone, attitude kind of directs the mindset over time.
And as a LC, it's important to make the client aware of both, in a way that makes them think to self 'Oh, OK..hmm'

5. Energy

Oh so very important, because energy is the bottom line to it all.
Desire is like electricity of the mind, or thoughts, but energy is the voltage that actually makes it occur.

Example, a client may want to climb Mount Everett one weekend, but then 3 days after that pass their bar exam, and 1 week after that take pilot lessons, all while age 77 and recovering from cancer, that's just not very realistic. (extreme example there)
As a couch, according to lesson plan, I need to take all this into consideration and workout a realistic solution, rather than lie to client and tell them what I think they want to hear.

Just want to close this question by saying in real life, getting to know someone makes conversations way more fluid than static answers in a quiz.
And I know the grader of this quiz knows that.
Answers on a quiz tend to sound very static and absolute, but real life is anything but absolute.

seven

1. Positive emotions

2. Engagement

3. Positive relationships

4. Meaning

5. Accomplishment

Two areas of PERMA

1. Altruism - (a new word for me) which is the desire to help others simply cause you want to and not cause you feel obligated to

2. Vitality, and I agree with statement in lesson plan in that 'Health is key to enjoying wealth'...that is so true, me personally, I'd rather have good health, and be income poor, than to be income rich and be in bad health.

nine

1. Know yourself

2. Choose yourself (the ability to manage your feelings, thoughts and actions, I find this one to be the most profound)

3. Give yourself

Primal needs

1. Certainty and Stability - In my own life when things are certain and stabile, I'm much more calm, relaxed, which then allows for more creative side of self to emerge

2. Uncertainty and Variety - To much certainty can = boredom is some, is why you often have very well to do people climbing Mt Everest or bungy Jumping off a bridge, to kind of bring back some thrill into their life. Also 'variety', is what makes people want to explore, to travel, and no TV show demonstrates this better than the opening monologue to Star Trek' 'To go where no men have gone before', and this applies to our personal lives as well, just look at Elon Musk?, and all these real life Captain Kirks who are now funding their own journey's into space.

3. Significance - Who doesn't want to matter?, even our pets want to matter, we often understand this about our pets but many of us fail to apply this to our fellow human beings.

4. Connection - When listening to the lesson, what stood out to me big time was when instructor said the following
'We all want to bond with others, and we'll either bond with love or bond with fear'..(or something like that), but that really stood out to me big time.
It's kind of the same as wanting attention, we see this in muffins all the time, if the muffin can't get parents affection through love, than same muffin may learn to 'act out' in a bad way to get attention, maybe not positive attention, but attention none the less, and I see this play out in adults all the time, everyone will pretty much ignore you when good and doing everything right, but some learn that when they act up, now the world hears about them, the press, ect.

Now the two spiritual needs

5. Growth - As instructor pointed out, everything in the Universe is either growing or dying and that there is no 'stand still' middle ground, now some life cycles are so slow that it can seem as if standing still, but in reality it's either growing or dying, even if to slow for us to measure.
And so if not growing, than we are dying, either literally or metaphorically, and is why so many adopt hobbies, side projects, and so forth, we all need a growth outlet and if not given that outlet on job than people will seek or create that outlet outside of work. A job may limit you to just being a 9-5 cashier, where as once off that job, same person may enjoy being a comedian at a club, or volunteer fire fighter.

6. Contributions - Presidential libraries are created by ex Presidents cause they want society, the world, to forever know what they feel in their minds that they were able to contribute to society while in office. I think we'd all build our own personal libraries if could, to allow others to know that we were here, and while here we mattered, and we mattered because we contributed to society.
Or one a football team, every single player wants to feel that they contributed to their team winning, even the water boy on the sidelines would like to convince self that even they had a role in their victory by keeping the players hydrated

My ideal client, wow, again I could write a whole book on this with chapters and all, but will keep it short.

I feel a bit guilty even answering this, like answering 'what is your ideal date'

I feel it's a bit self serving for me to answer, but will try to anyways with a short back story or a few.

Long ago I helped train people how to drive 18 wheeler trucks, in my mind I'd always have the 'ideal student' I wanted, based on this or based on that, in that would have to spend weeks together at a time in a large sleeper truck.
Well oddly enough, (And I'm just being honest here about this), non of the students initially fit my visual of what I thought my ideal student should look, think and sound like, that aside, fast forward, and by end of training session a relationship was formed, trust, and many of the things listed in this course, that blossomed into a successful student moving on who was now more confident and capable to go on to achieve greater things.
How can I put this?
Whatever type of student I thought I wanted didn't matter at the end of our training, cause at the end of the training such a bond had been formed with them, and them with me, that I realized with the right attitude, mental tools, maturity and value system, I could work with anyone.
And I'm sure it's a two way street, in that initially they probably thought (or some) 'Gee, I was hoping for a better looking instructor or a this instructor or a that instructor, but in the end they got me, and I got them, and it worked.

And it's kind of the same way with life , I suppose, in that if I tell myself the kind of ideal client I think I want, I feel like it's self serving, for no one will ever fit my 'ideal anything', and to create this mental computer model in my head of the perfect client who responds perfectly to my suggestions and does everything 'right', to make 'me' shine, well I'm just not comfortable with that.
I'm unbias, so for me there is no ideal client, all I can hope to be is their ideal Life Coach by implementing and applying all the principles I've learned in this course and through further reading and studying on my own.

I don't need any ideal client, rather I simply need to be the best within my own capabilities to better help them achieve their objective.

I'm very malleable