What Is Life Coaching

What is a Life Coach and Why on Earth Would I Need One?

If your life is wonderful, you have met all your desires and are lively life passionately, you do NOT need a life coach. If on the other hand, you are one of millions that is having trouble navigating earth, you may want to keep reading.

How many have finished school of some sort and gone out into the “real” world ill equipped to handle the problems, situations, and struggles they find themselves with. How many institutions have curriculum on how to live the life of your dreams? How many schools teach techniques to get along with your boss or co-workers? How many schools teach how to handle guilt, emotional crisis, finances, spouses, families, and stress in your life? The problem is many people have trouble navigating on earth. We have not been taught how to handle our problems, how to seek out our own inner wisdom and truth. We have not been taught to be ourselves and find our own passion and our own answers. This is where a life coach comes in.

A life coach is a co-creative partner, a person to support and help you to become more of yourself. Coaching is a relationship, a supportive, mentoring relationship to help you achieve YOUR potential. Your coach will be your number one fan and also your biggest challenger, getting you to stretch beyond what you thought you could achieve on your own. A coach has your goals and objectives in the forefront and has no other agenda than helping you attain new heights. Unlike your family and friends who often try to help, but may be operating from an entirely different agenda. A coach is your personal cheerleader, motivator, mentor, life shaker and dream maker. It would be great if we all had these people in our lives, but the honest truth is most of us don’t. We have people smashing our dreams and potential. You need an “uplifter” and that is your coach. Coaching is an old profession really, as sports teams have used coaches forever to bring out the team potential and individual excellence. Actors and congressional candidates all have coaches to spur them on and stretch them further. If the status quo is all you are after, you probably don’t need a coach. If you have an aching feeling that you are not living up to your potential, that you can do and be more, a coach is needed.

What is Coaching?

Coaching is a personal one on one relationship between you and your coach. You and the coach become partners in helping you obtain your desired results. A coach will help you focus on what you want to achieve in various areas in your life. A coach can help in the development and implementation of action plans to achieve your desired results. Some coaches specialize and will only work with specific areas, such as dating coach, business start up coach or executive coach. Coaching begins with a focus on what you want to obtain or change in life. Your dreams and desires will probably impact several different areas of your life. They can impact relationships, finances, career and your personal well being.

Coaching is usually done in two different manors, by phone or in person. Both techniques are beneficial and will depend on how close in proximity you are to your coach, and your own personal preference. Time together is set up in advance whether it is done in person or via the telephone. Coaching is an ongoing process and to create real change a minimum of a three month commitment is usually required. The session will consist of what is happening in your life and what you want to have happen. Together you create a plan to succeed. A coach is only successful when you succeed. The goal of the coach is your success.

What Will the Coach Do for Me?

Your coach is your biggest supporter. Your coach is sounding board and confidant. The following is a list of what a coach can do for you.

Listen to you
Help you identify and prioritize your values and priorities
Help you set goals and create action plans toward fulfillment of your dreams
Challenge you
Keep you focused
Help you identify your dreams
Help identify personal motivators
Help you identify your strengths and capitalize on them
Help you identify your weaknesses and minimize them
Help you identify and remove potential obstacles or barriers to your success
Introduce you to new ways of thinking
Brainstorm with you
Provide you with new ideas and resources
Help you try new things
Help you master new skills
Mentor you
Encourage and support you
Identify resources you can utilize
Hold you accountable
Provide valuable feedback
Stretch you
Help you measure your progress
Celebrate your successes with you

Who Hires a Coach?

People in all walks of life are hiring coaches, and the reasons are as varied as the clients themselves. Following are some of the most common reasons clients seek the expert assistance of a coach.

To change their life in positive, meaningful ways
To develop a more fulfilling, more purposeful life
To set more effective goals
To keep focused on desired outcome
To challenge and stretch themselves
To see things from another angle
To raise the bar and continue accelerating their success
To brainstorm and have new ideas
To access new tools and resources
To maximize their effectiveness
To have a guided approach
To have a supportive partner
To help them identify what they want
To set priorities and identify what success means to them
To reach a goal or complete a project
To access their inner knowing
To have more meaning in life
To become more of their authentic self
To receive open, direct, honest feedback that is objective and constructive
To identify and maximize strengths and minimize weaknesses
To achieve more balance in life
To have a supporter that encourages
To develop new skills
To move beyond current belief systems
To identify new skills
To cope with change
To have someone to share ideas with
To make their dreams a reality

If you think about changes or improvements you would like to make in your life, wouldn’t it be easier if you had someone helping you achieve them. Making changes can be overwhelming when you feel you have to do it all alone. People are hiring personal fitness trainers like crazy; the trainer is guide to facilitating what it takes to create the body you desire. It just makes sense to do the same with something as important as your happiness and YOUR LIFE.

What Benefits Can I Gain?

Coaching helps you achieve real, lasting change in your life. Coaching is up to 80% more effective than books, tapes, and seminars over the long term. It is great to participate in self improvement venues, and it is also easy to keep getting side tracked if you do not have a coach or someone helping to monitor your successes and progress. With experiencing successes and seeing different results in your life your self esteem and confidence starts to soar. Your dreams start to become your reality! Coaching benefits are numerous. Here are some of the noticeable benefits.

A greater sense of fulfillment and purpose in life
Greater feelings of joy and happiness
Improved relationships – at home and at work
Increased self-awareness
Positive self esteem
High levels of self confidence
Achievement of goals
Balance in your life
Accelerated progress
Better focus
Greater influence with others
Clarity in your life
Improved performance
More energy
Support in your desires
Desired results
Ability to navigate change
An enhanced life
Self empowerment – a new you

You Need a Coach If…

You need a coach if you are focused on moving to a higher potential. Working with a coach provides you with the tools, drive, and simulation to reach higher limits. By working with a coach, you can achieve more toward your personal and professional goals than you could achieve alone. You need a coach if you want something better, faster, or easier and with more effective results. You need a coach if you can relate to any of the following statements.

I want to achieve more than I already have
I used to think this was all I ever wanted out of life, it is just not enough
I don’t know how to manage all that is going on in my life
I started or am starting a brand new venture and need someone to bounce ideas off of
I feel I am stuck, where do I go from here
I’ve reached a plateau and can’t seem to move beyond it
Change are coming fast and furious, and I don’t know to handle it all
I have a dream, how do I make it a reality
I want to succeed, but feel lost at what to do
I seem to be going in circles and making little progress

You owe it to yourself to create a life you enjoy and to be fulfilled. There is no better time then the present to move forward. Regrets are for people who did not have the confidence to make changes and live a life of their dreams. We all feel afraid when we move past our comfort zone, so hire a guide and the trip to your destination will be much easier and quicker.

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