What Is Life Coaching Anyway?
Life Coaching is a professional partnership between myself as your personal Life Coach and you as motivated individual seeking wisdom, clarity, purpose and more fulfillment in your life. Our developing friendship supports your own growth as we make use of structured approaches and powerful questions from myself and commitment and responsibility from you. Through the process of coaching, you will focus on the skills and actions needed to successfully produce your personally relevant results. My approach to life coaching includes physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual aspects of your life.
My specialty is Balanced Life Coaching. If you're looking specifically for Career Coaching, may I recommend my good friend Andrew Biggins - he will take excellent care of you.
As a Life Coach, my purpose is to lead you on the path to wealth, freedom, enrichment, eternal happiness... whatever it is that you truly and deeply desire.
- You may be stuck in a bad relationship;
- You may be in a dead end job, or are suffering stress at work;
- You may be having difficulty in your family relationships;
- You may be in debt, and can't see a way out.
As a life coach, I can unblock these problems, liberate you, and set you
on a new course. What could be more exciting!
At one time or another, everyone needs life advice. And the people who are
closest to you are usually too close to the problem to provide real
solutions. They can’t see it with fresh eyes, the way I can.
What Life Coaching Is Not About
A life coach is not a psychiatrist, psychologist, counselor or therapist. A life coach will not sit you down on a couch and analyze your dreams, childhood or relationship with your mother and/or father. Nor will a life coach bring your spouse into the room and ask you to share your feelings without shouting.
A life coach is a consultant with only you and your goals in mind. A project manager who helps you design a plan to reach your goals and a guide that ensures you stick to it. Life coaches are incredibly good listeners, insightful and apt at solving problems. They are only interested in you and how to make your life more fulfilling and stress-free.
Why Should You See a Life Coach?
You would visit a life coach if you are generally satisfied with your lot in life but see room for improvement and need objective advice as to how to fill those gaps. People who want help but are wary of the touchy-feely-ness of therapists are more likely to visit a life coach. If you are stressed, stuck in a dead end job or bad relationship, experiencing difficulty in your family or wallowing in debt and despair, then you just might need a life coach.
What Does a Session With A Life Coach Involve?
A typical first session with a life coach begins with a self-evaluation. You will be asked to fill out a series of questionnaires that will help define where you are in life, what needs sorting out and what you want to get out of the coaching experience. These questions will open up your mind and get you thinking about yourself in a way that is probably new to you.
Initially, the life coach will ask you questions and listen. To get the most out of the sessions you must be completely honest and ready to learn. Remember that life coaches learn as much from what you don’t say as what you do say, so even though the questions may be difficult at times you should answer them as truthfully as possible. They are meant to take you to the root of the issues, which is sometimes buried beneath a lot of hang-ups, insecurities and guilt. We know people in general are not perfect but find accepting our own imperfections quite hard.
During subsequent sessions you and your life coach will begin designing the plan or plans that will help you achieve the goal(s) defined in your initial evaluation. Skilled in problem solving, the life coach will present strategies and tools to help you get on the path towards success. Together you will determine the steps you need to take to accomplish your goals and you may be surprised with what you come up with. For example, if you came to the life coach because you wanted a more satisfying job you may find that one of your first steps is to change your diet and start a fitness routine.
The role of the life coach is to offer you guidance and encouragement, not absolute answers to your problems. By helping you adhere to the plan, the life coach enables you to furnish your own solutions. And once you have achieved your goals you should be able to use the tools you’ve learned from the life coach in other aspects of your life – for the rest of your life.
And What On Earth is Balanced Life Coaching?
A Balanced Life (also referred to as Work Life Balance) refers to
achieving equilibrium between your income generation activities and your
recreational time. Balance is accomplished when you feel truly satisfied
with
your personal life and your means of income generation. This balance
mutually benefits you, your employer and society.
The Work Life Balance strategy offers a variety of means to reduce your stress
levels and increase job satisfaction while enhancing
business benefits for the employer. In our increasingly hectic world, the
work-life strategy seeks to find a balance between work and play.
A sentence that clarifies the idea of work life balance is: "Work to live.
Don't live to work."
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