Why Life Coaching?
Life coaching is not just some feel-good indulgence. It’s a valid path to self-improvement that’s helped countless people around the world create fulfilling lives. During the last ten years, there has been quite a significant surge in life coaching popularity in the professional world and people’s personal lives. A simple reason for this is that people tend to get stuck in different areas of life. We all need a push and some guidance to get us moving forward again from time to time. That’s precisely what life coaching does.
What Is A Life Coach?
A Life Coach is a professional who helps individuals move from where they are to where they want to be and helps them grow in competence, commitment, and confidence along the way.
Your Coach helps you reach your goals or make positive changes in your life. They allow you to move forward in the areas of your life that you wish to change. Your coach guides you through the coaching process by asking questions that help you evaluate and decide the necessary steps to reach your goals or make a meaningful change. They also play the essential roles of motivator, strategist, and accountability partner. Their goal is to help you move forward in the most efficient,effective, and rewarding way possible.
What is a Coaches Role?
Your coach is a motivator.
Your coach is a source of motivation and inspiration that gives you the push you need to reach your full potential. You might hire a life coach for similar reasons that you would hire a personal trainer. You may already be fit, but you have specific goals that need more focus, guidance, and effort to accomplish them. Or, maybe you are a little out of shape or feeling sluggish and know you need some motivation and encouragement from an outside source to make the desired changes.
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Your life coach is like a personal trainer for your life goals and ambitions. They have the professional training, education, life experience, and skill-set to coach you towards your desired outcome. They are with you every step of the way, helping you to stay focused and motivated to accomplish your goals and realize your dreams.
Your coach is a strategist.
Your Coach is an effective strategist. A significant part of the coaching process is to help you create a workable strategy to accomplish your goals and move forward. In addition, your coach will help guide you through creating your own personal plan that will work for you. A solid strategy will help you achieve your goals more quickly and with less effort. Efficiency is key to keeping momentum in the process and creating lasting change.
Your Coach is an accountability partner.
Your coach will keep you accountable for reaching your goals and making positive changes. In addition, they maintain contact with you throughout the coaching process to make sure you are making progress and staying motivated.
Most of us tend to rely on friends and family to keep us accountable. But if we are truthful, we know that doesn’t always work well. So often, it’s difficult for those close to us to be objective and unbiased. Also, they don’t understand how to be an accountability partner.
Your coach is equipped to provide the accountability you need and hold you accountable regarding your personal and professional goals. They will be there with you every step of the way to help you with strategy, offer encouragement, and to motivate you. Your life coach will help you through the roadblocks along the way, give you the push you need when you’re stuck in a rut, cheer for you when you achieve your goals, and then challenge you to keep moving forward.
What Does a Life Coach Do?
1. Your Coach Helps You Identify Goals
Identifying your goals is one of the hardest things you do when making a change and getting started on something new. A life coach is great at helping you interpret your dreams and ideas and organize them into tangible goals. Helping you identify, create and manage your goals is a primary function of your coach. You may have an idea of what you want to achieve, but you’re having a difficult time creating a workable goal. Your coach helps you take your dreams and visions and craft them into very specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and tangible goals that will generate real positive change in your life.
2. Your Coach Helps You Achieve Your Goals
Your coach doesn’t stop helping you after your goals are set. Instead, they allow you to accomplish your goals. Coaches encourage and motivate you to take the necessary steps to move forward and realize your dreams. Your coach helps you get from where you are in your life now to where you want to be. Your coach is someone who supports you, motivates you, and holds you accountable for achieving your vision for yourself.
3. Your Coach Guides You Through Changes and Obstacles
A life coach helps you move your life forward and to find meaning, fulfillment, success, well-being, and happiness. They help you pinpoint the hurdles and obstacles that make you feel “stuck” and allow you to move past them. They may also guide you through a life transition, such as finding a new career or looking to start a new relationship. You might call your coach a “change facilitator” or a “courage catalyst.”
4. Your Coach Permits You to Follow Your Dreams
You may be searching for validation and approval before you genuinely feel justified in taking that big first step towards following your dreams or reaching your goals. The advice and feedback from family and friends can be helpful, but it isn’t professional, and rarely is it unbiased. Your coach is someone who is removed from your personal life and can honestly look at your ideas and goals objectively. As a result, your coach is better positioned to provide you with the appropriate validation you need to get started on making your big move.
5. Your Coach Helps You Make the Right Decisions for Yourself
When you seek out a life coach, it usually means you need help making a decision. Your decision might be which goal to prioritize, what step to take first, or to find out if you should even pursue that goal in the first place! One of the most helpful things that your coach will do is guide you through a process that encourages and enables you to come to conclusions and make appropriate decisions for yourself. As you take ownership of your goals, you gain clarity, focus, and confidence in your ability to achieve them. Your ownership of your dreams is a huge motivating factor in goal achievement. Your coach will not generally give you advice or instruction. Instead, through the coaching conversation, they will help you discover your answers for your unique situation, circumstance, and life.
Who Hires Life Coaches?
People who hire life coaches are people who desire to move forward in life and pursue success. They’re people that desire growth in their personal and/or professional lives and want that growth to come faster or easier. Anyone in any walk of life can hire a life coach for almost anything they want to improve in their lives.
Is Life Coaching for me?
Do you feel stuck? Do you want to make some kind of change in your life? Set or reach a goal? Are you going through a life transition? There are a lot of good reasons why people choose to work with a coach. There are usually times in most people’s lives when the help of a coach would be beneficial!
How Do I Get Started?
The best place to start is setting up a free consultation call to determine if coaching will work for you.
If you think you could benefit from working with a coach, or if you just have some questions, CLICK HERE and contact me. I would love to talk about coaching with you!
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