Who Needs a Life Coach?
I suppose that if you and your life are exactly the way you
want them to be, you are doing all the things you have secretly dreamed of
doing, and you have all that you desire, there’s not much point in having a
coach. But for the rest of us, having a coach who is committed to our success in
life is one of the most beneficial, indeed crucial elements. Highly successful
people know this. Tiger Woods has a golf coach.
Oprah
Winfrey
has people who coach her on everything from interior design, to fitness, to how
to have a top rated hit show.
Life coaching is a method for helping you to improve, develop, learn new
skills, find personal success, achieve goals and manage change and personal
challenges. Coaching is effective for all situations, whether in personal life,
relationships, finances, health, career, or business life. Coaching will enable
you to draw out and develop your best qualities, making decisions and choices
that will improve your daily existence.
What Coaching is Not
Coaching is not counseling or therapy. Your coach does not
focus on the past or claim to have the “right” answers for you. A coach
works with you to help you find the
answers that lie within your subconscious mind and true self, relying on the
knowledge that all of our answers already exist deep within our own souls. We
just need guidance in finding and identifying what we already know. A good coach
listens more than they talk and then uses skillful questioning and often times
their own intuition to lead you in the exploration of who you really are and
what is standing between you and the life of your dreams. Good coaching is not
about providing the client with the coach’s answers but in leading the client
to find their own answers and truth.
Do not enter into a coaching relationship if you do not want to change.
You will be asked to stretch to the limits of your comfort zone and then to
continue stretching into uncharted territory because that is where your freedom
lies. A good coach supports you in facing your fears and walking through them
and will give you homework to practice stepping into your truth and reaching
your goals and desires. Taking responsibility and being accountable is an
important aspect of the coaching agreement. It will not always be easy but the
rewards are worth it!
Well known coach
Cheryl
Richard
son
says, “At the time you were born you were given an amazing gift - a gift that
most of us forget about as we grow older. It's the power to design your own
unique life. You are an artist. The canvas is your life. Your life can
become an extraordinary work of art.” If you could design your life as a
deliberate creation, what would you create? What would you contribute? What
would you like for people to say about you when you aren’t there to listen?
If you want to be a better tennis player, hire a tennis coach. If you want
to be a better singer, hire a singing coach. And if you want to have a better
life, maybe even the best life that you can have, hire a life coach. Pretty
obvious isn’t it?
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