How do I know if I need a life coach?
You might hire a life coach if you find yourself:
- Motivated but lacking support or direction
- Lacking in motivation and needing a push
- Wanting to take the next step in your career or relationship
- Looking for clarity
- Finding it hard to set and reach your own goals
- Feeling overwhelmed and needing some balance
What does coaching do?
Coaching motivates people to push themselves further than they’ve gone before.
A Life Coach Will
- Encourage you to be the best you can be
- Challenge you to dream bigger than you’ve ever dared
- Identify goals and support you as you reach those goals quickly
- Facilitate changes to limiting thinking and behavior patterns
- Provide the structure, tools and perspectives to help you along
- Expect more of you than you expect of yourself
How does coaching work?
Coaching is an interactive process where the coach guides and facilitates your progress towards defined goals.
These may concern relationships, career, self-confidence, financial matters or, a more general goal of “getting life back on course".
For many people, the trigger for a life coach can be as specific as a new job, relationship breakdown, illness or simply feeling that life is moving so quickly that you've lost control.
A good life coach will help you to find direction in various aspects of your life, including relationships, goal setting, stress management, motivation, health, even spirituality.
How does coaching achieve this?
- By helping you to set powerful, compelling goals so that you are clear about your life’s direction
- Providing the structure to help you stick to your guns, even when the going gets tough
- Focusing you on where you are now, where you want to be, and the best way to get there
- Helping you to think laterally to create options and opportunities, and then think deeply about the choices you wish to make
- Giving you a step-by-step process that avoids the overwhelming feeling of “where do I start?”
Does coaching really work?
Ask anyone who has experienced coaching for themselves and they will tell you that it has changed their life, that it has brought them personal satisfaction and success, a deep sense of achievement and that they feel energized to move forward in a positive and purposeful way.