What Is Life Coaching?
There have probably been as many different answers as there have been people that have asked the question. Sometimes it is easier to say what Life Coaching or as it also known, Personal Coaching, is not. It is not Counseling, it is not Psychotherapy and it is not mentoring, although there are similarities with all of those.
Life Coaching does not dwell on the past, it looks to the future with a belief that we all have the resources within ourselves to realize our wildest dreams.
Read a brief synopsis on the differences between Life Coaching and Counseling.
How You Will Benefit From Life Coaching
When you buy a new computer, it comes with an online manual explaining how to use all the different programs and applications. Unfortunately, even though your mind is far more agile and complex than the most powerful computer, you weren’t born with a user manual and it is up to you to figure out the best way to get the most out of your life.
On occasions this can be overwhelming and Society has a tendency to make us believe that asking for help is a sign of weakness. Well I am here to tell you, this is certainly is not the case.
Some of the finest talent and greatest minds on our planet use, or have used, life coaches, in one form or another to help give them the edge.
Life Coaching will help you to focus, to adapt and to constantly strive for improvement on your road to achieving your goals, even if you don’t know what they are at this stage.
That last part is crucial, because some people think they need to be clear on their objectives before they hire a Life Coach. Nothing could be further from the truth.
If you want somebody by your side to help, encourage, motivate and occasionally advise you. Somebody that has no ulterior motive than to see you become as successful as you want to be. Then coaching is for you.
Don’t take my word on all this, click here and read what some of my clients have had to say about working with me.
Why This Life Coach?
If you woke up one morning with a headache you may well take a pain killer. If the following morning the same thing happened and presuming you hadn’t been drinking heavily, you’re quite likely to do the same thing. You may even do this for three, four or even five consecutive mornings.
However, at some stage you are going to think you need to make an appointment to see your Doctor and get to the bottom of what is causing your headaches.
You can only treat symptoms for so long before the wisest course of action is to get to the cause.
A lot of Life Coaches deal with actions, by setting to-do lists, goals and strategic plans. That is all well and good and there is a time and a place for that. However, I prefer to give people tools for life and understand what they need to do to make change long lasting.
If you are a serial procrastinator then a to-do list probably won’t work. If you are a chronic worrier, then setting goals won’t help, and if you feel stuck in your life, constant over analyzing won’t release you from that.
Such circumstances need to be worked on at a deeper level by understanding your values, beliefs and the thought processes that stop you moving forward. That is what I do. I also do all that goal setting stuff too when the time is right!
What Don’t I Do?
As a Life Coach I do not spend much time in a clients past. I do not do relationship counseling and do not take on cases such as PTSD, Bi-polar disorder, schizophrenia unless it is as a complimentary service requested by a trained mental health counselor.
I also don’t do Career Coaching, in terms of helping people with the mechanics of changing jobs, hiring head hunters etc or Executive Coaching which is a completely different skill set to what I have to offer. I am also not really a Business Coach although some of what I do cuts across that boundary from time to time.
Finally, I’m not a magician. I can help you if you have the desire to change and the tenacity and commitment to do the necessary work. I cannot help you if you think sitting down with a Life Coach once per week for a couple of months is all that’s necessary for you to have the life of your dreams.
Shoot me a line and let’s have a chat or learn more on the FAQs page.
