Life Coaching
A life coach is a professional who helps others make behavior changes. These professionals help with a wide variety of issues from relationship problems to career changes. They help motivate and keep you accountable. A life coach can help you meet personal and professional goals. They can help you overcome roadblocks that stand in the way of reaching your full potential.
Just as Olympic athletes wouldn’t think of training without the added insight, objective perspective and enthusiastic support of an athletic coach, many of today’s most successful business leaders, professionals, executives, entrepreneurs and CEOs use the services of a life coach to take their lives, careers, or businesses to the next level.
Why does life coaching work?
1) Accountability. With regularly scheduled appointments, clients to get more done than they would if left to their own devices. Like, if you work out with a personal trainer at the gym, you work much harder than on your own. Clients take bigger actions, set bigger goals and think bigger when they work with a professional coach.
2) Expertise. A life coach knows how to help you set the right goals and structure your personal and professional life to achieve greater productivity.
3) Delivery. A life coach uses the right words so that you are naturally motivated. Most life coaching is done by phone and delivered in half hour to one hour coaching calls.
Who Can Benefit from A Life Coach?
Life coaches are often used to help professional athletes, students, and CEOs reach their goals. But life coaches can help anyone.
What would you work on with a life coach?
Setting and achieving goals and objectives
Planning — business, career and life
Clearing clutter
Financial security and independence
Balancing business and personal life
Making key decisions and designing strategies for success
Building powerful relationships
Getting promoted
Finding the ideal career/work or business
Finding the ideal partner/love/relationship
Making an important life transition
Starting a business
Growing a business
Living an ideal life
Identifying core values and passions
Fulfilling personal and emotional needs
Getting organized
Who hires a life coach and why?
People hire a life coach because
They want more.
They want to grow.
They want it easier.
What are the benefits of hiring a life coach?
You start taking more effective and focused actions immediately
You stop putting up with petty annoyances
You create momentum so it’s easier to get results
You set better goals that are based on what you really want
You have more time and energy
Do life coaches work on personal goals or business/professional goals?
A life coach work with all aspects of your life Some clients prefer to spend more time focusing on their business goals, while others may want to focus on personal goals.
Life coaching provides a structure of support. Left to our own devices, we start out with the best intentions and then, we hit a snag and it can derail us completely or cause a long delay. A life coach can help you quickly break through blocks so that more is accomplished with less struggle and less effort.
Athletes, performers, CEOs and presidents know that they can’t do it alone. They know they need a trained professional or even a team of experts to help them determine the best direction and to provide objective support and feedback. Without this, it is almost impossible to achieve excellence. No athlete would consider going to the Olympics without the support of a coach. The extra edge the coach provides makes all the difference.