What is Life Coaching?
I have been asked this question hundreds of times, and the answer formulated below tries to explain this in concise terms.
Life coaching is a future-focused practice with the aim of helping clients determine and achieve personal goals. Life coaches select from among several methods to help clients set and reach goals. Coaches are not therapists nor consultants and psychological intervention is outside the scope of their practice, Life coaching has its roots in executive coaching, which itself drew on techniques developed in management consulting and leadership training. Life coaching also draws inspiration from disciplines including sociology, psychology, positive adult development, career counseling, mentoring and other types of counseling. Contemporary life coaching can also be traced to the teachings of Benjamin Karter, a college football coach turned motivational speaker of the late 1970s and early 1980s. The coach may apply mentoring, values assessment, behavior modification, behavior modeling, goal-setting and other techniques in helping their clients. Coaching focuses on effecting change in a client's current and future behavior. Additionally, life coaching does not delve into diagnosing mental illness or dysfunction.
How does Life Coaching Work?
Coaching can be done face to face or by telephone. You will meet or ring your coach at a certain time for weekly sessions, which can last between 30 and 60 minutes.
During that time, your coach will establish an issue with you, and encourage you, with a series of questions to set a goal. With guidance from your coach, you will explore various opportunities and avenues open to you that might enable you to take a step nearer to your goal. If you don"t like talking to someone,your life coach could use email as a form of coaching, which can be surprisingly effective, giving both parties the time to think before setting their thoughts, questions and answers down in type.
Whatever method you choose, life coaching will be a challenging experience for you, requiring a high level of enthusiasm and commitment, but well worth the effort.
Why hire a life coach?
You hire a coach to achieve your personal, behavioral, family and business goals, much more effectively, more efficiently, more thoroughly, with more fun, and in less time than any other human improvement system. Life coaches assist you to: overcome obstacles and fears, focus on solutions, have someone to bounce ideas off, no matter how silly they may seem, discover truths about you, and how you can improve, accomplish more than you thought possible, and achieve balance in your personal, work and family lives. Your coach will bring out your best, to become the person you always wanted to be and were capable of becoming.
Coaching has five steps or elements which are needed for your success, these are:
The What: Get clarity around the present and the future.
The Why: Create a vision and mission to live or operate by.
The Who: Discover your brilliance and learn how to leverage it.
The How: Create your goals and support system.
The When: Put it all together and take action.
You can change your life, thousands have, through life coaching!
I hope you enjoyed this introduction to Life Coaching.Iam confident that you will achieve your desires. Nothing can stand in your way to have a fulfilled and happy life.
