Why Life Coaching
I have been coaching and counselling for a long time, and I've had the pleasure of working with hundreds and hundreds of people from all walks of life. I have not yet met anyone who did not want to live a great life full of the people, great possibilities, accomplishments and experiences that were most important to them.
Living a great life is a process that involves getting clear on what you really want to create, ensuring what you want is in alignment with who you are and then making good consistent choices to get there. It also involves learning some important lessons and developing successful belief systems and habits that help you bring out your best, and really enjoy the journey. That is what you are supposed to do here.
Good coaching can be of great help in this process, because it assists with providing you with clarity, focus and the structure of weekly support meetings to keep you on track. Find out if you could benefit from life coaching by answering the following questions.
Assess Yourself
Living a great life is a process that involves getting clear on what you really want to create, ensuring what you want is in alignment with who you are and then making good consistent choices to get there. It also involves learning some important lessons and developing successful belief systems and habits that help you bring out your best, and really enjoy the journey. That is what you are supposed to do here.
Good coaching can be of great help in this process, because it assists with providing you with clarity, focus and the structure of weekly support meetings to keep you on track. Find out if you could benefit from life coaching by answering the following questions.
Assess Yourself
Where on the aliveness index would you place yourself?
Comfort Zone
Are you like most people, lost somewhere in the comfort zone with most of your needs met, doing the same thing today that you did yesterday? Have you lost the sense of genuine excitement in your life? Have you made decisions based solely on habit, responsibility or the expectations of others that do not honour who you are? Have you lost touch with a compelling vision of what you want your life to be about? Are you missing a depth and richness in your day-to-day existence? Are you bogged down? Are you suffering from burnout? Are you overwhelmed or can’t see the sense in it anymore? Do you sense you might be selling yourself short or settling for far less than you might? Rather than a growing sense of excitement, is there a growing deadness about life in the comfort zone?
Coaching Approach: Begin to dream again. Find out what is truly important to you? What makes you feel more fully alive? When was the last time that you felt that life was an adventure and what were you doing then? What is a dream that you would love to chase if you knew you couldn't fail? First find out what is holding you back and then find your passions. When you reconnect to them you will have the power to overcome your challenges, discover your strengths and make a plan to move ahead. Coaching can help you move out of the comfort prison and into life in a matter of a few sessions.
Pain Zone
If you are in the pain zone you'll know it. Some of your important needs are not being met and you will be suffering with the knowledge that you are living a life or working in a career that is not right for you. You may even be suffering from a dis-ease called Depression. Everything is just too much.
Coaching Approach
Coaching helps you break out of the pain zone and you will no longer feel like you are swimming against the current. Let's first get to where your needs are met and from there let's begin to dream again and rediscover the path that will take you forward. What makes you more fully alive? What gets you excited? What are you really good at? When you begin to line up your passions and gifts it appears that the rest of the Universe conspires together to assist you. Please feel free to also read the Universal Laws. You will find them fascinating. Another area to look at will be your subconscious mind and belief systems about life and how belief systems influence your life. This will further fascinate you!
Fully Alive Zone
You are living a conscious life that honours who you are and who you want to become and that fully reflects the values/talents that are most important to you. For most of us this might mean a sense of challenge, learning, making a difference, being free from worry and enjoying the contentment of a well-balanced life, in which we are deeply connected to those we love and life itself.
Two Scenarios
Consider the following two scenarios
- The low road: If you do nothing, imagine where you will be 1 year from now. The odds are that things will not be substantially different and for most people, they may be worse.
- The high road: Imagine if you try coaching, get clarity on what is most important to you and what you need more of in your life, career or business to become more effective or more fully alive. Then further imagine that you have spent time each week benefiting from independent support and systematically taking the necessary steps to create the outcomes you most want. Where might you get to in the next year?
General Questions
- Do you feel substantially more alive or further ahead than you did a year ago?
- Is your life run by things you have to do, as opposed to things you choose or want to do?
- Would you benefit from having clear goals that reflect what is truly important to you?
- Do you often feel like there is something holding you back from a much more successful life?
- Do you close people off from you?
- Do you often know what you should be doing but have a hard time actually doing it?
- Do you find yourself getting angry at times and you don’t know why?
- Do you find it difficult to say “no” when you should have?
- Do you find that it is difficult to be assertive and that there is something that holds you back?
- Are you depressed at times?
- Do you routinely run out of time, energy or patience by the end of the day?
- Is your career more of a job than a calling?
- Is there less meaning in your life, career, relationship or business, than you would like?
- Are you being sick recurrently?
- Do you have a difficult time balancing your career, family, friends, health, etc.?
- Has it been a while since you really enjoyed your self?
- Would you benefit from establishing great habits that keep you moving ahead in all parts of your life?
- Do you routinely find yourself worrying or stressing out about the future?
- Do you often find yourself living automatically or simply going through the motions?
- Would you like to learn how to create a life that directly reflects your greatest gifts, talents and interests?
- Do you want more success, peace, intimate relationships or a sense that your life is making a difference?
- Do you ever get a sense that you are not living the life you were meant to live and that there is much more to life than you are now experiencing?
- Do you have someone in your life that routinely gives you independent feedback and helps you see what you might be missing?
Now choose which type of coaching you wish to receive;
Individual coaching - addressing personal issues
Business / entrepreneurial coaching - addressing business / entrepreneurial issues - sorting problems out
Executive / Leadership coaching - addressing executive management and / or Leadership issues
Professional coaching - addressing the professional in their particular field