What does a Life Coach do?
It’s a Life Coach’s job to ask you what you would like to accomplish and then listen for insights to what you really want to change. You are the expert in your own life. You do know what you want. You probably even know how to get it. You just probably haven’t set a goal and taken the actions to achieve it. It’s my job to walk you through it.
Coaching is about forwarding your thinking. It’s about taking a look at where you are now, and where you want to get to, setting a goal. I will ask you what we coaches call Wisdom Access Questions to spark new ideas; and to turn the ideas you already have into actions. To help you make your dreams your reality!
A coach is kind of like a personal trainer for your life. If you decide you want to get in shape you could go to the gym and do it yourself. But most likely you’ll lose the motivation and stop going. Or you won’t push yourself very hard so you won’t get the desired results. However, you know that if you hire a personal trainer you’ll have appointments to show up for and he or she will push you harder to reach your goal. In coaching we call that stretch. We stretch your thinking farther than you would have taken it yourself. It’s hard to keep your patterns and your life the same when you focus so much consistent attention on what you really want, and make promises to a third party.
Coaching is not advice, therapy, counseling or consulting. Coaching is a way to help people make the best use of their own resources. It is a way to bring out the best of people's capabilities. Coaching is goal and results oriented and can focus on virtually any area of life: dating, relationships, business, career, family, health, personal growth, spirituality, intimacy, simple living, and financial development. Other coaching services include value clarification, brainstorming, identifying plans of action, examining modes of operating in life, asking clarifying questions, and making empowering requests. We teach, explore alternatives, inspire, act as a sounding board, build confidence and capability, listen with compassion, develop skills, provide a challenge, act as a model, and explore potential. A coach often acts as a partner, providing clients with tools, support, and structure to achieve more than they might be able to do by themselves.
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