Why Life Coaching?

What is Life Coaching?

Why Would I Want Life Coaching?

GREAT QUESTIONS!

Just Look Around the World Today

There are coaches for many things,  we have birthing coaches, every sport (individual or team) has a coach, we have coaches for our kids, we have coaches for music, we have coaches for just about everything. Except the day to day struggles, trials and tribulations of life itself. 

Years ago, life was simpler, slower and easier, but life has become so incredibly busy that we need someone to remind us of who we are, how great we can be and to help bring clarity to our daily routine. So it only makes sense that we have a Life Coach, because after all, aren't your life skills the most important aspect of your day to day existence that we all should strive to improve on? 

Coaching by design, is simply a tool to help you grow, become more balanced and to get the most out of yourself.

So What Can a Life Coach Do For ME?

ANOTHER GREAT QUESTION!

This, of course, is the most important and most asked question.

What's in it for ME?

What can you do for ME?

Why would I want or need a Life Coach?

A Life Coach will help bring out the true YOU and help you to make some of the most important and most difficult decisions of your life.

 
A Life Coach will validate, champion and encourage you in your most important and more importantly, in the daily tasks, we call life.

A Life Coach can help you realize clarity or the inner self that makes you who you are, but many of us often lose in today's busy world.

  
A Life Coach will entice you to be your absolute best and encourage you to find solutions within yourself. 

A Life Coach will help you through difficult and trying times by being there to support and help you. 

A Life Coach will bring out the best you have to offer and then help you refine your skills to be even better than you imagined you could be. 

We all have greatness within ourselves, but few of us ever discover how great we can be.

 "We are all Human Beings, but today many of us have become Human Doings"
Get Back to BEING


 
Life Coaching will help you discover your own greatness.

I Don't Need 'Help' or Therapy?

THAT'S GREAT BECAUSE IT ISN'T WHAT A LIFE COACH DOES

A true and professional Life Coach will NOT impose their personal opinions on you, give you answers or tell you what to do, nor will you be analyzed or 'treated' like a patient in psychotherapy. In fact, the majority of Life Coaches are not licensed to practice therapy. In all honestly, I **personally would be leery of a Life Coach who actually is a licensed and practicing professional in the field of therapy or psychology because, there is simply too much opportunity to turn a coaching session into a 'couch type session'. This is not what Life Coaching is about. It definitely is NOT what I do. 
If you require this type of help, please seek a licensed professional from the mental health field. 

Therapy looks into your past, and tries to find the answers to 'why' things are the way they are. 
Life Coaching looks at the present and into the future of what YOU CAN BECOME and how you can grow to be that person.

A good life Coach will be there to support and draw answers from within you. A true Life Coach will make you think about your options and possible solutions. You'll never be analyzed. Life Coaching sessions should never feel like 'therapy'. They should feel more like time spent with a wise and supportive old friend who really wants to know the real you and desperately wants to see, and help you do well, at whatever you choose to do.

 What Might We Talk About?

HOW ABOUT: YOUR LIFE IN GENERAL, PROBLEMS, EXPERIENCES, WANTS, NEEDS, DREAMS, FUTURE, KIDS, INTIMACY, 
RELATIONSHIPS, MONEY, TRAVEL, JOBS, SEX, PERSONAL GROWTH, SOCIAL STANDING, SELF ESTEEM...

Here is a short list of some of the most common items that come up in coaching sessions;

What the Media Has to Say About Life Coaching

“Part consultant, part motivational speaker, part therapist, and part rent-a-friend, coaches work with managers, entrepreneurs, and just plain folks, helping them define and achieve their goals — career, personal, or most often, both.”— Newsweek, February 1996

“Coaches have the ability to view things from afar—in what some call ‘helicopter vision’—and to shed new light on difficult situations, often they can act as a sounding board through tough decisions, help sharpen skills, motivate.” – CFO Magazine

Phone Coaching vs In-Person Coaching

While I certainly can and do meet face to face with my clients, I prefer to coach by phone or via an online chat service. 
Following are some of the key reasons that I prefer these methods. 

1. Efficiency. It is more efficient for myself and my clients. I can coach you in any location at any time, anywhere in the world. Time IS money and by communicating through these methods everyone saves time and communicating is far more effective and productive. 
   
   
2. Accessibility. I coach clients from Europe and all over the world. I certainly wouldn't expect my clients to fly to my location just to see me and I sure can't fly from location to location for an hour meeting a week. There is never a worry about 'being in town' to get to a scheduled appointment, we can always communicate, from anywhere there is a phone. If it weren't for the internet and the amazing communication options we have in today's world no one would have the options presented to us, take advantage and embrace these options. 
   
   
3. Anonymity. It is my experience, that people tend to open up more quickly when they are on the phone. Sometimes you don't want to 'bump into' the person whom you have discussed your life with, by communicating over the phone or Internet, we may actually never meet, or we may meet and not even know it. You even have the luxury of keeping your true identity private if you wish.. Phone coaching is the perfect if you want are uncomfortable discussing 'delicate' matters or even if you are simply a very private person. A great many people find this gives them the freedom to really tell the truth about their life and what is really going on. Remember that I have a legal obligation to keep all conversations and information confidential. 

Phone coaching is highly effective. 
Trust me it definitely IS, but don't take my word for it, give it a go! I

Don't be shy, ask for a FREE 30 minute session and see for yourself how effective it is.

ARE YOU STARTING TO GET THE IDEA?

**There are Life Coaches who are or were Licensed in the Mental Health field who have stepped away or are able to 'turn off' their internal Analyst while conducting Life Coaching sessions. I'm not suggesting this can't be done, many are quite good at doing both. My suggestion is only that you make sure of the situation and person you are going to work with, to ensure it is the best possible fit for your needs.