Is your life stuck in a rut? Are you disappointed by
your lagging career? Do you feel like you're not living up to your
fullest potential?
Then
maybe what you need is a life coaching session. Just like the coaches who push athletes
to achieve greatness in sports, life and wellness coaches push their
clients to achieve success in their career, relationships, or lifestyle.
What Is Life Coaching?
A life coach is not a psychiatrist. He is someone who will help improve
your personal and/or professional life by offering support and
encouragement while suggesting new ways to achieve your goals. A life
coach is more of a partnership than anything else. It is a support
system with one goal in mind: improving your quality of life.
Just about everyone has a
vision of his or her ideal life. Maybe you've always dreamed of becoming
a successful writer, musician, or corporate executive. Yet your vision
hasn't quite made the leap from your mind to reality.
Life coaching helps clients to:
- Hone in on their skills and ambitions.
- Refocus their life's goals.
- Overcome obstacles that stand in the way of achieving goals.

Life coach vs. Therapy
Life coaching and therapy are both
based on support, trust and complete confidentiality. They also make
equal use of listening skills and non-judgmental attitudes toward the
client. Therapy deals with the past and handling
emotional pain; whereas, coaching deals more with the near future and
devising action plans toward a specific goal. You do not need to be hypnotized during a life coaching session.
Need life coaching?
Only you will know if you really need a life coach or not. The following list of questions may help you decide:
- Do you often feel overwhelmed from the daily tasks at hand?
- Do you feel like you’re living life unconsciously?
- Do you suffer from low self-esteem?
- Do you feel like everyone seems to have a master plan but you?
- Is there a lack of support in your life?
- Do you feel like the whole world is out to get you?
- Are you going through difficult times in life and need a helping hand?
- Do you have deadlines you just can’t deal with and don’t know how to cope?
Answering
yes to any of the above questions doesn’t necessarily mean you need
therapy, but might suggest that you could benefit from some life
coaching.
Why it works
Unlike other forms of self-help or therapy, life
coaching offers a new look on basic human needs. Partnership, support
and know-how are areas that distinguish life coaching from other
therapies.
Partnership - Tiger Woods, at the top of his game, still works on
improving his skills. For this, he relies on his coach to make sure he
still has the edge. A similar bond exists between the life coach and the
client.
Support - Individuals are better able to make big
decisions when they have the support of friends, family, peers, or a
life coach. With a life coach a client is more comfortable taking bigger
strides to getting the job done and making the appropriate changes
toward a better life.
Life coaching helps people realize they can be something else.
The sessions are not confined to the usual meeting or therapy rooms — more and more
people contact their coach by phone, e-mail or even meet for a quick
drink. Let's find a perfect place to relax and talk with me. Again, you do not need to be hypnotized during a life coaching session.
P/S: Email me ([email protected]) now for more information, it is better tell me a little bit about yourself via email before you make an appointment to meet me.
Sources:
http://www.webmd.com/balance/guide/life-and-wellness-coaches
http://www.askmen.com/money/body_and_mind_100/141b_better_living.html