Life Coaching

Firstly it is important to realize now that anyone who has a life, can benefit from working with a life coach. Why? Because life coaching covers your whole life and all its areas: Career or Business, Money or Finance, Health and Fitness, Personal Growth, Spirituality (not necessarily religion), Intimate Relationships, Family and Friends, and also Fun and Relaxation. And because life coaching is about creating Fulfillment or Results, Balance and Enjoying the Process of “Doing”.

What Life Coaching “Is Not”

Often when I tell people I am a life coach, I get asked the question: “What is life coaching?” So I thought I’d begin by explaining what life coaching is not. Life Coaching is not therapy. Life coaching is not counseling. Life coaching is not consulting. Life coaching is not about having an expert tell you what to do and how to live your life. Life coaching is not about having someone give you all the answers. Life coaching is not having your life coach solve your problems. And, Life coaching is certainly not about your life coach allowing you to keep on repeating the same life patterns you have been running. Life coaching is not about having a life coach wave a magic wand and make you feel better and make everything right instantly.

What “Is” Life Coaching

So what is Life Coaching then? Life coaching is about helping you journey through your own life process in an upward spiral way, consistently improving, feeling better and better as time goes on. Life coaching is about having a life coach who serves as a sounding board, to “really” listen to you, to “really hear and feel what you are expressing and saying. Life coaching is about having a life coach listen and feel deeply and unconditionally to the words and feelings “behind” or “underneath” your words.Life coaching is about having a life coach “really” understand that where you are right now is “just right” for you right now and know that you already have the answers and resources that you need inside of you. Life coaching is about having a life coach that challenges you to move forward, to grow, to evolve, to have the courage to become and truly the higher vision you have of yourself.

Life coaching is about having a life coach stand by you and walk with you when life gets challenging. At the same time life coaching is about having a life coach be neutral and unattached to whatever it is you are going through and having the courage to tell you “how it is” so that you stop living in the stories and dramas of life. Life coaching is about helping you realize why you want what you want and by having a strong, unstoppable purpose, taking action towards what you want comes naturally and easily. Life coaching is about helping you take ‘forward moving’ action with courage and with certainty even when you are unsure of how it will turn out. Life coaching is about helping you develop faith and trust in your own personal process and that it is right for you.

Life coaching is about a life coach asking you powerful questions that you never even considered before, hence provoking deeper thought and insight into you life and also stimulating more powerful action towards what you want. Life coaching is about asking you powerful questions so that the answers and solutions that are already inside of you begin now to reveal themselves. Life coaching is about helping you realize and understand with clarity who you really are at your core, your higher self and higher wisdom and your higher purpose. Life coaching is about helping you design with clarity the life vision and mission and to know your undeniable purpose in life.

Life coaching is about helping you bridge the gap between where you are and the life of results, life of balance and life of serenity that you want and deserve. Life coaching is about helping you achieve and live your dreams now, not 10 or 20 years from now. Life coaching is about helping you become the person you need to be in order to achieve all your goals and dreams. Life coaching is about helping you create a more balanced life. And finally and probably most importantly, life coaching is about helping you enjoy your process and journey as you move forward to create and achieve the life you want.

Benefits You Will Get from Life Coaching

Besides all the natural benefits that you will get in your life as listed above already, here are even more benefits you will experience and get from working with a life coach:

	You will have a life coach that holds you to a higher standard, because they always recognize the higher you within you even when you don’t see it.
	You will have a life coach that will always keep in focus (never lose sight of) who it is you want to be and what it is you want to achieve or create, even when you feel lost or lose track on your journey for a while.
	You will have a life coach that will help you steer your life towards the life values and direction that will support you in achieving your goals and dreams faster while enjoying the process.
	Anything you can and want to do, create or achieve, you can do more efficiently, better and faster with a life coach.
	You will have a life coach that will offer fresh perspectives that will help you make your journey more enjoyable, help you be more motivated and driven, and help you create results faster.
	With a life coach, your personal growth and self improvement process will be one that is filled with positive results and experiences rather than the usual ‘stuff’.

Who Can Benefit from Life Coaching

Generally, everyone and anyone will benefit from life coaching or from working with a life coach. And here are some examples of who could specifically benefit from working with a life coach:

	If you find it challenging knowing what you want, how you want to create your future or life.
	If you find yourself repeating the same destructive or limiting life cycles or behavior patterns.
	If you know what you want to do, create or achieve but don’t know what to do to get there or feel you don’t have enough resources to get there.
	If you feel your life is swinging from one extreme to another causing you to not be able to get a grip long enough to do what you need to do.
	If you feel your life is out of balance and want more balance now in your life.
	If you think, see or feel that you’re really great at achieving but not so good at enjoying what you have or the process and would like to do that now.
	If you would like to discover what your “specific” values and needs are in life are and how they are influencing the direction of your life and also how you can change them to take your life in the direction you want.
	If you would like to create and achieve the goals, results and dreams that you want faster and improve the quality of your life.

How Life Coaching Works

• The process of life coaching is usually done over the phone or internet, although it can also be done face to face.
• Each life coaching call or session lasts between 30 minutes to 45 minutes.
• Before your first coaching session, there will be an “Intake Session” where you and your life coach designs the “Coaching Alliance” with each other, so that both are clear about the coaching relationship.
• Before each coaching call or session, you will fill up a form to review the time that has passed since the last session and also decide what you will choose to move forward and create results in next.
• On each call, you and your life coach will talk, discuss and design how you will take the next steps in order to move forward with results.

That’s the basic format of how life coaching works although each session may vary slightly depending on what “comes up” and presents itself in your life.