Life Coaching - What is it?
Are you living your dream? If not, why not? If you are not living the life you would ideally choose for yourself, you soon could be! A life coach can help you to unleash your inner drive and make it happen.
A life coach will not make your decisions for you. What he/she will do is make you aware of the abundance of options in front of you, motivate you to make the desired changes in your life and support you in your journey from where you are now to where you want to be.
Life coaching is usually conducted in a series of one-to-one meetings or telephone conversations, lasting up to an hour each. During these, your coach will facilitate your focusing your goals and finding manageable steps towards achieving them. At the next session, you will report your progress to your coach.
Life coaching is not counselling or psychotherapy. The latter two are about finding emotional resolution to problems, present or past. Life coaching is about changing your behaviour; there is little analysis and lots of action. Your coach will not spend much time discussing with you how you feel, although he/she will challenge the negative beliefs that are holding you back, in order that you may ditch them and embrace your exciting future.
Have you always dreamed of having your own yacht/travelling the globe/being a business tycoon? Do you want to get in shape/learn Spanish/make new friends? If so, why haven't you done it yet? With the help of a life coach, you can break through your fears, raise your self-esteem and go for it!
Life coaching won't necessarily work for everybody. People who have been traumatised, either as children or later in life, may find that they need to work through the pain in therapy before they can benefit from the brisk approach of life coaching. However, if this is not your case and you are feeling stuck in a rut, struggling with time management, sure there must be a great deal more to life than this, then life coaching can transform you.
You can find a life coach to give your life a general shake-up or to specialise in a specific area. You can have coaching to help with your work, coaching to help you land the job you've always wanted, coaching to support you through a big change such as moving house, coaching to inspire and motivate you to make the most of your life - any, all or a mixture of these.
To find yourself a life coach, just search the internet. If one doesn't live close enough for you to visit, remember that telephone coaching works very well. A good coach will give you a free consultation before the coaching proper starts, so you can decide whether you want to go ahead, do something different or try another coach. So there is no risk involved in contacting a life coach. Why not do it right now?
If you would like to find out more about life coaching in the UK and what it can do for you, you can find a great deal of helpful advice on our life coaching website.
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