What is Life Coaching?

As a sports coach helps to keep an athlete focused on their goals, simultaneously raising awareness of areas of training which need to be developed, while providing guidance and encouragement during the process of change the athlete undertakes to achieve their greatest potential, so a Life Coach provides a similar service to their clients.

Quite often, when clients come to me for an initial consultation, they know they are not happy in their present circumstances, whether personal or professional, but are not sure of exactly what it is they want (oftentimes they are also unsure of what they don’t want).  Together we begin the process of change.  First of all, each one of us needs to find out what we love to do, and need more of (a significant primary key to the direction one needs to take); what we are tolerating in our lives and need less of, and finally we develop a strategic plan of step by step action which needs to be implemented in order to achieve the desired outcome.  Throughout the process I support and encourage, keeping my clients focused and using my skills and personal experience to help people I work with maintain confidence in their ability to create the life they want to live.

 Ongoing exploration is a necessary part of the work, making fresh insights helps us to understand that we deserve the life we want to live, and that it is important not to shy away from our dreams because achieving them seems too good to be true.  As Mark Victor Hansen, a human potential expert and author says “What you want wants you.”  This means there is a reason why you want what you want, be it improved career prospects, a healthier body or more satisfactory relationships.  Whatever your needs happen to be, the person ultimately standing in the way of your making the progress you want to make is you – and once motivated, clear about, and fully focused on what you want, you will make the right choices for the enhancement of your life.