Coaching Q & A
For some people, the Self-Help Online Course is all that's needed to get them off and running.
But perhaps you have a special project or particular concern that you'd like some personal, professional or life coaching with. You might want someone to
- Objectively act as a sounding board for you
- Help you to outline and chart your project plan and stay on track it
- Provide personal attention to keep you accountable to your and goals
- Reinforce the principles you learned in the YOUR LIFE BY DESIGN Online Courses
Or perhaps you need help with underlying patterns of behavior that are holding you back from fulfilling your aspirations.
What is Personal-Professional Life Coaching?
Coaching for individuals and professionals is a relatively new and rapidly growing profession that works with you individually to help you achieve results and sustain life-changing behavior in your personal life or career.
Personal-professional life coaching addresses you as a whole person - with an emphasis on getting you into action and providing learning that can lead you to more fulfillment, more balance, and a more effective process for living and working.
There are many different styles of coaching. The one that we espouse at YOUR LIFE BY DESIGN involves the active and collaborative participation of both you and your coach, with your needs and learning at the center of the session.
In other words, you are the total focus. It's about you and your values and aspirations. It's about what you want to create in your life or career and what will help you to achieve it.
What is special about a Personal-Professional Life Coach?
Who do you have in your life now that is available to offer the extraordinary level of support and encouragement you can receive from a Life Coach?
Having a coach is like having a guide for your journey through your life: someone to help you find your way and keep you on course.
Imagine having someone who listens to you - not just the words you're using, but the meaning behind the words. Someone who's tuned into everything you're saying - including the emotion and energy you're speaking with.
Imagine being cheered on, when you might have given up on your own vision. A personal coach is someone who knows what you are capable of and will help you keep going at times when you may not be able to see the end of the road just ahead of you.
What will we do in a Personal-Professional Life Coaching Session?
Your personal coach will help you to create a vision of what you really want to bring into being and provide you with feedback and guidance so that you can fulfill your vision. Your life coach is there to listen to you and help you uncover what truly matters to you.
Your coach will mirror back to you your strengths and, when needed, provide specialized consulting to help you uncover and release behavior patterns that are holding you back in your life and/or career.
Together with your own coach, you will discover changes in thinking that will help you to realize your vision.
Suppose you are experiencing self-doubt. Perhaps in the past, this has been a reason for you to give up on your goals.
- Your coach will help you learn how to move on beyond the doubt.
- Your coach will hold your dream for you during these periods until you can hold your vision for yourself again.
- Your coach will maintain a faith in you and your extraordinary capacity for creating what truly matters to you!
Together with your personal-professional life coach, you will create a strong and stable base on which to move forward with the actions necessary to realize your vision - more easily than if you were trying to bring it about on your own.
How does Coaching help me move forward?
- In personal-professional life coaching you will be helped to articulate what you dream of, aspire to, and truly desire.
- You will be helped to clarify your vision and set goals along with the steps you need to take to achieve them.
- And you will be helped to create the outcomes you are truly committed to.
Suppose that you have hired a personal-professional life coach to help you achieve success in your career.
- Your success will be developed on many levels. You will be asked to explore what a fulfilling life is for you. You will look at your life - past, present, and future - to discover what you are committed to.
- You'll be challenged to organize your life around your truest values and to pursue your own fulfillment. This is where your creative fire will come from. Your desire to bring something great into being will energize you and be the drive you need to complete your most important goals and visions.
- In the process, you will also be helped to deal effectively with your "Gremlin" - the inner voice that tends to pop in just as we are about to take a step forward in our lives.
- You will gain perspective on your life and issues from many different angles, which will not only expand your thinking but free you of concepts that have not been serving you well.
How does a Personal-Professional Life Coach help me to become more capable?
In your personal or professional coaching session, you and your coach will explore your world together.
Your coach knows that you already have the resources within you to answer the questions that come up. Your coach will help you to find them within yourself. Your own experience of finding answers to important questions that arise in the coaching session will provide learning that is profound and lasting!
The learning that will take place in your personal coaching sessions, will provide growth that will continue long after the coaching process is over.
Is Personal-Professional Life Coaching like Therapy?
Not at all.
In therapy and counseling, time is spent describing what's wrong in your life - the problems - and figuring out the source of those problems and how to correct them.
In personal-professional life coaching, on the other hand, the focus is creative: directed at what you want to create - your goals and visions - and helping you to be successful at accomplishing that.
In coaching, we get right down to the bottom line: Your attention is on defining your vision, becoming crystal clear about where you are at the moment in relation to your goals, setting out an action plan, and staying on track toward fulfilling it.
What's the Role of a Personal-Professional Coach
The role of a personal-professional life coach is quite similar to that of a coach's in sports. Like the sports coach, your personal coach will help you to dig in deep and bring out the very best you have inside of you. Your coach will know what is needed in order to make that happen.
As in sports, having a personal coach saves you time and has proven to be highly effective in helping people achieve their goals.
People are hiring personal-professional life coaches today for many different purposes. Here is what you can expect to gain from having a personal coach. Coaching Offers You:
- Support and guidance to help you advance your project from the "Good-Idea" stage toward achievement
- Insightful, personal attention from someone who knows what you are capable of
- Sometimes the plain truth to allow you to see what you are doing to prevent your success
- Someone to hold you accountable to your vision and goals
- A "Partner" who is on your side and who wants to see you succeed
- Coaching techniques to help you achieve the goals you set out to achieve
- Guidance and instruction in making good decisions and
- Support to hold you to your decisions
Besides the above, here are some other ways that coaching services are being used. To Help Clients:
- Organize their homes and offices
- Be successful in their weight-loss program
- Prepare for retirement
- Set up a physical training plan
- Get through a particularly difficult change of life
- and so on
In a personal-professional life coach, you have an unbiased partner who has the will and the training to support you in making happen what you are truly committed to make happen.
Hiring a coach is an opportunity for you to put your wants and needs at the center of your life and go to work on creating what really matters to you.
Is Personal-Professional Life Coaching right for you?
Here's what we recommend to all of our clients. Complete the YOUR LIFE BY DESIGN Online Master Course: "FROM VISION TO COMPLETION…Life Without Struggle"
Once you've done that, if you believe that working with a personal coach is your next logical step, contact us for a free 1/2-hour conversation and we'll help you decide if we're the right ones for you.
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