Choosing A Personal Life Coach
A personal life coach can provide positive guidance on various aspects of your life. Although life coaches will generally focus on one area, finding a life coach can provide guidance in both your personal and professional development and well being. In your personal life, a life coach can provide mentoring, advice, or simply a sounding board for you to bounce ideas off of. If there is an area of your personal life that you feel could use improvement, a life coach may be able to provide concrete and specific ideas and advice that you can implement.
A life coach will generally draw on their own life experience and training. It may draw on various disciplines, including sociology, psychology, positive psychology, and motivational speaking. It’s important that you research a life coach who can help you achieve your personal goals. You may want to set up a quick meeting to get to know a potential life coach so you can determine whether or not he or she is a good fit to help you develop, understand, and implement a plan to reach your life’s goals. If you are working with an online life coach, you can use services such as Skype to communicate. Online life coaching is every bit at helpful as in person, so if you can’t find a local coach, check the internet.
In your professional life, a life coach can provide support and critical feedback so you can begin to perform better at your current job, develop new professional goals, and implement specific short and long term goals to help you achieve your professional and career aspirations. A life coach that can help you in business may be a good idea if you are looking to advance further in your current job, or help you transition from a current job to a better, higher paying, or more fulfilling career opportunity. In fact, you can even consult the advice of a life coach if you find yourself without employment. A life coach can help you implement your own plan by developing core skills. These can include leadership skills, team working and team building capabilities, sales skills, communication skills (including both talking and listening,) and strategic planning.
A personal life coach can truly help you turn your life around. It’s important that you find an accredited coach, who can view things from a perspective you may not have been able to recognize. Tough decisions often require the feedback of an objective sounding board who has your own best interest in mind, and a life coach can be that person. Make sure that your coach understands how you want the relationship to work, and that the life coach has a level of expertise in the field you wish to work on that you are comfortable with.
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Your Own Personal Life Coach
When it comes to your life, you’re the boss. No one can take control of your life or your destiny. To be able to move forward, we need to practice positive thinking. Positive thinking helps people to focus on our strengths and accomplishments which will increase our happiness and motivation. Doing so will help us make progress in our lives and prevent us from feeling down and stuck. A personal life coach sometimes known as a life skills coach, would help show you ways to take control over your own life but if working with one is not something you can work out right now, here are some tips to get you started in the right direction.
1. Take Good Care of Yourself
When we take care of our bodies, we tend to feel better about ourselves and our lives. Get plenty of rest, exercise regularly, and eat right.
2. Remind Yourself of the Things You Are Grateful For
If you are constantly reminded of the of the things that are right in our lives, challenges and stress don’t seem so bad. Take about a minute a day to appreciate the good things in your life.
3. Look for the Proof Instead of Making Assumptions
How many times have you thought YOU were the reason someone was in a bad mood? That it was what YOU said or did that caused them to turn away from you? It’s a normal fear of not being liked or accepted, but our fears are not usually reality. If you think that you did or said something, don’t hesitate to ask them. Without proof, there’s nothing to worry about.
4. Refrain from Using Absolutes
Try to stay away from using words like always, never and can’t. Those words make it absolute. “You’re ALWAYS late”, “you NEVER listen” and “I CAN’T do that” are lines that will restrict you from positive thinking.
5. Detach From Negative Thoughts
If you notice yourself having a negative thought, detach from it, witness it, and don’t follow it.
6. Squash the “ANTs”
In his book “Change Your Brain, Change Your Life,” Dr. Daniel Amen talks about “ANTs” – Automatic Negative Thoughts. These are the bad thoughts that are usually reactionary, like “Those people are laughing, they must be talking about me,” or “The boss wants to see me? It must be bad!” When you notice these thoughts, realize that they are nothing more than ANTs and squash them!
7. Practice Lovin’, Touchin’ & Squeezin’ (Your Friends and Family)
I grew up in a house where hugs were an everyday occurrence. Positive physical contact with friends, loved ones, and even pets, is an instant pick-me-up. Relationship coaching books can help you work specifically in this area.
8. Increase Your Social Activity
If your were to increase your social activity, you would decrease your loneliness. Make it a point to be around healthy and happy people and their positive energy will affect you in a positive way!
9. Volunteer for an Organization, or Help another Person
Whenever I help someone, I feel good about myself. Whatever you can do to help the community will come back to you in a positive way.
10. Use Pattern Interrupts to Combat Rumination
If you find yourself ruminating, a great way to stop it is to interrupt the pattern and force yourself to do something completely different. Rumination is like hyper-focus on something negative. It’s never productive, because it’s not rational or solution-oriented, it’s just excessive worry. Try changing your physical environment – go for a walk or sit outside. You could also call a friend, pick up a book, or turn on some music.
I know these tips will help you. Positive thinking doesn’t happen over night, but if you keep striving towards it, it will happen.
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