Can A Personal Life Coach Help You?
Personal life coaches help people set and achieve their goals using several techniques. Most life coaches have backgrounds in sociology, psychology, and / or counseling because those fields are used in life coaching. Many people think that it is a type of therapy; however life coaching is all about the future whereas therapy focuses on the past.
A life coach can help out their clients in tons of ways. Life coaches can help a variety of areas such as relationship coaching, career building, or growth as a person. Sometimes all it takes is someone there to motivate you or just push you a little bit to get you over the hump during a rough patch.
I can say from personal experience, that a life coach helped me. I just was out of a relationship and I found somebody to help me out. In relationship coaching, we talked about what was really going on and how there was nothing that was my fault or could have changed. He basically was telling me that don’t let this discourage me because it is only one person and she clearly had some problems in her own mind to fix out before she was to be involved with somebody. This helped me realize that it wasn’t me like my ex-girl friend laid it on me. It made me forget about it and move on, and my coach surely helped me.
Had I not gone to him, things would have been different, and I don’t know how I would have been able to move on by myself. All it takes is a little guidance sometime to get to a person. Many of the clients are middle aged, going through what many call their mid-life crisis. This can be especially tough to get through and talking about it can only help.
Be warned, life coaches can be very expensive, and some of the better ones can cost hundreds of dollars per hour, but they are the best at what they do and can get you in the right step that you need. You can also seek out online life coaching, which in most cases is less expensive than in person.
Questions A Personal Life Coach Would Ask
Editors note: This is a guest post from one of our readers C. Hammill
I am currently taking a course to be a personal life coach and in my training we were given a list of 10 questions to ask our new clients. I’d like to share that list with you so you can start asking these questions of yourself. They may seem simple, but they are designed to get the client to open up and start talking about issues the coach can help them with.
1. What do I really want?
This may seem like a simple enough question, but a lot of people don’t really know what they want. They know what their spouses want, or their children, but not themselves.
2. Am I happy with what I’m doing and the situation I am in?
Are you finding satisfaction and happiness with your current situation (job, relationships, etc)? If there’s an area that you answered ‘no’, that’s where you should start.
3. What motivates me?
What motivates you to want to do better with your life? Find what keeps you going and use that as fuel to keep improving.
Making changes is never easy. There are going to be times when you want to give up and go back to your old ways. When that hapens, and it will, ask yourself these three questions. Hopefull they will help you get back on track.
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