As working with a life coach has become more popular across the nation, many wonder what life coaching is all about, often assuming the process is similar to therapy, though it is not.
What is a Life Coach?
An umbrella term for all different kinds of coaching, life coaches help people succeed in many life areas from the professional to the personal, assisting in the achievement of everything from career, relationship, and financial goals, to cultivating more healthy habits and forming a more positive self-image and mindset. Spanning all age groups, life stages, and ambitions, for every goal, there is a life coach with the unique capacity to help you harness your full potential and surpass the challenges necessary to reach it.
How Does the Life Coaching Partnership Work?
Looking at specific goals, whether they be a personal or professional, life coaches expertly analyze a person’s current situation, identifying challenges, devising a custom-tailored plan, and modifying goals as needed to help clients reach their desired outcome. This unique relationship fosters accountability on the part of the client, encouraging self-discovery and personal growth, helping each person realize their maximum potential.
Life Coaching is Different from Therapy
Surmounting personal limitations is integral to life coaching. However, unlike therapy, which looks to the influence of your past on your current situation, life coaching looks at the now and the future, helping you identify and resolve core issues integral to reaching your goals. Action-oriented and highly-personalized, it can help you improve multiple facets of your life, analyzing your personal situation to help you craft unique solutions for implementing personal/professional change.
What Happens in a Life Coaching Session?
Common steps in life coaching include:
- Helping the client identify goals.
- Helping the client identify goals.
- Painting a picture and defining what ‘success’ will look like.
- Uncovering limiting beliefs and negative patterns currently thwarting progress.
- Creating a specific action plan to help you achieve your goals.
- Developing a timeline and defining steps to success.
- Calibrating short and long-term goals in harmony with your core values.
- Prep work for potential obstacles you might encounter and how you’ll circumnavigate them.
- Motivational support and the tracking of goals to support accountability.
- Modifications to your plan, as needed.
What Can a Life Coach Help You Accomplish?
People choose life coaching to improve their growth potential in many arenas. Top coaches, famous actors, successful business leaders, artists, homemakers, and more all rely on life coaching to help themselves reach new heights in their personal and professional lives. Common goals life coaches help clients realize include:
- Improved work/life balance.
- A clearer life purpose.
- Financial independence.
- More effective communication/leadership.
- Promotions at work.
- Making life/business transitions (preparing for change).
- Growing a new/existing business.
- Weight loss and fitness goals.
- More fulfilling romantic relationships.
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