Posted by: A\'dell Harper | June 29, 2007

Real Talk Life Coaching

Life coaching is a process designed to encourage you to achieve even greater personal and professional success.

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Life coaching is increasingly used by leaders, executives and athletes who want achieve more in their lives. It is for people those who truly desire to live more successfully, helping them to create a healthier and more balanced lifestyle.

Life Coaching is for anyone who wants to use the tools available to them to help them to enrich their lives and experience greater joy and happiness.

Life Coaching originally developed out of athletic and performance coaching, which helped athletes to reach their goals and a Life Coach does for your life what a personal trainer or athletic coach does for your body.

Just as an athletic coach will encourage his client to think about and visualise themselves winning a race so a Life Coach will help you to identify your real priorities and your long-term life goals.

Your Life Coach will ask you questions like: “Who do you want to be in the future and where are you now?”

Life Coaching’s focus is primarily positive, it is about the present and about the future. Together we help you build a vision of your future that is inspiring and achievable. Your Life Coach will help you to work towards your goals and celebrate your success and support you when things don’t go to plan.

Life Coaching typically covers areas such as Life Work Balance, Motivation, Confidence, Life Goals, Career Change, Communication, Stress Reduction, Meaning, Purpose, Personal Vision and Future Success Mapping.

“Life Coaching is the newest, fastest and most effective way to reassess and rework any area of your life. What a personal trainer does for your body; a life coach does for your life.”

-The Guardian

“…a process that enables learning and development to occur and thus performance to improve. To be a successful a Coach requires a knowledge and understanding of process as well as the variety of styles, skills and techniques that are appropriate to the context in which the coaching takes place”

- Eric Parsloe

Life coaching is used by a growing number of psychologists to aid clients with transitions in their personal life, and in the process of self-actualization.

Life coaching draws from a number of disciplines, including sociology, psychology, career counseling, and numerous other types of counseling.


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