Welcome to a New Beginning 

We all know people who help others achieve their goals, who inspire friends and family to persevere in the face of adversity and refuse to allow them to wallow in the seeming security of a mediocre job or life. They inspire others to greatness by gentle persuasion, constant encouragement, or a kind of in-your-face inducement. Perhaps you know someone like that. Or perhaps you are someone like that, which is why you are reading this guide.

It’s a myth that the reason so many people never accomplish their goals is that they don’t really want them or don’t want them badly enough. Life coaches understand that. People use life coaches for the same reason that they use sports coaches or personal trainers: they want someone to work with them, to encourage them, to push them. It’s easy to find excuses for not exercising when you don’t have someone to push you; it's not as easy when your personal trainer shows up at your door three times a week wearing a jogging suit.

As a coach, my job is to provide objective, unbiased feedback to clients. I am not here to judge or determine what you should do or what you need but to act as a facilitator so that you can figure it out for yourself. A life coach can help people set and achieve goals, identify areas of their lives that need changing, support them in those changes, and stand by them as they navigate challenges and successes

 

Well-meaning though they may be, friends and family members may think that they know what is best for someone, and their ideas often conflict with what the individual thinks is best for himself or herself. Life coaches free their clients from expectations imposed on them by others. Life coaches are here to help people who are trying to do too much and guide them toward what they would really like to be doing and what gives them the most satisfaction. Often, clients find that it is not what they are currently doing at all.

People sometimes spend their entire lives doing what they are told they should do, what their parents expect of them, or what they think society expects of them. But what about doing what they really want? Some have been caught up in this cycle for so long that they're not even sure what they want. But they can still find out. We, as Life coaches, do not have an agenda. That is up to you!

Another big issue in life coaching is helping people prioritize and find balance in their busy lives. Coaches report that a lot of their clients are already successful people, many of whose upper-level positions in the corporate world have left them feeling isolated. They want someone who is both willing to listen and provide honest, sometimes blunt feedback. They need to hear what employees and subordinates won’t tell them, which is why a lot of executives are turning to personal coaches.
Life coaching does not carry the stigma that therapy does. Men, in particular, are often reluctant to see a therapist and even more reluctant to admit to seeing one. However, life coaches report that their clients are about evenly divided between the genders.

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