What Does A Life Coach Do For You?

Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.” – Earl Nightingale

Is a life coach a part of your life? Should a life coach be a part of your life?

The article below gives some information about a life coach and what they can do to help you become more powerful and live a better life.

To discuss what a life coach can do for you and to schedule a session with Michael, use the contact form below.

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An Introduction To Life Coaching – by Coaching For Results

Life Coaching is about transformation-from a caterpillar to a butterfly” – Curly Martin

Life Coaching, is a phrase that most people are familiar with these days. When you think of life coaching, you’ll probably almost always think of Tony Robbins at the same time. He’s probably the most famous life coach on the planet!

Life coaching is a profession that’s most certainly people focused. The aim of a life coach, is to enable a person to realize they’re full potential – and for them to do so without fear of criticism from others. So often, you might have dreams, goals, and aspirations, but just as the fire is stoking, someone comes along and pours water on your enthusiasm! Sound familiar?

With the help of a life coach, a person is able to take any aspect of their life they want to work on, and to do so in a supportive and encouraging manner. This way, they feel that they can breath, spread their wings, and fly!

In one sense, life coaching is about helping people to really focus on what matters most in life. It’s about reaching goals, but it’s also about getting the right balance in life too. Sometimes, if not most of the time, we tend to get our priorities mixed up. So, being coached, serves to get you to take stock of everything, and get it in order.

If you want assistance in getting your life on course, or reaching a goal, you could do no better than to get some coaching. However, life coaching is not about the coach giving you the answers. A life coach actually helps you to discover the solutions that are right for you.

A life coach helps you to find the answers that already exist within you. We’re not always aware of our own inner power – a coach helps to draw that out, and bring it to the surface.

This helps the person being coached, to see that they themselves are the ones responsible for change – not the life coach. A skilled life coach, like an effective teacher, helps their students or clients to reach their own conclusions. Once they’ve done that, the clients mind and behaviour changes. They do not snap back to the old patterns of thinking and acting once they’ve been stretched.

As the quote stated at the beginning of this article, life coaching is about transformation – from what a person thinks they are – to what they truly are: a person of unlimited power!

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Life Coaching Benefits

A life coach does for the rest of your life what a personal trainer does for your health and fitness.” – Elaine MacDonald

Why have a life coach? Many people think that they can overcome any and all obstacles by themselves, however, sometimes the ear of a life coach and the different perspective offered can help quicken the pace of overcoming obstacles in our lives.

The article below gives some benefits of using a life coach.

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Some Benefits of Life Coaching – Coach Guerci

It might sound funny at first to have a life coach. I mean, everyone lives their lives from day to day. Why on earth would you need a ‘coach’ to make it through? The point is not just making it through life. Rather, it has much more to do with actually getting something out of life, fulfilling yourself and enjoying every minute of life you get to experience


In order to make the most of your years here on earth, you should really consider the services of a life coach. Why, you may be asking? The following listing of benefits should help you understand just why life coaching is vital to your happiness and success in all that you pursue.


Life Coaches Listen


A life coach is much like a therapist, in a way, because they are hired to listen to you. However, a life coach is much more intent on actively helping you change your life for the better and moving forward, rather than dwelling on the past. A life coach is great because he or she is paid to listen to you. Unlike a friend, you do not have to reciprocate. This is a one-sided relationship all in your favor.


Life Coaches Keep You Focused


Life coaching can help you stay on the path you wish to stay on in life. For many people, it is difficult to actively pursue their goals. With a life coach, you will be pushed to complete the tasks you wish to complete. Rather than relying on your own gumption, you will have the external pressure of a life coach to push you in the direction you want to go. It’s an extremely helpful method of creating goals and sticking to them.

Life Coaches Always Tell the Truth


Unlike friends in your life, a life coach will always tell you the truth about yourself. Don’t expect to be pandered or to be told what you want to hear by a life coach. That’s what the other people in your life are for. A life coach can provide you with an objective view of yourself and your life. This is very beneficial when you are facing tough decisions or trying to make excuses to get out of a tough situation.

Life Coaches Help You Overcome Obstacles


If you are facing obstacles in your life, a life coach can help build you up and overcome them. Whether it is weaknesses, fears or bad habits, a life coach can teach you to reach down deep in order to harness the strength you didn’t know you had.

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For over 15 years, Coach Jim Guerci has focused his entire agenda around helping people create lush lives of peak performance, academic excellence, and spiritual awareness. Coach Jim Guerci is an acclaimed Master NLP Practitioner, Certified NLP Hypnotherapist, and life coach who has been helping individuals make effective life changes for over fifteen years. Visit Coach Guerci’s websites

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Your Life Coach – Your Ally

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.” – John Wooden

In life we sometimes get stuck or feel that our progress has been sidetracked. In order to get motivated and move forward again, we may need an ally. Someone to help us to see what we can do to get unstuck. A life coach.

The article below gives a lot of information about the personal life coach.

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The Personal Life Coach as Modern-Day Ally – by Cameron Powell

A personal life coach is part of a profession whose name is new but whose role is as old as recorded history. Throughout history, successful people have had the self-awareness and emotional intelligence to ally themselves with friends and confidants, advisors and partners, mentors and guides, peers and supporters of their enterprises, consultants, and, in athletic endeavors, even coaches. The synonyms for those who care for us and are committed to our growth and success are as plentiful as mythology’s hero of a thousand faces.

A COACH IS THE MODERN-DAY ALLY

Since we began to call it “coaching” in the mid-1980s, we now have “coaches,” who differ from the previous archetypal helpers in various ways. Yet those differences are precisely the source of the power and effectiveness that is causing more and more people to hire their own chief of staff.

Clients hire coaches for support and comradeship in reaching goals in areas as diverse as business, executive, leadership, career, financial, health and relationships. Many coaches offer specialties such as spiritual coaching, parenting coaching, and individual speech coaching. The coached client sets better goals, takes more action, makes better decisions, and more fully uses his or her natural strengths.

Coaches enhance the traditional functions of friends, mentors, or advisors by adding several effective features:

  • A structured relationship with clear goals
  • Advanced techniques and procedures designed to effect change
  • Motivated clients who know they want something, even if they’re not yet sure what it is
  • A coach skilled in ferreting out a client’s true goals and identifying how the client can most effectively use his or her natural talents to reach them

Sometimes coaches will just help you over that cliff. But only after you’ve told them you’re ready, looked back, and given them the thumbs-up sign.

A COACH IS NOT AN EXPERT IN ALL AREAS

Coaches presume you are the expert on you. Unlike other practices (consulting, some fields of therapy), a coach does not need to be an expert in the field of your goals in order to coach you on the process of achieving those goals – in fact, a generalist can sometimes help you more than any specialist. That’s because coaches are experts in process — in the methodology of asking powerful questions that help you to clarify your values, goals, and what blocks you. And coaches are experts in defining, leading you to, and declaring the attainment (or lack thereof) of outcomes. They don’t need to be experts in subjects like your psychology or even human psychology, though many are. If expertise matters at all in a given situation, the expertise is yours, the client’s.

COACHES TEND TO BE EMOTIONALLY INTELLIGENT AND GOOD WITH PEOPLE

Beyond commitment, coaches bring critical attitudes and traits: emotional intelligence, ferocious listening skills, proven psychological techniques, people smarts, and, if you hire right, a sense of humor. Coaches perform assessments of skills and aptitudes, of course, but they also draw out what would give you fulfillment. Most importantly for life and career coaching clients, coaches dig into what clients have always (often since childhood) enjoyed, but too often overlooked. This is just one of the ways we whittle away at who you might reflexively think you are in order to expose the real you.

We know how to help you model the attributes of people you consider successful until that modeling manifest as your new reality. We can show you techniques of mental imagery and construction of effective, positive affirmations. We’re alert to linguistic patterns indicating commitment – or the lack of it. We can spot speech patterns that signal avoidance, resignation, defeatism, and unexamined assumptions and obstructions that impede success.

We also work at converting clients’ unconscious negativity and subtle patterns of defeatist thinking into conscious empowerment. We do this using various methods, including some drawn from consulting and psychology. One is Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP), a series of techniques and procedures for coding human behavior in order to assist clients in understanding what they do and how they do it when they do it excellently. Another is cognitive-behavioral therapy. We use framing and metaphors to set up worldviews in speaking to you, and we employ reframing when we see that a worldview (or set of assumptions) expressed by you is restrictive and self-limiting.

We try to apply the best of science and people skills to real caring about how you fare.

Social Contract. Coaching relies on one of the most powerful forces in the world: the power of the social contract and commitment. For the same reason that public marriage vows tend to keep people together longer than they would in its absence, for the same reason we try harder to keep New Year’s resolutions we have shared with others, coaching is effective because you have made a promise to someone other than yourself – a public or social contract.

A coach has you as his full-time job. Unlike even a friend, a coach is wholly and formally committed and dedicated to your success, uses rigorous and proven training and techniques to assist you in getting there, and will always (not just most of the time) speak the truth to and challenge you when you could most benefit from it.

Sometimes we want help but don’t need a therapist: a coach drives a future of high functioning. Unlike a therapist in a strictly counseling format, a coach focuses not on the past but on the future, and supports you not in analyzing dysfunction but in functioning at an even higher level than you already are. For more on this important topic, see our article on “The Difference Coaching and Counseling” at http://www.ferocecoaching.com/coaching-and-counseling.html.

A coach leads you to answers that are often inside you. Unlike a consultant, who purports to be a subject-matter expert and creates most of any plan of action, a coach is an expert on, if anything, process and motivation, and simply guides you in the creation of most of your own plan of action. We believe and have seen that people are fundamentally creative and resourceful; our job is to show you how to tap into that creativity and those resources.

We bring to the task the following guiding principles:

  • A posture of non-judgmental awareness, or unconditional positive regard, or, more simply, acceptance of you
  • Authenticity, and honesty coupled with sensitivity
  • Compassion-in-action, and empathy

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Cameron Powell, a writer and coach, is also a professional ally and strategic partner who, as a life coach, when his clients most need it, will kick their butts into action now and then. To learn more about how he gets people unstuck and moving forward in their lives and careers as a Personal Life Coach , visit his site.

What is Life Coaching and Why Do I Need It?

A life coach does for the rest of your life what a personal trainer does for your health and fitness.” – Elaine MacDonald

You may be wondering why you need a life coach after all, you made it this far in life without a coach. But what if you could go further?

The article below gives some information about using a life coach.

Michael Wilkovesky

The Truth About Life Coaching – by Amy Twain

Life coaching. The phrase may sound new and strange, for why would anybody want their lives to be coached? By someone else? Maybe to some, coaches sound too sporty or academic, because at first, coaches may be just for athletes preparing for a big game or championship. Or a student about to take an exam that may affect the outcome of one’s future. But another kind of coaching, this time life coaching is the new and latest ‘in thing’ for business and likewise for personal advancement. Currently in United Kingdom, it’s still an unregulated discipline there. Being given a title of a ‘life coach’, it can cover a wide array of practices.

It is important to note that not all coaching courses and naturally, coaches are created equal because there is no definite national standards for Coaching. Thus, the quality of training for a life coach and levels of personal development may differ considerably. Anyway, what is life coaching all about? COACHING IS DEFINITELY ABOUT YOU, YOUR GOALS AND YOUR SELF AWARENESS. In detail, it is a process that involves promoting your self awareness, showing your direction now and helps you to pinpoint what is not working. Additionally, it helps in bringing balance into your life and increasing your possibilities to more choices.

It also guides and leads you to where exactly you want to go. More importantly, it makes you conscious of your roots for motivation. Significantly, it is best to realize that coaching is a whole new different frame from therapy. While therapy is more focused on fixing mistakes and structures in the past, Life coaching is basically more about making the best out of the future so, it is more into goal setting. In this process, the client will become an active participant (more of a role playing) in actually creating his own change which favorably is for the better.

He will be responsible and be involved in some specific tasks in determining their goals and coming to terms toward their future. Being a coach is not just merely giving advices or make changes but to envision clear-cut outcomes for your goals. It also demonstrates your awareness to some related ‘blind spots’, keeps you sincere and truthful about yourself and to be fully involved along the process. Furthermore, it keeps you abreast and helps you move forward. For some people, life coaching is a valuable process because a good life coach will assist you to realize your own possibilities in your untapped potential

Coaches or mentors are effective sounding boards for our insights, new ideas, sharing our aspirations, thus, opening a channel of friendship and trust. There are times when we ‘think out loud’ impulsively. Like saying something then wondered how did that happen or how can we realize it? An effective life coach will help clarify ideas and is also good in asking questions. He can lead awareness, inspire more motivation and through artful questioning, highlight some ‘blind spots’. So do you think you can benefit from life coaching? It is your choice to decide what is best for you.

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The author of this article Amy Twain is a Self Improvement Coach who has been successfully coaching and guiding clients for many years. Amy recently decided to go public and share her knowledge and experience through her website http://www.innerzine.com. You can sign up for her free newsletter and join her coaching program.

The Concept of Life Coaching

I have a life coach out with me on tour, a very nice guy from L.A. He just prepares me for each day.” – Ronnie Wood

Life coaching is something that has become very popular. Many people are not really sure of where they are going or what is holding them back from achieving the success they desire.

The article below gives a few details as well as differentiating life coaches from counsellors.

Michael Wilkovesky

Exploring The Concept Of Life Coaching – by Heather Pulse

The concept of Life has become very popular today due to the many institutes that offer services and training. Despite its increased popularity, however, not many people understand what the process entails. There are similarities between coaching and counseling, but the two professions are not the same. Most professional counselors have acquired years of education and training plus a license to operate in their field. They also have liability insurance to protect them from lawsuits that may arise in the course of their treatments. Life coaches are not required to have a license, but many coaches do become certified as proof of their abilities to serve in this profession. Coaches can also apply for life insurance to protect themselves and their business from dissatisfied clients.

Unlike counselors who tell their clients what to do, coaches operate as motivators to help their clients achieve their objectives. Many people have a general idea of what they want to do in life but need direction and guidance on how to move forward in accomplishing their goals. The job of a coach is to help their clients become more focused so they can make the progress they desire on a personal or professional basis.

A typical coaching session consists of a coach asking his client questions to guide him in finding solutions and answers to the difficulties he faces. Through his client’s responses, a coach can assess the roadblocks holding him back from making progress in his life. He can then strive to help him overcome these roadblocks to achieve his objectives. This procedure takes time and effort on both the part of a coach and client. However, the positive results can be quite satisfying. There is also the risk, however, of clients being dissatisfied with a coach’s services. A disgruntled client may even feel his coach’s input was detrimental to his life. As a result, he may seek compensation for mental or emotional damages. This is where life coaching insurance can come in handy to protect a coach from this eventuality.

A good coach will motivate his client to make necessary changes for progress. However, it is the client’s initiative, hard work and commitment to his cause that will determine his success. Life coaching is a process to help people overcome obstacles in their lives that impede them from gaining victories and moving forward. However, it is the client who determines the outcome of his future by the positive decisions he makes to change, grow and stretch in any given area of his life.

The fees of a life coach depend much on the coach’s experience, training and the course you are taking. Fees will often vary from coach to coach, but may range anywhere from $50 per hour upwards. Some of the different lines of coaching include health and wellness coach, career coach, Christian life coach, executive coaching, performance coaching, skills coaching and more. Life coaching insurance can be acquired for any one of these lines to protect a coach’s interests.

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