Written by Wendy Cope, Positive Change Coach & Founder, Life Coach Library

Parabéns! Você decidiu mergulhar e ser proativo ao atingir suas metas de entrar na melhor forma de sua vida, gerando alguma paixão em sua vida amorosa ou melhorando seu equilíbrio entre vida profissional e profissional. Agora, você está apenas se perguntando se o coaching on-line é a escolha certa…. Para a maioria das pessoas é! E aqui está o porquê.

1. Você provavelmente já está super ocupado!

Uma das melhores partes de trabalhar com um treinador é economizar tempo para alcançar seus objetivos. Qual é o ganho de trabalhar com um coach se você gastar o recurso mais limitado que qualquer um de nós tem, tempo, tentando encontrar o coach certo e indo e voltando das sessões de coaching? Entre o trajeto, um trabalho em tempo integral, família, espremer em um happy hour com os amigos, a academia … onde está a hora de encontrar um treinador que você ama e viajar para e de compromissos? A flexibilidade oferecida pelo coaching on-line lhe deixa muito mais tempo para realmente fazer o que você ama e colocar sua energia no alcance de seu objetivo. O coaching acontece em qualquer lugar onde você pega seu celular ou tablet.

Este é apenas o começo do porque o coaching online é a solução óbvia.

2. É simples encontrar o coach perfeito

Encontrar o treinador certo é uma questão de encontrar a química certa e isso significa que você pode ter que conversar com alguns. Nós recomendamos três. Pense em alguns dos profissionais e serviços que você usa em sua vida: médicos; advogados; mecânica; Cabeleireiros; serviços domésticos; Não seria incrível se três de cada um deles dessem uma amostra grátis de seu serviço antes de você se comprometer? Na maioria das vezes, apenas obter um compromisso leva vários telefonemas e possivelmente semanas para agendar. Estar confinado a profissionais locais não é ideal quando o melhor candidato passa a viver em um estado diferente. Com Life Coach Library, até três treinadores que podem atender às suas necessidades específicas oferecerão uma sessão de coaching complementar, e você poderá decidir com quem deseja obter sucesso, tudo no conforto de sua casa, carro ou quarto de hotel.

Mas espere, ainda há mais ……………

3. Você pode ser completamente anônimo

Toda vez que você fizer algo para se fortalecer, você deve estar confiante e orgulhoso. No entanto, muitas pessoas ainda preferem continuar trabalhando com um treinador confidencial. Muitas pessoas acham mais fácil se abrir por telefone ou cara a cara, especialmente quando sabem que o seu treinador não tem conexão com nenhuma de suas associações locais e que tudo o que dizem é estritamente confidencial.

Nosso questionário preliminar lhe dá a chance de compartilhar detalhadamente o que você está procurando alcançar. Com base em seus critérios, somente os treinadores que podem atendê-lo entrarão em contato com você. Saber que você tem o profissional certo ao telefone cria um ambiente seguro para relaxar e conversar sobre seus desejos mais profundos.

4. Você se torna mais fortalecido e independente.

Provavelmente, uma das maiores razões pelas quais o coaching de vida on-line é melhor do que pessoalmente é o fato de você não depender do seu treinador e seu técnico permanecer completamente objetivo. Coaching em pessoa pode criar uma ligeira dependência onde eles parecem ser responsáveis ​​por seus sucessos e pode ser difícil separar quando é hora. Um coach on-line trabalhará com você para desenvolver um plano de ação estratégico, mas somente você poderá realizar essas etapas. Você nunca está sozinho, porque você tem acesso ao seu treinador sempre que precisar de um impulso. Basta enviar uma mensagem de texto ou e-mail para mantê-lo no caminho certo ou compartilhar suas mini vitórias ao longo do caminho.

5. É simplesmente mais acessível

O coaching on-line limita as despesas gerais dos coaches, transferindo as economias para você, conforme refletido nas taxas razoáveis ​​de coaching. A última coisa que você precisa se preocupar é outra conta enorme sendo adicionada à pilha. Coaching on-line é quase sempre mais prático coaching ao vivo.

Como encontrar um coach online?

Como a indústria de coaching cresceu em popularidade, o coaching online tornou-se o meio preferido para o coaching. Na verdade, tudo online se tornou um modo de vida. Life Coach Library foi concebido por treinadores que foram clientes e têm o melhor interesse de ambos em mente. Os clientes em potencial têm uma maneira conveniente e sem riscos de experimentar o impacto que um coach pode causar. Os coaches podem utilizar uma plataforma que faz marketing extensivo para que eles possam passar mais tempo fazendo o que amam e fazendo melhor – ajudar as pessoas a alcançarem seus objetivos! Assim como um recrutador traz funcionários incríveis para grandes empresas, a Life Coach Library conecta clientes orientados a objetivos a treinadores certificados. Claro, você pode encontrar um emprego por conta própria, e as empresas podem descobrir talentos para suas aberturas, mas ter alguém que entenda completamente as necessidades de ambos reduz a frustração e economiza tempo e dinheiro para todos no final.

É por isso que o coaching online é a melhor opção!

Written by Wendy Cope, Positive Change Coach & Founder, Life Coach Library

Congrats! You’ve decided to take the plunge and be proactive in reaching your goals of getting into the best shape of your life, sparking up some passion in your love-life, or improving your work-life balance. Now, you’re just wondering if online coaching is the right choice…. For most people it is! And, here’s why.

1. You’re probably already uber busy!

One of the best parts of working with a coach is saving time in reaching your goals. What gain is working with a coach if you spend the most limited resource any of us have, time, trying to find the right coach and getting to and from coaching sessions? Between the commute, a full-time job, family, squeezing in a happy-hour with friends, the gym…where is the time to find a coach you love and travel to and from appointments? The flexibility offered by online coaching leaves you much more time to actually do what you love and put your energy towards reaching your goal. Coaching happens anywhere you take your cell phone or tablet.

This is only the start of why online coaching is the obvious solution.

2. It is simple to find the perfect coach

Finding the right coach is a matter of finding the right chemistry and that means you may have to talk to a few. We recommend three. Think of some of the professionals and services you use in your life: doctors; lawyers; mechanics; hair stylists; home services; etc. Wouldn’t it be awesome if three of each would give you a free sample of their service before you made any commitment? Most of the time, just getting an appointment takes several phone calls and possibly weeks to schedule. Being confined to local professionals is not ideal when the best candidate happens to live in a different state. With Life Coach Library, up to three coaches who can meet your specific needs will offer you a complimentary coaching session, and then you get to decide who you want to succeed with, all from the comfort of your home, car, or hotel room.

But wait, there’s still more……………

3. You can be completely anonymous

Anytime you do something to empower yourself you should be confident and proud. However, a lot of people still prefer to keep working with a coach confidential. Many people find it easier to open-up over the telephone vs. face to face, especially when they know their coach has no connection to any of their local associations and that everything they say is strictly confidential.

Our preliminary questionnaire gives you a chance to share in detail what you are looking to achieve. Based on your criteria, only the coaches who can serve you will contact you. Knowing you’ve got the right professional on the phone creates a safe environment to relax and talk about your deepest desires.

4. You become more empowered and independent.

Probably one of the biggest reasons why online life coaching is better than in person is the fact that you don’t get dependent on your coach and your coach remains completely objective. Coaching in person can create a slight dependency where they seem responsible for your successes and it can be difficult to detach when it’s time. An online coach will work with you to develop a strategic action plan, but you alone take those steps. You are never alone though as you do have access to your coach whenever you need a boost. Simply text or email him/her to keep you on track or share your mini victories along the way.

5. It’s Simply More Affordable

Online coaching limits the overhead costs for coaches, passing the savings on to you as reflected in reasonable coaching fees. The last thing you need to be worrying about is another massive bill being added to the pile. Online coaching is almost always more practical live coaching.

How to find an online coach?

As the coaching industry has grown in popularity, online coaching has become the preferred medium for coaching. In fact, online everything has become a way of life. Life Coach Library was designed by coaches who have been clients and have the best interest of both in mind. Potential clients have a convenient and risk-free way to experience the impact a coach can make. Coaches can utilize a platform that does extensive marketing for them so that they can spend more time doing what they love and do best ~ help people reach their goals! Just like a recruiter brings amazing employees to great companies, Life Coach Library connects goal-oriented clients to certified coaches. Sure, you can find a job on your own, and companies can scout out talent for their openings, but having someone who completely understands the needs of both cuts out the frustration and saves everyone time and money in the end.

That is why online coaching is the best option!

Supere o fracasso – não seja definido por ele.

Posted Jul 06, 2019 Laura M Miele Ph.D.

Costumo escrever sobre não dar todas as crianças em medalhas de atletismo e porque me sinto assim. É sobre o fracasso! É sobre o que significa fracasso e por que deve ser abraçado. Todos nós somos confrontados com diferentes desafios na vida e falhar ou sentir-se como um fracasso é um deles. Há lições a serem aprendidas com o fracasso. A maioria das pessoas vai pegar seus fracassos e transformá-los em sucessos. Fracasso não significa que é o fim. Isso significa que devemos seguir um caminho diferente. Nem todos os caminhos levam ao sucesso. Mas é o que aprendemos através de nossos fracassos que podem nos levar a ser a melhor versão de nós mesmos.

Eu era um atleta lesionado e isso afetou profundamente minha vida por muitos anos. Muitas vezes me senti como um fracasso. Mas, até dois anos atrás, quando passei 31 dias no hospital, onde quase morri, é quando descobri o meu valor. Eu fiz questão de usar dois mantras diários: “Eu não serei quebrado” e “fracasso não é uma opção”. Desde então, tenho seguido meu coração e me esforço para ser o melhor que posso em minha vida pessoal e profissional.

Todos podemos aprender com fracassos e eventos que mudam a vida. Nem sempre precisamos perguntar por que algo não saiu como planejado. Às vezes, as melhores coisas da vida são aquelas que pensamos que seriam ruins ou que não esperávamos. Nós não entramos em um esporte ou em um empreendimento pensando que falharemos. Mas, se fizermos isso, não deve nos definir. O fracasso não é quem nos tornamos. É algo que acontece e o que fazemos para melhorar é tudo o que conta.

Como atletas, nós nos recusamos a falhar, mas se o fizermos, precisamos olhar para como podemos melhorar e esquecer de fazer a pergunta, por quê. A resposta para essa pergunta nunca será encontrada. Portanto, encontre uma maneira de preencher essa falha nula ou a perda criou e encontrará sucesso. Minha definição de sucesso é estar em paz consigo mesmo. Não se trata de quanto dinheiro se ganha ou que tipo de carreira eles têm. Trata-se de tomar todas as coisas ruins e / ou falhas que nos acontecem em nossas vidas e ainda encontrar a felicidade. Sucesso significa ser feliz e estar em paz consigo mesmo.

Anos depois, nunca soube que ainda praticar esportes me traria tanta alegria. Mesmo depois de todos os anos de me sentir como um fracasso devido à minha carreira atlética encurtou. Ainda consigo encontrar paz dentro de mim mesmo e consolar algo tão simples como treinar esportes juvenis e até mesmo jogar basquete ou softball de novo. Eu nunca me afastei da minha paixão, meu amor pelo esporte.

O fracasso abre nossos olhos e pode nos tornar gratos pelos eventos não planejados em nossas vidas. Não existe fracasso enquanto estabelecemos esperança. Encontre uma paixão e faça algo que você ama, independentemente de “dever” ser o que você faz. Uma tentativa fracassada é melhor que nenhuma tentativa. Experimentar a equipe e não fazer isso é melhor do que não tentar nada.

Quero que todos os atletas saibam que, se você não fez o time, se perdeu o chute vencedor do jogo, ou se perdeu sua carreira devido a uma lesão ou aposentadoria, você não é um fracasso. Há sempre uma lição a ser aprendida. Abrace e trabalhe em direção a que lição poderia ser, e nunca faça a pergunta POR QUE!

Overcome failure—don’t be defined by it.

Posted Jul 06, 2019 Laura M Miele Ph.D.

I often write about not giving all children in athletics medals and why I feel that way. It’s about failure! It is about what failure means and why it should be embraced. We are all faced with different challenges in life and failing or feeling like a failure is one of them. There are lessons to be learned from failure. Most people will take their failures and make them into successes. Failure does not mean it is the end. It means we should take a different path. Not all paths lead to success. But, it is what we learn through our failures that can drive us to be the best version of ourselves.

I was an injured athlete and it profoundly affected my life for many years. I often felt like a failure. But, until two years ago when I spent 31 days in the hospital where I almost died is when I found my worth. I made a point to use two daily mantras’: “I will not be broken” and “failure is not an option.” Since then, I have followed my heart and strive to be the best I can be in my personal and professional life.

We can all learn from failures and life-changing events. We do not always need to ask why something did not go as planned. Sometimes the best things in life are the ones we thought would be bad or did not expect at all. We do not go into a sport or a venture thinking that we will fail. But, if we do, it should not define us. Failure is not who we become. It is something that happens and what we do to make it better is all that counts.

As athletes, we refuse to fail, but if we do, we need to look to how we can make it better and forget asking the question, why. The answer to that question will never be found. So, find a way to fill that void failure or the loss has created and find success. My definition of success is being at peace with oneself. It is not about how much money one makes or what type of career they have. It is about taking all of the bad things and/or failures that happen to us in our lives and still find happiness. Success means being happy and at peace within oneself.

Years later, I never knew that still playing sports would bring me such joy.  Even after all of the years of feeling like a failure due to my athletic career cut short. I still can find peace within my self and comfort in something as simple as coaching youth sports and even playing basketball or softball again myself. I have never swayed away from my passion, my love of sports.

Failure opens our eyes and can make us grateful for the unplanned events in our lives. There is no such thing as failure as long as we establish hope. Find a passion and do something that you love regardless of whether it “should” be what you do. A failed attempt is better than no attempt at all.  Trying out for the team and not making it is better than not trying at all.

I want all of the athletes out there to know that if you did not make the team, if you missed the game-winning shot, or if you lost your career due to an injury or retirement you are not a failure. There is always a lesson to be learned. Embrace it and work towards what that lesson could be, and never ask the question WHY!

It’s all too easy to go on autopilot. Maybe it’s time to stop.

Posted Jun 29, 2019  Robert Taibbi L.C.S.W.

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You’ve undoubtedly met people like this: They complain about how hectic their lives are. Between jobs and kids, or jobs and jobs, they have no time for_________ (sleep, sex, couple time, hobbies, quiet time, thinking…). And maybe this is you.

Routines and habits are essential to our lives: They help keep us from needing to reinvent the wheel every day; they provide a stability that helps reduce our anxiety. But for many of us, these habits, routines, and patterns of everyday life take over—what David Foster Wallace called living life as “Day In/Day Out.” Our lives are running us instead of us running our lives.

Obviously, for some of us, our lives of routine are not a matter of choice but survival—you need to work those two jobs whether you like it or not; your struggling child or your elderly parent demands a good amount of your time and attention. You’re doing the best you can. The result is just what is.

But for many more of us, we are fortunate to have options, to set our own priorities, and here our everyday lives reflect the sum of small choices that we’ve made and make. But… they no longer feel like choices. Instead, we do what we do because we do it; we run on autopilot. Life is… OK, or if it is not OK right now, it will get better “when”… when the kids get older, when I get that promotion, finish that degree, get out of debt, get divorced. Then I can start, then I can break out.

This absolutely may be true, but it also may be wishful thinking.

Often the real underlying problem isn’t the quality of the latest box of a life that we find ourselves living in, but the fact that we so readily settle into that box. We lose sight of our ability to choose; we accept being passengers in the life that drives us, rather than being the drivers ourselves. Over time, this can take its toll, this running-on-autopilot life becomes fodder for the 7-year-itch, the 30-year or midlife crises. Suddenly we realize that our lives aren’t working, that too much of ourselves is left out of our lives, that the routines have become boring, stifling, and claustrophobic, and we feel depressed or angry. And so, you break out—quit jobs, relationships, have affairs, do all the things you did when you were 16, or never did when you were 16.

The keys to avoiding this treading-water lifestyle, these periodic crises are two: We need to step back and take stock of our lives, and then need to stop being the passengers and instead be the drivers—shift from being reactive to proactive.

How to get started:

Stepping back

The autopilot, reactive life is usually one filled with tunnel-vision and overwhelming details—time to pick up kids, what to get at the grocery store, plodding along and filling the day with the minutia of job and out-of-job life. Time to step back and survey the larger landscape of your life. Some questions to get you started:

1. How is your life going?

On a scale of 1-10 with 1 being massively depressed and 10 being ecstatically happy, how is your everyday life going? If it is a 1 or 2, it’s time to get professional help and/or support. You’re emotionally underwater; you may have a real depressive disorder or be struggling with real issues that require some support to manage. But for many of us, we may land between 4 and 6.

Is this 4-6 range OK, really?

2. What is missing most from your life?

What would it take to bump it up not to a 10 (no winning the lottery fantasies), but up to a 7 or 8? What do you need that you’re not getting to improve the quality of your everyday? Time for yourself, more time as a couple? Think both in terms of your individual needs and relationship needs. Think back to the time when life was better—last year, 3 years ago. What made it better? What do you need to do to bring some of that earlier goodness back into your life?

3. What’s stopping you from making these changes?

Here there may be real underlying problems—that you do have to work the two jobs, that you are clinically depressed and need to actively address it. But often it’s about anxiety or passivity, some irrational fear, often linked to old childhood wounds, about doing what you want or speaking up—that you don’t deserve more, that you are afraid of what others will think or how they will react, that change won’t really create change, that you feel guilty and you don’t know why.

4. What are your goals for the next year, 2 years, 5 years, 10 years?

This is about having a vision for your life even if on bad days envisioning the future is difficult. But envision it anyway. Having dreams gives us motivation, a sense of purpose, and by taking baby-steps forward, propels us forward. And it’s okay to think in terms of the ideal—again not being passive and waiting to win the lottery, but being active: imagining who you ideally want to be and do. Even if not fully attainable right now, your answers can help you see more clearly what it is you need and what has been missing from your life.

Go proactive

The next step is putting all this vital information into practice.

Come up with a plan

No, don’t quit your job, don’t go file for divorce. Instead, try taking the baby-steps towards redrafting your everyday life. Maybe you can talk to your boss about coming in a bit earlier and having a longer lunch to help you reboot. Maybe it is about getting the kids to bed earlier so you and your partner have more active couple-time at night, rather than just crashing in front of the TV. Maybe you realize you need to stop being over-responsible and need to quit that volunteer assignment for the church group or stop schlepping the kids to soccer four nights a week. Maybe you go to bed earlier so you can get up earlier and have some quiet time for yourself in the morning.

Mentally deconstruct your day, your week; question your choices and challenge those autopilot routines that are running your life.

Talk to your partner

Take those same questions, that plan, and have a conversation with your partner about you, the status of your life, but also ask about the status of his and quality of your relationship. See if your visions and values match. Take stock and see how your priorities have changed in the last years. Talk about what you both want to accomplish, what you both want to change in your overall lifestyle. Wait, you say, we have no time to talk? Start there—make the time.

Get support

And if this all seems too overwhelming, if you don’t know where to start, go talk to someone—a therapist, a friend, a life coach, a minister. You want to have someone who can ask the hard questions, challenge you to think differently about you and your life, who can help hold you accountable for changes you feel you want to make.

Do it. Step back and take stock. Upgrade the software that is running your life.

Start running your life rather than your life running you.

Article by : Wanderlustworker.com

“Each person holds so much power within themselves that needs to be let out. Sometimes they just need a little nudge, a little direction, a little support, a little coaching, and the greatest things can happen.” — Pete Carrol

No matter how you look at it, life is hard. With so much pressure and so many obligations, it’s clear to see why we often feel overwhelmed and anxious. As the weeks, months and years pass, that pressure mounts. It piles on top of us, adding more weight to the shoulders that can’t seem to bear another ounce of it.

Yet, we carry on. We move forward, facing everything that life throws at us. As a result, we suffer. Our personal lives decline, our good habits falter and fail, and we retreat into the comforts and confines of the status quo that we’re so used to. It’s easy to allow life to pass us by when we’re so consumed by meaningless tasks and time-wasters.

That’s the reason why a good life coach is so important. We often get so ingrained and set in our ways that it’s hard to see things from a fresh perspective. It’s difficult to fathom and digest the possibilities that exist out there in the world when we’re so used to operating within what we’ve deemed “safe” for so long.

Two decades ago, when I was kid living on Long Island, I had this piano teacher. My mom sought him out because he was so highly acclaimed. He had taught once-famed musical stars like Billie Joel and Debbie Gibson, how to play the piano. Okay, so you might not know who they are, and no I’m not that old, but back then they were a pretty big deal.

My point? He used to sit there in the room, 10 feet away or so in this old brown leather armchair, and he would just know when I struck the wrong cord. He didn’t even need to sit by me. He was coaching me from across the room, eyes closed, because he was that good. Because of him, I became an amazing piano player. He simply knew how to teach me the right way.

His perspective on chords and how to unlearn bad behavior along with how to institute good habits when playing the piano have stuck with me all these years. As a piano teacher, he was second to none. I can still hear his voice in my mind as I sit down in front of the piano. As my fingers hover above the keys, I hear him speaking.

It sounds a little bit far-fetched, doesn’t it? But that’s what a good coach can bring to the table. And for anyone that’s serious about excelling in this world, a good life coach is instrumental to that. I can think of dozens of reasons why they can quite literally transform the state and quality of both your behavior and your ability to reach your goals, but there are 10 core reasons why I think they’re so important.

What Is A Life Coach?

In sports, we often hear about coaches to the world’s most elite athletes. They sculpt and shape those individuals into who they are. When we’re talking about playing a sport at the highest levels, we often know that there’s a coach embedded in there somewhere. But it’s not just in sports.

In business or in life, we might refer to some of these people as mentors. They help to guide us through some of the most tumultuous times and steer us in the right direction to achieve our goals and our dreams. It’s difficult to see things from a fresh perspective and realize what you’re capable of without them.

But not all of us have access to mentors. Not all of us are proficient in networking or in touch with people playing life at its highest levels. That’s the beauty of having a life coach. You don’t need to know someone who’s rich or famous or who has the proverbial keys to success. All you need to do is to enlist the help of a professional who can help to guide you through things.

So, what is a life coach? It’s not just a mentor. It’s not just a friend. It’s not just a coach in the most basic sense. A life coach is a partner, someone who’s there for you through life’s most difficult and challenging times, able to guide you through and help you  to see things differently, refine your approach and achieve your loftiest dreams.

Most of us are so set in our ways, that unless we have an objective third-party actually point things out to us, we often fail to notice the things that are setting us back. It’s a monumental undertaking to do this by yourself. With that being said, here are the 10 reasons why you absolutely must have a life coach if you’re serious about succeeding at whatever it is that you’re aiming for.

#1 — You Have Trouble Following Through With Goals

For most people, achieving goals is hard. It’s not just the art of goal setting that they find difficult, but actually following through. However, a life coach can help you not only define your goals, but also to help you find powerful enough reasons for why you must achieve them in the first place.

Beyond than that? A life coach can offer you a fresh perspective on why you maybe haven’t been able to achieve the big goals you’ve wanted in the past, and just how you can reorganize your life to empower you rather than to continue holding you back. They also act as an accountability partner, there right by your side, step by step, to ensure you see things through.

#2 — Limiting Beliefs Have Been Holding You Back

Most of the time, we find it difficult to follow through with things in life because, in our subconscious minds, we have limiting beliefs that are holding us back. A life coach is instrumental in helping you to identify those limiting beliefs so that you can push forward rather than feeling left behind.

For example, if you’ve heard your entire life that you’re big boned and you’ve been telling people the same thing for years, how can you possibly believe, wholeheartedly, that you can lose a significant amount of weight? The story you’ve been telling yourself for years will override your ability to follow through. A life coach can help you recognize and overcome these types of limiting beliefs.

#3 — You Simply Don’t Know Where To Begin

Sometimes we just don’t know where to begin. We get sucked into the notion of success and know that we want to achieve something, but we feel so helpless that we just fail to start. Maybe it’s because we don’t feel like we deserve it or maybe it’s some other reason, but we just don’t know how or where to even begin.

The enormity of big goals can often overwhelm us. It’s hard to get clear on things when you can’t even get past that feeling of helplessness and not knowing where to start. Life coaches can assess your personal situation and help you get on the path towards taking action towards your dreams.

#4 — Anxiety And Stress Are Recurring Themes

Life can get stressful. Plain and simple. I know that when I failed repeatedly in the past, I went through some of the most anxious and stressful times in my life. I was depressed beyond belief. Even though I learned a lot through failure, having those constant emotions become a recurring theme in your life isn’t fun whatsoever.

When you combine all of our responsibilities, from work to family and social lives, it’s easy to see why we get so stressed out. It’s not a good feeling, especially when it feels like the walls are caving in on you. Getting the perspective and outside help that life coaching affords is integral in helping you move past those disheartening emotions.

#5 — You’re Unable To Define A Clear Vision

Sometimes we feel like we’re living our lives according to someone else’s rules or wishes. We have goals, but they’re not what we really want. Because of that, we lack a clear vision. We’re so confused, being pushed and pulled in every direction, that we’re unable to create that clear vision for what we want out of life.

Life coaches can help you cut through all the noise and get clear on what you want. It isn’t the easiest thing to understand, especially when trying to see it from a perspective that we’ve been looking at it from for years or decades even. This is one of the best parts of having a coach on your side, giving you the extra

#6 — Your Finances, Health, Relationships, Career Or Business Is In Complete Disarray

If your life is in a state of complete disarray, you might be in drastic need of a coach that will help you get through some of the most difficult times. Whether it’s your finances, your health, your relationships, your career or your business, oftentimes it’s hard to focus and see the forest through the trees when we’re struggling to move through the fog of today’s complexities.

When your marriage fails, your health is shot, and your career, finances or your business is completely shattered, it’s hard to make it through those tough times. But a life coach will help you wade through the seas of sorrow to emerge on the shores of hope as your guide.

#7 — The Passion You Once Had For Life Is Gone

I once lost passion in my life and in my work. It happened after I had an earth-shattering failure. I didn’t even want to go on. I sincerely think that those were some of the worst times in my life and I never want to revisit that place mentally or emotionally. But there’s also some good to be said about it. In fact, I wouldn’t take them back even if I could.

But when you lose that passion or that spark for life or for business, you need someone there to help move you along. You need someone to help identify the issues that you’ve faced and the upshots in your past that have led you to where you are today. Without that, it’s hard to get that passion and the juice back for your life that you once had.

#8 — You Get Easily Sidetracked By Time-Wasters

It’s easy to get sidetracked in life. We have bad habits that are hard to quit and it’s difficult to manage our time to make progress. Often, we’re stuck spinning our wheels. I know I feel that way sometimes. But, those time-wasters can completely debilitate us from achieving anything in life.

Life coaches aren’t just there to help you achieve your goals, but they’re also there to help you improve your life on so many levels. This includes things like your habits. Considering that habits make up 45% of our behavior, good habits offer a pathway to both discipline and achievement.

#9 — Your Friends And Family Aren’t Supporting Your Dreams

It’s hard to stay focused on your goals when you don’t have the support of people around you. When your friends and your family members aren’t supporting your dreams, it’s easy to lose sight of the bigger picture. When we’re so busy dealing with negativity from all around us, how are we supposed to make progress and move forward?

However, your life coach is there for you no matter what. They act as your support system. Even if friends and family aren’t sticking by you, you have them. Although it’s not free, it is well worth it. The experience and knowledge of some life coaches are invaluable instruments in helping us achieve our goals.

#10 — You’re Completely Lost And Feel Like All Hope Is Gone

There was a time when I lost hope in life. It was so bad that I didn’t want to go on. I was lost, drowning in a sea of despair. When you feel like that, you can’t even focus on getting through the day, let alone moving closer to your goals. If you feel lost or like all hope is gone, you absolutely need a life coach.

This becomes, not just an option, but a necessity. If you feel hopeless or like a failure or unable to accomplish anything, you need to do more than read a blog post or watch an empowering video. You need someone there by your side. You need a trainer to help you regain the confidence that you once had and push closer towards your dreams.

Article by : Mike Bundrant at iNLPcenter.org

 

Perhaps you’re curious but are unsure of the benefits of life coaching? Or, you might be checking up on the industry as you research the possibility of becoming a life coach.

Whatever motivates you, we’ve got something for you in this guide. Below you will find a list of 33 features and benefits of life coaching to answer your questions. Browse the various points below and notice how impressed you become!

Let’s dive in…

What is the purpose of a life coach?

Before we take a look at the various benefits of life coaching, what exactly does a life coach do?

The purpose of a life coach is to work in partnership with an individual to help them reach their potential across all facets of life.

Just as a professional sports player has a coach to work on the technical and psychological aspects of their performance, everyday people should take a structured and disciplined approach to personal development and betterment.

An accredited life coach plays this role.

What are the benefits of life coaching?

Below are 33 examples that show why life coaching has become a mainstream industry.

#1. Improved self-confidence

A study by the International Coaching Federation (IFC) discovered that 80% of people who hired a life coach reported an improvement in self-confidence.

#2. A different perspective

We are often consumed by our own opinions, life experiences, and way of thinking. A life coach can provide a new and often helpful perspective on things.

#3. Heightened self-awareness

Being fully aware of your impact on others and recognizing your flaws, strengths, and unique personality attributes is an extremely challenging adventure. This is the art of self-awareness.

Self-awareness requires a strong capacity for introspection and reflection, something which a life coach can help you work towards. In fact, one study found that 67.6% of coaching clients experience a higher level of self-awareness.

#4. Create a balanced life

The concept of life balance is different for everyone, but it often refers to a happy, peaceful, and harmonious relationship between your physical and cognitive being, as well as the major areas of life.

One of the benefits of a life coach is to identify what balance looks like for you and define action steps to achieve more balance in your life.

#5. Foster better relationships

Relationships are the glue that combines individuals with society and provides shared fulfillment in life. From marriages to friendships and beyond, strong relationships are a critical contributor to happiness.

According to the same ICF study mentioned previously, 73% of people who hired a life coach improved their relationships.

#6. Achieve goals

We all have dreams in life, but very few people crystalize these aspirations into tangible goals to systematically accomplish. A major benefit of life coaching is being able to define your life goals and create a concrete, doable plan to achieve them.

#7. Find happiness

 

True happiness is somewhat of a mystical experience and for most people, it’s hard to imagine a life that is forever happy. At the end of the day, happiness is intrinsic, it’s a feeling that is unique to the way you feel inside.

By defining life goals, creating balance, and committing to a better version of yourself with the aid of a life coach, you open up the prospect of finding happiness. Helping others find happiness is one of the main reasons people become a life coach.

#8. Discover clarity of purpose

Are you clear on what your purpose in life is? Again, this is a very individual and internal fire that burns within. It’s your passion, dreams, skills, and weaknesses all bundled into one.

It’s your direction in life. Clarity of purpose is vital if you want to pursue your dreams, a life coach can assist you in creating this focus.

#9. Do what you love

Finding that one thing you love more than anything else and doing it every day is a large contributor to happiness and satisfaction. Having clarity of purpose unlocks insights into what this may be. This is another one of the many benefits of a life coach in your corner.

#10. Follow through on commitments

Hiring a life coach is about more than just getting advice and guidance, it also creates accountability. You will have an ally that holds you to your word and ensures those goals get pursued and projects are completed.

#11. Discover your best self

Many of us spend too much time comparing ourselves to others and focussing on what we perceive to be our flaws. Discovering your best self is one of the priceless benefits of life coaching.

#12. Determine your strengths and weaknesses

A life coach will take an impartial view of your strengths and weaknesses, helping you understand your areas of greatest opportunity.

#13. Be open-minded

To be open-minded you need to appreciate that there are different ways of doing things and varying perspectives on life other than your own. A life coach can provide the perspective and thinking process required to adopt this mindset.

#14. Unlock potential

Many of us have latent potential that is hidden by prejudice or closed-mindedness. Life coaches unlock this potential by opening you up to alternate ways of thinking and creating clarity for your direction in life.

#15. Improve communication

72% of people who hire a life coach improve their communication skills, according to the IFC study mentioned above. This is no surprise given the best life coaches are accredited NLP practitioners – the most advanced set of communication skills ever developed. Better communication is one of the primary benefits of NLP life coaching. (Find out more about what NLP is.)

#16. Manage time and productivity

Everyone has the same amount of time in the day, but some people use those 24 hours more efficiently than others. Working with a life coach can help you better manage your time, set priorities, and get more done.

#17. Eliminate negative thoughts

As well as looking at the positive aspects of life, such as your purpose, goals, and potential, life coaches are armed with a series of techniques that can help you eliminate or reduce negative thoughts that hold you back.

#18. Overcome your fears

By minimizing negative thoughts and embracing your strengths you can start to overcome fears that have been restricting your ability to achieve your dreams.

#19. Unearth creativity

You can work with a life coach to brainstorm ideas and unearth creativity that is sitting dormant in the depths of your subconscious.

#20. Provide a different outlook on life

Being open-minded, self-aware, and considering a new perspective on life will give you a more positive and well-rounded outlook.

#21. Produce higher income

The skills you develop while working with a life coach will focus your resources while pursuing career goals or growing your business to new heights. This is one of the key benefits of coaching in a business environment.

#22. Eliminate bad habits

When bad habits are embedded in our day-to-day life, they diminish our ability to perform. Working with an impartial third-party will help you determine what these habits may be and learn to eliminate them.

#23. Be aware of your values

Our values are those deeply held principles that influence our behavior and motivate us to do things both large and small. Given the sheer influence of life values on every action, being aware of what they are can revolutionize the way we live and perform.

#24. Alignment of strengths with decisions

A strengths-based approach to personal development focuses on the positive inner resources of an individual make changes. This is in contrast to traditional methods that focus on identifying weaknesses and trying to improve those areas.

#25. Stay motivated: One of the most sought after benefits of life coaching

Setbacks and roadblocks can derail the best of us. One of the most sought after benefits of life coaching is to sustain the discipline and maximum effort during challenging times. You’ll likely discover pockets of inspiration and hunger that you never knew existed.

#26. Better decision making

Despite thinking that we act rationally, most people make decisions based on emotion or entirely subconscious processes. With a deeper understanding of how the mind works, you can reframe the process of decision-making so that it becomes simpler and wiser.

For example, an NLP-trained life coach will be well-versed in the NLP Decision Making Strategy, a theory that incorporates visual, auditory, and kinesthetic (touch) senses and how they influence our decisions.

#27. Show empathy

To be empathetic you need to see and feel the world through the lens of someone else, put yourself in their shoes, and be understanding of their situation. Unfortunately, not everyone has the same capacity to show empathy towards others.

A life coach can help you look beyond your personal needs and provide in-the-moment techniques for showing empathy.

#28. Learn to accept criticism

If you’ve ever been to a job interview it’s likely that you have been asked how well you take feedback from others. While most people would like to think that they are open and willing to accept feedback or criticism, in the heat of the moment their emotions take over.

An emotional reaction can result in a less than perfect impact on the person providing the feedback, who may just be trying to help you. Learning to accept criticism is a powerful life skill to develop and one of the benefits of life coaching.

#29. Show more appreciation

Showing appreciation and gratitude is a core component of fostering relationships. It makes people feel good about the impact they have on your life – be that in a corporate environment or socially.

A life coach understands the importance of appreciation and has the tools to help you use it more effectively in your day-to-day life.

#30. Build rapport

Rapport is a connection between individuals or a group that enables those people to interact and communicate effectively. For most of us, rapport is seen as an uncontrollable force that we either have with someone or we don’t.

However, creating rapport with others can actually be an intentional and structured process that a life coach can assist you with.

#31. Improve physical well-being

Life coaches can offer more than just emotional and psychological support. They can also work with you to create and execute a plan for improving your physical well-being or losing weight. A healthy body often results in a healthy mind too.

#32. Reduce stress

Stress is a common occurrence for a large portion of the population. Financial burdens, career-related issues, or personal relationship problems can result in mental instability and stress-related health concerns. Life coaches have access to relaxation techniques, such as NLP, which can reduce the mental habits causing stress in your life.

#33. Decreased depression and anxiety

Depression and anxiety are a society-wide health problem with a number of complex elements, none of which are an easy fix. However, having an ally in your corner who understands your triggers can result in an improved way of dealing with the symptoms of these mental health issues.

Benefits of Life Coaching – Conclusion

To be happy is a different proposition for everyone. But one thing is for sure, if you are clear on your purpose, eliminate negativity from your life, and have the tools and techniques to build meaningful relationships, happiness and fulfillment are achievable.

In fact, they are more than achievable – all you need is a framework for determining your direction in life and an ally to help you get there. This is your life coach.