How Can Life Coaching Help Me?
Life coaching has grown into a hugely successful form of talking therapy and it has helped many thousands of people turn their lives around. Professional therapeutic coach, Lynn Scholes, explains how
Clients access life coaching because they want something to change. Through self-exploration with a qualified therapeutic coach, confidence can increase, new directions in life can be considered and a sense of overall contentment can be achieved. Often the most important changes are in ‘mindset’.
Certainly, you will learn new resources, tools and skillsets but in many cases, it is a person’s mindset that may be holding them back from living the life they truly want.
LIFE IS FULL OF CHALLENGES
In today’s world pressures come from so many different directions. In pre-historic times man was responsible for his cave, his woman and his children. Providing food and safety were the two things on his agenda. He was measured by very few criteria. Similarly, woman was there to keep home and raise children, again very few criteria.
Today’s world is far more complex, so it is unsurprising that at times we lose the balance or direction we need to feel happy and secure. The pressure of that or other life events can lead to us losing our confidence and every decision becomes a mountain. We may know where we want to go, but seeing how to get there is far more challenging. Likewise, we may know what we need to do, but actually doing it is far harder.
SUPPORT FROM FRIENDS AND FAMILY CAN JUST CONFUSE US MORE!
If support from nearest and dearest is available, it will always be given through the lens of their experiences and although well intentioned, it may not be the right way forward for you, They may not want you to take risks that may affect them or they may simply have different expectations of you than you have of yourself.
THIS IS WHERE I COME IN
As a project manager of your goals and aspirations, I am there to help you fulfill those dreams, to challenge where challenge is needed, to support where support is needed, to advise where advice is needed but most of all, to take that journey with you. Your goal becomes my goal and I work ‘with’ you rather than ‘for’ you. The coaching process can address specific personal projects, business successes or periods of real upheaval in your life and we work on them by empowering you to identify the true issue and uncover how best you can move forward.
WE’LL WORK THROUGH THE CHALLENGES
Mindset is often based on positive and negative experiences in the past and can lead to self-limiting beliefs that need to be challenged. What served you well in one situation may be holding you back now. It is not unusual for clients to come with a situation they feel they are stuck in that can’t be changed, but that is untrue. We always have choices, but we can’t always see what those choices are. Coaching is based on the fundamental principal of choice and personal responsibility. Clients are incredibly resourceful and coaching draws from the belief that however dysfunctional or challenged a person may feel, that can be transformed through positive choice.
Sometimes you may just need support to step up and take responsibility for your life. Challenging your mindset can be opening the door to a whole new future. It can close the gap between a person’s potential and where they feel they currently sit.
WHEN IS THE RIGHT TIME TO CONSIDER LIFE COACHING?
There are times in life after major events such as divorce, redundancy, separation, death, or even just as your family grows and no longer needs you, that a re-think is needed. This can be seen as an opportunity for change or a challenge that is hard to face, but that all depends on your mindset. During the pandemic resilience has been severely challenged and you may need guidance on how to redress that balance.
Coaching can be focused on work issues or personal issues, or work and personal can be inter-linked. Through coaching, clients can achieve fulfillment in all areas of their life.
Lynn @ focus101 is a professional therapeutic coach and works with private individuals, face to face or on Zoom and within companies supporting directors, managers and their employees.
If you would like to hear more about this work and how it could help you or your staff please call 07753 579745 or visit: focus101.co.uk
