Your client is hesitant to leave their comfort zone for happiness. How can you inspire them to take the leap?

What is fear? FEAR stands for False Expectations Appearing Real. We have an expectation of a negative outcome (which typically won't happen) and it feels real to us in the moment (e.g., that anxiety in your chest). If your client (or you) is experiencing FEAR, then break it down. Once we realize it's a false expectation, we can begin to push through it and regain our happiness.

When we think of fear, we often think of "Fear of Failure," but the other possible fear is "Fear of Success." Fear of Success happens when a client sees someone in their group becoming successful and that someone is ostracised and left out of their inner group when they become successful and "better" than the average of the other group members. Working with gifted and talented minority groups, those individuals who value greater collective needs vs individualistic needs may find it harder to succeed for fear that they will be left out of their community. Hope this is helpful to see a different side of why people may fear change.

One size does not fit all?? These are need based approaches through one to one coaching. The confidential connect happens after rapport building session before further journey is decided.

Having an emotional connection to the goal is important. The seven levels of why exercise helps to get to the heart of why you want the goal you want (and validates that its a goal you actually want not something you think you should want). The emotional connection is what gets you started and keeps you going.

Embrace Personal Learning. Make lists of your pros and cons that will determine what you can alter to learn more. We all know what others should do and how to fix their problems. We educate family, friends and strangers but rarely ourselves. Education comes in two ways: 1. Academic Sources and Certifications 2. Life Experiences Do you love and trust yourself.Try to determine where you fall short when it comes to what you know about your self and your decisions. Make yourself more important when making decisions (be more selfish) Think positive and keep your primary aim to foster loving and trusting yourself from inside.

Adopt an experimental mindset. Try something, see what happens, tweak and play again. What do you notice? What do you learn? If its all just an experiment what have you got to lose?

An effective wellbeing tool, based in the research of Positive Psychology, are the VIA Character Strengths. If your client struggles with fear of failure and reframing to a growth mindset you can encourage them to leverage their top strengths. For example, if they have a strength of curiosity but are struggling with fear of the unknown they might use this strength to research ways to get around their fear. Character Strengths assessment is free at viacharacter.org

A big part of coaching is learning how to become comfortable with discomfort. The discomfort of being outside our comfort zone or doing something new will never completely go away. What we can do is embrace the discomfort and find ways to deal with it so it doesn’t cause us much trouble. Dealing with discomfort requires shifting our perspective from encountering failure to learning from our experiences and creating a supportive environment where we can take small, easy steps that don’t feel too overwhelming. As coaches, we are on the front line of experiencing discomfort and learning from it. Our experience in handling it should serve as an example and inspiration for others, including our clients.

Necesitamos comenzar a ver el fracaso como un aprendizaje y una nueva oportunidad de hacer las cosas diferentes. Evitar fracasar solo es un bloqueo que limita nuestros avances.

Getting support from family, friends, or a coach is essential for keeping us focused on reaching our goals. Each person will push and encourage you in a different way and form. Knowing that we are making some changes to a greater goal than ourselves keeps me motivated. I am motivated because I want to be a Thought Leader, that can influence and impact more gifted and talented individuals. What keeps you motivated? Let me know if I can be of support and help to you!

Your mind is designed to keep you in the familiar and predictable to ensure safety and survival. So it will be challenging to overrule yourself as you stretch beyond your familiar edges and all sorts of excuses and reasons will show up that you can get behind. It's just the safety mechanism in play. That's where the power of having a coach comes into its own - the coach helps to keep you at that level that you're growing into not staying stuck in the familiar.

One of the hardest things for me used to be asking for support from others. As an immigrant building a life in a new country, I often relied solely on myself, afraid to bother others or feeling like I was forcing them to help even if they didn't want to. Becoming a coach has taught me another way to think about this. When we shift our focus from ourselves and see asking for support not as a selfish act but as an opportunity for others to contribute to our lives and share their knowledge and love with the world, it changes everything. Also, we don't control whether the people we ask for help say yes or no; it's their responsibility. If they say yes, we don't need to feel obligated to do anything in return except to thank them.

Comfort zones really can be uncomfortable places. But so often the fabulous women I work with are holding themselves back from taking that leap due to fear of the unknown, that caused them to feel overwhelmed. The result? They feel stuck, stagnating and unfulfilled. I help them overcome this and take those first baby steps by encouraging them to realise that 100% certainty only exists with hindsight. And by going for it and taking that step, they are opening themselves up to new opportunities. Done is better than perfect, so celebrating small actions will help keep them motivated and give them the momentum to keep challenging themselves - and being proud of their gloriously perfect imperfection.

Why does celebrating success always seem so difficult? I often have to remind myself and my clients to stop, reflect, and recognize our great work so far and feel good about our achievements. Appreciation requires zero effort and doesn't cost any money, yet it can empower and motivate us to keep moving toward our goals. We can also offer gratitude practices for our clients. Regular gratitude practice and appreciation can be a gateway to compassion and improve our relationships with ourselves and those around us.

Comfort zones are seductive, but growth and happiness often reside outside them. Visualize your ideal life. Where does your comfort zone fit in that picture? Likely, it's a small part. Break down your goals into steps. Imagine the satisfaction of each step conquered. Remember, discomfort is temporary, growth isn't. Let your vision pull you forward. Small steps, giant leaps.

Picture your happiest self. Close your eyes and see it—where are you? What are you doing? How does it feel? Now, break down the steps to get there into bite-sized pieces. Visualize each step like scenes in a movie, cheering yourself on with every little victory. Replace any doubts with positive thoughts about your ability to make it happen. Keep coming back to this mental movie whenever you need a boost. Seeing your success in your mind's eye will build your confidence, shrink your fear, and push you to step into that happier life you deserve.

I agree with a lot of what is recommended here, but I believe that the order in which you tackle these things with a client is important. If they are stagnant because of fear at the moment, it takes a little bit of work building up confidence, courage, trust and rapport before tackling the fear head-on. My method or approach is to start with building the client's self-confidence first (over a few weeks). I then move into discussing what it is they really want, and what it is that is holding them back. I discuss the core human needs and the corresponding fears, and ask them to identify which are the most prevalent for them. I then use an NLP coaching method to help overcome their limiting beliefs and fear. Great shifts for my clients!

Visualizing success is a powerful motivator, transforming dreams into reality. Imagine your life after achieving your goals, relishing in the rewards of your hard work. This vision can inspire you to overcome discomfort and take necessary actions. Follow the 6 steps to the spiritual law of precipitation: 1. Intense Desire: Cultivate a burning passion for your goals. 2. Visualization: Clearly see your success. 3. Concentration: Focus your thoughts on this vision. 4. Inspired Action: Take steps driven by your passion. 5. Positive Affirmations and Attitude: Reinforce your belief. 6. Silence: Reflect and trust the process. Let this guide you to turn your vision into reality.

Beliefs are everything and more importantly, using your higher consciousness to shift the behavioral patterns and beliefs in your unconscious can mean the difference in quick if not instant results and years of setbacks and what feels like sabotage and being at odds with yourself. This IS what my entire superconscious magnetic mind hack program is based on with guaranteed results within 12 months and I love seeing the difference when people shift from the "this is so hard attitude" to the ease and flow of creating the life they love.