How can you identify your clients' motivation and increase their life satisfaction?

Understanding one's values is crucial for personal and professional growth. When clients seem unaware of their values, it's an opportunity for exploration. Visualisation becomes a powerful tool in this journey of self-discovery. I guide my clients to close their eyes and paint a mental canvas of their ideal future. What does happiness, satisfaction and success look like to them? What activities are they engaged in? What relationships are present? This vivid imagery serves as a gateway to their subconscious, allowing unfiltered values to surface.

Unlocking your core values is a game changer for allowing clients to see who they are. I call it discovering their inner GPS as this knowledge and insight into yourself can be such a powerful guide. I use a detailed worksheet, building on it week by week, allowing them to uncover key life events that are the reason behind their 'why', as well as their deep rooted beliefs. We even create a purpose statement based on their values. It helps them create a life, career, relationship in alignment with those values and they often wonder why they didn't do it sooner!

1. Al evaluar sus valores y creencias con empatia es fácil saber hacia donde estan sus necesidades para cubrirlas acorde a tus productos o servicios

One can uncover the clients' motivations by active listening, asking probing questions, and exploring their values. Tailor interventions to align with their goals, fostering a sense of purpose. Cultivate a positive therapeutic alliance, emphasizing strengths and progress. Implement goal-setting techniques and celebrate achievements, boosting self-esteem. Encourage mindfulness and self-reflection for a holistic approach to well-being. By understanding and addressing individual motivations, you pave the way for increased life satisfaction.

When exploring clients' strengths, it's key to consider not only what they're good at but also what gives them energy. Often, clients will be aware of what others have told them they're good at (eg through their performance appraisals) but they're missing the dimension of whether they actually enjoy using that strength. This is particularly the case for high achievers who have gotten used to doing things that attract external validation and praise but have lost touch with what they enjoy and what they want to do more of. This can leave them stuck in the 'competence trap' of doing work that they're good at but which drains them. Identifying the overlap between what they're good at and what they enjoy helps clarify the right direction.

I talk about Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, whenever relevant to clients, as it provides a framework for understanding human motivation and how it can change over time. It is important to understand that our needs extend beyond a paycheck or the money we are making in our businesses. It is more important than ever to recognise the importance of fulfilling both basic and higher-level needs. When clients learn to understand where they stand on the hierarchy, we can work together to identify areas where they need to make changes in order to improve their overall well-being and achieve their full potential/goals.

Celebrating little wins is the most overlooked aspect of transformation, I believe. The mindset of change begins by focusing on the end goal. The problem is, if the focus isn’t reestablished to recognize every single win along the way, the brain’s evolutionary connection to negativity bias convinces the one making changes that they aren’t doing enough, not fast enough. That their hard work isn’t working & it never will. This triggers the unhealed parts of the subconscious mind to begin a protective sequence that feels like, & has been wrongly termed as, ‘self-sabotage.’ Begin every coaching session by celebrating the wins your client experienced since last meeting to counterbalance this. Address what needs to be addressed after celebrating.

Pour que la motivation intrinsèque d'une personne la porte jusqu'à la réalisation complète de ce qu'elle veut vraiment, elle doit avant tout savoir ce qu'elle veut vraiment (ce qui n'est pas toujours évident :)), ensuite il est important de : - donner du sens au changement qu'on envisage. - se sentir en sécurité d'agir, donc bien conna?tre ses ressouces - trouver du plaisir dans ce cheminement, autrement l'instinct de survie le rejèterait en bloc.