7 Ways a Life Coach Can Improve Your Life
Dr Kalyani Kamble
Firewalk Facilitator | Leadership Coach | Master NLP Practitioner | Breakthrough Trainer | Author | Image Consultant President at All Ladies League Women Enterpreneurs- Mumbai Chapter
What exactly is a Life coach? And why is it so important to have them? Let’s take a trip down memory lane to find the answer to this question. Back when you were in school and you played the regular sports as a part of your Personal Training, you always had a coach. The job of that coach was to train you and guide you so that you don’t succumb to any physical injury and you excel in that sport by proper guidance and training.
Well, the Life Coach does exactly the same, but in a more holistic approach. Their job is to guide you in life, help you in achieving your goals and helping you break limiting beliefs.
Here are 7 ways in which a Life Coach can improve your life:
1)???Build That Confidence
More often than not, we are our biggest enemies. We set these limiting beliefs about our capabilities and slowly steadily start becoming conditioned to believe it. For example: As a kid, you didn’t like math and didn’t score quite well in that subject, so you started believing that numbers scare you and that you can never be good at that. While in reality, if you didn’t keep saying that to yourself, there are chances, today you could be performing math and know the basics. Here’s what a life coach does – they make you list down all your limiting beliefs and then work with you on eliminating them, thereby helping you build that confidence you require in your day to day life.
2)???Find That Purpose
A wise man once said that your life is successful, not the day you make millions of dollars, but the day you find your true purpose in life; because that’s going to fetch you true happiness. Your purpose in life is a combination of your hidden talents and passion, when you mix the two, life becomes much better and a Life Coach will use their methods to make sure you reach there.
3)???Go The Spiritual Way
One thing you need to be sure of is to find a Life Coach who is on a similar wavelength as you. There are people in the world, who are successful, have all the riches and yet they are not satisfied. Because as a human, you always have the tendency to think that something is missing and here’s where a life coach steps in. Their job is not to explain to you how the world works, but rather why and once you have the answer, the likelihood of you being at peace is much higher.
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4)???Define Your Career And The Path
A Life Coach helps you find the right path when it comes to your career as well. There are times when we start working and after 20 years we realize that we are just living a monotonous life and that’s not our passion. A coach will help you define the goals and then create a step by step structured plan on how to achieve them. For you, that merely acts as a to-do list.
5)???Improve Your Interpersonal Skills & Relationships
Today everything you do requires you to excel in your interpersonal communication skills; be it your work life or your personal life, you need to know how to communicate and communicate well for that matter. Be crisp and precise in your statements without sounding too boring. A life coach helps you in improving your communication skills; these are verbal as well as non-verbal which include your grooming, body language etc.
6)???Overall Wellness
A Life Coach will make you understand the importance of having a work/life balance and not only that; they will also show you ways in how you can balance both without having to sacrifice either. In today’s day and age, this is highly important.
7)???Business & Time Management
This is something every individual struggle with. A Life Coach takes a practical approach to these situations and finds a solution. Even in matters of business, they can always nudge you towards the right direction that’s backed up with logic and case studies.
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Apart from these, a life coach truly becomes your friend and tries to empathize with you at every step. Their advice or consultation isn’t a quick google search, it’s something that has been developed over years of experience and trial and error. Since they are in a profession of understanding human psychology and how the world works, their guidance will help you see a different perspective and sometimes, that’s all that’s needed.