Benefits of Coaching – Increased Happiness

This month, I am on a mission to bring more understanding about coaching to you in my network and to the general public.

This series of posts is on the benefits of coaching. Wherever possible I have also given success stories/examples of how I used coaching tools to bring those benefits to my client’s situation or my own life.

Disclaimer: I have taken the consent from my clients to share these stories and in order to protect their privacy names, and places have been changed

Increased happiness: overall, life coaching helps you to find things that bring you joy and fulfillment in life, and work towards creating a more fulfilling and meaningful life.

Example

A professional woman reached out to me. She was not happy. She has everything one would look for in life. A caring family, a promising career, and a nice house. She was living the Australian dream.

She was feeling stuck with no growth. She felt her life was meaningless. She knew she is a good mom and a wife and she adds value to her organisation. But she did not feel that way.

After talking to her I realised she is not enjoying her day to day activity. Then we talked about what she enjoys doing, she mentioned that she loved empowering and mentoring others. That was not part of her job role. We talked about how she can incorporate those into her job role. In fact, she already did those activities but she never recognised her contribution to the junior team members in her team as a mentor. We also talked about finding time to volunteer as a Mentor.

After doing a needs analysis, she realised that for a long time period, her main emotional need was to feel ′Significant′, and she satisfied that need via her job role. With time, her needs have changed. Once she fulfilled her need for significance, she moved towards a more spiritual need of ′Contribution′. She has not yet released it and was spending more time on satisfying her old need. She was not spending enough time fulfilling her new need, the need to contribute to others. We worked on prioritizing her emotional needs and acting on fulfilling those needs.

With these realisations and changes to her actions, she started feeling joyful, happy, and fulfilled in life.