Life Coaching: An Excellent Medium of Conviction

One of the most surprising aspects of life coaching is that you don't need to know precisely what you want to fix or improve in your life for the magic to work. Having a specific goal in mind (for example, getting in shape) or at least an area of your life that you want to improve (for example, your relationships) can help the coaching process. However, coaching can help you identify that vague, nagging sense of dissatisfaction and what needs to change to restore your vim and vigor.

Having too specific a goal can keep you from enjoying the process's many benefits. Usually, many clients who thought they had a clear objective about change in a particular area of their lives later found that what they thought was the problem or goal wasn't at all or was secondary to something else. So, if you're concerned that you don't have a clear enough idea of what's wrong or could be better, take a deep breath and relax! Whole-life coaching is an excellent medium for determining what is truly going on. Because coaching has a beautiful way of surprising you with far more goodies than you bargained for, keeping a completely open mind allows you to appreciate those surprises when they appear.

Life coaching demonstrates how interconnected your life truly is. Perhaps you want to use coaching to improve your assertiveness at work. However, you'll almost certainly discover that it helps strengthen your relationships. Alternatively, by taking a close look at the issue of getting fit and healthy, you may find new sources of motivation that result in improved work performance and possibly even a promotion. Perhaps you've already accomplished your objectives and figured out how to balance your time and resources. However, you may still have a nagging sense of dissatisfaction or a purpose that something is missing. You may feel unfulfilled - not unhappy, but not fully alive.

You're probably looking for meaning and purpose if you fit this description. Life coaching is an excellent way to discover your unique talents and what you can contribute to the world. Life coaching can help you identify and secure the work or activity that makes your soul sing, or it can be the beginning of a spiritual journey. This search for meaning and purpose frequently results in a significant change in your life's direction or structure, though sometimes the changes are more subtle and interwoven into the threads of your current way of life.

You may have come to life coaching because you've realized that your current way of thinking or acting isn't making you happy. You may have achieved what appear to be fantastic results in your life. However, you are unhappy because you are too hard on yourself and undervalue your accomplishments. Or you may have fallen into patterns of behavior that work to some extent but cause you to feel bad about yourself in other ways.

Life coaching is based on the idea that you can consistently achieve the same or better results by using approaches congruent with what is truly important to you. Some profoundly ingrained thought and behavior patterns are best addressed through counselling or therapy. However, coaching is often the most effective way of holding a mirror up to unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and devising a workable strategy for replacing them with healthier approaches for yourself.