Get started boosting your self esteem by hiring a life coach. Since a life coach usually helps people with any and all areas of life from career to finances to overeating, all of the work that you do with a life coach will eventually lead back to your self esteem and help to slowly (or quickly) increase it.

A life coach will:

• Help you focus on the positive
• Show you that you are deserving of all good
• Challenge you to reach for what you are worthy of
• Challenge you to reach for what you want
• Point out the positive attributes that you take for granted about yourself
• Gently (or not so gently) tell you the truth about where you are kidding yourself

As you work with the coach and overcome challenges that you face and reach the goals you set out, your regular experience of the focus just being on you with your life coach, will continue to help you raise your self esteem. The life coach will be someone other than yourself that will help make sure that you are held accountable until eventually as your self esteem and self confidence increases, you can learn to hold yourself accountable for your actions and learn to change the negative, critical voices in your head.

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Not every person is right for life coaching. If you don’t believe that you can learn and grow from life coaching than you won’t and you are wasting your money. It is important to choose the right coach when you are thinking about life coaching, but just as important is determining if you are truly coachable. If not, you will also be wasting your money. You must believe that the process can help you and you must be willing to commit the time and effort to the process.

You need to be able to learn how to look inside yourself and be honest with yourself and your coach. Don’t try to take over as the coach and coach yourself. It won’t work. You obviously felt the need to hire the coach at some point for some reason. Let them do what you hired them for. They have the experience, the outside perspective and the tools to help you and that is why you hired them. Work with the coach instead of against and the coaching could change your life forever.

For example, Betty called me and wanted to work on relationships. She had a boyfriend who didn’t seem to feel about her the way she felt about him. As we began our coaching relationship, I tried to find out about her past relationships to help her see her patterns. But all she wanted me to do was tell her how to get her boyfriend to like her more. That’s not coaching. If she had wanted to look at herself, the ways she might be getting  in her own way or the ways she didn’t value herself enough and stayed in a relationship like she was in, we could have made some coaching progress. As it was, she was not coachable.

It is said that coaches need to be coachable also. My understanding of that is that I need to keep my ego out of the mix, support my client’s point of view and be open to when I have it all wrong. That’s coachable.

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]]> http://allaboutlifecoaching.com/life-coaching-able/feed 2 http://allaboutlifecoaching.com/faq-on-life-coaching http://allaboutlifecoaching.com/faq-on-life-coaching#comments Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:00:16 +0000 allaboutlifecoaching http://allaboutlifecoaching.com/?p=206 Life Coaching – What is it?

There are many questions that are frequently asked regarding life coaching. Many answers are found right here on this blog. Since this coaching trend is growing constantly and people are looking for more information like WHAT IS IT? and WHAT DOES IT DO? and WHAT WILL IT DO FOR ME?

Life coaching is a process of working with someone that is trained as a coach to help you figure out what you want most in life and how to get there. The coach will then assist you along the way as you work to obtain these goals. A major benefit of life coaching is you have someone to work with who will be able to exchange ideas, brainstorm, motivate, offer their intuition, support you in using your intuition and help you make a commitment to your goals. You have someone in the background holding you accountable to yourself and helping your see your great value and talents.

Life coaching can do anything for you that you want it too but you must put forth your effort and honesty to make it worth the investment. Find a life coach that you can work well with and make the necessary time and effort to work with your coach during your appointment and when you are working on your own in between sessions. The difference you can make in your life is beyond what you can imagine.

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Fears in Control?

Allowing fears to stop you from accomplishing what you want in life might be one of the most significant barriers to personal growth.

• Say you want to stop spending your life working for others, doing a job that is largely uncreative and unsatisfying to your soul. But you know how much money is coming in every month.

• What if you don’t know what you do want to do or you know but have never been in your own business and don’t know how to start or all your old messages of incompetence arise? Hire a coach.

The right life coach will help you sort out your talents and skills and brainstorm with you on possibilities.

The right life coach is in their own business so they certainly can teach and support you to do the same.

The life coach will help you deal with your negative self talk.

Many people have various different fears and no matter what they are about, they can be so strong that they are completely debilitating. Many life coaches will help you with tools and techniques to overcome your fear so you can follow a clear path towards your future.

A coach will give you tools and techniques to help you over come your barriers to personal growth, of course, but the most important thing that they can give you is the confidence in yourself to know that whatever your fear is, you can handle it. Sooner or later, as you progress with your coach you will suddenly feel so strongly that you can face that fear and do whatever it is you are so scared of,  you will just jump right in and do it.

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Be sure that the life coach that you choose to work with is someone that you are comfortable with and that you feel you can communicate well with. You need to be able to talk about anything and everything with your coach.

In addition, you must feel that your coach does their job well. Interview at least three coaches. Ask for client testimonials. Find out how many coaching hours they have actually been involved with and try to get an idea of what type of techniques they use to assist you in finding and reaching your goals. Coaches work in many ways – in person, by phone or even by email now.

Life coaching can help you in so many ways. By getting a life coach and making a strong effort to work, be totally honest with and cooperate with the coach as much as possible, you can make a huge difference in your life and your success and happiness. Your life coach can work with you on any issue that you have and help to change the way that it is affecting your life. You can work on self esteem issues or procrastination issues -or relationship issues – whatever it may be that causes you to feel like something is not right in your life.

If you are looking for better personal relationships, business relationships or a better idea of what you want in life and how to go about getting it, a life coach could be your answer. For support in achieving goals, a life coach is perfect.

As you grow with the coaching, a good coach will help you revise what you want and lead you in the directions that you would like to go whether it is with your relationships with your kids or if it is figuring out how to get that big promotion at work. The confidence that you will get from working with your coach will spill over into all areas of your life.

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Goal setting can be very confusing and difficult for some people. With a little thought and breaking the task up into bite-sized pieces, it can become much easier and worthwhile. Before you begin, take an honest look at your life and what your goals are. Make sure that the goals you have in mind are in line with what you want and are in line with each other. Make sure your goals are your goals and not ones you think you should have – those imposed by family or peers.

You might confuse the situation by not being organized. Think about keeping separate goals for separate parts of your life. You may have family goals, career goals, and health goals. It will be easier to reach these goals  if you look at them individually instead of lumping them all together.

Some say try not to aim unrealistically high with your goal setting but don’t let yourself off too easy either. If you think your goal is impossible, it will be but if you think your goal is no big deal then, why work too hard too achieve it? And if you have a really big goal that you don’t believe you can achieve, learn how to change your thoughts. W. Clement Stone said: “Whatever The Mind Can Conceive… It Can Achieve.” He was referring, of course, to the Law of Attraction.

Once you are sure of your goals, make a list of what actions it will take to accomplish the goal and write a complete, detailed plan of how you are going to achieve it. Begin taking the actions required immediately and work on your goals and your plans to achieve them on a regular basis by updating and changing them to match your desires.

Now all of the above is really a good idea and not how I do it for myself at all. As in most things, it depends on what kind of person you are.  Goal setting is dependent upon your own uniqueness. My goals tend to be broader like, “I want to help many people by offering the things I’ve learned in my life to them using my gifts of intuition, communication and teaching.”

Then what I do about it may change but the goal stays always present.

My work with various life coaches and mentors has helped me realize what kind of goal setter I am.

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Most people find a time in their life where they may feel that they have lost their direction or everything that they thought that they wanted, is turning out to be not at all what they really do want. Is that happening to you? It is difficult in today’s hustle and bustle world to remain passionate about your life, especially when you find that you are so busy working and taking care of responsibilities that you have no time left at the end of the day for yourself and what makes you happy? After awhile you may begin to wonder why you even bother getting up in the morning.

Life coaching can be a powerful way to jump start your passion again and explore what it is in life that excites you. The answers are hiding inside you and a life coach can be your guide to finding those answers. A life coach will provide you with a support system to assist you in finding and effectively achieving what you want. He or she will help you start to hold your awareness of your commitments to yourself even in non-coaching times – the rest of your life.

They can help you create new goals and design the life you really want, help you find ways to clear any obstacles in your way, help you break through any destructive thinking you may be in the middle of and hold you accountable for your actions.

Life coaching works because sometimes we need an objective view of our life and what we want out of it and how to get there. Many times we tend to resist change and a life coach will hold you accountable to step outside of your comfort zone and face the change that you ultimately desire.

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