How Personal Life Coaching Can Help You
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Are you successful but feel there is something missing?
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Are you feeling overwhelmed or stressed out?
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Do you feel you don’t have enough time to do what you want?
If the answers to the above questions are ‘Yes’, you have much in common with my personal coaching clients. We have focused conversations on what is meaningful and important to them and together we develop a strategy to create changes which fits their life and their goals.
As your personal life coach, I will partner you to find clarity, make important choices and take the necessary steps to achieve your values.
life coach (n.) " Works with client to reveal and build on strengths, increase fulfillment and effectiveness and enhance quality of life. "
Benefits of coaching
We are living in a time of rapid and profound change. Our goals for ourselves are evolving. New skills are required of us, particularly the skills for navigating change. In the 21st century many of us want to be personally and professionally more effective, while at the same time enhancing the balance between our personal life and our professional life. To achieve this, you benefit greatly from having a partner - someone who has the insights and commitment to your personal and professional development. And should you be feeling off course, working with a good coach can enhance your transition process.
A coach can benefit you by:
- Providing focused support as you make changes
- Stimulating your self expression
- Challenging you
- Being accessible, independent and dedicated to your development
- Asking powerful questions and making big requests
- Offering insights and perspectives
- Listening to you and hearing what you say
- Celebrating your successes with you
A coach works with you to find balance between the competing demands in your life by paying attention to:
- Your overall health and well being
- Your finances
- Your relationships
- Your life philosophy and personal values
What benefits do my coaching clients enjoy?
10 benefits my clients have enjoyed as a result of coaching:
- Peace of mind
- Greater fulfillment
- Better balance between work and play
- A simplified life
- Boosted confidence
- Set bigger goals and achieved them faster
- Enhanced creative thinking
- Built on strengths and delegated the rest
- Increased financial security
- New ways of working
Personal coaching can cover all aspects of your life and is in a way similar to athletic coaching. As your coach, I encourage you, motivating you to achieve your goals and honour your values. Coaching empowers you to greater personal and professional effectiveness. Think of it as taking steps to become the powerful director of your own life.
What can I do for you?
Providing focus and encouragement, I support you to clarify and expand your vision of what is possible.
As your coach I work with you to clarify your values and to achieve any changes you want to make:
- Clarify career or business options
- Find a healthier balance between work and personal life
- Have financial security
- Be more effective
- Have more energy and zest for life
- Make a difference
- Discover more meaning and purpose
- Set personal and professional goals
- Create something new
- Get out of a rut and into a positive situation
My service as a coach includes a "one stop shop". This means you use me as a resource. I can assist you to access many other services through my own wide network.
Coaching is more than conversation. The power of coaching flows from its focus on taking action. We agree homework or assignments. It is these actions which help you reach and often surpass your goals more quickly than you would alone.
What is your part in coaching?
Your commitment.
To get real value for the coaching process, you are required to make a big commitment in terms of time, finances and energy, but the rewards are great. My clients tell me that they find the process exciting, interesting and life changing (please read my testimonials). The investment is £250 per month. This includes two forty-five minute coaching sessions each calendar month and unlimited short calls and emails. The terms are pro rata if you opt to have one session or three sessions per month.
If you are still not sure whether you are ready for coaching and would like to talk over your options, do please contact me.
"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy a quickening that is translated through you into action. And because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium… the world will not have it"
Martha Graham
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