LIFE COACHING---WHAT’S THAT?

Try as I might I cannot define Life-coaching in ten words or less and nor can any other coach it seems.

Life coaching is all encompassing it combines a range of techniques and theories to enable those of us committed to personal growth to achieve lasting, often extraordinary results.

A coach will work in partnership with a client to enhance their personal power across the seven foundations in life, health, spiritual, work, finances, personal relationships, family and social life. Vision, values, goals, habits, attitudes, barriers, perceptions, life choices, balanced living, fulfillment are common themes across the coaching spectrum.

A coach does not make decisions for their client; their job is to design strategies that will enable each individual to define success in their own terms at the same time help them to overcome barriers to that success. Life coaching picks up where motivational seminars, teambuilding and self help books leave off; it is not an easy option, there is work to be done.

On a one to one basis either over the phone or face-to-face comfort zones are challenged, habits changed, beliefs revised, achievements celebrated. With a coach people move beyond what they could normally achieve alone, a coach recognises potential (even if their client can’t) and will ensure their client stays on track by holding them accountable for their progress while cheering them on all the way.

So many folk muddle through life lowering their sights and making do, their lives limited by unconscious blocks built up over time. Others are getting ahead, busy, busy, busy, but again quality of life is compromised. For as many reasons as there are people the demands and complexity of life can overwhelm; at times just getting through the day in a busy family deserves a medal.

Our life purpose is so easily compromised, a coach is an investment in a journey to be the best we can while living a healthy and balanced life. Greater numbers of people are recognising that life coaching is not a ‘trend’ aimed at the corporate sector only, life coaching is relevant for anyone ready to enhance their lives.

The coaching relationship is founded on trust, honesty and action.

This relationship will achieve more than a good heart to heart with a friend, the emotional inter dependency of friendships can restrict an individuals freedom to grow unconditionally.

Coaches bring with them an objectivity that a friend can not provide. Life-coaching is about enabling growth and prosperity, no one needs a coach but it makes good sense to have one.

Written by Erena Brew

Life Coach

Stride

New Zealand