What Is Life Coaching?

The International Coach Federation (ICF) defines coaching as follows:

Coaching is an ongoing relationship which focuses on the client taking action toward the realization of his or her visions, goals and desires.

Using a process of inquiry and personal discovery to build the client's level of awareness and responsibility, the coach provides structure, support and feedback. The process helps clients define and achieve professional and personal goals faster and with more ease than would be possible otherwise.

In other words, life coaches are equal partners who assist you to improve and grow as a person as the means to achieve your goals. Coaches also assist you to execute the actions necessary to achieve your goals. You will have virtual control over the results you achieve, because you set the goals.

How Is Coaching Different From Therapy?

The therapy process focuses on helping clients overcome past problems that impede their ability to function in a normal day-to-day manner. Therapists direct clients to revisit past events to discover and resolve conflicting issues that have burdened them. Therapists are experts in the field of psychology. Therapists are not equal partners.

The life coaching process focuses on your future, moving forward from where you are to where you would like to be. Life coaches assist you to become the world's leading expert on your life and take the actions necessary to achieve your goals. Coaches are trained to bring out the best in you. Coaches are equal partners.  

Why Hire a Life Coach?

You hire a coach to achieve your personal, spiritual, family and business goals, much more effectively, more efficiently, more completely, with more fun, and in less time than any other self-improvement process. Your life coach will assist you to:

• overcome obstacles and fears
• focus on solutions
• discover truths about you
• accomplish more than you thought possible
• achieve balance in your personal, work and family lives.

Your coach will UNLEASH YOU to become the person you always wanted to be and were capable of becoming.

What Kinds of Goals are Coachable?

A "coachable goal" is a future place you want to be as a person that requires you to grow or improve to reach it. Coachable goals always involve moving forward in your life. Whether your goal is to lose weight, improve your health, move up the career ladder, learn a new skill, or develop better relationships, your coach will assist you in creating a plan of action to make it all happen, one step at a time.

How Does Life Coaching Work?

You and your coach will develop an ongoing partnership, based upon trust. Your coach will:

• focus her full energy and attention on you achieving your goals.
• become the totally objective, non-judgmental, supportive mirror into whom you really are and what you really want to do.
• provide new perspectives, encouragement, and concentrated attention to give you the insight, and confidence to take life-improving actions towards your goals.
• assist you in identifying potential obstacles and further assist you to overcome them to reach your goals.

How Can I Maximize the Rewards I Receive Through Life Coaching?

The life coaching process works exceptionally well at assisting you to improve your life, relationships and your work. But like anything else, it works best under the right conditions.

I believe that most people are coachable, but they're not always coachable at every point in time. Sometimes people want change (or others around them want them to change), but they they're not currently open to changing their beliefs, behaviors and actions. If that's the case coaching won't work, and it's better to wait until you're more open and ready.

How Will I Communicate With My Coach?

Clients who live in the Hilton Head Island and Bluffton, SC area will have the choice of meeting face-to-face or by telephone. Clients outside of my home territory will meet with me via telephone. Weekly sessions will be scheduled in advance, and all arrangements will be clearly defined. Between sessions, we will communicate via e-mail. All necessary paperwork and forms can be sent via e-mail or fax.

How Can I Get Started?

E-mail  today to schedule your FREE Lifescapes Discovery Session!