Is a Life Coach for You?
A Life Coach Can Make a World of Difference in Your Life
So your life is lacking a bit of direction is it? Gone are the days when you were destined to wander this world endlessly looking for some direction. Nowadays you can enlist the services of a life coach to help you determine what’s important to you, where your life should go, and most importantly, how to get there. But is a life coach right for you and how do you choose one?
What’s a Life Coach?
So what’s a life coach? A life coach is a professional who can help you in a number of ways. Whether your life is in transition or your looking to further your success in business, a life coach can help you determine what is the best path for you.
Coaching is Not Therapy
It’s important to understand that a life coach is not a therapist. Your life coach will not help you work through the troubles of your past nor will he or she be able to help you with any counseling issues you may have. What a life coach can and will do is enable you to determine which life steps are best for you and how to better achieve your goals.
Finding a Life Coach
Like many unregulated professions out there, finding a great life coach can be a bit like looking for a needle in a haystack. In order to make sure that the life coach you hire is among the best, you’re going to want to follow the following advice.
Free Initial Consultation
Almost all great life coaches offer free initial consultations. This will help both you and the life coach determine whether or not you are a good fit for each other. If a life coach isn’t willing to give you a free initial consultation, you may want to look elsewhere.
Accredited
Make sure your life coach has had some formal training from an accredited life coach academy. Without formal training, your life coach won’t be able to provide you with the professional services that you deserve.
Comments
Lydia,
Thank you for sharing information on finding a good life coach. Your information
has encouraged.
I have been thinking about a life coach for about a year now. I attended
a conference in LA for "Women In Technology" (WITI) last summer. At that conference
I had the awesome opportunity to meet Marcia Wieder.
She and I spoke about overcoming fears to achieve our dreams.
Although my time with her was incredibly brief, I learned from "America's Dream Coach" about
the importance of stepping out of my comfort zone.
At that time I really did not know who this precious woman was
but later learned she had been on Oprah and PBS-TV.
Marcia's brief touch on my life made a great impact on me. Recently I
discovered her blog at http://www.dreamcoachdirect.com/ and
a Maui Dream Retreat she is giving away!!!
I thought you and your readers might also be interested in what she had to say.
Thank you again for sharing and providing the tips to selecting a good dream coach.
May all of our dreams come true!!
Gina
Posted by: Gina | April 18, 2006 4:51 PM
Hi Lydia:
As a certified professional life coach, it's a pleasant surprise for me to find your blog & this post. Your info about life coach is clear and concise. I'm sure it would help a lot of people make up their mind about whether to work with a life coach & how to find a good one. I'd like to add one point about finding the "right" coach. Since coaching is a powerful partnership between the coach and the client, it is crucial to find a "good match" -- rapport, personality, working style, and whether the coach's specialty/niche matches your specific needs or challenges. For example, my niche is coaching "women who nurture everyone but themselves". I help my clients design strategies & action plans to nurture themselves, set their priorities straight, find their life's purpose, pursue their dreams. As a result, they have less stress, more balance, better relationships, more inner peace and more time for themselves & their loved ones. It would be a good idea to use the initial consultation to find out if you and the coach are a "good match".
Warm regards,
Hueina
Hueina Su, M.S., CEC
The Nurturer's Coach
Beyond Horizon Coaching
www.BeyondHorizonCoaching.com
"Intensive Care for Women Who Nurture Everyone but Themselves"
Posted by: Hueina Su | April 23, 2006 7:58 PM