Life coaching is a synergistic relationship between an accredited life coach and a client designed to tap into your full potential. Just as Olympic athletes wouldn’t think of training without the added insight, objective perspective.  A life coach works with a client to help him or her solve a problem. Your problem might be something immediate and concrete, like stress from work, or less a specific issue.

A life coach is a type of wellness professional who helps people make progress in their lives in order to attain greater fulfillment. Life coaches aid their clients in improving their relationships, careers, and day-to-day lives.

Life coaching helps people improve their personal and professional lives. Whether they want to strengthen their relationship with others, move their business forward, or simply have more peace in their lives, a coach can help set, understand, and meet those goals.

Life coaches can help you:

• overcome the Monday morning blues
• build confidence
• find a career that you love
• get clear on your goals
• stay accountable to your goals
• do more of the activities that engage you
• form better relationships
• have more meaning in your life
• develop your purpose
• work on the things that you are passionate about
• feel happier

Working with a life coach can help you learn a set of tools to solve problems that are facing you immediately, in addition to future problems you’ll encounter.  Benefits also vary depending on what you’re working on. Whether you’re learning how to be positive in life or focusing on active listening, progress and achievements will be based on different benchmarks that are tailored to your experience.

It’s important to accept that there is no wrong time to see a life coach. There’s no wrong time to work on improving yourself. You don’t need a concrete problem or deadline to make headway. The only thing you truly need is a commitment to taking on personal work to make a change in your life.

TOPICS TO DISCUSS WITH A LIFE COACH

1. Professional Growth & Direction
   This improves all the various aspects of your professional life in which you will like to see growth.
2. Values Alignment
   This introduces you to the best strategy to realign your work values with your goals.
3. Goal Setting
   This teaches you how to set goals and stick to them effectively.
4. Skills Acquisition
   This helps you identify the skills that will allow you to achieve your goals.
5. Strategic Decision Making
   This is a topic that assesses your decision-making skills as well as utilizes feedbacks from your coworkers and superiors to enhance them.
6. Self-Induced Obstacles
   This builds your confidence level and improves the way you address yourself and others.
7. Performance Reviews
   This provides lessons that teach you how to plan and prepare for reviews so that you can boost your chances of optimal outcomes.
8. Productivity
   This brings to light your workstyle and daily routine so that you can find ways to become better at your job.
9. Habits & Routines
   This identifies the periods where you are most productive in the day, to develop a strategy to optimize your efforts.
10. Time Management & Focus
    This teaches you how to set boundaries with yourself and people around you, to keep you focused and properly manage your time.

And more

To this day, when people ask me “is life coaching worth it?” I give them a very short answer: Don’t. I loved a lot of the work I did, but people who want to be life coaches are likely coming to it with the same desperation I had, which isn’t good for anyone.