You may have wondered if you could benefit from life coaching sessions. The answer is YES! Clients come from all different walks of life including housewives, managers, grad-students, CEO’s and anyone who is ready for change in their lives. A Life Coach is a professionally trained individual who aims to assist and empower you to meet, and exceed personal and professional goals. Through specific strategies and skills, a coach assists you to define yourself and create the life you envision.

In a life coaching session, you will be asked a series of in depth questions such as what you want to get out of life, what areas you are unhappy with and where you’d like to see yourself in the future. This will start the dynamic relationship you will build over time with your coach as you collaborate to create a plan of action to move forward in the direction of your dreams. We may have the vision, we just lack the ability to create action that will lead us there.
Life Coaching has a true emphasis on action, accountability, and follow-through.

It is important to also ask yourself:

• Am I ready to focus on and nurture my personal development?
• Am I prepared to work toward my goals?
• Do I feel I can collaborate and be accountable to assist myself become unstuck?
• Are my commitments to myself and others out of balance?
• Am I willing to let go of limiting beliefs and negative self-talk?
• Would I like to increase self-confidence and resilience?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, you will certainly benefit from life coaching services.
Some of the basic principles of life coaching are:

Subjectivity – We all have different perspectives (or beliefs) of the world – no one perspective is ‘right’ or ‘wrong’, but some beliefs are called “limiting beliefs” and can stop you from becoming who you want to be. Coaching can assist you identify these limiting beliefs and choose different beliefs.

Empowerment – Coaching acts as a catalyst for you to find your personal power. Only you have the power to choose in any given moment who you want to be, what you want to believe and how you want to shift your life. Power lives in the reality that the events in our lives don’t control our lives, our decisions do!

Guidance – There is a difference between and instructor and a guide. An instructor shows you exactly what to do, whereas a guide provides the tools and support you need to do something for yourself. A Life Coach is a guide, not an instructor.

Practitioners offering these services include: