30 Days Change Your Habits, Change Your Life A Couple of Simple Steps Every Day to Create the Life You Want
Chapter 93: Get a coach! “Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.” Ralph Waldo Emerson After having a huge impact in business life, coaching is
also becoming more and more available for private persons in the form of life
coaching. Many people have the wrong concept that you only take on a coach
when something is wrong, but people like Eric Schmidt actually take on coaches
to get even better, or to have a neutral, objective partner with whom they can
bounce back and forth their ideas and who keeps them grounded. A coach can
help you to achieve clarity on what you really want in life, encourage you to
keep on going when you would normally stop, help set better and more
rewarding goals for yourself, get results more easily and quickly, overcome fear,
communicate much more effectively, experience a faster personal development,
overcome self-sabotaging habits, find your true purpose, and to live aligned with
your true values. During the coaching process you will learn to take
responsibility for everything in your life and take better decisions. Coaching
achieves extraordinary results because you and your coach become a team,
focusing on your goals and accomplishing more than you would do alone. You
take more action, think bigger, and get the job done, because of the
accountability the coach provides. A coach knows how to help you to make
better decisions, set the best goals, and restructure your professional and
personal life for maximum productivity. Coaching works because it brings out
the best in you. A coach is trained to help you find your own best answers and
will support you in the course of that process. Coaching is usually done during
regular, weekly sessions by telephone, skype, or in person which last between 30
and 60 minutes. In every session coach and coachee work on the coachee's goals,
creating options and setting a plan of action for the coachee's next steps. While
working towards the coachee's goal, the coach also works on the coachee's
personal development. You can find coaches, for example, in online directories
of Coach U or the International Coach Federation (ICF). Most coaches offer
complementary strategy sessions. That's how you and your coach get to know
each other and find out if you are comfortable working together. Chemistry is
crucial in a coaching relationship.
