Using a Life Coach
When and in what circumstances should you consider using a Life Coach?
The circumstances outlined below are not meant to limit or narrow the circumstances in which you would consider using a Life Coach.
Nor are they exclusive of the circumstances when you may consider using a Life Coach.
Nor do they try to be prescriptive of when you should consider a Life Coach.
They provide guidance only about those times in your life situation when you may need Life Coaching to get you over a hurdle, for example.
There may be circumstances when you are approaching a major challenge in your life and you want to be well prepared to meet it.
The key with Life Coaching is that with a Life Coach you are better prepared than you would be if you were doing it on your own without additional help.
The key is realising those circumstances when you might need help and being brave enough to put your hand up and seek it. There is no shame is admitting to yourself that
you may need help in particular circumstances.
These circumstances are for you as a rational human being to decide. They will vary from person to person. We are there to help when you decide it is time for you to seek help from a Life Coach.
Firstly, generally speaking, with a Life Coach on board, you will recognise more quickly situations where, because of
circumstances unfavorable to you, you may not be performing or achieving to your highest level.
A Life Coach will provide the required level of detachment to be able to allow you to see yourself in your situation and understand the factors affecting your performance.
Once the factors or levers of good or exceptional performance are understood, a Life Coach will create an environment where those factors are emphasised and used to promote better performance.
Please use these circumstances as a high level guide only. Please consult Life Coaching Sydney or another Life Coaching firm to discuss your particular circumstance and situation. The following
situations will have a different outcome with a Life Coach on board for guidance and support.
When you have previously set yourself achievable goals but did not complete them or complete them to your satisfaction
within a reasonable amount of time or the time you allowed yourself.
You found when trying to accomplish previously set goals that in the actual hands-on doing, you were easily distracted from the necessary tasks or work
that you had set yourself to achieve those goals.
Where you have taken on board large tasks, major goals or major projects and you've been unable to break down these major goals to more easily manageable smaller portions
achievable within a shorted period of time, enabling you to get runs on the board in terms of a quick win.
When someone close to you in the past has provided the environment for high achievement and the support necessary to sustain that but that
close support person is no longer available or in unable to continue to fulfill that role in your life.
You find yourself in a position where you seem ready to take on the world but the world is not ready for you. There is no traction with your ideas and it seems as if the
world is not ready for you. Your ideas and dreams are not taking off and your initiatives are falling on deaf ears.
You find yourself at work in a position where you don't want you be. You are neither going forwards nor backwards. Every turn you take is a dead end. You do not have any new or fresh ideas and
any that you do come up with are ignored or not listened to at all. You see no way out except resigning perhaps to another dead end job. Your whole outlook needs refreshing. You need a whole new fount of ideas.
You want to go into work, a work that you enjoy doing, bursting with energy and ideas.
You may have made a decision to leave work, for your own reasons, but do not know where to go from there, what to do. You have built your level of motivation to
leave but now require guidance to ensure where you move to and what you do will be in hindsight be seen as a brilliant move. You require career coaching and support to ensure you make the very
best decisions with your career that you can in the circumstances make.
You're involved with a major phase of your life, a major enterpise or a major undertaking but you don't have the attitude or confidence of a winner or at least someone who will have a good go at it.
For anyone who is in a major phase of their life, their attitude should be, must be that of the climber waiting at base camp for the opportunity to climb the biggest mountain of his or her life. If you're at the base of the mountain but cannot focus and see your way to the top.
Nothing less that this preparedness, ready to go when the weather clears attitude, when the
intermediate camps are built, when the ice trails are cut and finally when the way to summit is clear.
Fear to summit or fear of success is as great as the dangers of failure inherent with the summit climb or any attempt at a goal.
In the mountaineering analogy I make, the window to the summit is very very short, a matter of hours. Have you got what it takes to make these critical decisions and is life any less demanding of the capacity to go full bore, at short notice, when it is required?
Based on the circumstances described above, a number of Life Coaching principles may, if deployed correctly, be decisive. Decisive in turning failures to success and successes to triumphs.
To help your cause, you should -
Recognise those circumstances when you cannot do it alone or cannot do it safely alone or cannot do it efficiently alone or cannot do it at all alone and ask for help and support.
Try to understand those factors at play in determining success or failure. This self knowledge will enable you and your Life Coach to focus on the action/doing verbs of your life vocabulary.
Appreciate that your Life Coach will work with you and be with you thorough highs and lows. He or she will share your failures but only you will taste the glory of your successes. Your Life Coach is, in these terms, egoless.
Understand your Life Coach is there to make you look good and perform well.
Accept that your Life Coach has no role to play once you have achieved what you set out to do unless of course you then set new goals which in most cases you should.
Life and Executive Coaching Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
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What should a Life Coach do for you?
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How to consider, select, engage and evaluate the performance of a Life Coach
Life Coaching Life Cycle
Setting Realistic and Achievable Goals
Learning from Failure as a Key to Future Success
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