Useful Articles by Life Coaches

I have talked to a fair few people now about life coaching and it seems there are some misunderstandings regarding this subject. I will list the top 3 here and explain the differences.

Counselling
1) Many people confuse life coaching with counselling. They are not the same at all. Counselling focuses mainly on the past and deals with any emotional problems from the past. With life coaching you mainly focus on the future and whereas we also deal with blockages from the past which stop people...

It's worth asking once in a while whether the way you're living reflects the way you want to live.

If the answer is no, may I ask, gently and with due deference to your no-doubt logical decision making processes, when exactly you will start?

I often get my clients to identify a 'bold move' in the direction of their values, because they are often so stuck inside their heads that making no decision is beginning to look suspiciously like a decision.

Start by picking a value that reflects...

I have a theory on this. When my friends, colleagues and clients ask me, "Why does coaching work?", I tell them that in its most basic terms, it's just a matter of manners! They smile politely at me and probably think that I'm verging on crazy, but I truly believe that one of the biggest drivers behind the coaching technique is the reliance on someone having enough manners to answer the coach when they ask a question. And I'm not just talking about asking you what your favourite colour...

Sometimes after sessions, clients will tell me they feel inspired into action. And this always makes me wary.

It's nice and everything, but feeling inspired is like assuming you've reached your destination when you see it on the map.

Emotions convey information and using mindfulness in career decision making allows us to listen more clearly to that information. But when it comes to moving into action emotions are unreliable.

What we most value in life and what we most fear are two...

Do you feel unhappy in your job? Do you dread Mondays and find it difficult to get up and to actually go to work?

Taking the decision to hire a career coach is the first step to taking charge of your life and find the happiness and fulfilment that you deserve.

Here is why

Listening
A coach will listen to you and you only. A coach will help you explore what you want to get from your career. I may be a promotion or it may be a complete change of direction. A coach will help you get your...

You can feel isolated after loss or separation and no matter whether you are male or female getting back out there is a must! Start slowly using existing friendships.
Write a list of your interests, just let yourself go, see what you can try out easily and in your local area. It’s a great way to build confidence to start socialising and breaking the ice.
Remember the good times and that there are more to come, life’s changed and you can change with it!
If it feels as if your confidence has...

We spend on average a third of our daily lives in the workplace. Many of us have little choice but to work to live, while others more fortunate, work for them is a vocation, they live to work – whatever your position is, the dynamics within the workplace will have a definite effect on you to a greater or lesser extent and moreover the fortunes on whether the enterprise is one of sustainable success, a constant struggle or inevitable failure will rely on the what, where and who rule. Our choice...

Nervousness is wonderful, and can give you an edge. However, controlling it is the secret to allowing your nervousness work for you for your talk, speech or presentation. 

Once, it was suggested to me to imagine my fear and anxiety as excitement and drive. That really worked for me. Through having coaching, I’ve gone from someone who went red in the face at the mention of my name in public, to being confident to present to 100 people.

I believe you can do it too, if you want to. It’s...

I believe that many of us have the potential to be much more than we ever achieve if only we understood the importance of allowing someone to reflect back to us what we already know but somehow fail to realise.

So where are you at this moment in time? Are you completely happy? Do you know exactly what you want and how to get it? Do you wake up each day and think wow let me out into the world or do you feel I wish I could lie here all day?
Alternatively, are you so busy that you do not...

We are immersed in a storm of information turbulence daily, sometimes we really do not see the wood for the trees and increasingly the search for ‘silence’ permeates the mind but escapes like a wonderful dream lost.

The channels of everyday information is rich with news of disaster, pain, tragedy and sorrow – good news it seems does not resonate with the masses; we are ‘turned on’ by sensationalism, voyeurism and dread. Bad news is often quickly replaced with celebrity gossip – ‘what the...