Life Coaching
"Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul and the blueprints of your ultimate achievements." Napoleon Hill
What Is Life Coaching?
Are you are a highly motivated individual who has defined your agenda--that is, you have a special goal or undertaking that you are taking to the next level?
Are are feeling "stuck" and need clarification or a way to break out of old limiting insecurities or negative thinking?
Are you kind of tired of "going it alone" and realize you could benefit from having a personal strategist, consultant, confidante, accountability source, and motivator?
A Life Coach is a professional who will help you bridge the gap between where you are and where you want to be. When you work with a coach, you get where you want to go faster and more efficiently than if you work alone.
My belief is that accomplishing your goals is a great feeling. And you have every right and reason to feel that greatness within you. The story is so much bigger than reaching a goal, however.
When you give yourself a few moments to consider it, you realize that we never actually get it all done. No soon do we begin to approach completion of one thing, then we get a bunch of new ideas. There is always adjusting and readjusting to ever changing conditions and the ways in which your circumstances and life is evolving that you could not have foreseen from your starting vantage point.
Which means that goals are important yes, but goals must always be inspired by dreams and guided by what is deeply authentic.
"Our beliefs about what we are and what we can be precisely determine what we will be." Anthony Robbins
HOW COACHING IS DIFFERENT FROM THERAPY: Coaching is about personal and professional growth and accomplishment rather than the healing of wounds. Coaching is NOT psychotherapy. It does not deal with the same issues, neither mental health diagnoses or insurance companies are involved.
The purpose of coaching is to help people accomplish life goals, succeed in making desired positive life change, discover inner resources, and experience an authentic, fulfilling life.
COACHING FOR CLARITY and ACTION
Doug Investor, former president of Coca Cola is credited with saying "Never let your memories be greater than your dreams." One of the most valuable aspects of coaching is that it will help you get "unstuck" through a process of values clarification, positive possibility thinking, and removal of barriers to the creative process. You are helped to move away from fears, self-doubts, limiting beliefs--the inner barriers that keep us "playing small" and to open up within a spacious place of possibilities, creative flow, and the well-spring of energy that is necessary for forward momentum and high pay-off actions.
HOW I WORK FOR YOU
1. You have a coach who will encourage and support you through sometimes challenging periods of personal growth and change.
2. You have a consultant offering you the benefits of over 35 years of knowledge, experience, and expertise so that you can master your own personal positive psychology to give you life long tools for success and well-being.
3. You have a strategist whose job it is to collaborate with you to bring together all the relevant components of positive change for lasting benefits. When our collaborative work together is done, you feel easy about directing and managing your own unfolding process with confidence and pleasure.
HOW IT WORKS You never need to leave home or your office.
Coaching saves time, is practical and convenient. Coaching is frequently conducted by telephone and usually includes homework relevant to successfully accomplishing your personal goal(s). Of course, if you are local and prefer face-to-face meetings, my Cary office is convenient to Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill-Sanford-Pittsboro communities. Sessions are typically 45 minutes and may be as frequent as weekly to monthly, with e-mail support between meetings.
A FEW EXAMPLES OF GOALS/RESULTS PEOPLE HAVE WORKED WITH ME TO ACCOMPLISH
- Confidence coaching for public speaking/presentations, job interviewing, or professional interactions
- Successful test taking, particularly important professional exams
- Business development for service providers
If you have a special personal or professional goal and are wondering if coaching would be beneficial to you, contact me and let's discuss what your needs are at this time.
