Why should I bother with a life coach?

The Well Blog

With so many self-help books, YouTube videos and with the internet right at your fingertips, questions such as “why do I need a life coach?”, or “what can they do that I can’t do myself?” naturally arise. This blog post is a journey of sorts, it lays out some of the stepping stones you may take with your life coach in order to get you to where you want to be.

Why bother with a life coach: Woman sitting by a lake in contemplation

Giving you the X-Power

Xplore the goals you want to achieve. You will encouraged to uncover your strengths and passion for the goals you have chosen. During this stage, your life coach will empower you to discover what lies just beneath the surface and what possibilities lay before you.

Point of reference. This will encourage deep reflection on not just where you want to be but where you need to be. You will begin to visualise your path to success. Seeing this path laid out before you will bring you closer to making what was once impossible possible.

Overcome any of the barriers which are laid out in front of you. You may have felt that your final destination was out of reach. You will begin to understand this is not the case. Encouragement will be provided that enable you to come up with innovative and exciting new ways of pushing forward until the path becomes clear.

Winning attitude is so very important. Have you ever heard a top athlete say “I can’t do this”, no of course not. They maintain that winning attitude with their coach by their side. The life coach is an expert in digging out the self-confidence and grit that lies within you. After all, you are the master of your own destiny.

Evaluate and measure your success so far. Have you found your version of success? Did you get what you wanted? Is the path being cleared on time? And in some cases, are you even on the right path? Your life coach will ask these hard questions. As you reflect on the journey, you may find the outcome you were looking for or you may discover something new, something not imagined.

Redirect your given goal if required. You may come to the self-realisation that the original goal was in-fact only the entrée to your version of greatness. Your life coach empowers you to take stock of how your journey has gone. In some cases you may find that you need to redirect your attention and mindset in determining a new greater goal.

Final thought:

Your life coach provides a safe and confidential space where you can achieve your goals, whether they are changing career paths, becoming a better communicator or improving your relationship with others and yourself to name but a few. They are there for you when you have that niggly feeling that something needs to change, that something just ain’t right.

They may well challenge you, they may well ask you to commit to mini-goals, but they will always help you drive forward until you are free from that inner questioning of “What if…?”