What is Personal Coaching?
Coaching provides a focused process which enables you to successfully overcome whatever is stopping you living your life the way you really want. It focuses on discovering and achieving your goals while taking you on a personal journey of discovery, revealing who you want to be.
The coaching that I provide can be called Life Coaching or Holistic Life Coaching. Essentially it is a relationship where I will listen to, question, challenge, encourage and support you to gain great awareness and ultimately transform your life. At no time will I tell you what you should or shouldn’t do. Instead, it is a powerful process where I act as an unbiased sounding board, using a range of proven coaching techniques and exercises that assist you to find the best answers for yourself.
The coaching is holistic in that it can look at any and every area of your life, seeing how they interact and affect each other. It also involves working at different levels including looking at;
- your current reality - what you are experiencing,
- your thoughts and emotions - how you feel about it,
- your fears and limiting beliefs - the things that have held you back so far
- and your vision/purpose - who you truly are.
This car analogy helps to explain how the transformation can happen;
Imagine our lives as though we are each traveling along in a vehicle.
We’d all love to be cruising along beautiful broad highways with the sun shining and the motor humming, but somehow we can find ourselves bumping along old dirt tracks not really sure exactly where we’re going and mistakenly turning down dead end roads, or even to end up with a complete mechanical failure.
Coaching allows people to discover just what state their vehicle is in and allows them to do any repair work necessary so that they can reach their chosen destination, and even better, shows them how to enjoy the journey, traveling along those stunning scenic highways that they may have only pictured before in dreams.
The coaching process allows people to identify if there is any baggage in their boot that may be holding them back or slowing them down and gives them the choice to let go of it so they can travel lighter and freer. It gives them a new perspective by adjusting their wing and rear view mirrors so they have a different appreciation of what the past really means now. It checks their wheel alignment to see if there is anything that’s steering them off the desired path as well as their tyre pressure, ensuring they have enough support. It identifies they’ve got enough grunt in the engine and petrol in the tank, their desire to get there and the endurance and determination to continue along the way. It also helps the driver decide who they really want have with them on the journey. Perhaps most importantly, it cleans the windscreen so that it sparkles allowing them a clear vision ahead so they can see where they want to be.
Coaching can achieve all these things so that they can then take a good look around and decide which path to head along (this may mean they need to take a 3 point turn before getting started.) It then allows them to rev their engines and set out at great speed trusting and knowing that with their well maintained vehicle they will make it to their chosen destination, and that they’ll just love the ride!
Just as we know that our car will run soundly and be able to be relied upon to get us where we want to go each day if we invest the time and money required to fuel it well, look after it, keep all the parts up to date and take it in for regular servicing; how much more worthwhile is it to invest some time and money in ourselves, our very own lives and get a ‘life tune up’?
If you’d like to let go of some baggage, get a new perspective on the past, check your wheel alignment and tyre pressure, make sure there’s enough grunt in your engine and petrol in your tank, choose your co-passengers and get a sparkling clean windscreen through which to look ahead to your future, then simply click here or call 021 348 661 today to make a time to get started!
