Why life coaching?

If you read my Welcome page and believe coaching may help you, it’s time to consider Is life coaching right for me? This an important question and why I wrote this summary for you.

• Who benefits from life coaching?

• Why does life coaching work?

• What makes C3 Life Coach special?

Who benefits from life coaching?

Life coaching may help capable individuals to

• achieve aims in life by raising awareness and clarity around core values, aspirations, and sense of meaning.

• negotiate life transitions in a way that supports positive growth and development by drawing insight from a broader context of conflicts, challenges and opportunities.

• explore willingness and capability to manage changes at home or work for positive impacts on wellbeing and sense of identity, as well as families, community, and society.

• strengthen resilience and create capacity to thrive and sustain themselves during life experiences and transitions.

People who benefit most seek deeper self-awareness and enhancement of life skills, take personal initiative committing to what’s most important to them, and trust themselves, their life coach and the life coaching process.

Those who benefit least are too anxious to act on change, too depressed to mobilize action, blinded or numbed by addiction, have physical conditions that affect motivation and energy, or have a low level of emotional resilience.

Why does life coaching work?

Life coaching works because the life coaching relationship is created for and with you. You bring your desires, hopes, and fears. You expect the relationship will respect, honor, and support you, and that you will learn and grow. The coach’s role is to fully align and support whatever agenda you bring. If the life coach has any agenda, it is simply that you come to know yourself better and create a life that expresses your purpose and values.

Life coaching skills used by the life coach are all aimed at promoting your best interests by listening and helping you understand what you want, harnessing and expanding strengths and resources you have, and possibilities you may or may not be able to see yet.

Listening is the most important coaching skill. Listening as a coach is very different than every day listening. Coaches use three main forms of listening: listening to what you say and do not say; listening for vision, values, commitment, and purpose; and listening with heart, intuition, and senses. This skill alone accounts for the largest portion of the session and provides the basis for all the other coaching skills.

Other coaching skills include asking powerful questions and deepening inquiries, assisting client’s empowerment and forwarding client’s desires, fostering ownership, challenging the client, halting self-defeating behaviors, building inner reliance, and celebrating growth and achievement. The coach may also act as a resource for brief teaching about a specific topic or for appropriate referral.

Life coaching involves your

focus, that element of life drawing attention. Coaching helps clarify your purpose/goal and path forward, explore feasibility and broader issues, and envision desired results for performance, learning, and/or fulfillment.

mindset and attitudes, how you view yourself and the world. Coaching helps you become aware of beliefs, values, thoughts and feelings, and how they shape perceptions, choices, conclusions, and hence actions. You consider whether your current approach is useful or what might work better.

learned skills and developed capabilities, what you have patience for and tolerate. Coaching helps you clarify what's needed to support your efforts, what exists, how to fill gaps, and what time frame is feasible.

habits, patterns, and practices. Coaching helps you become aware of habits, their impacts, and benefits of shifting in some way. You explore how these can become more useful patterns, including overarching shifts such as management, boundaries, and roles.

energy. Coaching helps you maintain and bring forth as needed an appropriate amount of physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, and relationship energies. Energy is the gateway to health, motivation, commitment, and way of being in the world, which are also the sources generating or blocking energy.

Life coaching helps you

empower yourself by recognizing and claiming your capacity to shape life, to fully access resources including those lying dormant or out of view — inspiring curiosity, insight, learning, choosing to act.

stretch yourself by prompting awareness of outdated personal standards and expectations, considering alternatives, drawing distinctions, and growing (perspective, approach, attitude, mindset, spirit) — freeing creativity toward possibilities.

create momentum through purposeful fieldwork to learn and move toward an aspiration, vision, or goal — transforming challenges into opportunities, developing latent capacities, and building confidence.

In choosing to work with a professional coach, you are believing in yourself.

 What makes C3 Life Coach special?

As a life coach, I work with people needing a fresh approach to ‘something that matters now.

We work together on a better way, their own way, that fits their aims, values, resources, and personal challenges.

Your fresh approach will be unique to you and your circumstances, as will the life coaching process. Both depend on what’s happening, what you want, and what you need to succeed — and will grow with you as you progress. At C3, you can expect life coaching to help you help yourself, often in ways you cannot imagine yet.

At C3, life coaching is a collaborative partnership between you and me. Our coaching interactions are an open sharing and communication focused on achieving your aims. It’s the synergy generated by this collaboration that sparks awareness, choices, and possibilities.

Now …

You may or may not know what you want. That’s okay. Part of the life coaching process is to clarify what you’re aiming for.

You may or may not know how life coaching might help. That’s okay. That, too, is part of the process.

Moving forward you direct your own progress and process, creating personal frameworks to work through complex issues, guide productive conversations about opportunities, and practice better fitting strategies and approaches as you progress.

You devote attention to those things that support movement in a desirable direction.

You discover insights, strategies, and resources you can’t yet imagine.

You achieve better outcomes as you become better at living.

You succeed because you make a better way, your own way.

You better understand what is happening, control how it affects you, and influence what you can.

You expand your ‘life kit,’ become more resourceful, able to engage personal challenges.

You live better today as you lead and support yourself better, developing flexibility and strengths for tomorrow.

What are you waiting for?

 Now is a great day to start.

What now?

If you believe C3 Life Coach can provide what you need, I invite you to learn about me, Pat.