Are You the Right Life Coach for Me? How to Choose a Life Coach

The choice of a life coach to guide, support and motivate you throughout your life—whether you are a student or a professional—is as important as any major life decision you will ever make. Whom you choose for a life coach makes a major difference in how much and how well you will be able to achieve in your life.

Why Life Coaching

Life coaching has been proven by scientific studies to be effective in helping people become more satisfied with their lives and more successful professionally. There are many reasons why a person needs to hire a life coach. Here are some of the most common reasons:

To set better goals and reach their goals faster and easier
To make significant changes in their life
To design and live their best life
To strengthen their foundation and get ahead professionally
To become more financially successful
To make better decisions
To improve their relationships and family
To make a bigger impact in the world
To become a better manager, executive or businessperson

Choosing the Right Life Coach for Yourself

There are many life coaches out there. It can be quite a challenge but vitally important for you to find a good life coach that is right for you. In this article, we’ll detail the most important characteristics of a good life coach, so you can see whether the coach you have in mind is the right one for you.

A good life coach really listens to you with their ears and hearts.

Contrary to what some people might think about life coaching, having a life coach is not the same as having a “human sounding board” or shoulder to cry on. A good life coach really listens to you to make sense of what you’re saying, at the same time, to gain insight into your needs and to spot opportunities for improvement.

A good life coach knows all the right questions to ask.

Another misconception that others might have about life coaching is that solutions to your personal problems will be handed to you on a silver platter. This is simply not the case with good life coaching.

A good life coach should be able to ask you, after actively listening to what you have said, carefully formulated questions to help you become more self-aware. With the answers elicited, the life coach should be able to help you realise what you need to do, and to plan out how to do it.

A good life coach can keep you at ease, while keeping you on your toes.

A good life coach should be able to make you feel comfortable and yet not too complacent. Challenging you all the time to strive for more than what you thought yourself capable of, without making it too stressful.

A good life coach walks along with you until your goals are achieved.

Life coaching doesn’t end when you leave the coaching premises. A good life coach should have a system in place to monitor your progress and remain with you, pushing and encouraging you through the journey until you achieve your goals.

A good life coach will push you to your highest potential.

Life coaching is meant to help you achieve excellence and to accomplish objectives that are beyond what you expect from yourself. A good life coach will insist that you take appropriate actions and stretch you when the timing is right until you achieve your highest potential.

A good life coach should have undergone appropriate training and have recognised

These days, anyone can claim to be a life coach after watching a few videos and reading a few books. It is prudent to ask your prospective life coach about his training and credentials.

At Mindlife Consulting International, our life coaches are trained and certified in the use of proven methodologies including Behavioural Analysis, Hypnosis, NLP and Coach U models.

A good life coach should have a good track record of helping others.

Experience and skills are required for effective life coaching practice. A good life coach should have a number of years in a good track record to accumulate valuable experiences and to master skills.

When you take up our offer to come for our special complimentary (FREE) “Break Free Session” with us, you will find that our coaches have all the characteristics of a good life coach mentioned above and more. You can rest assured that you are in good hands.

During this special complimentary “Break Free Session”, we will work together with you to…