Things Life Coach Doesn’t Do ( How They Really Help )

Before the 80’s, the term “coach” used to be exclusively associated with sports. Not until Thomas Leonard, a financial planner, observed that his clients were looking for guidance beyond investments did the title start veering into the territory of personal development.

Today, coaching has grown beyond the realm of athletics. It has found its way to healthcare — some studies show that lifestyle interventions can be an effective approach for helping diabetics improve their health. The growing acceptance for the life coaching movement is fueling demand. The life coaching sector is worth $2 billion a year in the US alone.

And it’s not only individuals who benefit from life coaching. Companies who bring life coaches on board see improvements in teamwork, productivity, and job satisfaction.

“In this day and age when most people are becoming so reactive in response to the daily needs of life, coaching is the opportunity to help them break free and take back control. Life Coaching assists them in reclaiming their freedom to realize their fullest potential.”– Life Coach Johnny

Yet despite the profession’s rising popularity and demand, few really know exactly what a life coach does. Before signing up for a program, it’s important to manage and set expectations so you can properly align and identify the results you want to get. Some people hire a life coach and get disappointed when their lives are not flipped overnight or their problems do not vanish within a couple of days. These people misunderstood what the life coach can and cannot do for them.

What Coaching Is Not

Your Life coach Is Not Your Counselor

Many people confuse life coaches with counselors because both fields fall under the umbrella of helping professionals. However, they’re more like “step-siblings”, as the American Counseling Association puts it. Counselors and life coaches use different approaches for the same outcomes. While counselors look to your past to help you deal with and resolve emotional conflict, life coaches help you move towards a better future.Counselling as well as therapy typically start from the perspective that there is something you need to fix.Coaching works from the perspective that you are fundamentally whole, healthy and strong enough to deal with the challenges of coaching.

Your Life Coach Is Not Your Therapist

“Therapy is about uncovering and recovering, while coaching is about discovering,” says Patrick Williams, one of the founders of International Coach Federation (ICF).

Expecting your life coach to treat a pre-existing mental illness is like expecting a car mechanic to land a plane. Your life coach’s responsibilities is to help you achieve your personal or professional goals, and to help you improve your productivity. If you suspect you have a mental illness, it is crucial that you should seek help from a mental health therapist.

Your Life Coach Is Not A Magician

Your life coach is not going to miraculously fix your problems, but instead works with you and guides you to discover tools that will help you solve them on your own. Your life coach is trained to motivate you make you more efficient, and build your confidence about reaching your goals.

Your Life Coach Is Not Your Instructor

Your life coach works with you to figure out which direction to go. For instance, your life coach can guide you to make your own decision as to whether you should make a significant career change. Your life coach will not tell you or instruct you to do what you need to do.

“Through the coach-client interaction, there’s an opportunity for you to get that awareness and clarity, so that you can choose consciously in a way that aligns with what’s true about you, rather than what someone else thinks is true,” says Janet Harvey, a former president of the ICF.

How Does Your Life Coach Really Help?

Working with your life coach is a transformative and productive experience. Your life coach can help you to improve your personal and professional live, move past old habits that are holding you back and expand your abilities.

At Mindlife Consulting International, Coach Johnny Lee provides three unique features of life coaching to help you:

Synergy: You and your life coach become a team, focusing on your goals and needs to accomplish more than you would alone. 1 + 1 = > 2

Structure: You take more action, think bigger, and get the job done because yourlife coach provides you with the accountability and the system.

Expertise: Your life coach knows how to help you make better decisions, set better goals, and restructure your professional and personal life to achieve your goals.

Still have a few lingering questions about life coaching?

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When you are comfortable, then we can begin our coaching relationship.

At Mindlife Consulting International, we adopt a client–centered approach and conform to the ethical principles and standards recommended by ICF Code of Ethics. We help clients improve their personal and professional lives. We use coaching methodology designed to assist client expand their abilities and better their life.

Our coach, Johnny Lee is a successful life coach with years of experience and expertise in a wide of tools and techniques to help clients reach their full potential quickly and easily.

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