 I’m always happy to hear people ask about life coaching and, to be honest, I’m not surprised that it has a mystical or unknown factor about it.
Today I’d like to give you some facts on life coaching. What it is, what it isn’t and whether it may be the right way for you to improve your life.
What Life Coaching is:
Life Coaching helps you to appreciate your current circumstances, regain your focus and concentrate on your core goals, be they personal or corporate. Essentially, life coaching is about having an additional person on your team to maximise and expedite your success.
 Greater focus, determination and momentum are gained through having a personal life coach. The coach's role is to challenge, provide insight and to guide the client in their desired direction using techniques that question, examine and explore alternatives to the current situation. It’s a great conversation designed to help you think outside the square and take action towards your goals.
What Life Coaching isn’t:
 Many people get confused with coaching, consulting, psychology, or even counselling. Coaching is none of these things; it is a discipline of its own and focuses on drawing out the answers from you. As a coach, we believe that every client has the answers within them and that the right questions and support will bring about the required change.
Some other disciplines work more on a diagnosis and cure principle rather than working with the client to really establish what it is that will work for them to move towards their goals. Some disciplines hone in on the problem and spend multitudes of time assessing every detail of the issues without the forward momentum that coaching offers. Coaching is attentive to past issues, although works towards finding solutions that will work to support the client obtain their current objectives.
Is Life Coaching right for you?
Here are a few questions to get you thinking about your life and if coaching is an option to help you move forward towards the objectives you’ve set.
 1. Are you feeling stuck in a given situation and know that something needs to change?
2. Have you been procrastinating about a recent challenge without any forward momentum?
3. Are you lacking specific goals to work towards?
4. Do you feel your life should have been more and that you’re not reaching your potential?
5. Do you feel stuck in the mundane routine of work, eat, sleep, work?
6. Are there things you’ve been wanting to do, but you’re lacking the confidence or courage?
7. Has fear been preventing you from following your dreams?
8. Have you accepted stress as an inevitable part of your life /work?
 If you’ve answered YES to any of the above questions, then Life Coaching can help you. I’d like to offer you a free initial one hour life coaching session so you can get an understanding for how coaching works and check out if coaching is going to be a good fit to help you improve your life.
What you can expect from life coaching:
  Increased confidence and motivation towards goals
Finding your passion and potentially a life purpose
Increased focus on your goals and ambitions
To find inner strengths and heighten them
To investigate weak areas and work to strengthen them
Improved communication skills
More balance and ability to meet challenges
Increased levels of happiness and fulfilment
A solid plan to assist you in creating the life you want
Consistent support, encouragement and feedback
Phone and email contact whenever you need it
Weekly action lists to keep you on track
Accountability
If you’re really ready to step up and create an amazing life and need a little assistance to get started, please give me a call on 4296 9331 or email me and we can work on it together. I offer the first hour absolutely free, with no obligation, so you can experience coaching for yourself!
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If you like what I’m writing or would like to give me some feedback, I’d love to hear from you. Shoot me an email at jodie@advancedcoachingsolutions.com.au | 
