The following sections describe "What is Life Coaching", "Ten things coaching can do for You", "Is Coaching for You" and "My Ideal Clients".
What is Life Coaching
Coaching is partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential. [ICF]
Coaching Uncovers limiting beliefs and Shines the light on an unlimited field of possibilities, that Generates conscious choice and lasting change. [inviteChange]
Here is my take:
You are a smart, well functioning adult, mostly successful and pretty much independent in your thoughts and actions. There are certain times you feel stuck, little confused or just need someone to talk to ... A life coach is that someone you always wished for. [Read more in "Forget therapy for now" here]
Ten things coaching can do for You
I have compiled the results coaching can bring for you based on the data from my own clients.
Through coaching you can ...
1. Manage your Stress - Be capable of getting in touch with your essence and feel more calm and be ready to embrace the life challenges.
2. Achieve more Peace in life - as opposed to "run, run" mode. No need to make a win-lose choice among your career, family and self care activities. Graciously accommodate all those important things into your life. Make your life fuller not “busy-er”.
3. Increase Productivity - Get more by doing less.
4. Get better in Self control - be more responsive and proactive as opposed to be reactive and get things out of control.
5. Achieve tangible Results -Be it personal or career related, no need to keep them in the "wish" or "don't dare to think about them" list. Bring them in and be amazed to see yourself actually achieving those and even more.
6. Make better Decisions - Become skillful at looking into the big picture and successfully map the current step into it.
7. Bring sustainable Positive Changes – No need to make those new year resolutions that never gets implemented. Get internally motivated to take the actions to bring the desired changes in your life.
8. Find your own Answers - No need to listen to anyone’s advice - Get unlimited support, appreciation and judgment free environment that makes you feel safe and encouraged to clearly think and play with your ideas.
9. Discover your own self - Get in touch with your core. Find out what values make who you are and what beliefs are limiting you. Know how YOU operate best and most important, find out your passion!
10. Be Happier – Get more clarity about your priorities, achieve more balance and find more fulfillment in your life.
Is Coaching for You
Coaching is especially effective for people who are internally motivated, personally accountable, and willing to be coached. Through coaching successful people can accelerate their results. It is NOT recommended as a process to "fix" the client. [inviteChange] If you are considering coaching, take a look at the following questions:
Are you an independent thinker?
Do you want to become better?
Are you open to possibilities?
Are you generally successful in getting things done you put your attention into?
Do you believe in yourself?
If you have answered "yes" to most of the questions you can consider yourself as coachable.
My Ideal Clients
I am a coach for high tech people coming from an Eastern culture. Most of my clients are in high-tech in the US corporate and coming from India, China, Mexico and Bangladesh. Having a South asian and high tech background myself, I understand their strength and challanges. Irrespective of their background, my Ideal clients are generally self driven, motivated and are always thriving for excellence.
They mostly come from two main categories. People in one group are between ages 24-30ish that are in the early phase of their career and life, thinking of the possible paths to take in order to find the route that will match their passion. One question they commonly ask - “where is my passion”. Many times they have a formal training that may not fully align with what they really love to do. A dynamic tension between the expectation for conformity and the inner desire for fulfillment always makes them thinking. My job as a coach is to help them bring clarity on their passion and to help them see more possibilities of making their dream happen!
The other group is in the mid level in their career and life. Now they are thinking “what else, is that all there in life?”. Some of them want more balance between all the important aspects of life, some of them are trying to reconnect with their core values and sometimes feeling lost to even make the time for it. My job as a coach is to help them bring clarity on who they truly are, find out which of their activities are serving their being and help them design a more fulfilling and balanced life.
I treat my clients as whole, capable and resourceful. I support them unconditionally and give them a safe, judgment-free environment to help find out their bigger vision and purpose. During the coaching sessions I hold their agenda, ask open ended questions, challenge their disempowering assumptions and beliefs, let them freely explore all the possibilities and empower them to make conscious life choices that align to their vision and purpose.