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1. Set better goals that eMotivate
(Emotionally) you in a powerful, positive, satisfying and
healthy way.
Your Life Coach will fast-trak you towards success.
Did you have learn Goal Setting 101 in high school? Probably
not. Enter the life coach, an expert in helping you to identify and
set the goals that you really want, not the ones that are "shoulds,"
pipedreams, that you've been recycling or that mirror the
goals of your parents, society or Madison Avenue.
Choosing the right goals for you is an art and the life coach takes
the necessary time to help you clarify your personal values,
so that you have something really solid on which to develop
your goals. Value-based goals are naturally motivating, but it
takes good coaching to get to these.
2. You'll accomplish goals and tasks and
projects much more quickly and more effortlessly.
One of the reasons that people hire a life coach is to save time.
Working with a life coach, they learn how to be far more effective,
efficient and productive in everything that they do, including
their job/business or personal projects.
We
humans just aren't that naturally effective, even if we think
that we are. The life coach has the tools and techniques to share
with their clients so that things get done in half the time.
(Even the coaching process is efficient -- on the phone, 1/2
hour a week, reasonable fee.)
3. Make fewer mistakes.
The old model of learning from your mistakes has deteriorated
to be more like: How else will you learn if you don't make
mistakes? Too expensive, in our view. With a life coach, you have a
third eye, someone who's been there and who has coached others
in your situation, and an expert in getting the job done with
the minimum of fuss (called learning curve, mistakes, errors
in judgment, wrong tunnels, etc.).
The costs (emotional, financial, time) of making mistakes has
gotten very expensive in the past decade. A single mistake can
ruin you in today's hyper-paced business environment. Some
clients use their coach as an inexpensive insurance policy.
4. You'll move up to the next level of Life.
Almost everybody is moving up the ladder of business success,
personal development, awareness and well being. The life coach can
help you see where you are right now and point out ways to
grow and get where you want to get to. Or, if you're not even
on the ladder, the life coach can guide you to it and help you get
started on your path.
5. Reduce problems, and resolve current issues.
The first step in solving a problem is to ask yourself why you
have this problem at all. The second step is to ask yourself
why you have problems at all. The third step is to get on
track to having no problems -- a.k.a., becoming a Problem-Free
Zone.
This is not a joke. Being a PFZ is becoming even more
important along the path of sustainable success. You cannot
afford to have problems, period. Life's too short and problems
are too expensive. A well-trained life coach can help you become a PFZ. A well-trained
life coach is a PFZ his/herself.
6. Make more money.
Clients don't keep paying their coaches just for the fun of
it. Coaching, like every other professional service, needs to
improve the financial bottom line and it does. Coaches are
trained to help clients to leverage their ability to make
money, i.e., getting a raise, choosing a better career,
starting a business, improving profitability, adding more
value to their customers,
proper pricing, productivity and others. Sure, coaching is
personal, but it almost always includes a strong financial
aspect.
7. Be happier
Life
Coaches know how to help you to reduce stress, integrate all
aspects of your life, simplify or downshift, and reorient
around what makes you the happiest. What good is increased
productivity and profitability if you're not happy?
8. Increase effectiveness and influence in:
family, business & personal relationships.
Communication makes life, life. A Life coach is
an expert communicator and trains clients on how to come
across better, relate well with others, listen aggressively,
influence, coach, motivate and support others. There are over
100 communication and listening skills that clients can learn
from a life coach.
9. Become more attractive to others -on the
inside and on the outside.
Selling, as a profession and as a proven technique/process, is
on its way out. Why? Because humans are getting better at
choosing for themselves and buying
better. Humans will respond less to advertising and selling
techniques and instead be drawn to a product or service and
they will be more likely drawn
because of who is offering the product or service. This
process is called attraction and Coach University wrote the
book on it (called Irresistible
Attraction).
It's real. It works. And it will replace much of the
promotion, marketing, selling, seducing and other very
expensive budget items. Remember that the world (a.k.a.
consumers) is rapidly eliminating virtually all waste and
inefficiencies in how business is conducted, products
are sold and how services are delivered. Selling and
mass marketing, while certainly still very effective right
now, is on the hit list. Attraction is the next generation of
selling and the well-trained coach can help you and your
business get on this track immediately.
10. Have a better life, not just a better
lifestyle.
The term Quality of Life has become overused in the past few
years, but the trend of Americans seeking to create a much
better life for themselves is accelerating. In fact, people
are re-examining what they had assumed that a good life was
(married, 2.3 kids, nice car, secure job, church on Sundays, 3
weeks of vacation a year) and are now creating their own life,
often breaking the rules and flying in the face of
conventional wisdom in the process.
A
life coach has been trained
in the Life Design process and has already made the kind of
design changes in their life that his/her clients are just now
beginning to make.
*from Coach University
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