What is a life coach?

What is a life coach? 

In a sentence, a life coach helps their client create a new view of their reality -- a perceptual shift -- and then invites their client to take action from that new perception of reality.

A life coach helps men and women who have a deeper calling to achieve a dream, sometimes an impossible dream.  Whatever they want to be, to do or to have, these inspired people haven't been able to be it, do it or have it on their own.

I don't view this as a failing or a lack; rather I support people to discover what is missing or what is needed to propel them forward.

Usually these brilliant and highly creative people know what to do or what needs to be done, but for one reason or another they are not ACTING.

This is one thing that distinguishes coaching from therapy--all sessions are aimed at creating ACTION and FORWARD MOVEMENT on goals and PROJECTS.

Furthermore a life coach helps these passionate and unique individuals get what they want because they CHOOSE to, because they DECIDE to.

For example, a client might approach a life coach saying that they want to start a business... And they may say that now is not the right time or that they don't have the money yet, or XYZ reason is stopping them.

When we work together, with me as the life coach, we would get the business started now, or when the client decides, not at some unknown time in the future.  And we would do it because the client says so, in the face of all their circumstances and reasons that it "can't be done."

Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

Aristotle

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