What’s Different About Life Coaching?

Another way of looking at life coaching: it is having someone to talk to combined with a way to get changes and results in life…

I have met many people in all walks of life, older, younger, professionals, students, employed, unemployed, and whenever they ask me what do I do, and I tell them that I am a life coach, most of the time they ask me to explain what it is I actually do.

People tend to have an idea what counselling, psychotherapy, psychology and psychiatry is about, vaguely; life coaching is a completely different concept and not one that many are familiar with.

There are many aspects to life coaching that overlap with these other fields; in a coaching session people do talk about themselves, and sometimes about their past; it can be a place to off-load thoughts and feelings about certain life situations a person is facing, or a convenient and confidential space to brain-storm, play with thoughts and ideas.

So what makes life coaching different to these other services?

Life coaching is more than talking; life coaching is about change at some level – this could be in the way you think, feel, interpret, perceive, perform, motivation or actions.  When we want change in certain areas in our lives, we work with coaches, for example sports coaches to improve our ability at a particular sport, and the same with changes in how we behave, interact or perform in our lives.

You may play a sport a few hours per week, yet you live your life all day everyday.  You can use coaching to up your performance in any area of your life, so that you lead your life rather than float along and let life just happen to you.

Life coaching is for people who want to manage their life, their outcomes, to set directions, to achieve results.

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Posted in Change, Life Coaching, Motivational, Performance, Personal Development, Psychology, Well Being on September 15, 2011

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