Is Life Coaching For You ?
In a previous post titled “How do life coaching and counseling differ”, I contrasted the two modalities of services that we provide here at Sawayer Logistics (sawayer.com).
In this post, I want to be a little more focused on what life coaching offers specifically. I have attached a link below for further reading if you are interested.
So Life Coaching or Personal Coaching is a pretty broad term and is often used in several specialized areas such as nutritional coaching, fitness coaching, writing coaching, financial coaching, parent coaching, etc.
While the focus can be different for each, “coaching” specialty, in general, coaching per se, has it’s own common elements.
Because any expert can be a coach thru their own training and life experiences in a particular area of specialization, by and large, there are NO STATE LICENSES is required to provide those coaching services. So there is good news and bad news. The “good news” is that coaches, thru the internet, can sell their services to any willing customer, world-wide! Wow, talk about a customer base!. The “bad news” is that if you are looking for a governmental entity to re-assure you that the coach you employ is licensed, your pretty much out of luck.
HOWEVER, don’t despair just yet because many professional coaches have taken formal training in how to provide effective coaching by using what are called “Best Practices” recognized by most credentialing entities in the field of coaching. A professional coach can earn various “professional certificate”, that will confer the title or credential of “expert level life coach”.
It’s important to remember that the focus of coaching is growing your capacity for success in the area you are interested in. Coaching is “future focused” and builds on your “existing strengths”. As such, there is not much looking back on where you failed. Rather we look at where you are right now and how we can get you to your goal. This involves lots of things from writing out your plans, using vision boards, keeping a journal, and determining some way to measure your progress in a concrete way.
If your goal is to have better health thru nutritional coaching then we will look at measurable numbers. As an example, initial lab test results for cholesterol or high sugar levels, or blood pressure levels form the baseline.
Together we then set new goals to improve those numbers thru nutrition, exercise, diet and improved self image.
Hopefully, you now have a fairly specific idea of how coaching works. I look forward to reading any comments or questions you post in the comments section. Click on the link below for even more useful information on this topic!
https://www.lifecoaching.com/pages/life_coaching.html
Fees for coaching are based on how much time we spend together and can be done on a half-hour or hourly basis at the rate of $50 per 30 minutes. And of course, there is a lot you will do on your own, between our sessions.
Please feel free to contact us if you need more information regarding fees and scheduling an virtual coaching appointment.
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