This is a great article that answers a lot of questions about whether you should hire a life coach. Life, business, career, executive, or entrepreneurial coaching can be extremely valuable under the right conditions. A well trained coach and a coach-able client who is willing to be honest and held accountable for their actions will get the results their looking for. A skilled coach can help clients overcome fear, anxiety, procrastination, self-sabotage, getting unstuck and many other issues that people struggle with. Life and business coaches can help with goal clarification and achievement by giving you an objective perspective.As the article points out... All coaches are not created equal, so it's important to take the time to screen them and make sure it's a good fit for you.
John Curranof NM11:44PM December 12, 2012
Why do sports teams need coaches? Apply the same thinking to why individuals need life coaches. Certainly we all need someone to show us that we can do it when we are genuinely unable to see that for ourselves, but coaches do much more. We are too close to our own lives to see possibilities. We tend to be stuck in what we don't want, but what we focus on, we gravitate toward. Goals need to be broken down into specific action steps with measurable results and strong motivation in order to be accomplished. Most people won't do this process for themselves but will through a coach who holds them accountable to follow through.
If you have a strong support structure with a lot of clarity and some tough love already, you don't need a coach, but for the rest of us, it makes a difference in every aspect of life.
Sherry Prindleof MO6:29PM October 17, 2012
Coaching is a wonderful opportunity to help move you forward in life and live a life you love vs settle for. It's more than just a person telling you, "you can do it" it's having someone on your side be honest, caring and solution oriented that it gets you results that last. What's it really worth if you can wake up each day with clarity, confidence and the energy to make what you want happen? Just make sure you work with a coach that is certified and has put in the extra time to learn what it really takes to move people to success.
Raeven Western of NY12:34AM May 13, 2012
Hunter McAlpine, formerly Diane Bradley, of Nederland Colorado is the biggest faker life-coach wannabe in the universe. She has no people skills. She ran over someone in the grocery store with a shopping cart because the person cut her off. This same person counsels people on getting their life together? She's also a massage therapist who doesn't report tips on her tax filing, and almost certainly doesn't report her life coaching income either. She's never owned a house and has an unstable rental history as well. She has no credit and only one friend in the world! Wow. What a crock! I feel bad for the people who pay her. Better off getting a dog to make you feel loved and worthy of living than to see a lowlife like this and let you counsel her.
Scoutof MA3:08PM February 17, 2012
Sad saps who need someone else to tell them "you can do it"... what happened to parents preparing their children to face the realities of life. Face a hardship, DEAL WITH IT. Life coaches feed on the weak, and make a KILLING by emptying your wallet in the process.
If you have the spare money to hire a life coach, you're better off than most Americans right now who are struggling to put food on the table and pay for gas. What a scam life coaches are!
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John Curran of NM 11:44PM December 12, 2012
Sherry Prindle of MO 6:29PM October 17, 2012
Raeven Western of NY 12:34AM May 13, 2012
Scout of MA 3:08PM February 17, 2012
Virginia K of CO 3:01PM February 17, 2012