Choosing a life coach during a time of uncertainty is merely an act of thoughtful preparation. Your life doesn’t need to be falling apart to benefit from a life coach. A life coach can help to identify areas of weakness, develop needed skills and reach one’s goals. Through life coaching you can pave life skills that nurture your goals and lessen anxiety. If you are feeling stuck, unmotivated or looking for direction, a life coach may be the pathway to reaching your potential.
What is a Life Coach?
A life coach helps to identify personal goals and develop an action plan to reach them. Life coaches dive into the areas of your life that need improvement, while encouraging healthy pathways to break the cycle. Choosing a life coach may seem foreign to some, but think of the relationship between a coach and athlete. You need that experience, support and direction to get the gold – this is true for entrepreneurs, business professionals or simply navigating new areas of your life.
What Does a Life Coach Do?
Life coaches are professionally trained to help maximize your potential and reach personal goals. People often seek out a life coach to help with life transitions, goal setting or even completing professional projects that simply need motivational guidance. A life coach will observe your current situation, identify limiting beliefs or potential challenges, while developing a custom plan to eliminate barriers and achieve your goals.
7 Benefits of Life Coaching
1. Find Your True Purpose
Each and every one of us has a purpose, but sometimes it can be hard to see that vision clearly. A life coach can help uncover experiences and feelings which shape our true desires and skills. You can then use these experiences both good and bad to find direction and meaning in the world. Life coaches are trained to process your past, find meaning and unlock your true potential.
2. Unlock the Answers Within Yourself
Life coaches don’t come up with the answers for you – that’s part of the process. The goal of a life coach is to help unlock the answers within yourself. Often, you don’t realize your full potential until the right questioning or person comes along. Life coaches aren’t in the business to give advice. Instead, they use strategies to get you thinking in a way that unlocks the answers within yourself.
3. Build Confidence
Understanding your true self is a big step in becoming confident. A life coach can help identify what matters most to you and discover yourself from a new perspective. By unraveling negative thought patterns, you can overcome these obstacles to become more confident in who you are and what you’re determined to do.
4. Everyone Needs a Personal Cheerleader
Wouldn’t it be great to have someone cheering us on in life? Big or small, having a life coach is much like having your own personal cheerleader. Your life coach is determined to see you succeed because it’s a reflection of their work – you’re succeeding together! When we have someone on our side, rooting for each accomplishment, it becomes even more fulfilling to reach personal goals and achieve what we’re set out to do.
5. Develop Steps to Improve Yourself
Discovering your life path is only part of the life coaching process. Once you have unlocked your true desires and potential, that’s when the real work begins. Your life coach will help develop a plan, whether they are self improvement or career related. Your plan of action is based on you and your personal journey. Whatever your goal or life purpose may be, your life coach will help uncover what needs to be done, and work toward making that dream a reality.
6. Achieve Goals With Someone Who is Holding You Accountable
Often we set our own goals, but lack of achieving those goals can slip into a slope of giving up completely. When days, weeks, or even months and years go by without achieving our goal, we start to doubt our worth or ability. Life coaches help to break the big picture into smaller achievable goals, making you more confident and apt to continue forward on your personal path.
7. Start Doing Instead of Dreaming
What is keeping your dreams on a shelf? Life coaches help to discover what is keeping your dreams shelved and overcome obstacles standing in the way. Once you have uncovered your true purpose and have an action plan, your dreams are close in reach. Through accountable life coaching, you can gain the confidence and tools necessary to make your dreams a reality.
Professional Life Coaches in Florida
Understanding your life’s purpose isn’t always clear, but we all have one! If you are looking to identify personal goals and develop an action plan to reach them, we encourage you to call our office and ask about our life coaching options.
The team at McNulty Counseling and Wellness takes a holistic approach to promote balance in all areas of your life. Contact us here or call us at 727-344-9867 to begin life coaching at our office or virtually in Saint Petersburg, Florida.
