“Life Coaching is about transformation-

from a caterpillar to a butterfly”

Curly Martin

Life Coaching, is a phrase that most people are familiar with these days. When you think of life coaching, you’ll probably almost always think of Tony Robbins at the same time. He’s probably the most famous life coach on the planet!

Life coaching is a profession that’s most certainly people focused. The aim of a life coach, is to enable a person to realize they’re full potential – and for them to do so without fear of criticism from others. So often, you might have dreams, goals, and aspirations, but just as the fire is stoking, someone comes along and pours water on your enthusiasm! Sound familiar?

With the help of a life coach, a person is able to take any aspect of their life they want to work on, and to do so in a supportive and encouraging manner. This way, they feel that they can breath, spread their wings, and fly!

In one sense, life coaching is about helping people to really focus on what matters most in life. It’s about reaching goals, but it’s also about getting the right balance in life too. Sometimes, if not most of the time, we tend to get our priorities mixed up. So, being coached, serves to get you to take stock of everything, and get it in order.

If you want assistance in getting your life on course, or reaching a goal, you could do no better than to get some coaching. However, life coaching is not about the coach giving you the answers. A life coach actually helps you to discover the solutions that are right for you!

A life coach helps you to find the answers that already exist within you. We’re not always aware of our own inner power – a coach helps to draw that out, and bring it to the surface.This helps the person being coached, to see that they themselves are the ones responsible for change – not the life coach. A skilled life coach, like an effective teacher, helps their students or clients to reach their own conclusions. Once they’ve done that, the clients mind and behaviour changes. They do not snap back to the old patterns of thinking and acting once they’ve been stretched.

As the quote stated at the beginning of this article, life coaching is about transformation – from what a person thinks they are – to what they truly are: a person of unlimited power!

© 2008 Ian Scott