What is Coaching? Why do I Need It? Who Should I Choose?
By: Kristi Chrysler
Submitted: 2009-04-18 12:39:25 | Word Count: 534
Coaching is a powerful conversation and support system empowering, encouraging and equipping you to achieve your potential in life more easily. Coaching is an ongoing tool used to enhance your life. Moving you from where you are now to where you want to be in the future. Health / Wellness coaching focuses on areas of physical, mental and spiritual health while encompassing all other aspects of life. Since no one lives in a vacuum, a well educated coach recognizes and incorporates all aspects of life into their client’s personal plan. Coaching allows you to clarify your purpose and vision through strategy and planning resulting with greater strides in success as you move toward your goals in life.
Why choose coaching over therapy? In a nut shell, coaching focuses on where you are presently and where you are headed with a goal of helping you gain clarity about your vision, overcome obstacles seeking to sidetrack your success, while accelerating the rate of achieving personal growth empowering you to make goals a reality. While therapy, in contrast, focuses upon your past. Although, past issues may be brought up and considered during a coaching session for the purpose of clarifying the present, a coach does not focus on resolving the past. If the past is an issue, a stumbling block for you, then counseling / therapy may be your best option. However, if your past is simply a fact (whether positive or negative) then you are likely ready for coaching. A good coach will readily indentify during your coaching session if your past seems to be a greater issue for you and thus suggest counseling. Many people also find that coaching and counseling simultaneously can be beneficial. Of course each professional will focus on different areas of life.
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What is the difference between coaching and consulting or mentoring? In both consulting and mentoring, that professional is drawing upon their personal knowledge, education and experience they’ve achieved in a particular area. This expertise is then shared with the client assisting them to their success. An ideal situation is to have a coach who has gained experience in the same or similar area which is of interest for you. In so doing, you will reap by additional guided expertise from your coach. Although, this set up is ideal, it is not necessarily needed for you to achieve your personal goals. A professional, experienced and qualified coach will be able to assist you as you proceed through this valuable process empowering you to achieve the goals you set while seeing you into a successful future.
Ultimately, when choosing a coach there are a few considerations to keep in mind: 1. Use wisdom 2. Be certain your coach is certified 3. Seek a onetime consultation to make sure your personalities mesh 4. Put your whole heart into the process. By following this advice you will aid in achieving the best possible experience with the greatest results achieved. Every coach desires to see each client achieve the goals and success they set out for. Health and Wellness coaching of great importance, in my opinion, for if you achieve great success but do not have the health to enjoy it then, your efforts may be in vain.
Author Resource:-
Kristi Chrysler is a Motivational Speaker and certified Health Coach. She teaches her clients to overcome obstacles and has helped her son recover from Autism and has herself recovered fully from Lupus. You can visit her site at: http://www.kristichrysler.com
