What is Life Coaching?

Life coaching is a tool for people wanting to maximise their personal and professional potential. A life coach teaches you to be the best you can be without needing to beat anyone else. You learn the philosophy of win/win. Coaching is about unlocking a person’s potential to maximise their own performance. It is about helping people to learn rather than teaching them.

A great coach believes in the amazing abilities that people have and seeks to draw those out of his or her clients. A great coach is a supporter and facilitator of people's dreams.

A coach is often the missing link, filling in the gap between books, workshops and seminars. Working in partnership with you to help you create and achieve the vision for the future you desire, a life coach will focus on the present and the future, not the past. Coaching is about finding solutions rather than analysing or unravelling why there's a problem. Life coaching is oriented towards finding and creating the future you want and helping you take the action necessary to achieve your life transformation. Coaching motivates people to push themselves further than they've gone before. Coaching psychologist Dr Anthony Grant recently completed a unique study at Macquarie University on the psychology of coaching. Dr Grant's research found that coaching participants' "levels of depression, anxiety and stress were significantly reduced, with most reporting a significantly enhanced quality of life".

As Life Coaches Julie and Carol will

• Challenge you to dream bigger than you’ve ever dared;
• Identify goals and support you as you reach those goals quickly;
• Facilitate changes to limiting thinking and behaviour patterns;
• Provide the structure, tools and perspectives to help you along;
• Cheer from the sidelines while you chase your dreams; and
• Expect more of you than you expect of yourself.
  

Julie and Carol would love to help you

1. To set powerful compelling goals so that you are clear about your life’s direction;
2. Provide the structure to help you stick to your guns, even when the going gets tough.
3. Focusing you on where you are now, where you want to be, and the best way to get  there;
4. Helping you to think laterally to create options and opportunities, and then think deeply about the choices you wish to make;
5. Giving you a step-by-step process that avoids the overwhelming feeling of “where do I start?”
6. Setting deadlines to give the whole process more urgency and importance;
7. Working within specific time frames (long enough to complete the project, but short enough to stay focused and motivated);
8. Encouraging you to identify and eliminate old obstructive, destructive habits and teaching you how to develop new productive habits instead;
9. Asking you the hard questions and holding you to what you say you want and will do; and
10. Helping you to stay committed to yourself and your goals.