How Coaches Help You Improve Your Life and Wellbeing

Throughout the process of being mentored, a life coach will help you explore your life to determine what you want, your why, your how, and what is blocking you. Your coach will help you find your path or purpose, as well as develop a fresh perspective and look at life from a different angle. It might seem small, but you can make dramatic determinations about your life with the help of a mentor or coach. Your coach can provide you with the techniques and tools to help you find the path to achieving what you want in life.

Many life coaches use personality tests that will give them a better idea of your strengths, alignments, and traits. There are a variety of different things they can help you with from your career, and personal problems, to identifying and reaching goals, and much more.

Your Goals, Your Direction, & Your Purpose

A coach will help you become more mindful about your beliefs and perspective, which will assist you in adopting new understanding about how to reach your goals. Coaches listen without judgment, which helps you see your issues in a new light. It’s common for us to get so bogged down in assumptions that we stop recognizing deeper truths. Looking at life from another angle can bring relief.

The first step is determining where you are now and how you will get from point A to point B. Your coach will ask you deep questions that assist you in turning your visions and dreams into reality. A life coach will help you take action in the areas of your life where you feel atrophied, whether it’s due to uncertainty, fear or anxiety.

Your Accountability & Motivation

A coach is not the same as having a friend who is cheering on the sidelines. He or she is an advocate…someone who will absolutely support you and encourage you, but keep you going in the right direction. You’re not going to hear a round of rapturous applause when you do what you are meant to do. They will keep pushing you and challenging you.

Sometimes, having someone hold you accountable is all that you need to push yourself forward. Your coach should be making sure you are moving forward and getting closer to your goals by ensuring you have a purpose, a direction, and that you are making progress.

Various approaches and techniques can be used, from visualization to hypnosis, affirmations to meditation, and even emotional freedom techniques. Everyone responds differently to the techniques used, so it may take a bit of experimenting to determine which approach is right for you. However, there is a lot to be said for uncovering your ultimate purpose and intention. It can provide you with clarity on which path you should be taking in life.

If you’re enlisting the services of a professional life coach, you can expect your first meeting to last up to an hour as they learn as much about you as possible. So, be prepared to answer a lot of probing questions and take personality tests. True happiness is found in knowing yourself and finding your purpose and a life coach can help you uncover what yours is.

This is how you will meet your potential and improve your life.

This article originally appeared in the Summer 2021 issue of CHOICES Magazine