What is coaching?

Coaching is an interactive process that helps individuals and organizations develop more rapidly and produce life-changing results. These changes can make your life more satisfying, rewarding, and balanced. Coaches work with clients in all areas including business, career, finances, health, and relationships. Professional coaches customize their approach to the individual client’s needs. The coach provides the motivation, support, accountability, feedback, tools, and objective perspective; the client is responsible for taking the steps to produce the desired results.

Life coaching facilitates unleashing your vast untapped potential. It expands your capacity to be highly effective in both your personal and professional life. Your life coach provides a safe ongoing partnership that gives you the tools, support, feedback, and structure to accomplish your specific goals. Your coach guides you to your own inner wisdom; to live a life more fully aligned with your vision.

A life coach is someone in your life that is unconditionally on your side, supporting you, and bringing out the best in you. A coach helps you close the gap from where you are in your journey of life to where you want to be. Coaching is a unique partnership between you and your coach, through which you are empowered.

  Why is coaching so popular?

The synergy between a life coach and the client creates momentum. Many people know what they should do or what they want to do, but often find it difficult to actually accomplish. A life coach assists them in this process. More people are realizing the importance of having a coach and creating the time and resources to invest in themselves. Businesses are also realizing how much it pays to have life coaches for employees.

Coaching is an extremely powerful and collaborative relationship designed to support you in achieving your personal and professional goals. The coaching process unlocks your greatest potential so you can achieve your ultimate vision. People are realizing that they can design their ideal life by partnering with a life coach. For years people have had athletic coaches, music coaches, and acting coaches; now you can have your own coach for any or every part of your life. No matter where people are in their lives, they always want more. A life coach can help you get more money, success, or growth; build closer relationships; find deeper meaning in life. A life coach will help you live up to your potential. The coaching relationship is centered on you the client; it’s all about you.

Your coach creates a safe place for you to take risks and explore new ideas, a place where you can breathe, vent frustrations, learn from your failures, and celebrate your successes. Coaching is done in a safe, non-judgmental space and it is strictly confidential.

Can people really change?

Yes! Within all of us is the capacity to manifest and attract all that we really want and need. A coach can assist you in that process. Having a life coach is like having your own motivational speaker who creates a safe place for you to generate change and to live the life you know you can. You will be provided the tools, support, feedback, and structure to accomplish these changes through a process of accountability. You will have an ongoing partnership built on taking action. A coach is a catalyst that encourages and guides you to your inner wisdom. Change happens frequently in coaching as a result of having the support, accountability, motivation, and tools to do make change happen. Life coaching is very action oriented.

The benefits of coaching are that you have someone who can give you an impartial perspective and brainstorm with you on ways to move ahead and make changes. Interaction with your coach creates a system of accountability and motivation that promotes comfortable change. Together we break your vision down into bite-size pieces so that every week you move closer to your goals.

You have the laws of attraction along with the action to go with it. You can set goals and reach them. Fewer than 3% of adults write down their goals. With a coach, you will set your goals and reach them. You will also have new tools to change. Coaches remind you of what needs to be done and ensures your accountability.

By understanding who we really are deep down inside, we can expand our levels of awareness for the purpose of living a full and greater life of peace, ease, balance, and harmony.

Can dependency be created between a coach and client?

I was a consultant for a national weight loss company for many years and this question was frequently asked. My answer is not really. When working with clients on weight-loss programs, 100% of the people who continued meetings with me on at least a monthly basis kept their weight off and 100% of the clients who failed to keep even a monthly session put their weight back on.

We all need people in our lives. Athletes always have coaches, but they’re not dependent on them. Having a coach and having that person in your life comes from strength, not dependency.

Clients may need a coach to maximize an opportunity or to accelerate their growth. An emotional or psychological dependency is not created. The coach works with people who are fine and strong on their own; the coach just helps enhance their own excellence and pull out their own strengths.

How does it work?

Coaching begins with a 2-hour appointment where we design a program tailored specifically to meet your needs. We will identify your priorities, goals, and dreams. We will discuss strategies and outline an action plan. This focus and momentum will be maintained during your sessions. You can count on accountability, motivation, encouragement, brainstorming, and unconditional support.

Coaching can be in person – I am in Denton, Texas – and I have what I call the Walk and Talk™. Many of my clients come to me for weight loss and it is very beneficial to walk and talk.

Coaching can also be done via the telephone. Coaching is very powerful and highly effective by telephone, as there are no visual distractions. There is also savings in travel time for you.

There is a minimum three-month commitment. The length of the session depends on what program you choose. I have a number of programs to meet your needs.

During your complimentary coaching session we can discuss the programs and what would suit your needs.

How much does it cost?

I have a number of packages ranging from $200 to $600 a month.
Every package includes support via email, voicemail, and short phone conversations between sessions.