![]() Alot of people get or give good advice and then don’t follow through/up, which may help save them from many problems. Another problem we have is giving unsolicited advice without even knowing the true facts of a given situation. We all have been here, when family and friends, readily want to offer their helpful advice! Sometimes, our inner voice tells us it may be good, and other times, we just rebel at all the advice coming at us…we know we want to do it our own way! Though, frustratingly, for some reason, our way seems to not be working exactly the way we thought it would. Even when we try to follow others advice to make them happy! See? It didn’t work that way either! Grrr. A Low Down On Advice All roads are paved with good intentions. A lot of people want to help, we want to aid people by shielding them and deflecting bad things, and especially to those people we love. Advice can turn something good into an overture towards a person’s sense of self. One comment can become a potentially uncomfortable situation. Some people are sensitive. You may see them cry, they might tell you they are hurt, and they could tell you the why, however the fact remains that you still do not have enough knowledge of the real situation. More often than not, people who love dishing out advice end up putting their foot into their mouths. Visualize and Categorize Advice is useless because it can be one sided. Everyone’s experiences are unique. You may have the same problem, but the process you had to go through before reaching that problem always varies. Including, your own perspective on that process will be your own. Life Coaching allows you to visualize the goal as the first step towards healing and finding a solution. For example: If the problem is an argument with your boss. Having you visualize your desired outcome, let’s say making up with your boss and getting a promotion will point you on the path in which you want to take without necessarily dictating you to do so. You see, sometimes advice can seem to be dictatory in a sense that an individual will follow advice simply because they do not want to hurt your feelings. Then, subconsciously, they rebel and really don’t accept the advice. Your conscious brain will criticize the vision or advice if you are just doing it to please others. That’s why you must really want to do it for yourself! If Not Advice, Then What? Time is the essence of life coaching. A coach can spend weeks, months and some even years working with a client or company to achieve their goals and the things they want in life. Coaches know that your time is valuable so they make the most of it by connecting with you mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Achieving a degree of trust is usually the first step. That’s why it is important to make sure that you feel a good rapport with your coach! It will be for your best benefit and for your success! Next, your coach will listen intently, and then identify critical situations in your life which the coach can catalyze on to make thought provoking activities for you. The thing about life coaching is that although they do relate with you from a time to time basis, they give you room to expand and be who you really are without having to worry about what you’re thinking. Advice is not how a life coach makes you see things. Instead the coach praises you for your current success and asks you if there is anything in your life you want to change. By asking a question the coach throws the ball into your court and makes you take control of your decisions and motivates you towards a progressive action plan for achieving success. Coaching In A Nutshell Contrary to popular belief life coaching is not therapy. Life coaches are not psychologists either. Life coaches act as a radical catalyst to provoke you into action. Life coaching is an alliance; a synergy between the coach and you, the person being coached. Life coaching is founded on the belief that people know the answers to their own questions. If you are on a journey blindfolded, you and you alone can take the covering off your eyes; and so they incite you to discover your life’s purpose may it be in relationships, career and everything else in life. Experts on Life Most people ask if life coaches are experts in life. Of course they are; they are experts in their own lives. You see a life coach does give you forward directions, because that’s what they did to make their own lives successful. Every person is different; every way of life has their own variations. You are the authority, the only qualified person to make decisions and suggestions regarding how to better your life emotionally and psychologically. You may not know it, but you have the power to recognize which key decisions in your life are best for you. Every day you make trivial choices that although you might not realize it at first these decisions actually have a great impact in your life. Life coaches can help you realize certain aspects of your life, and then provoke you into action to make your life more fulfilling.
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Cynthia A NahinI live in Southwest Michigan and am excited at being able to create and share this blog with you. I hope you return often as I will provide you with many creative concepts that I have learned and put to practice successfully to achieve my end set goals! Believe me, you can do it, too! Blog Archives
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