How can a GOOD coach help you?

I see "your" good coach as a person who had parallel experiences to yours, who will be able to relate to what you are experiencing in the present moment and who through personal development can see life through a bigger perspective.

A coach is not a guru either.

In fact coaching techniques have to be acquired in order to be able to put our personal experience into good use.

And by the way, good coaching techniques are not acquired in a weekend, believe me it takes a lot longer if you really mean to become a good professional coach. And a piece of paper attesting that you have attended a weekend seminar is not going to make you a genuine pro.

During a coaching session a good professional coach has to learn how to put his/her ego aside, be 100% for the client and be their best advocate, and I don't mean cheerleading by that.

In fact I'm sure you know that having an outside perspective is going to help you see your own situation from another angle.

It is going to help you re discover aspects of yourself you never imagined you could use in a particular situation.

Getting great insights is another benefit you are going to get out of a good coaching session.

But what is the greatest benefit you are going to get from a good coach:

You are going to think your own thoughts, make your own decisions and get the support you need while you're walking the path to your next goal.

So while you're using your coach as a reasoning board, you are going to design your own personal development method, and learn to love the path to your goal just as much as achieving it.

Of course you might consider that confiding into a friend is going to get you the same results and it will be free!

Wrong again unless your friend is a coach himself.

Getting your friend's opinion is all you are going to get, along with their fear, their judgment and their own view of life.

And it's not what you want, or is it.

I have already said that in previous articles, "live life through your own eyes", or you will never be satisfied.

When I said earlier that a coach was not a guru, I meant it.

A coach will never tell you what to do. A coach is going to listen to you, ask you pertinent question and help you see why you're at this point in your life.

Are you ready for this?

Don't let fear interfere, take it by the hand and start walking the path to your own greatness.

To your life!
By Louise Bosse