10 Reasons to Hire A LIfe Coach For 2023
What are 10 benefits you receive from hiring a Coach? Let’s jump right in.
1. An accountability partner. When working towards accomplishing something solo, there’s temptation to procrastinate or purposely avoid the hard parts. Knowing you have to answer to your Coach can drastically reduce this. Also, real talk, you show up more when you pay for something. No one wants to waste their money, not to mention someone else’s time.
2. Heightened self-awareness. Self-awareness is the very essential first step for all personal growth and healing. You CANNOT change or heal something until you become aware that it needs changing or healing. For example, you spend your entire 20’s drinking and partying and rarely see an issue with this. Then all of a sudden, you realize your hangovers lead to anxiety. In that moment, you became aware that you need to change your alcohol intake to lessen your anxiety. Self-awareness is a natural by-product of Coaching and a true change maker if you allow it to be.
3. Gain confidence through action. When you work with a Coach, their objective is to get you DOING something towards your goal (typically something small and achievable). As you slowly begin to accomplish task after task, you realize that you’re making progress! This gives you pride in what you’ve already done and confidence that you can do more.
4. Change your behaviors and habits. Typically, if you aren’t successful at something, you’re doing too many of the wrong behaviors and not enough of the right ones. A Coach can help you identify what these negative behaviors are, as well as develop a strategy to implement the positive ones in your daily life. Because the more you do something, the higher the chance you will keep doing it (this includes both positive and negative behaviors). The accountability helps with this too.
5. Better decision making. We tend to make our decisions based on past experiences and outcomes. If you’re feeling stuck, it might be because you’re working with old thought patterns and tools. These were born from a need to protect yourself or gain love and approval. You need to do some upgrading because those old ass tools don’t work anymore. Coaches help you acquire new tools that will help you make better decisions for your life as it is NOW.
6. They see what you don’t see. I like to say that I “lovingly reveal blind spots”. Being in the driver’s seat of your life gives you one perspective. But just like driving a car, we know there can be blind spots. A Coach is looking at things from a completely different perspective (the car riding beside or behind you). Having this information gives you a clearer picture and allows you to have more authority over your life.
7. Helps you get where you want to go faster. You can’t get somewhere if you don’t know where you’re going or how you’re going to get there. That may sound very elementary, but you’d be surprised at the amount of people that expect to reach a goal without a plan. So what do you need more of? Clarity. Using powerful questions, a Coach helps you get reeeeeal specific. As a Client, having clarity and specificity can equal being more efficient, focused, and effective (all things needed to achieve what you want).
Choosing the right Coach is extremely important. Since every Coach has a different niché, make sure you choose someone who is aligned with your intentions. The 7 benefits you just read should be standard for most accredited Coaches. So not only do you get all of those by coaching with me, but I want to offer you 3 more that are specific to me and my unique Coaching style.
8. Learn to manage your mind, quiet your critical inner voice, and redirect your thoughts. This one theme is woven through my entire Coaching process and beyond. Humans unintentionally spend a lot of time in their heads. We have a tendency to be critical, demanding, and fearful while we’re up there. THIS is one of the main reasons we get so stuck. Managing what’s being said upstairs opens up your entire world in the best way. What if your thoughts and inner voice were more motivating, kind, and positive on MOST days? How different would your life look?
9. Enhance the personal relationship with yourself. You were born as your authentic self. As you got older, you were introduced to pain, shame, and programming that a) disconnected you from many aspects of your authentic self b) forced you to create certain characteristics in order to be accepted and safe. When you (unknowingly) deny who you are and disconnect from your true self, it can present as unhappiness, inadequacy, failure, resentment, and a deep longing (among other things). I help my Clients peel back the layers so they can reconnect to who they really are and what they genuinely want, need, and deserve.
10. Receive encouragement, support, and guidance during personal discovery and growth. This work is HARD. Doing it alone can be overwhelming, lonely, and defeating. Humans are wired for connection! Just having someone in the trenches with you can actually make it enjoyable. What a difference it makes when someone else believes in you. I believe in every one of my Clients. They are very capable of the things they want to accomplish, they just have to get out of their own way. I help them do just that.
I hope this gives you a little insight into how your life, goals, and/or journey of personal growth can be upleveled by a Coach. It’s hard to ask for guidance, but isn’t it harder to work through something without satisfying results? The new year is right around the corner and it’s the perfect time to start it up. There’s a reason this industry is growing! If it’s something you’ve considered for yourself, what are you waiting for? Money? I promise if you REALLY want it, you could cut back on buying some dumb shit, re-prioritize your spending, and make it happen. Let 2023 be the year you do something different. Something for YOU and your future self.
