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The realization that you need a life coach can be a frightening one.  

Most people are hesitant to admit they need help figuring things out, but this world is much more complicated than it was just 20 years ago.  Today we are pulled in numerous different directions and our plates are just too full.  How are we supposed to balance it all?  In many cases, a life coach is the answer.  So how can we set ourselves up for success in working with a coach?  Here are five tips to help you out.

1. Be open to change.  One of the greatest barriers to effective coaching is simply not being open to change.  You’re hiring a life coach to help you make some major changes in your life.  Maybe you want to go from disorganized to organized.  Perhaps you’re having trouble finding a balance between work and your personal life.  Whatever it is that you’ve decided to work on, you must be committed to the idea of change or nothing your coach will try to help you with will stick with you in the long run.
2. Create a solid coaching plan and follow it.  Just like anything else in life, you need a plan in order to succeed.  A coaching plan sets out your goals and a timeline for you to achieve them by.  Of course a coaching plan is only as good as your ability and decision to follow it.  If you’re going to stay on track with the changes you want to make, you’ve got to stick to it as closely as you can.
3. Ready yourself for success.  Sometimes we have a defeatist outlook that needs to be overcome in order for coaching to be effective.  If you aren’t prepared to succeed, then you probably won’t.  The right coach will be able to help you unlock your ability to find success.
4. Prepare to work hard.  Making changes in your life is never easy.  It takes a lot of hard work, but if you have the proper guidance, you will be able to make those changes.  Just don’t expect to be able to sit back and relax.  Working with a life coach can and should be demanding—just as demanding as life was before you started working on difficult areas of life.
5. Remember that you’re still in the driver’s seat.  A life coach (or any other type of coach, for that matter) shouldn’t do the heavy lifting for you.  If he or she is starting to pull you out of the driver’s seat of your own life, then they aren’t doing their job.  The whole point of having a life coach is learning how to adapt to whatever is in your life.  Effective coaching leaves you in the driver’s seat while assisting you by providing sign posts along the way.

Working with a life coach will enable you to get your life back on track.  There are so many different directions life tries to take us in that it’s easy to feel like we’re drowning in all life has to offer. But when you know how to set yourself up for success in working with a life coach, you’ll discover what truly effective coaching is like.  

Wishing all the Best,

FreelanceCoach Team

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 I have been asked many times by many people about how is Life Coaching different than Therapy or Counselling?

Well, each of them has their specific roles and advantages and takes care of different aspects of Your well-being. They do not exclude each other, they just serve different purposes. But let’s take them one by one.

Life Coaching is the improvement process that allows You to develop and improve as person, as much as You want. Coaching is an alliance between Your Coach and You, with You in the driver’s seat. Coaching helps You to discover the answers within Yourself, for each question You have and focuses on solutions, on Your future goals and on the Life You want to create.

Your Life Coach will be there for You to assist You to design the life You want, to encourage You to take the risks, whenever necessary and to celebrate with You your victories! You know You need a coach when:

-        You want to achieve balance in Your work, personal and family life

-        You want to start/improve your business

-        You want to tap into Your highest potential

-        You have goals and You want to achieve them while having fun and enjoying Your Life

-        You want to discover Your Life purpose

-        You want to improve Your relationships with the people in Your Life

-        You want to become a Leader in your career field

-        You want to change careers

Counselling is the expert advice provided by an expert in a specific field. It focuses on a current matter, by giving You a specific advice. Either You have a challenge in a relationship, You experienced a personal loss or You have an addiction, a counsellor can help you to cope with these and provide You solutions based on their training and experience.

Therapy is the process of increasing the mental health of a patient, working with issues like depression, anxiety, eating disorders, trauma, relationships conflicts or career frustration. It helps providing perspective to the events from the past, ways to express feelings and understand patterns of thinking through a series of specific, psychological techniques provided by a specialized professional.

Each of the 3 methods from above offers You support to improve Your Life based on Your current Life conditions.

To Your Success!

Anda Tudor, Life Coach                                                                                  June 12^th, 2011

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“I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.” Albert Einstein

I have been introduced to coaching 8 years ago due to a challenge in my personal life, my sister’s divorce.  I was in need for having back my balance, my focus on positive outlook of the world and I found coaching through a friend.

My life coach at that time, patiently listened to me and asked many questions that helped me discovered what I want and where I want to be as a person, motivated me to continue when the road I chose seemed to hard and cheered me for my all accomplishments. It was like I have my personal life trainer!

For this reason, I praise coaching and believe that it can transform each individual in something greater, bigger than they are, helping each individual to tap into their inner, greater potential.

Currently, the coaching field is growing and many types of coaching have developed since early 1900s, when Dale Carnegie started to train executives. Some of these fields are: life coaching, business coaching, health coaching, leadership coaching, executive coaching, career coaching, financial coaching, personal coaching, sports coaching, relationships coaching, coaching for businesses and sales coaching, to enumerate just few of them.

Lately, a new type of coaching started to emerge due to the increased use of internet technology in our daily life. Although, it might be difficult to understand for general public that coaching can be done other than face-to-face, as this builds a more effective relationship with the clients, as we became busier and stressed with our work and personal life and we want to save some time for our important matters, the demand for online coaching developed.

The online coaching offers you the advantage of having your coach with you no matter where you are, at home, your office or in a remote location, removing the time factor, travel expenses and geographical restrictions.

No matter what type of coaching you are choosing, having a coach will help you to create balance in your life, to discover your qualities and use your potential at a higher capacity, in another words, to transform your life in the life you want!

Anda Tudor, Life Coach                                                                 May 16, 2011         

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