What is a Coach?
A coach is someone who helps you:
- See that you have much to contribute to life.
- Look at your life as a hero’s journey.
- Discover what holds meaning and purpose for you.
- Identify your core strengths and values.
- Create goals that come alive with meaning and excitement.
- Reach your goals with clarity, focus, ease, and grace.
It’s important for you to know what a coach is not:
- A coach is not a legal counselor; however, a coach can help you clarify whether or not to seek legal counsel.
- A coach is not a medical person although he or she may help you clarify whether or not you need to seek medical advice to meet your goals.
- A coach is not a therapist; however, a coach will support you in seeing if there are chronic emotional subjects that could be healed by visiting a mental health professional.
- A coach is not a physical trainer, but might help you clarify if you need to consult with a physical trainer to bring your body up to peak playing capacity.
- A coach is not a financial advisor, but is someone who can help you see whether or not a financial advisor would help to improve your relationship with money.
The Purpose of Coaching:
The purpose or aim of coaching is to produce authentic action. Authentic in this sense simply means valid, reliable, accurate and coherent. Authentic action is consistent with our purposes, goals and core values – and therefore gives us a sense of meaning.
Authentic action proceeds directly from discernment. It is elegant, simple and uses energy consciously.
“IMAGINE realizing your unique purpose in life and living it consciously every day. Think about your goals and dreams – the ones you’ve been putting off or the ones you thought would always be just ideas – and then visualize them coming true… with clarity, focus, ease and gratitude!”
This quote, from Dr. Maria Nemeth in her “Mastering Life’s Energies” work, expresses well the value and benefits of coaching. Working in partnership, we clarify life intentions, create achievable goals that will satisfy those intentions, and map out strategies to help meet goals.