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What is Success Coaching/Life Coaching?
There are many definitions of coaching already, and many more will probably emerge, but - put simply - coaching is a powerful process that supports people in fulfilling their true potential and determines the necessary actions to take to achieve their goals. There are those changes that you would like to make but can never find the time nor the energy to do something about it. There is also the tremendous pace of change in the world around us, which is unlikely to slow down in the future. Coping with change at work, at home, or in life generally can be a huge challenge, and this is where Life Coaching/Success Coaching can help.

The concept of coaching is not something new. The idea of coaching most probably started in the sporting field, although in broad terms, coaching has been used by all parents when they were parenting their children. Coaching is now more sophisticated and has also borrowed from advances gained in the field of Psychology, Education, Consulting, Mentoring, Training, Facilitation, Counseling, Philosophy, Leadership Development, and Organizational Development. As people realize the importance of the role of a coach in giving guidance, feedback, assessments, reinforcement, planning, evaluation, and motivation to steer the client towards the client's objective or goal, they started to employ coaches to improve their performances. Bill Clinton employs the services of Anthony Robbins. George Bush has a personal counsellor. And so, the trend of having a coach is catching on. There is a Life Coach, Executive Coach, Business Coach, Fitness Coach, and so on.

The coaching process is a very effective collaboration between you and your coach. The relationship is non judgmental, meaning that no one is standing in judgement over you, and unconditional, which means that coaching is designed purely to support you and to encourage you to achieve. Coaching is a dynamic process. It is focused and designed to move you towards your objectives. Coaching raises your awareness and encourages you to take control of and responsibility for your life. Consider this for a moment - you are the sum total of all the decisions that you have ever made in your life up to date. Coaching assists you to realize your true potential.

It takes a lot of clarity, skills, knowledge, strength, passion, motivation, encouragement to know what you want, to get the resources to obtain what you want, to manoeuver from where you are now to where you want to be, to close the gap from where you are now to where you want to be and to utilize proven tools and life maps to arrive at your designated finishing line. And if between where you are now and where you want to be are many obstacles, how do you overcome them?. What other options do you have? How do you temporarily retreat, regroup and restrategise?. It is a wonderful experience to be coached and to feel the support and encouragement of another human being who believes in your ability to achieve.

Whenever you hear a thank you speech for some award received, the recipient always has a string of people they would like to thank, for behind the success of someone, there is always someone who believed in them and has the strategy and know-how to guide and push if necessary, someone who understands human behavior and peak performances.

How are you living your life?
	Are you living and enjoying every moment?
	Are you just going through the motions everyday with no enthusiasm?
	Do you keep telling yourself that one day your life will fall into place?
	Do you wish you could take more control of your life?
	Do you feel that you have lost focus with what you wanted from life?
	Do you want to get out of the rut you are in?
	Do you want to change negative behavior into a powerful positive one?
	Do you have an unproductive habit which you want to break?
	Are you happy with how well you are managing your emotions?
	How well are you handling your stress and anxiety levels?
	Are you postponing what needs to be done now?
	What is stopping you from achieving your goals?

We all get caught up in life and lose our focus. It seems as if too often along our journey, we rarely find the positive results we seek. Whether it be enhancing creativity, personal enrichment or the very basic but often elusive search for connectedness and beauty in life, I can help you to succeed. Through coaching sessions, I can assist you in:
	Clarifying your goals and helping you obtain them.
	Improving your interpersonal communication, whether it be family, colleagues or relationships.
	Develop methods to rid yourself of fears and make you feel safe again.
	Providing a safe, nonjudgmental atmosphere to work on challenging issues important to you which you may not be able to discuss with family or friends.
	As a Life Coach, I will help you to discover what is really most important to you in your life.
	Then I will help you design a plan to achieve those things.
	I collaborate with you to eliminate any obstacles or blocks that stand in your way.
	I partner with you all the way to success.

We are all born with the potential to get what we really want from life. Until now few have achieved that potential. With modern coaching methods, more and more people are now realizing their potential and enjoying better lives as they do. I will enable you to
	Define what you want in these areas: Health, Relationships, Career, Spiritual, Finance, Emotional Growth, Social, Mental, and Life/Work Balance.
	Set powerful achievable goals.
	Have professional support and backing.
	Have someone to contact whenever you need to.
	Define what success means to you and for you.
	Get you on the right track to achieving your success.
	Find the passion that really motivates you.
	Bring this passion into your life and work so that you are doing the job you want and living the life you want.
	Manage stress.
	Overcome fear of failure.
	Overcome fear of success.
	Stop limiting beliefs.
	Discover your life purpose.

Coaching differs from counselling. Current model of counselling is about correcting some attitude and/or behavioural problems which a person may has. In coaching, the first premise a coach has is that you have unlimited potential, and this potential can be harnessed and turn into concrete reality. There is not so much emphasis on trying to counsel you because of what you did in the past that needed to be corrected. However, just as in counselling, a coach is skilled in the areas of communication as well as listening. A coach brings wisdom, experiences, techniques, proven methods, insights, compassion and many other skills and qualities to the coaching process. As much as a knowledge of structured coaching methods are important and can be acquired from taking a course, other components of successful coaching strategies are not learned from taking a course, but acquired over one's life experiences and journey.

Coaching is a skill, just as teaching. One may be knowledgeable, however, communicating this knowledge is a skill, and without this skill, the knowledge cannot be imparted. A coach is also a skilled teacher, able to impart knowledge using the appropriate words, examples and analogies. A coach, like a teacher, has the ability to make complicated things simple, simple for the client to understand and utilise.

More and more people are realising the importance of hiring a coach, as a coach can shorten your learning curve. You do not have to learn the hard way by trial and error unless that is what you choose. Coaching is begining to be seen as acceptable compared to counselling/psychotherapy as the latter tend to be associated with fixing something that is defective. Coaching is also being embraced by more people now as they see concrete results after going through the coaching sessions.