There are lots of articles and books out there that tell you how to go
about choosing a Life Coach. As your online life coach, let me offer up some tips and advice.

Unlike many things, you may not get a personal recommendation from someone you know when it comes to life coaching. Life coaching is a very personal experience and many people are very hesitant to share their personal journey or even let you know they are using one.

Here are some things you should think about when choosing a life coach.

Have you clearly identified what you would like to accomplish with a Life Coach? Do you have specific goals - or needs? Many life coaches specialize and are geared to help in specific areas of your life.

Career, business, sports and relationships just to name a few. Is that what you are looking for? Not everyone is appropriate for a "cookie cutter" approach when it comes to meeting needs or objectives.

It is my opinion, as a life coach, that your life coaching sessions should be individually tailored to help and assist you in reaching your goals and desires. A great life coach is always about you, helping you identify, clarify and realize your goals and dreams.

Another word of advice. Coaching is an unregulated profession and there are lots of different interpretations of coaching out there. Your coach should be high in integrity, value your privacy and be results oriented. There should also be a professional agreement to sign.

There should also be some kind of guarantee - if you aren't happy with your sessions or your life coach they should honor your request for a partial or full refund. A life coach should only want happy clients.

Life coaching is about building a relationship with you, a strong and trusting bond. That is the only way you have the trust to divulge your deepest needs, wants, desires as well as your negative emotions, feelings and fears to your coach. This foundation must be established.

If you aren't comfortable doing that, your life coaching session will never live up to your expectations and you will never experience the power that evolves from having a dynamic, results oriented and trusted life coach.

You should also avoid long term coaching contracts. You should be out there living your dreams and goals as quickly as possible. Your coaching sessions should begin empowering your immediately. Once you've achieved your first goal - you may want to set another goal but my no means do I believe that someone should be connected to one life coach F O R E V E R.

Different flavors are good and I have colleagues I love to recommend to handle things they may be better at than me. A coach cannot necessarily be everything to everyone. Life coaching to make a difference means you do what you can to satisfy the needs of your client, first and foremost.

Most importantly, in order to make real progress you must trust yourself, the life coach and the life coaching process. I encourage you to listen to your intuition.

Verify the facts. If there is something that just doesn't sit right - TRUST YOURSELF first! If it isn't working for you, just be honest. Let your life coach know that you are not comfortable. Great life coaches understand they aren't for everyone. If a life coach takes this personally that should be confirmation enough.

The most powerful and transformational life coaching is about helping you to access the answers from within you. Great life coaching enforces your strong self esteem. It assists you in centering and empowering YOU to achieve YOUR dreams and goals. Most athletes, leaders, scientists and more have chosen to collaborate with mentors and life coaches to help them achieve their dreams and goals.

Life coaching is that effective! The fact is, we all need one another. Great life coaches make a difference - take a forward step with a great life coach.

This is what typically happens with an online life coach and their client.

Once the bond of trust is formed, once you are able to divulge in an environment of complete trust your goals, desires, needs, wants - as well as your fears - the life coach can help you assemble all of those and begin pointing out the things blocking you from achieving that which you wish to have. At that point you can begin "emptying out" that which you no longer need and begin concentrating your thoughts and your energy on that which you do need.

Then suddenly, you experience an epiphany moment, that "ah ha" moment when you finally get it, you finally understand what was missing, what was incomplete, or when you conquer and turn loose of any negative emotion or fear and are able to scale the mountain.

This is a time for celebration!

This is typically a joyful experience, and what you can expect to achieve with your life coach.

This moment can happen early in the life coaching sessions or take a little longer, it all depends.

As for the length of sessions and the time involved, it's different for everyone. I offer 30 minute and 1 hour sessions for instance - and as to the question of how many you need, that varies person to person. Some people prefer to do weekly sessions, some prefer monthly. It's all up to your needs, your schedule and your desire.

Are you ready for your "Ah Ha" moment?

Ready to engage and conquer life, your goals, your ambitions?

Ready for all you deserve in life?

Ready to take the next step?

I offer free 15 minute initial consultations so that we may get to know each other, so that you can understand what I can give to you. Please visit me and get to know me. Let me be your life coaching partner, let me be your online life coach.

Tune into my blog talk radio show. Each week I will be doing a live online life coaching session. I have just completed my first one. It is the first part of a four part series entitled "Taking Responsibility For Your Own Happiness".

I am sure you will find these online life coaching sessions extremely rewarding. My show is aired on Thursdays afternoons (2:30 Eastern Time). Please tune in or catch the replay.

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