What is a Life Coach?
People often ask, What is a life coach? And how do I know if I need coaching or counseling? And how can a life coach benefit me? So let’s answer those…
What is coaching? A life coach partners with you to help you discover where you are, where you want to be, and how to get there. We believe the client is their best expert on their own life. They just may need help discovering their potential and their purpose. So a life coach comes along side of you to encourage and equip you to not only help you discover your potential and your purpose, but help you realize and remove any obstacles that are holding you back. Coaching helps you develop actions steps and accountability to help you achieve your goals, maximize your potential, and experience real life change.
What is the difference between coaching and counseling? Let’s talk about the difference between coaching and counseling. I’ll give you a few examples:
- Coaching is mostly future focused. It’s taking you from where you are to where you want to be.
- Counseling is mostly past focused. To understand what brought you here and how it is affecting your life today.
- Coaching is working with you to set goals, develop action steps, holding you accountable, and helping you remove obstacles so that you can continue to go and grow.
- Counseling is working more on past hurts and traumas and learning coping skills to deal with them. Retraining your brain so you can rewire your emotional thought process that is hindering your life.
- Professional Coaches are certified and they can coach anyone, anywhere in the world.
- Professional Counselors or Therapists are licensed and bound by state regulations and state boundaries.
How can a life coach benefit you? Are you wanting to make an impact but are not sure of your abilities or you just feel stuck? Are you sensing a calling to a new season, a dream, or a goal but don’t know how to bring that to life? Are you in the middle of a life transition either through loss or life-stage? Or maybe you just need to make some changes in your life and you don’t know how to move forward or navigate that. According to the American Association of Training and Development, On your own, you have a 25% chance of success when you have an idea that you want to adopt. But, when you partner with someone who can hold you accountable, which is what a life coach does, your success rate jumps to 95%.
So if you’re ready to move forward, take action, achieve your goals, and realize your God-given purpose - then I would love to partner with you. Call me for your free 30-minute discovery call. So we can talk about where you are, where you want to be, how to get there, and how I can help.
I look forward to hearing from you.
By His Grace,
Luisel Lawler
Certified Life Coach
561.787.5927 www.PathwaytoPurposefl.com @pathwaytopurposefl
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