The Situation: The life coaching process is only one of the ten human improvement processes available to you to improve any aspect of your life.  If you have decided that you want to improve your life is some manner, you will want to figure out how to actually reach your goals.  Figuring out how will involve selecting the best-suited human improvement process or processes from the list below to accomplish your objectives. The best suited process or processes for you to use are governed by what your situation is, and by what you want to accomplish.  As an example you might consider using the consulting process (hiring a lawyer) or using the self-help process (do it yourself) to solve a legal problem. Another example is to attend a series of training classes, use a personal tutor (teacher), or even use the self-help process to gain the skills and knowledge to design web sites or to play golf.

Here are what I consider to be the ten most popular human improvement processes.  I have also provided examples of goals or improvements a person might gain from using each process to give you an idea of the differences and similarities of their purposes.

The Training Process:  Obtain the skills to perform a process or expand a talent by using another person to train you.

The Therapy Process:  Relieve or fix personal (psychological) burdens or problems that hamper your life that were normally caused by past events or situations by using another person to travel into your past and jointly confront and reconcile the negative events to free you of these weighty burdens

The Teaching/Education Process:   Receive, and hopefully learn, and understand information, facts, and processes that are external to you by using another person who provides you the information, or directs you to obtain it yourself.

The Spiritual Process:  Obtain spiritual or religious guidance, information or instruction in relating to a higher being by consoling with a spiritual leader or person.

The Self-Help Process:  Improve, fix, or accomplish anything you want on your own

The Psychiatric Process:   Correct a medical imbalance in your brain to allow you to control your thinking to live a better life by becoming a patient of a medical psychiatrist who will have the ability to diagnose your medical condition and prescribe medications, diet, and other physical solutions.

The Mentoring Process:   Gain wisdom and personal advice to develop a path to solve a problem or achieve a goal by using a wise and experienced mentor by asking them to reveal their inner knowledge and provide sage advice to salve your problems. A mentor can be considered a personal specific knowledge source (library) and expertise source.

The Life Coaching Process:   Achieve your coachable goals which require you to grow and improve as a person by using another person who will concentrate only on you to dig inside you and reflect back as a mirror who you really are and what motivates you, so you will grow so much you will achieve your coachable goals.

The Counseling Process:  Fix personal problems that are caused by exterior and other forces by learning how to deal with these forces (drugs, marriage, various disorders) and live a desirable life by using another person to gain personal understanding of the problems and plot solutions suitable to you.

The Consulting Process:  Fix problems that are external to you, by using another person who will either tell you what to do or fix the problem for you or some combination of the two.

If you determine that the life coaching process is the right method for you to achieve your goals you will want to be sure the right conditions exist for you to get the most from life coaching. There are four key conditions that you will want to create on your terms before you engage a life coach. Yet, how do you determine if you have life coaching goals, how do you determine if the life coaching process is right for you, and how do you determine if all four of the key conditions to successful life coaching are met for you?

TCC Solutions:

1. Call TCC at 800-887-7214 or 239-415-1777 and your TCC Advocate will assist you to determine how well the life coaching process will suit you (without any sales or pressure), by discovering your Coachable Goals and how ready you are for life coaching. These are the first two of the four key conditions. TCC will guarantee that the other two key conditions will be met as part of TCC’s Initial Month’s Money-Back Guaranteed Period.

2. Read more about the four key conditions to successful coaching.

3. Read more about TCC’s Initial Month’s Money-Back Guarantee Period where you get to experience actual coaching so you will personally feel and understand how life coaching works and what it will do for you under the right conditions, and TCC takes all the risk.

4. Attend the next free teleclass entitled “Is Engaging a Life Coach Right for Me?”

Other Solutions

1.  Visit Peer Resources Coaching Introduction page and select any one of the number of routes to learn more about life coaching.  Rey Carr of Peer Resources goes to great lengths to provide accurate up to date straight talking information about many aspects of the entire life coaching profession.

2. Ok, I’m stumped here myself.  I spent considerable time and effort trying to find other resources (that I have confidence in) to give you the facts without trying to close a sale.   I have come up short.  This is not because I want to keep you from finding other valuable sources.  On the contrary, it is because I cannot find non-selling sources to provide you the facts.  I know they must be out there.   If any of you know of an objective resource on the subject of life coaching that we can recommend, we would love to hear about it.