The daytime television program called Starting Over has been on the air for about three years now. Starting Over is a scripted, Hollywood, dramatized entertainment TV show. It features women with many different life problems, who have been sequestered in a house under controlled conditions. The show produces good theater and entertaining drama as these women are followed around 24/7 with cameras recording their struggles to overcome their problems. The show provides at least two people they call “Life Coaches” and at least one consulting psychologist to help these women overcome their problems. The show will also provide other resources including makeup artists, hair stylists, and even Jenny Craig to help these women improve their appearance and lose weight, as part of their path to overcome their problems.   more »

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.   more »

The fee for TCC’s Initial Month’s Money-Back Guaranteed Period of Coaching will be changed from $300 to $349 on February 15, 2006. During this Initial Period you will still receive a minimum of Six (6) coaching sessions, and TCC will continue to take the entire risk, because the Initial Period is covered by a full, no questions asked, Money-Back Guarantee.   more »

Give the experience of life coaching to someone you love. Provide your loved one the ability to discover the life improvement possibilities through life coaching, and to allow them to experience the wonders of being coached by their own personally matched highly experienced TCC Coach. This special Gift program is different than TCC’s normal Initial Period offering. We at TCC want this coaching experience to be the exceptional gift you deserve, but we also know that there is a possibility that your loved one will not be ready for life coaching. Thus, TCC is offering to explain and interview your loved one beforehand to be sure life coaching will provide you the wonderful gift you expect. You pay only $300 for a minimum of six coaching sessions to someone you love, and if the recipient of your gift or his or her TCC Advocate feels that life coaching is not just right for him or her, TCC will refund your $300 before coaching begins.    more »

One of the basic cannons of life coaching is that everything that transpires between you and your life coach be kept extremely confidential. The ethics of the life coaching profession mandate that your life coach not breach the confidentiality of your coaching sessions. This is vital to you as a coaching client.   more »

Looking around the Internet, you will probably find over a dozen different types of life type coaches listed and promoted. Shoot, we at The Coach Connection list thirteen different types of coaches on our web site alone. All of these coaching choices present a bewildering picture, and we even contribute to your confusion. Goodness, not only is the life coaching process probably new to you, but now it appears that you will have to also figure out which type of coach will be right for you from so many different choices. You might even think you have to pick the right type of coach first. But how can you do this when there are so many choices and no way to understand the differences well enough to make the right choice. Where do you start?    more »

Today I am posting a question from a prospective client in the “research phase” of hiring a coach and my subsequent response. Dear Coach Connection, I am still discussing different coaching options but wanted to know whether it would be possible based on our phone call for you to line me up with three different coaches who are ICF certified? Let me know what you think. Thanks! Steve    more »

The key to achieving your coachable goals with your life coach is that you unravel the mystery of you. You will use your life coach as your personal private mirror to dig down within you to discover your true passions, priorities, beliefs and values, talents and self-imposed obstacles. These make up your inner ingredients that impact virtually all aspects of your life. They are within you. Yet, they are difficult to see, recognize, and understand without the help of another person. Discovering these many important inner aspects about you will depend on how openly you divulge them to your life coach. If you have any reservations about talking with a particular life coach, then you will want to seriously consider selecting another life coach, with whom you have no hesitation.    more »

I first got involved with life and business coaching in 1999, and I have been amazed at how frequently people, and even coaches, misuse the life coaching process. People hire someone to coach them for a whole range of reasons. Unfortunately, many of these reasons have little to do with life coaching. Sad to say, far too many people will sell their coaching services to anyone who will pay them for almost any reason. Or worse, many others use a coach with no real purpose in mind. The only reason you will want to engage a life or business or executive coach is to accomplish your Coachable Goals. The real reason coaches go through all of their training and practice is to be able to coach you to make sure you DO accomplish your Coachable Goals. Yet, too many coaching prospective clients and people purporting to be life coaches do not understand the importance of having Coachable Goals or what they really are. Consequently, coaching commences without any real purpose. This is not good for the client, the coach, or coaching in general. To put this in perspective, this is like paying an attorney for no reason, or at least for something that has nothing to do with the law.    more »

The life coaching process is an excellent process that, when certain conditions are met, will assist people to achieve wonderful life, business and professional goals. People greatly improve all aspects of their lives through life coaching. We can attest to how almost a thousand people have accomplished remarkable and wonderful goals through engaging their ideal life coach through The Coach Connection.    more »

If you have never worked with a coach before, you normally are curious about the process and how it can benefit you. Typically you meet with your coach by on a regular basis. You will develop an ongoing partnership with your coach that is based on trust. A coach will focus his or her full energy and attention on helping you achieve your goals. Your coach becomes a totally objective, nonjudgmental, supportive partner providing insight to you on who you really are and what you really want to do.    more »

Everyday at The Coach Connection we talk to people about "coachable goals." A coachable goal is simply, a future place you want to be that requires you to grow and improve as a person to achieve it. While this may be somewhat difficult to grasp at first, after looking deeper, you will discover a wonderful world that opens up and to the important accomplishments to which these goals lead. When we say a future place YOU want to be, this means you choose to move your life to a diffferent place from where you are today. You always focus on where you want to go, not on what you are leaving behind. You make this decision on your own when you are ready. And you control the process.    more »