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 »

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 »

I have ADD and love having it. I am a card carrying member of the ADD Club, and proud of it. I have thrived and enjoyed life in ways others can only dream about, because I have ADD. Two of my four children (ages 18 and 30) also have ADD and their ADD has given them the ability to prosper and overcome obstacles that would frustrate others. Robin Williams, Albert Einstein, Tom Cruise, Henry Winkler, John Lennon, Walt Disney, Thomas Edison, Mohammed Ali, Bruce Jenner, Robert Kennedy, Magic Johnson, Carl Lewis, Galileo, Mozart, and Werner von Braun all thrived because they have or had ADD.    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 »

You will attain life balance when you enjoy and thrive in all three of your lives simultaneously without guilt or conflict. Life balance is very personal and different for everyone. Many people strive to attain life balance. Yet few people know what life balance really would look like to them, nor how to attain it. Our three lives determine our life balance. Work Life. Our work related life consists of what we do to earn an income to provide resources to live and prosper. Yet we gain much more from work. We gain financial and social status. We gain feelings of accomplishment, belonging, power, acceptance, praise and fame, enjoyment, and even feelings of contributing to the good and welfare of our fellow man. The emotional gains from our work often provide far more benefit than the money we earn.    more »

We often talk of “self-imposed obstacles” to potential clients as those things that tend to get in the way of us accomplishing our goals. Author, Rick Carson, named self-imposed obstacles “Gremlins” in his classic self-help book, Taming Your Gremlin. The gremlin is a metaphor for our negative thoughts. Many times the gremlins we know, rather than the gremlins we don’t know, are the ones that stand in the way of our success. ** You can’t do… ** You should be…. ** You need to…. ** You don’t deserve… ** This must change for me to be …   more »