Experiencing true life coaching under the right conditions will most often feel very different and even strange. You will be the total center of attention of your life coach, under very private, and confidential conditions. Your life coach will concentrate on drawing out from you your inner thoughts, passions, feelings and priorities, on YOUR TERMS. Your coach will be completely supportive of what you express and reveal, WITHOUT JUDGMENT AND WITHOUT AN AGENDA. Your life coach will actively focus on getting you to look inside to express your true self, through the coaching questions they will ask you. When you reveal your inner passions and thoughts, by answering their coaching questions, they will reflect this new information about you back to you like a mirror would. As your equal partner your life coach will also encourage open discussions about these new revelations you discover about you to help you understand them so you can use this new information to YOUR best advantage towards achieving your coachable goals.

Lets see. You will be able to openly discuss your deepest inner thoughts and feelings to another person, who:
**will actively encourage you to unleash your true thoughts
**will be totally focused on you and give you their total respect and attention
**who will not judge you or evaluate you
**who will not try to impose their agendas or personal beliefs on you
**in addition, who will not only totally support your revelations, but will also celebrate with you as you feel the relief and joy of continued self-discovery.

And, all of your openness will be kept completely confidential between only the two of you. You will not have to worry about the world knowing. Yeah sure, you say! Sounds almost too good to be true, doesn't it? Where else or with whom else could you possible experience anything like what you will feel through life coaching? The answer is: nowhere and with no one. And because you cannot experience these unique circumstances anywhere else, or with any other person, these feelings will be very new to you, and almost spooky.

One of the biggest adjustments, TCC coaching clients have to make is to recognize, understand, and accept that they are truly experiencing all of the unique aspects of being coached by a true life coach. It can be very foreign and strange to actually feel the wonders of being strongly encouraged to be their true selves, with total acceptance without judgment. As an example, if a 45-year-old married secretary life coaching client in Boston revealed to her coach an inner passion to become a trout-fishing guide in Alaska, her coach would not say, “Are you nuts?” Or her coach would not say, “Why would you want to do that?” Instead her life coach would ask deeper coaching questions like, “What kind of trout fishing?” “How often do you want to do this” “What part of Alaska do you want to fish in?” “What do you want to do when winter months preclude fishing?” “Where does trout fishing fit into your present work?” Her life coach will go with her all the way to assist her to clearly discover what she really wants to do, to understand it better, and to prioritize it within he total life. But she would not have to explain why! It does not matter. How can anyone explain why he or she is passionate about doing something? Or for that matter for being passionate about Not doing something?

Friends, spouses, loved ones, parents, teachers, religious leaders, therapists, coworkers, bosses, consultants, and trainers all have their own agendas, will judge your statements, will rarely be able to concentrate totally on you for any length of time, and will be strongly inclined to present their opinions and or superior knowledge or positions. The life coaching process was designed to make you the total center of attention, to actively seek and discover the many inner aspects of who you are today and what you want today without hesitation, with clarity and without judgment. Life coaching fills the void left out by these other human improvement processes. Our cultures have not provided this wonderful experience through other means. Virtually everyone is unaware that the possibility of experiencing the unique wonders of being coached could even exist. Few people can contemplate the unique, and exhilarating feelings they will experience through life coaching. There is just no other way to compare it. What is also very difficult and frustrating, is that it is just as hard to explain to others either verbally or in writing, like in this piece, about what a true life coaching experience is really like. People who go through true life coaching under the right conditions rave about it, but have trouble describing what it was like and why.

I personally have experienced true life coaching at three different times in my life, at 22, 54, and 60. And I still have difficulty explaining why I felt so good. Therefore, I normally discuss the terrific results I achieved through life coaching, which are easily explained, very remarkable, and much easier for others to understand. Yet, the experience itself was worth the trip. I even avoid discussing the trip, because it is too difficult to explain, but I thought I would give it a try here.

Likewise, I have experienced the thrills and wonders of skiing down long slopes in untracked Champaign-power snow that was deep and fluffy. There is no other experience like it. I have decided to cease trying to explain it to others, because it is such an unusual feeling. To really understand the remarkable feelings of being coached by a true life coach under the right conditions, you just have to experience it for yourself. Likewise, to fully understand the joy of skiing untracked light powder snow, you just have to experience it you self. I have felt both numerous times, and encourage you to try them also.

Enjoy your trip!