4. Your total coaching costs will be less than half of what face to face coaching would cost. With telephone coaching, you will NOT have to pay for the costs of your travels, the time you spend traveling, the cost for your coach to travel, or all three. In addition, your actual coaching sessions will take up less than half the time, and you will need fewer sessions and time to achieve your coachable goals, than you would with face-to-face coaching. All of these reductions in time, travel and effort will easily reduce the total coaching costs for telephone coaching to be less than half of face to face coaching. Unfortunately, there are coaches who will try to insist on face to face coaching, especially in the corporate setting. By doing so they make much more money than they would if they only provided telephone coaching.    more »

One of the most subtle, yet significant characteristics of the life coaching process is that it is much better that you Not Meet Your Life Coach. Conducting your life coaching over the telephone versus meeting your coach face to face will produce the following significant advantageous benefits to you: 1. You will create the best life coaching relationship.    more »

We all bring cultural biases toward desiring to physically meet those people with whom we have relationships. Most of us are trained and are led to believe that we need to physically see others to better communicate so we can size them up and read their body language. Many professions require physical face-to-face meetings to work. We must physically meet our physicians, dentists, chiropractors, physical trainers, and even our tennis coaches. Salespeople are frequently told to press the flesh to establish personal contact to generate new business. Attorneys go to great lengths to establish face-to-face meetings under controlled circumstances to establish their position of power, authority and expertise. It is almost ingrained in us to meet anyone who we ask to help us to make sure they have the expertise, and characteristics to we want from them. In these relationships almost all of the attention will be focused on the other party, not you.   more »

The initial and most important phase of true life coaching is the discovery stage. This is where the power of the entire life coaching process comes from. Your life coach will ask you deep coaching questions that will be focused only about you to get you to open up and reveal your inner feelings and thoughts about all aspects of life. Once you reveal these previously suppressed inner feelings and thoughts to your coach, he or she will then reflect them back to you, so you gain a newfound understanding of yourself. Your life coach will act as your personal private, confidential, crystal clear, very honest, and objective mirror to discover your true passions, your priorities and desires, your beliefs and value, your talents, and your self impose obstacles, as they exist today.    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 »

A critical key to building a strong foundation for success in life is to have and to honor your personal boundaries. Simply said, a boundary is an imaginary line over which people, problems, and life may not cross, because you've said so. You are in charge of your boundaries. You will find that as you extend your boundaries, you have fewer problems, less stress, and more space.   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 »

One critical key to success is something so simple, we sometimes take it for granted. Taking extremely good care of yourself can pay off in many ways. Not only does it make you attractive to others, but it demonstrates to others how they should treat you. You will also find you have more energy, peace of mind, satisfaction and can be more generous with those around you. When you start to put yourself first, you can be more fully available to others without having any resentment or anger in the process.

No one else cares about you like you do. What I'm asking is that you begin to make yourself the top priority. Be "self"-ish. This can be a very scary proposition at first. Just the word selfish can bring up old feelings of a parent's scolding. By definition, my old Webster's dictionary says the word selfish means caring unduly or supremely for oneself at the expense of others. That meaning is not what I'm suggesting here. Sometimes selfishness does conjure up negative reactions, and yet, there is a very positive side in honoring your highest self. When you are taking very good care of yourself, ultimately it allows you to be more generous and supportive of others than you have ever been before.

Self care requires that you start to focus on life balance, well-being, and quality of life. When you think of it, truthfully, you can't take care of others without taking care of yourself first. Think of the flight attendants instructions at the beginning of every flight. In case of emergency, you must put your own air mask on first. Then, you assist others around you. If you aren't getting any oxygen, you won't be help to anyone else.

Self care does require some action on your part. For those of you living the adrenaline lifestyle, rushing here and there, you may need to reestablish a relationship with yourself. You will  have to slow down and take some time for reflection. What are your needs and desires? Have you lost touch? At The Coach Connection we speak to many people in this same place. With a little creativity and conscious planning, self care can fit into the busiest of schedules. 

Start the process now to take good care of yourself. Set aside a few hours or an evening each week. It may be hard to slow down at first, but you can. Take a look at your whole life. Your life has many facets, and all are important.  A meaningful life is one in balance.  A balanced life means balanced in all aspects: relationships, work, spiritual well being, contribution to others, fun, adventure, and emotional and physical health.

Our emotional and physical health in particular, is something that is easy to ignore until there is a problem. We lead busy lives, and tend to put others needs before our own. Slow down and connect to your wise self. By taking good care of yourself, you show others how to treat you! You will also be surprised to find that you start attracting wealth and opportunities this way.

There are many ways to start building self care into your life. Many of these ideas take little investment other than your time.  Self care is the base on which you build a successful life. Think of it this way. If your foundation is weak, chances are good that parts of your life may crumble or crack. Take steps today to make sure your foundation is solid and secure and success won’t be far behind.

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 »

Welcome to The Coach Connection Blog! As professional coaching continues to grow in popularity, we at The Coach Connection wanted to have a forum to communicate with those of you that may be wondering about the coaching process and if it might work for you. We want to answer your specific questions about the coaching process here. We also want to share with you the many stories of people that have enhanced their lives and have achieve their goals by hiring a coach. Our mission at The Coach Connection is to provide a one-stop source to match you up with your ideal coach, who has been specially trained to help you accomplish your coachable goals.

Bill Dueease serves as your Client Advocate at The Coach Connection. Sit back and enjoy, add a comment, ask a question, or send us an email directly.

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