Life Coaching Journey

Welcome to a Journey with Joyce

Our Journey this week will explore Life Coaching

Have you asked about or wondered how you could benefit from working with a Life Coach? This week our journey will be to look at the Life coaching phenomenon. 

Life coaching is a co-creative relationship. It is a process in which one works with a coach to set goals, gain focus and clarity or to make sense of their life or situation. It is also a process that allows the client to assess and reconstruct their lives without judgment, label or shame.

Life Coaching is a process through which the average individual can transform their lives or way of thinking and way of being so they can experience their life differently. This could mean dealing with life challenges and conflicts, changing habits and patterns, improving one’s performance, or just exploring more opportunities for success.

Life coaching is a radical and fairly new approach to assisting people. It is a move away from one being helped to one being assisted. The field of life coaching has exploded in the last decade due in part to this feature. 

Who Can Use Life Coaching?

Life coaching is of benefit to those who want to refresh their lives by encountering new perspectives and changing the way they view themselves and the world. 

For too long people with social and interpersonal problems were seen as dysfunctional, inadequate or incapable of helping themselves. Life coaching is a shift away from that perspective to one that claims the individual is the expert in their lives and therefore with the right assistance can lead the most successful life possible to them. 

Who Are Life Coaches

Life Coaches are people trained and who practice solid coaching competencies and code of ethics and standards that guide them in assisting their clients to map out a path to a better and more successful life reality. 

A Change in Global Consciousness 

In the last decade we have witnessed a globe stirring, spiritual awakening and a sense of ownership and accountability on the individual for his thoughts and life choices. As such, we have seen a level of global consciousness and changes as people begin to question their actions and their lives and seek to do better and to have more fulfilling and meaningful lives. 

This emerging global consciousness may very well be a way to help humanity attain a deeper level of spiritual and interpersonal intelligence that will foster optimal wellness in all areas of our lives and peace in our world. 

Life Coaching represents a gradual moving away from the mental limits and boundaries we have lived with for centuries, providing us a new path to reawakening the individual to the strength within themselves to live a more powerful and positive life in which being well and having extraordinary lives is now a possible goal. 

Reflections 

Is there a point in your life where you wonder if there is more for you or something else you should be doing, whether you are living and working to your full potential? There are many times when we put off the nagging thoughts that are asking us to do more and be more. Are you closing your mind to potentially more opportunities for growth and development? Ask a coach!! 

Coaching Actions 

On a piece of paper, make a list of all the things you are doing great in your life and make. Then make a list of all the things you think you can do better. Ask yourself, is there something holding you back from doing better or more? Write down two things you can do to improve the things you think you can do better in. Hold on! Don’t forget to celebrate yourself for those things that you are doing great!! 

To Your Wellness

What is Your Label?

Welcome to a Journey with Joyce

Our Journey this week will explore personal labels

What is a label? A label is something you tag yourself with, a way to advertise, identify or warn others of who you are or your intentions. Labels also reflect our beliefs about ourselves. It is a way to communicate or think about ourselves. It is also a way to teach others how to communicate with us and how to treat us.

So what labels have you used to tag yourself? Clients often share concerns or upset about an experience they are having or something that is reoccurring in their lives. Many fail to see the connection between what they are experiencing and the labels which they have attached to themselves. They seem to be in the labeling business without any conscious thought of the cost of their labels.

For example, a client says to me – I am an angry person. Well he has just labeled himself as angry and assigned himself all the consequences that come from that label. This may include having difficulties communicating with a spouse or loved one or children, having difficulty relating with co-workers and customers. This may result in him losing his family, losing his job and losing his close friends. He may even experience a decrease in those who want to associate with him. It may also mean that he will lose other people’s respect. Ever notice people may be fearful of an angry person but they never speak of them with respect. I also have a client who told me that he is lazy and he is struggling to lose weight. The result of the label is clear in this case but it isn’t always as clear in other areas of our lives. Many of us are in the labeling business without giving any thought to the weight of our words and the consequences on our lives and the life of those we interact with.

Are you in the labeling business? What about the label I’m a loser, I’m crazy, I don’t care? Whatever comes after I am or you are is a label. Are you also labeling others? When was the last time you gave a positive label to yourself or someone else? Have you tagged or label yourself in a way that is showing up in your life with all its cost? Have you let others tag or label you? How is that working out for you?

Reflections

Take five minutes to clear your mind and think back on the labels you have carried with you throughout your life. How have they served you? The label of wife, mother, husband, father, mother child, hooligan, fat, worthless, selfish, idle, irreverent, vagabond, holier than thou, loser, unsuccessful, ungrateful, lazy, tired, sick, broke, poor, unhealthy or having health problems…..?

Coaching Action

Take a pen and paper and draw a line down the middle, write down all the labels you have been assigned by yourself or others and list them on the right column of the paper. On the left column of the paper, write down the consequences of each label. Ask yourself; is this the consequence I intended to have from this label? How well is this working for my life? What would I like to have changed? If the consequences you are having is positive then take some time to celebrate and to thank those in your life for being part of this positive reality in your life. If you want to make changes then ask yourself, what is one thing I can do in the next week to change the results I am having from this label? Remember to take that action in the next few days.

I look forward to hearing about your journey on personal labels.  What new labels do you want to adopt and what old labels do you want to celebrate and what positive labels do you want to reaffirm and celebrate?

I wish you peace and wellness