Frequently Asked Questions About Life Coaching
Here is a list of the most commonly asked questions regarding life coaching, executive coaching, and business coaching.
1. Who hires a coach?
People who hire a coach are people who are ready to make a change in their life, push themselves to obtain success, balance, and any other goal. Those that hire a coach are people who want more out of their life; they want to grow in both their personal and business life. A holistic life coach like Sonia focuses on each realm of your life to assist you in achieving this success and balance at home and business.
Clients span a variety of ranges and come from diverse backgrounds. I primarily work with lawyers, executives, business owners, and anyone who is committed to positive change and growth in their lives. I only work with those who are willing to move forward, grow, and express their full potential in life.
See our available coaching programs:
- Executive Coaching Programs
- Lawyer Coaching Programs
- Business Owner Coaching Programs
- Success Roundtable Program
2. How is coaching different from therapy? Consulting? A friend?
A life coach helps you find answers within yourself, set goals, and determine the best path to achieving them. An executive coach, business coach, or life coach holds you accountable, stretches you beyond your comfort level, helps you strengthen your skills, and supports you with no judgment. A life coach is not a therapist or consultant. A life coach focuses on where you are in your life right now and where you want to be and helps you in getting there.
3. What are the benefits of life coaching or business coaching?
Motivation- Many times in life, we know what we want to do. However, we don’t get ourselves to move towards that goal. Working with a business coach, executive coach, or life coach enables you to stretch beyond your comfort zone and move towards your goals.
Accountability- It’s very easy and very common for people to live their lives unsatisfied with their business, jobs, and family life. While these people may have ideas of how they could change their life to make it better, they become paralyzed by their schedule, routines, etc. A life coach holds you accountable to making decisions, changes, and quantum leaps in your life.
Introspection- Because so many of us are stuck in the rat-race working 10 to 12 hours a day, we don’t truly know what we want out of life. Western Society does not give much value to introspection. As a result, many people come to find out their values and goals much later in life. Don’t let this be you. Don’t be another one of the thousands of people currently living an unfulfilled, unsatisfying life. A life coach can help you get to know yourself, your values, and your goals and to achieve a life that is a reflection of them.
Goal Setting- Many people live years without knowing their values or goals; while others are aware of them but do not work towards them. They may know their goal,s but do not quantify them or measure them. This is why so many people don’t move forward with their goals by developing action plans to achieve them. A life coach helps you to determine your goals in life and business and to set specific, personalized steps to achieving those goals.
4. What if I need help with both my personal and business life?
The key to living a fulfilled life is balance in each of the segments of your life. At Time for Life, our life coaches take a holistic approach to each client. This means that when you work with one of our coaches, the coach will help you achieve goals in both your personal and your business life and all of the segments involved in each. When you hire a coach, he or she acts as an executive coach, business coach, life coach, and personal development coach to you. After all, there are many pieces to the pie that is life: work/business, family, spirituality, health, personal growth, and much more.
5. How do I get started?
Contact me to set up a free 15 minute life coaching session. During this first session, we will discuss goal setting and any specific issue you would like to address. You will get to know my style of coaching, will be able to ask any question, and will have the opportunity to decide if you are ready to make a change in your life and take the next step to achieving it.
6. How long should I work with a Life Coach?
Coaching sessions are generally held for one hour every two weeks. On average, people begin the coaching sessions for a 3-month period. Many people continue with the coaching and either remain on the two-sessions a month program or add more sessions. You and your coach will intuitively know when it is time to conclude or pause the sessions.
7. Can I hire a Life Coach for a specific project or goal?
Yes. Some clients hire a life coach to assist them in achieving a specific goal or change in their life or accomplishing a project. These clients tend to continue working with the coach long after they’ve succeeded with their goal or project because they are even more motivated to make leaps in their life.
8. What can I get from coaching that I can’t get from self-help books?
While business and self-help books provide a volume of great and useful information to learn to prepare for success, they cannot hold you accountable for applying what you learned, specifying measurable goals, and creating a strategy to achieving those goals. Without the commitment to daily application of new strategies, ideas, and behavior, there is very, very limited room for growth and real change.
A book is also not able to act as a mirror to reflect your ingrained and sometimes unconscious patterns of behaviors, thoughts, and ideas that shape your daily actions to create the outcomes in your life. A professional life coach can reflect these things to you and guide you to reframe the experiences and thoughts of your past to establish new, more positive perspectives on current and future opportunities.
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 | I'm really looking forward to working with you to reach new heights of success and balance in your personal and professional life! Sonia Gallagher, JD Holistic Executive Life Coach PS. If you are ready to be challenged, to steer your life in a new direction, and to achieve the goals you desire, I invite you to request a Free Coaching Session and Experience Coaching and How It Can Benefit Your First-hand! |
