How Coachable Am I?

Executive coaches are not for the meek. They’re for people who value unambiguous feedback. All coaches have one thing in common, it’s that they are ruthlessly results-oriented.”-FAST COMPANY Magazine

For you to have the most success in a coaching program or session, you have to be in a stage of your life where you are ready to evolve, to be stretched, and to make changes to achieve your desired goals.

This test helps to determine how coachable you are at this moment.

Read each of the statements below and score them with the number from 1 to 5 that describes most clearly how true the sentence is for you in your life right.

Be honest with yourself.

1. I am willing to make changes in my life that may be beyond my comfort zone.
2. I’ll be open-minded and try new concepts, ways of looking at things, ideas, and exercises.
3. I am honestly willing to do the work required of me.
4. I am willing to let the coach do the coaching.
5. I am punctual and will be able to make all my phone appointments with a coach.
6. I will be completely open and honest with the coach even if at times it’s uncomfortable for me.
7. I will tell the coach if I am not getting what I need from the coaching and will inform what I want to achieve through the coaching partnership.
8. I can share the credit of my success with my coach.
9. I have sufficient funds to pay for coaching, see the value in the coaching, and will not regret signing up for coaching services.
10. I am ready and willing to make changes in behavior and thinking patterns that may be obstacles to my success.

*Now add up your total score.  If you scored 10 to 20 points, you are not ready for coaching at this point in your life.  If you scored 21 to 30 points, you are coachable, but the coach will make sure to remind you that ground rules will be honored.  If you scored 31 to 40 points, you are coachable at this moment of your life. If you scored 41 to 50 points, this is a very good time in your life for coaching and you should expect the coach to challenge you to grow and develop.

If you scored a high enough score and are ready to make the next move, press the links below to see more details on available packages and fees.

1. Executive Coaching Programs
2. Lawyer Coaching Programs
3. Business Owner Coaching Programs

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!

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FAQs 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:

1. Executive Coaching Programs
2. Lawyer Coaching Programs
3. Business Owner Coaching Programs

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 30 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.

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!

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Work Life Balance

Disharmony in life- According to a study by the Families and Work Institute, a third of U.S. employees are chronically overworked and about half have been overworked at some point in the past month!

A successful career and a successful personal life can be a delicate balancing act.

These days, the line separating your work life from your personal life is more blurry than ever.  How can people cope with longer work hours, a slow economy, and constant pulling from cell phones and emails?

Yet, achieving balance between your personal and professional life can lead you to much more success than you dreamed possible.  People that live balanced lives are more efficient at work, better communicators, and better leaders.

These people also experience much lower levels of anxiety and value relaxation time in their lives. They are aware of the importance of “re-charging” their batteries and the impact it has on their bottom line.

How are you experiencing life? Can you proudly say you have balance in your life?

If you are not completely happy with the way you are living your life and are ready to make changes,

See our available coaching programs:

1. Executive Coaching Programs
2. Lawyer Coaching Programs
3. Business Owner Coaching Programs

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!

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