What Exactly is Life/Personal Coaching?

In short, personal coaching is an ongoing, collaborative, results-oriented partnership between coach and client that is designed to support individuals in getting from where they are currently to where they desire to be. Because the focus of the coaching relationship is on moving forward, not dwelling on the past, people hire coaches at every stage of their lives – whether they are making a career transition, starting a new business, re-evaluating choices, clarifying values, or simply seeking to create more harmony in their personal or professional relationships.

It’s easy to get distracted in the day-to-day details of our lives, and to allow a foiled plan or even a bad day to bring our forward momentum to a halt. In times like these, having a coach is invaluable, because he or she will both literally and figuratively – call for a much-needed time out. A weekly coaching session provides an opportunity
to remember the big picture; to reconnect with our external goals, and to become more mindful of the inner resources we have already amassed to help us realize them. In the absence of this degree of deliberate attention to the future we are committed to move toward, most of us will default to feelings, beliefs and perspectives we’ve accumulated from our past. And when we allow the past, rather than the future, to inform our choices in the present, we manifest the same predictable results – and the same predictable problems – time and time again.

The gap between our current reality and the reality we desire always comes back to what we believe is and is not possible. And a belief is just a thought that we’ve allowed ourselves to think over and over again. Eventually it becomes imprinted in the subconscious mind like a groove worn in a well-traveled road. Many of us hold very limiting and disempowering beliefs about ourselves – not because they are true, but because this way of thinking is simply what we’ve become accustomed to. A good coach is one who can guide us to suspend outworn perspectives and self-sabotaging beliefs long enough to catch a glimpse of a new reality. Working with a coach gives you access to a reliable technology for identifying the future you desire, and then consciously allowing that future to guide and inform the choices you make, the thoughts you think –
and most importantly, the way you feel – in the present. As you start cultivating beliefs and taking actions that are consistent with the future you want to live into, you
will literally become lit up by possibilities that were always there, but blocked from your previous field of vision.

A coach brings to the table a perspective that can only be seen from a neutral vantage point, which gives clients greater access to their own resources and insights. As a direct result of this powerful alliance, clients report numerous benefits, including:

• Taking more action than they would on their own
• Regarding themselves with greater respect
• An increase of self-confidence and self-esteem
• Generating momentum and consistency
• Experiencing greater clarity and focus
• Feeling more balanced within themselves, and less reactive to external forces
• Producing results in the areas of life that really matter – more money, improved relationships, etc.

Lastly, it’s important to understand that a life coach is not to be confused with a friend that we seek out to “vent” about our problems. Coaches are professionals not unlike physicians, attorneys, or psychologists – who are trained in a particular skillset that they utilize to empower their clients to create solutions to the challenges they face. Which of these skills they apply is determined by each unique client and situation. Sometimes a coach serves as a consultant and at other times a cheerleader; but no matter what role they take, it is always with the intention of helping clients to more clearly define their desires, recognize what’s holding them back, and move forward with greater momentum and confidence.

For your best experience in Life Coaching, Personal Development and Relationship Coaching in Pakistan or from anywhere in the world with internet access, start your journey by booking your first (free) Discovery Session with Coach Shuja Ch. You are just a step away from your life Transformation,