Finding a successful life coach is a journey toward discovering the perfect match for your personal growth and success. It's about connecting with someone who can empower you, guide you, and help you unlock your fullest potential. Each step you take brings you closer to finding that mentor who will support and inspire you along your path. Trust in the process, and embrace the exciting opportunity to transform your life for the better.
How Do You Pick a Life Coach?
Choosing the right life coach for you impacts the outcomes of your journey. Here are some life coaching tips to help you pick the right life coach:
1). Define Your Goals: Clarify what you hope to achieve through coaching. Communicate where you want to be in life and how you could use the help to get you there. Knowing your objectives will help you find a coach who specializes in your area of focus.
2). Compatibility: Schedule initial consultations with potential coaches. Use this opportunity to learn about the practice you are inquiring about and assess coaching styles, and whether you feel comfortable and understood during the interaction. Valiance, for example, has a small, professional, comforting and private team of life coaches where each member has a unique and highly valued style.
3). Ask Relevant Questions: Ask specific questions tailored to your goals to gauge their ability to help you achieve them.
4). Trust Your Instincts: Ultimately, choose a coach with whom you feel confident in their ability to support your growth journey.
What is the Average Cost for a Life Coach?
Understanding the financial aspect of life coaching sets the expectation for investment in personal development. The average cost for a life coach can vary widely depending on several factors, such as the coach's experience, expertise, location, and the specific services offered. Generally, you can expect to invest anywhere from $75 to $300 per session. At Valiance, our life coaches are priced fairly, averaging in the $200/hr range, particularly given that our team of successful life coaches also have competence as psychotherapists as well.
Is it Worth to Pay for a Life Coach?
Yes, it is not a cost but an investment. The value of investing in a life coach extends far beyond the financial commitment. Below are reasons why paying for a life coach is worth the investment:
Accountability Partner: Coaches are supportive accountability partners, helping you stay focused and committed to your objectives. Accountability keeps you on track and good coaches want to see you stay on track.
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Our team makes it a priority to establish strong relationships that can blossom into clients moving from RESISTING accountability, to WANTING accountability. We text, call, and email with our clients throughout the week to ensure they are moving towards their goals. Additionally, we break goals down into bite size chunks, making it easy to accumulate fast & easy “wins”, all while keeping forward momentum.
Overcoming obstacles: Life coaching can provide actionable steps toward achieving your aspirations. Overcoming obstacles takes motivation and coaching can help you get, and stay, motivated.
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Everyone is motivated, it’s just a matter of finding what makes people tick. Oftentimes people know WHAT to do, they just have trouble doing it. Our private life coaches emphasize the purpose and meaning behind taking action, versus the result of the action itself. ie: we will de-emphasizes the importance of a test or exam grade in favor of prioritizing the client’s ability to feel proud in their preparation.
Confidence: A skilled coach empowers you with tools that foster self-awareness, resilience, and personal growth. Confidence flourishes when you believe in yourself and what you are striving to become.
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We believe that confidence comes from knowing that “your best is enough”. As private life coaches, we’re always refocusing clients to focus on the outcomes they can control, which, for better or worse, usually is not much more than their effort and their attitude. We find that when people focus LESS on results, and more about HOW they go about achieving their goals, confidence comes as a byproduct.
Long-term Benefits: The skills and insights gained from coaching are applicable across various aspects of life, contributing to sustained personal and professional development. The long-term benefits provide life satisfaction across numerous domains of life.
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Successful life coaches know that we’re watering seeds for future growth when we work with our clients to overcome challenges. For a client to come away from their experience with us knowing that they can make changes and be sound decision makers both now, and in the future, is a gift. To be a part of building this ability is a gift to us too, and we consider it a privilege to be a part of that journey.
How Do I Find a Mentor or Life Coach?
Finding a private life coach can turn your life around. It is a transformative process that can all start from several ways of researching to connect with a mentor that best suits you. One way to find a mentor is through online research. Use online platforms and directories dedicated to coaching services. Keywords such as "find a life coach online" can lead you to comprehensive databases where you can explore profiles of various coaches. If you’re reading this, you’ve found us!
We believe we’re offering a rare opportunity to work with a trained mental health provider AND high performing life coach. Each team member at Valiance is well versed in the field of high performance and/or of coaching themselves. By blending these experiences with a professional mental health training, we’re able to guide and nurture growth better than your average therapist and more robustly than your average personal trainer.
What to Look For in a Life Coach?
When starting to begin your journey, look for unique traits that are most beneficial to you. You may consider looking for a coach who has relevant experience and expertise in the areas you are seeking growth. A valuable trait that is meaningful throughout the journey is the mentor-mentee relationship. Effective communication is essential for building a connection that is centered on trust and active listening. Look for a coach that is communicating effectively and you feel most connected with. Within this relationship, compassion is essential for demonstrating empathy and understanding. A coach's understanding of your challenges and empathy toward creating a supportive environment is the key to growth. Each coach has a style that is unique to them in their approach. Techniques and methods vary among coaches, choose a coach whose methods and style are most valuable to you.
Things to Work on with a Life Coach
Coaching sessions focus on addressing a wide range of personal and professional challenges. A life coach can work on any challenge you’re facing across all facets of life. To start, the main objective is to usually drill down in setting a target to aim for.
Life Coach Advice: Use S.M.A.R.T goals!
When developing goals, use smart goals…specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and timebound. Most people frame goals loosely, or forget that while they feel motivated to achieve big goals, it’s not realistic for where they are in their lives. When you partner with us, we can help you narrow down your SMART goals and help you achieve them!
An action plan can be created to clarify what goals to prioritize. Once the goals are set, committing to the necessary actions gets you closer to accomplishing the goal in place. A successful life coach guides you through how to approach and keep a commitment to these actions to help you succeed.
Life coaches can also assist with your career development as well. Within career development, a life coach works together with you to support you in navigating career transitions and managing career stress. Successful life coaches may also challenge you to improve in the workplace and enhance your leadership skills/roles from the skills you’ve gained .
Another aspect of life that can be improved on by working with a life coach is personal growth and life balance. Personal conflicts in areas such as relationships, substance abuse, finances, and mental health are all troubles that people can face at any stage of life or struggle with on a day-to-day basis. In these cases, a private life coach can be quite helpful in offering you an objective view on how to get things back on track. By being both deeply understanding and, yet, demanding, a successful life coach can shine a helpful light on the areas of your life that have been neglected and now need attention.
Fundamentally, successful life coaches believe that there is always room for growth among all regions of your life if you want to become the best version of you. If that sounds like you, finding a private life coach at Valiance can make all the difference!
Life Coaching Advice:
Commitment to Growth: Embrace a growth mindset and be open to exploring new perspectives and strategies suggested by your life coach. Follow through with your coaching plan being sure to commit to each step. Actions are louder than words, so be sure to attack your goals with real action, not just lip service. Acting on your words shows commitment, reliability, and determination to follow through on your words. These actions will have a meaningful impact on the success of the journey.
Be an Engaged Learner: Actively engage in coaching sessions by sharing insights, asking questions, and implementing action steps between sessions. Be motivated to take the actions necessary to become the best version of yourself, but also don’t be shy to tell the truth if you’re having trouble and need to adjust goals with your life coach.
Honesty: Be honest with yourself and your coach about your challenges, aspirations, and progress. Be honest with what you really want out of your experience and for your goals. The coaching journey is a space to be open and vulnerable and vulnerability is the greatest tool in healing and growth.
Patience and Persistence: Realize that personal growth is a continuous process that requires patience, persistence, and resilience. Results are not immediate. Give yourself time and persistently work on your goals to accomplish them.
Celebrate Milestones: Acknowledge and celebrate achievements, no matter how small, to maintain motivation and reflect on your progress. Allow yourself to feel good about the achievements you've made throughout the journey.
Questions to Ask Your Coach
What is your coaching experience and background?
Can you describe a successful coaching experience with a client similar to me?
What coaching methods or techniques do you typically use?
How do you establish goals and measure progress during coaching?
What is your availability?
What are your fees?
What motivates you to be a life coach?
What can I expect from our coaching sessions?
Conclusion
It all starts with truly wanting to reach your full potential. The decision to invest in a life coach is a powerful commitment to your personal and professional development. Be mindful in selecting a life coach aligned with your goals and values, and actively engage in the coaching process. At Valiance, we believe that you can unlock your full potential and achieve transformative results in various aspects of your life. Trust in the process, embrace the journey and seize the opportunity to create positive change. We’re here to help you.
Onwards and upwards!
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