Life coaching may involve one or more of the many possible aspects of life. Whether with a personal or professional focus, this program’s extremely flexible design stems absolutely from the client and is fashioned solely by the client’s agenda on any scheduled day of a session.

What is life coaching?

Life coaching is a vehicle for optimizing your potential, renewing your energy, and enabling you to create the time and space to live the life you have always wanted. Life coaching is focused on evaluating the present and reshaping it for a desired future. The past will stay in the past. Rather than analyzing problems and what caused them, life coaching is about finding solutions. It puts you in charge of discovering and creating the future you want, allowing you to transform your personal and/or professional life into one of balance. As a result, you feel self confident, optimistic and motivated about life and your chosen future.

A Life Coach works in partnership with you to help you create and then realize your desired life plan. Since you are the foremost expert on your own life, your input, honesty and commitment are vital for a successful outcome. The Life Coach, as an expert in coaching, will serve to guide you on the path to fulfill your dream.

Who would benefit from life coaching?
Just about any one could benefit from life coaching, including those wishing to:

• Identify and clarify life values
• Develop a results driven action plan
• Receive support in making those changes necessary to achieve desired goals
• Sharpen skills, attitude and increase confidence
• Eliminate self-limiting behaviors that slow or halt the mechanisms for success
• Maximize potential in personal and/or professional life
• Take responsibility for follow-through on declarations made for desired life plan
• Enjoy a more satisfying personal and/or professional life
• Create a balanced, harmonious life

What can you expect from working with a Life Coach?

A life coach will help you to determine and make clear your life values and goals. Together you discover the essence of whom you are and who you want to become. When you are struggling with self-limiting beliefs such as procrastination, resistance to change or fear of success, your coach will provide insight and encouragement. Your coach is committed to helping you remain focused and on track and will also challenge you to become the successful person you know you can be. As you achieve your goals, your coach will help you evaluate, acknowledge and celebrate your success.

Your life coach will work with you to strengthen the foundations of your life, helping to set up supportive systems, resources and networks. This is an essential part in developing your action plan for change. Your commitment to open, honest communication with your coach can yield a balanced, vibrant, happy life.

Partnering with the right coach will unquestionably improve your life! A successful coach/client alliance provides discovery, enlightenment and direction on the path to the future you have selected. A life coach can help you find the right career, make ready for healthy relationships, start a new businesses, create a healthy lifestyle or tackle any of the many aspects of life.

Do you need life coaching?
Here are a few reasons individuals seek the assistance of a Life Coach:

• Do you feel overwhelmed?
• Are you stuck in a life rut?
• Are you neglecting yourself, your family, and/or your work?
• Do you feel the stress of too many conflicting forces?
• Do you just react to life versus creating the life you want?

Your life coach will help you break out of self-defeating behaviors instead of allowing the continuance of a purely reactive mode; set and achieve proactive goals and reward you for doing so! Your life coach will unleash you that you may accomplish more than you thought possible!

How does the program work?

I Information Gathering

You provide background information through a thought-provoking written questionnaire and orally during the first coaching discovery session. This ensures that your coach is well informed on your key issues, desired outcomes and agenda. You confirm that you are ready to make changes, discuss a personal vision and set priorities and realistic goals for the next 3 months. You agree to define and accomplish 3-5 interim goals, or small steps, toward the larger 3-month goal during the following week.

II Motivation & Strategy

Together we perform a comprehensive assessment of your present state of being, acknowledging what your desired state would look like. Together, you and the coach formulate achievable objectives that can be measured and assessed. Only by understanding your needs and desires will this partnership forward the achievement of your goals. The coach will help you seek inspiration from within and identify inner resources, providing tools invaluable during this program and after. You develop a strategy for the future which empowers you to activate change.

In effect, you will have a comprehensive self-designed program tailored to your individual needs, desired outcomes and schedule along with personal goals (both short and long term) related to your focus in the coaching program.

III The Journey

In each subsequent coaching session, scheduled three times a month or as needed, you and your coach review the progress made toward the previous week's goals and either proceed to something new or develop a solution to overcome an obstacle. You then agree on a set of goals for the following week.

After a few weeks of coaching sessions, you should begin to notice improvements in your motivation as you begin to advance more strongly in the direction of your goals. As the coaching process develops the coach works with the client to develop innovative solutions for overcoming any roadblocks on the path to success maintaining a steadfast pace toward the client's desired outcomes.

IV Reflection and Beyond

At the end of 3 months, most clients have accomplished more than 70% of their 3-month goals. They are energized and confident about committing to further life improvements. If you are seriously ready to improve your life and are prepared to make the commitment for change, then you are ready to experience this program that will transform how you see yourself and the world around you. Why not live the dream?

Who do you contact?

Contact Baraka Institute and begin on your path to a more rewarding life. What could be better than living the life you want?

Phone: 503-241-2200 or Email Us