What is Life Coaching?

If you were to stop 100 people in the street and ask them what life is, you would probably get some strange looks, but I would imagine everybody would be able to give you an answer of some description.
If you had too much time on your hands and you were to follow that up by asking them if they knew what a coach was, again most would be able to give you a satisfactory answer.
So why do you think it is, that if you stopped 100 people and asked them to explain what Life Coaching is you would get more blank stares than if you asked the way to the gym at a Star Trek convention?
You cannot get too many more obvious words than,  ‘Life’ and ‘Coach’,  but when you put the two together it often throws most people into a state of complete confusion.
Which is why every Life Coach is destined to hear uninformed comments from people such as, “I don’t need anybody to tell me what to do with my life”.
To which I always reply, “excellent, because I have no desire to tell you what you to do with your life”.
I think there are a number of reasons for this, not least of which is that there is no specific standardized universally accepted role for Life Coaching.
Life Coaching – Make It Up As You Go Along
Every Life Coach is free to make up the rules as he goes along if he so wishes. And trust me, some do.
Not only that, but Life Coaching is unregulated and likely to stay so because of the complexity of enforcing regulation.
If legislation were introduced for L...

Source: Life Coach Blog: The Discomfort Zone : - February 25, 2014 Category: Life Coaches Authors: Tim Brownson Tags: Life Coaching Source Type: blogs