10 Things to Expect from Coaching
Would you like to…
- Be heard
- Feel encouraged
- Have supported
- Brainstorm creative solutions with someone
- Focus
- Dedicate uninterrupted time for YOU
- Be understood
- Be respected
- Have confidentiality
- Be treated with compassion
If “YES!” is the resounding answer, then read on. Coaching may be just what you need to help you achieve your goals and engineer visionary change to achieve peace and fulfillment.
Athletic coach
Think for a minute you find yourself wanting to be a highly winning, ribbon-adorning horseback riding champion. However, presently you have no idea how to even mount a horse. Yet you dream to smile and wave to cheering friends, family, and little girls who aspire to be just like you some day. You imagine yourself, proudly holding a beautiful bouquet of your favorite pale pink peony flowers, a new rose gold 28 mm Date-Just Rolex, and all your blue ribbons standing in victory. Philippe— who’s namesake is of course Belle’s horse from your childhood favorite Disney movie Beauty and the Beast— is next to you lovingly nudging your shoulder.
To make this dream a reality, you research and meet with successful horse riding instructors until you find one with proven success. After speaking with this coach, you are convinced her knowledge can help you achieve your dream. Subsequently, you sign up for weekly lessons and begin working with your trainer to prepare for your first competition. You mark gleefully on your calendar, the competition day as YOUR day of triumph.
Personal trainer
Or maybe horseback riding isn’t your thing and instead you want to fit into those “dream jeans.” You love those jeans but have been unable to zip them up in years. So you find a personal trainer and a nutritionist to help you change your daily habits and turn you into a smaller, better version of you who can finally zip up those pants!
Hair stylist
Maybe you just want to cover the pesky, telltale certain signs you are seasoned with knowledge, sprouting from your brilliant brain. You are capable of using grocery-store dye kits and DIY root repair, but instead you go see a professional trained and licensed to do this for a living because when you partner with them, you are looking and feeling your best, beautiful self.
Professional coaching
So what does professional coaching have to do with athletic coaches, personal trainers, or hair stylists? A coach is similar to these other professionals who help partner with you to encourage you and support you in executing a plan to achieve your goals and keep you as the best version of you possible. Coaching professionals draw from their own training, knowledge, and experiences. More often than not, the area they are coaching in is a personal passion of theirs also.
Coaching is a luxury—you don’t need a coach to survive. However, please consider this question regarding your heart’s greatest desire:
“Are you achieving what is
on your heart
successfully
on your own?”
A coach, like me, can help you focus on your goals and achieve them faster than you would be able to on your own. Coaching really is a “Better Together” experience; cue Jack Johnson’s song!
I have always had a deeply embedded passion to help my friends with their struggles but I needed to experience more of life to actually be able to help them. This isn’t a role I could have successfully done straight out of college like engineering was. I am a mother, engineer, encourager, and overcomer of many seemingly impossible circumstances. I would love to discuss with you how my experiences (including all the therapists, lawyers, personal trainers, professional development classes, career workshops, self-help books, and trial-and-error…) can be leveraged to help you achieve your heart’s desires!
If you want a coach to help you, a professional women overwhelmed with competing priorities, engineer visionary change to achieve peace and fulfillment, I would love to be your coach! Select a time convenient for you to discuss what your personal goals are and begin living your best life today!