Healing Journeys with Suzie Daggett
Have you ever had a time in your life when you felt you were not living up to your potential? When you needed to change a relationship, career, belief structure, or your family life? Where you needed someone to listen to you, guide you and give you tools to regain your sense of self? Life coaching is one way to find solutions for guidance and direction. I asked several different life coaches to answer the following question – perhaps you will read something that tweaks your interest and motivates you to be the best you can be!
How does your approach to life coaching assist your clients?
Dr. Anne Richards
I will answer this with two metaphors: a personal trainer and your reflection in a mirror. Most of us are familiar with a personal trainer at the gym. Coaching, in general, is like a personal trainer for your whole life, not just your physical well-being. It is like a customized personal growth program that focuses on your learning, growth and goals. My approach to life coaching focuses on the client’s internal landscape of their life as a powerful way to make lasting and deeply fulfilling changes. Imagine looking at yourself in the mirror and seeing that you have a smudge on your face. How do you clean it? You don’t get a rag and wipe the mirror! Instead, you go to the real issue – you! Similarly, the circumstances of our lives (our job, relationship or body) is a vitally important feedback mechanism reflecting the more real you – your choices, desires, beliefs, expectations. If you want to lose weight or change your job or create an intimate relationship, we may talk about what you want (the reflection in the mirror) and, more importantly, why you are wanting it -the real you!. As your motivations become more aligned with your true purpose, the weight loss, new job or relationship become more available.
Dr. Anne Richards, InSite Coaching & Consulting, 530-432-5177.
Machen P. MacDonald
Anything is possible if you really want it and are willing to do whatever it takes to get it. Clients come to understand the world is not full of the "haves" and "have nots" but rather the "wills" and "will nots." It's actually simple to have, be or do whatever you want. There are only two problems that get in the way of having whatever you want for yourself. First, you know what you want but don't know how to get it; or second, you don't really know what you want. To conquer what's in either of those two buckets you must first identify your limiting beliefs. It is not who you think you are that holds you back…it is who you think you are not. Only then can you plan and execute with ease. Most of my clients thank me for believing in them and their vision 110% when their belief in themselves may have been a bit less optimistic. Clients feel coaching reminds them that regardless of their circumstances, they always have the power to choose the most healthy perspective from which to operate. They remember success is a state of mind not a state of affairs.
Machen P. MacDonald, CCPC, CCSC ProBrilliance Leadership
www.ProBrilliance.com, 530-273-8000
Janice Knight
Clients who are overwhelmed usually need to get clear about what is really important to them (thus we might explore personal values, priorities & differentiating “urgent” from “important”). Other approaches include skill building in setting boundaries, raising personal standards and learning to say “No”. We might brainstorm other perspectives (ways of looking at the situation) to come up with one that helps the client feel more in control. “Scattered” clients need help getting focused. Clarifying specifically what needs to get done, creating a doable and measurable action plan and providing structure and accountability. Clients who are “stuck” (know what they want but can’t get going) may have limiting beliefs that are holding them back or lack a compelling enough reason to move them forward. Creating & practicing empowering beliefs and/or disrupting past emotional triggers with a simple tapping technique (EFT) are often helpful. Helping the client, through exercises and questions, actually envision the future, and connecting this to their personal values, moves the client almost effortlessly into action. Bottom Line: Truth telling, directness, compassion and passion, plus a tool box of coaching tools, help my clients get the results they want.
Janice Knight, Certified Professional Co-Active Coach, Certified Dream Coach, YrCoach; www.yrcoach.com, 530-273-0700.
Craig Worthington
We are all born with certain capacities. Unfortunately, most of us believe our capacity is much less than it really is. I believe and know everyone has brilliance and greatness within. So, why aren’t we all achievers; because we have misinformed belief systems. Somewhere in our live’s we made “limiting decisions”. Decisions like, “I’m not smart enough”, or “I’m not as capable as others”. With beliefs like these, how can we ever reach our potential? By removing the “limiting decisions”, our energy can move us in our natural forward direction. We become powerful people whose positive energy brings people and their business into our circle because they want to be there. Limiting decisions are tied to fears. Fears generate emotion, and emotion locks us into reacting to circumstances rather that to objectively respond to them. Freedom from past fears allows us to remove the blinders to all the opportunity that surrounds us. Yes, we can manifest our destiny, and yes, we can have it all. Oh yeah and by the way, it is easy. The question has always been are we willing to invest in our most important asset, ourselves?
Craig Worthington, Life Choice Technologies,
www.lifechoicetech.com 916-532-1668
Healing Journeys is a column written by Suzie Daggett for the Grass Valley Union newspaper. Suzie interviews a variety of health practitioners most Fridays in the Wellness section. Click here to read past articles. Enter "Suzie Daggett" in the search box to get listing of all articles. |
