Seven Steps to Setting Up Your Practice for Success!
New coaches often begin offering free sessions to establish their name and competence in their quest to become known, trusted and sought after. This is key to sustainable success, which eventually allows a coach to charge more for their services in the long-term.
This approach can sometimes be slow to...
Grow Your Coaching Practice With A Mindset Of Abundance!
Are you working towards and trusting what you desire will transpire, such as a thriving practice, a balanced lifestyle or a healthy income? Do you remain generally optimistic, even when you’re experiencing challenge when striving to achieve your goals? And do you have an abundance or a scarcity mindset in relation to your personal and professional lives?
An abundance mindset means you are generally optimistic - even in the most challenging of times. There's a belief you will 'land...
Want To Work As A Coach In The Corporate World?
Establishing yourself as a coach in the corporate world means being able to share how you do or can create value through your work in organisations. Jarek Michalski, who has many years of...
Using Metaphors to Enable the Unconscious to Become Conscious
The saying “Words Create Worlds” illustrates the importance of language choice in representing an individual’s opportunities or challenges they may be experiencing, whether it be at the conscious or subconscious level. And our role as a coach is to support clients to create greater conscious awareness of their current reality and open up new perspectives, and therefore more and new choices to move forward.
Metaphors are words, phrases, pictures, or gestures often...
Empowering Coaching Clients With Challenging Questions
Do you find your coaching conversations are too comfortable for your client?
Are you getting a sense you’re not stretching your clients to create meaningful breakthroughs?
Do you notice you hold yourself back from asking challenging questions?
Our role as coaches is to stretch our clients to move out of their comfort zone in relation to their goals. Clients will often come to a coach because they don’t know how to reach a goal, or they know how to achieve the goal, but something is...
Living Life Purposefully With Courage
What does vulnerability mean to you?
Do you associate it with fear, imperfection, criticism, loss or betrayal? Often those are those thoughts, emotions, habits come up when we allow ourself to vulnerable: to say something, do something or be someone visible to the world.
For far too long society has taught us vulnerability is weakness and something to be hidden from others. And as a consequence, too many of us erect barriers around us, afraid to take chances, to put ourselves out there for the...
Life Rewards Action!
Do you over-plan your life and dreams?
Do you worry about failing even before you begin?
Do you lose so much time waiting for the perfect opportunity that you don’t really get started?
The truth is that in order to achieve your dreams you must step out of your comfort zone and take action. In the end, it is results that matter. As Dr. Phil McGraw said, “Life rewards action. Until your knowledge, awareness, insights and understandings are translated into action, they are of no...
Why Letting Go Of Perfectionism Is Key To Fulfillment
But in reality, the pursuit of perfectionism could hold us back and get in the way of achieving what we truly want. Below are a number of reasons to support letting go of doing things 'perfectly.'
Perfectionism can lead to delays and regret
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Balance Between Structure and Flow In a Coaching Conversation
Or do you notice you are going 'off course' and perhaps not serving the client as powerfully as you could?
When we as coaches, or leaders who coach, focus on following the models we've been taught, we often lose out on being in the moment with...
Coaching Principles for Living a Wholehearted Life
Coaching teaches us how to communicate with others and ourselves: how to create rapport, how to develop a mindset of non-judgmental curiosity, and how to challenge with courage and respect.
All these principles can be applied to our every day lives. As coaches we can become adept at...