Education, study and knowledge

Life Coaching: the secret to achieve your goals

click fraud protection

Life Coaching is a methodology that pursues maximum personal development and the transformation of people and, for this, generates changes in perspective and increases their motivation, commitment and responsibility.

As an accompaniment to change, it allows the understanding and learning of this process, and promotes the modification of cognitive habits, emotional and behavioral, helping in the expansion of one's own potential and capacity for action regarding the acquisition of goals personal.

Discovering Life Coaching

Life Coaching pursues the well-being of people in different areas of life, for which the mission works personal, individual goals and needs, life projects, self-motivation, different strategies for change, etc.

This week, Mª Teresa Mata, psychologist at the Mensalus Institute for Psychological and Psychiatric Assistance, presents Life Coaching based on a parallel with sport.

Is a sports training the same as a personal resource training?

We train with the purpose of improving our physical and mental performance. For example, in terms of sport, we do training to beat a mark since we associate success with preparation (“I have gone out for a run three times a week to to be able to participate in the race ”,“ the coach is pushing us to qualify and go to the championships ”,“ I swim for half an hour to increase muscle tone in my arms and back ”, etc.).

instagram story viewer

This success is different for each of us depending on the objective and the requirement (for one, success is finishing the race; for another it means getting on the podium and being in the top three). Even so, there will always be a routine behind each goal, either to find time or to maintain a state of well-being. body-mind (“I train to do the marathon in less than three and a half hours” / “I train to keep my back strong and not have inconvenience").

The same is true of personal resources. If our desire is to improve "X" aspect (for example, stop interacting at work from a passive communicative style) it may be It is helpful to seek some type of training that provides us with the tools we seek to achieve our goal (to be more assertive).

Now, in life as in sport, this does not happen overnight. Integrating learning from practice and repetition allows us to see ourselves in new testaments and feel different. When our perception of ourselves changes, the way we relate to each other changes.

How can we train personal resources?

The training, in part, is already provided by the life experience itself. School is training, work is training, leisure time is training, Family reunions are training, moments of solitude are also training. etc. Every time we live an experience we obtain a learning that prepares us for the next moment. All moments are useful information; Whether we have a better or a worse time, we get something from them.

Still, we don't always find the resources we want in our daily routine. Some specific objectives may require extra learning. For example, continuing with the situation (stop being passive at work), this extra learning could be done through a group workshop or an individual process of coaching aimed at increasing capacity by setting limits and saying no.

More specifically, what kind of work are we talking about?

In this case, training with a professional would help the person to relax those thoughts / beliefs that make it difficult for them to be assertive, increase the ability to express their opinion at different times and with different colleagues, improve the self-critical voice that detracts value and confidence from their person, increase awareness of their own strengths, etc.

Is coaching only associated with skills training in the workplace?

Coaching is a discipline that brings us closer to achieving objectives that allow development in different areas of our life, not only professionally. It is true that the word coaching is especially associated with the training of competencies related to leadership and team management, but coaching is much more.

Specifically, Life Coaching focuses on training skills to face daily life, it is that is, to improve the management we have over our emotions and become more efficient people. For this reason, the famous emotional intelligence trainings (also considered coaching processes) have become valuable life trainings. The “lessons” that each one draws from the dynamics experienced are transformed into slogans for living rather than surviving.

And what type of audience does a skills training or coaching process?

Life Coaching is especially indicated for those people who are stable emotionally and in good mental health but at the same time wanting to improve some vital aspect.

Many times the change that the person seeks goes hand in hand with leaving certain comfort zones (not as comfortable as they seem). To achieve this, an external guide can mark the action plan; this someone is the life coach.

Sometimes we believe that we should be the ones who achieve the challenge, without the help of anyone. When this happens, are we making things difficult for ourselves?

There is a commonly held belief that responds to the following: “If I get it without any help, it has more value. I just have to be able to ”.

The question is why?

Do the resources we apply and / or acquire cease to be ours? Does success cease to be ours? Making things easier for ourselves helps us invest our vital energy in what we decide instead of wasting it in the attempt.

And what kinds of tasks does this guide that we call life skills coach carry out?

The coach accompanies the person already committed to her goal.

Coaching is a process that seeks to overcome some exact aspect. This is why achieving the goal is so important. In fact, this is one of the great secrets of the good coach: breaking down the objective until it becomes quantifiable and highly specific. People who start a Life Coaching process are surprised when they arrive at a first session and, with the help of the psychologist coach, they shape the reason for consultation with which they come.

That said, the coach has the function of accompanying, insisting on the process of reflection and introspection of the individual. It is essential that the person asks himself new questions: untried solutions, new ways of doing and undoing.

Why is it so important that the person is already committed to her goal? It is always so?

Otherwise, it is impossible to start a coaching process. This does not mean, as we mentioned, that the person knows exactly what objective he wants to work on. There is an idea and a need, but the goal is not drawn in detail (so seek help).

This first step of concretizing provides the coachee (client) with the main clues as to what aspects will work and what map will follow, steps that, together with the coach, will decide and review throughout the training.

What's more, commitment is so important that coach and coachee close the pact in a written document that, symbolically, reminds the protagonist of her role, an active role that, with the help of the coach, will work to assume the objective.

  • If you are interested in improving your well-being and want to benefit from the practice of Life Coaching, we invite you to reports without any commitment from the Life Coaching Workshop: "Where are you and where do you want to go" from Instituto Mensalus (Barcelona). To do this, you only have to click on this link.
Teachs.ru

Happiness coaching: what it is and what goals it sets

Happiness coaching is specific training to teach people to be happy, acquiring a repertoire of re...

Read more

What you are missing by staying in your comfort zone

What you are missing by staying in your comfort zone

Although his name is not the most suitable representation, the comfort zone it is one of the grea...

Read more

The 7 best coaching courses in Madrid

The 7 best coaching courses in Madrid

Coaching is a field of work that broadens the scope of work of what has traditionally been psycho...

Read more

instagram viewer