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How You can Benefit from Using a Personal Life Coach

By: Jeanette Meierhofer

If you're ready to knock twenty years off your learning curve as a human being, then you're ready to hire a Personal Life Coach. Growing up we aren't really taught much about our own personal growth and development, which are vital to learn about if we are to enjoy life fully. A little assisted self discovery work now and again is the key to your success.
There are a ton of positive outcomes to working with a personal life coach: from learning self forgiveness, to holding yourself accountable to creating your own life, to learning to just be. The bottom line is you'll be put back in charge of YOU!
There is no end to what a Personal Life Coach can help you with. In addition to the usual weight loss goals or dating goals, I've had clients want help in learning to love themselves, in learning to embrace where they are in life and even in discovering how to make the most of their time at home after major surgery.
My favorite result of personal life coaching is the client being able to listen to their own heart, to their own instincts and learning to act on them. Most people are raised to believe that what the majority thinks or feels is right; we take the advice other people give us; we do what we think will make other people happy. This is a recipe for a slow emotional death, one that erodes your confidence and self respect.
The answers lie inside you. Sometimes they are hard to find. A personal life coach is trained to ask the questions that get you digging until you find your solutions. They are in there. It's a great resource to have someone who will ask you questions to get things flowing. Don't bother with trying to coach yourself, it is like doing two jobs at once. Let all of your energy go into finding the answers, leave the questions to the professionals!
My job as a Personal Life Coach is essentially to work myself out of a job. By the time you've completed your goals, you've gathered so many tools and insights that you're able to handle any other situation that comes up in your life with confidence and strength.
Hiring a Personal Life Coach is like hiring a cheerleading squad: you immediately have someone on your side, who believes you can do it (even when you don't), and you have someone who will see you through to the finish line. Your best self is waiting for you: let a life coach help you claim it once and for all!
It's true there is no owner's manual for life; if there was, we'd each have a different version of it. Working with a Personal Life Coach can help you discover what your manual contains.

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About the author: Jeanette Meierhofer, CFLC, is a Personal Coach. She offers free self improvement advice in her mini course on The 6 Mistakes People Make in the Self Help World.

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