7 Reasons A Life Coach Can Improve Your Mindset
Can A Life Coach Help You Change Your Mindset?
What do I mean about mindset, and why does it matter? This article covers one of the most powerful keys to unlocking your potential, and ultimately your success; your mindset. In short, your mindset is how you view yourself, your surroundings, your opportunities, and your attitude.
What if you could control the trajectory of everything you do? Mastering your mindset can unleash a whole new world you never knew existed.
As a life coach in Grand Rapids, MI I help people gain mindset mastery. Mastering a mindset involves mastering your beliefs.
A life coach is also a personal coach and a confidence coach. A good life coach helps you attain the overall lifestyle you desire to live. How does it work? Read on, my friend.
Mindset Mastery
A life coach helps you master mindset. Your mindset is one of the most powerful things you have in your arsenal for becoming great, reaching potential, and feeling joyful.
Our minds are impressionable early on, and experiences build our beliefs. Many people cannot determine which beliefs are real and align with their values.
A personal life coach can challenge beliefs in such a way that helps people reframe their thinking. This reshaping brings false beliefs or beliefs that are not true to what we believe out into the light.
Gaining Mastery over your beliefs is extremely powerful because our beliefs can either hold us back or propel us forward.
2. Keeping The Focus
Have you ever tried to tell yourself that you will start something new but forget about it? Perhaps you stuck with it for a while but eventually abandoned it.
A life coach will help you stay on track with your goals and help you make significant progress on them.
One of the things that I do as a life coach is keeping detailed notes. By keeping notes on the goals that my clients have, I help them keep those goals at the forefront of their minds. These notes, paired with a frequent meeting schedule, help keep your goals in focus. Working with a coach has proven to be the difference in goal achievement and goal abandonment with several clients I have worked with.
3. Life Coach; Life Balance
One of the things that people overlook when working with a coach is how a personal coach can offer balance in one's life. Achieving life goals can be hard. People often believe that the goal they are striving for is easier to achieve than what is possible, based on the person's skill set, habits, and other factors.
High achieving people typically forget about doing things that bring them pleasure and joy. They instead focus all of their time, energy, and attention on the things that will get them to a place of self-satisfaction. It is easy to forget that the journey is where the growth is and that joy makes it worthwhile.
Low achieving people are the exact opposite. They focus their time and attention on the things that bring them immediate gratification but little else that will help improve their lives or circumstances.
Balance is ensuring you are not going too far in one direction. Having the perspective of a life coach in this area is a huge benefit.
4. Coaching On Proper Expectations
Challenges happen along any path to improvement. However, when you are excited about the changes coming your way, it can be difficult to expect those challenges. High performers set high expectations of themselves. When challenges come along and slow the progress toward a goal, frustration and disappointment can set in.
We, as humans, are extremely hard on ourselves. When we are not succeeding at things that we perceive to be easy or within our realm of competency, we get discouraged. We begin to wonder if we shouldn't be trying in the first place.
These negative story loops are extremely damaging to your mindset. In these cases, the life coach's goal is to bring confidence and reality to each plan.
No one can go from just starting to leading the industry overnight. All goals need to be realistic and broken down into small steps. Additionally, people need to be comfortable with failing forward.
Through failure, we learn and grow. Your life coach is the catalyst that ensures you stay on track and optimistic about the journey.
In truth, if everyone's expectations aligned with the journey, we would all probably make progress a lot more enjoyable and attainable.
5. A Life Coach Builds Self-Awareness
News flash! We are all different! We all need something different.
What works for your best friend or colleague might not work for you.
At first, very few of the clients I work with are thinking about what works for them. However, it is always a topic of many conversations as they try and fail.
Your process, once discovered, will unlock how you can discover who you are and how you work to achieve anything you truly want.
For example, If you know that you are the type of person who likes to please others:
You can learn to leverage this personal trait to help you achieve great things. Especially in a position that is service-oriented (such as leadership and coaching) desiring to please others is an important part of the passion that sets you apart from others. Tapping into that passion turns your success into joy, as opposed to succeeding in my means of obligation.
You will know that others will figure that out and attempt to (intentionally or otherwise) take advantage of that desire to please. A keen self-awareness will safeguard you from investing in others that have no intention of providing you any value.
I like to please others. Because I know this about myself, I try to help my loved ones leverage this about me for their needs to help ensure I am a good son, brother, husband, and friend.
6. A Life Coach Helps You Find Joy
People get so lost in the expectations that they place upon themselves and that others have over them that they lose sight of joy. A lack of joy leads to becoming depressed, resentful, and negative.
Suppose you find yourself frustrated with your life but can't figure out why this could be you. Especially if you are a high achiever who has accomplished many great things (Good job, a loving family, a lovely home, etc.)
What's crazy is that Joy can be found easily in many cases. Watching your child sleep or being able to spend evenings with a close friend or loved one could be enough, provided we are looking to see it that way. The problem is that the daily stresses bog down our conscious minds, and it takes work and effort to consciously feel gratitude for what we have. In some cases, people need to make time for the activities they truly enjoy.
7. Life Coach Provides Accountability
Too often, accountability gets a negative connotation Accountability is simply the process of taking account of our actions and activities in the context of what could be more beneficial, productive, or helpful.
Accountability is less about making someone feel bad about what they didn't do and more about making people own what occurred and learn from what didn't work.
Many people see accountability as bad and avoid taking responsibility for what could be adjusted. When behavior and actions that produce an unwanted result are ignored, we also lose the lesson from these results.
The key to understanding here is that no one is perfect. No one does anything perfectly. All anyone needs to do is try and hold themselves to the following:
1) Their level of effort.
2) Learning from the outcomes of this effort.
When accountability is done correctly, people feel empowered. When done incorrectly, they feel worthless.
In my research of the most successful people in the world, both past, and present, I find that the best of the best work with a coach...do you?
If not, that's ok. A life coach isn't that hard to find. You will get a lot of results if you search for “coaches near me”. The key is to find someone who will invest themselves in what you are trying to achieve and have the knowledge to guide you toward your goals in an effective way. If you enjoyed the insights you have read, shoot me a message or click here to schedule, and I can help you reach your potential. Michael Freeman Coaching focuses on several specific areas that we have expertise in. If you need another type of coach, I will gladly direct you to someone or something that can get you on the right path Either way, I look forward to hearing from you.
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