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Health & Wellness Coaching

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Over half of what impacts your wellness and health is your pesonal lifestyle choice. The way you live your life determines your level of health in life. Most of us have been diagnosed and treated for something, or have even had a health care provider tell us we need to change our “health behavior”: lose weight, take in less sugar, eat more fruits and vegetables, get more exercise, take natural supplements, etc.

We all start out with with good intentions, don’t we? “I will go on a diet.” “I will make only healthy eating choices.” “I will buy all natural supplements and taken them every day.” You know what I mean. But the reality is, most of us start out strong and it isn’t long before we’re right back to our old bad habits. The truth is, we need a little help sticking to the plan. Actually, if we’re really honest, most of us need help figuring out the plan in the first place!

Sure, there are tons of books, websites, DVD’s, and organizations out there for losing weight, eating healthier, exercising. We can hire a personal trainer to keep us motivated to exercise, or a nutritionist to keep us on the right eating track. But what most of us could really use is an accountability partner who will help us develop an overall health and wellness lifestyle plan – not just a diet or exercise routine. Then we need that person to hold our feet to the fire to motivate us stick to it and celebrate the victories.

Our physiological needs are basic level survival necessities for every human being: nutrition, movement, breathing. But beyond the basics, we need a sense of community, family, and self-sufficiency. We need to belong. We need to feel good about ourselves. When all of these things are in sync, we are experiencing a healthy lifestyle that will make our lives better.

So if you want to have a healthier lifestyle for the rest of your life, you need to discover your strengths, weaknesses, needs and wants, then put together a permanent lifestyle wellness plan that will be sustainable. A wellness coach can help you do just that. You will be amazed how well you will stick to your diet, how much more you will enjoy exercising, and how self-confidence you will have because you are working with someone who is helping you set goals and achieve your health and wellness dreams.

Filed Under: General Coaching, Health & Wellness

What’s is Relationship Coaching?

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The name sort of tells it all, doesn’t it? Relationship coaches work with clients – typically a couple or a family – to deal with what is often a very personal issue, or issues. Most relationship coaches and clients meet face-to-face simply because of the nature of the coaching. Relationships are more successful because people are interacting face-to-face. The same holds true for relationship coaches and clients.

While relationship coaching deals with personal and sensitive issues that require absolute confidentiality, it should be made very clear that coaching is NOT counseling. It is still coaching: the coaching helping the client discover and understand what it is the client really wants in/from a relationship, and then determine the steps accomplish those goals. It is not about delving into the client’s past or emotional issues or traumas. It is totally focused on the now and the future.

Relationship coaches work with singles who want to learn how to be better at making dating decisions, finding a spouse, where to meet and how to decide upon a potential Mr. or Ms. Right. These same coaches work with married couples who are looking for a little direction is improving their marriages. Sometimes they work with couples who are considering marriage and need some unbiased help in determining what their marriage might look like and how to get there. While relationship coaches work with couples who may be experiencing difficulties, they do not coach couples in abusive or seriously failing relationships.

Sometimes relationship coaches deal with individuals who have recently divorced or are going through a divorce and need someone to help them work through the practical aspects involved, making an action plan today and the future. Some relationship coaches focus on family issues, specifically between parents and children.

Relationship coaching also happens in the business world when organizations need some help with employee relationships, employee transitions through down-sizing and layoffs, and more.

I don’t know anyone who at some time in their lives couldn’t benefit from some relationship coaching to help them work through relationship issues with a more realistic, less emotional perspective. Do you?

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Living On Purpose or By Accident?

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There is a great saying by Seneca that should be a huge wakeup call for everyone:  “If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.”

Sadly, this quote is indicative of many people.  They live their lives reacting to whatever happens to them rather than proactively planning their todays and tomorrows based on personal values, desires and goals.  They are blown around like a feather in the wind, landing whenever the wind dies down in a place they didn’t expect or want to be.  

Evaluating who we are, what we know, what we want, and how to get there is the beginning of living your life on purpose.  Take the time to sit down and really look at your life, who you are, what you want your life to be, the dreams you have or gave up, and decide to make your tomorrows no accident. 

Start today by sitting down, thinking through and answering these questions on a sheet of paper (or on your computer journal):

  1. List at least 10 things that make you special
  2. List at least 20 personal achievements and successes (even if it’s as simple as learning your colors!)
  3. List at least 20 things you are good at or can do well (it may be  something like following directions)
  4. List 10 exceptional qualities or unique things about you
  5. Write at least one particularly attractive physical feature – even if it’s nicely shaped eyebrows!)

Now read this list to yourself every morning – OUT LOUD – for a week. 

If you don’t believe in yourself, you cannot reach for a dream!

Filed Under: General Coaching, Success and Failure Tagged With: destiny, Life Purpose, purpose-driven life
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