What does a stay at home mom need a life coach for you ask? Well, for the same reasons that a corporate executive does! To pinpoint my personal goals and aspirations, and find the solutions to manifest that goal in my life. Usually, we have the answers ourselves, we just need to get out of our own way to see them. That is exactly what Jeff helped me to do!
My coaching experience with Jeff began with his assistant sending me a questionnaire to fill out about myself. It covered professional, personal, home life, spiritual life, and physical health among other areas. Although the questionnaire is straightforward, it is sometimes hard it rate areas of your life when you are so used to going through the daily motions of accomplishing things without much reflection. Once we had set our date and time for the coaching session, I anxiously awaited our call. Side note- you can have your sessions in person or over the phone/Skype. The flexibility was key for me as I have little ones at home with me and needed to have my call during naptime.
Once the hour long session got under way, Jeff explained the differences between a life coach and licensed therapist, confidentiality agreements, and also the framework of the initial session. I greatly appreciated this being that I admittedly did not have any clue what to expect. Haha Newbie here! While I won't get into specifics about my goals, I will speak on my experience and Jeff's coaching approach. I REALLY loved that the session and all goal setting was completely lead by me and my interests, while also getting observational feedback from Jeff throughout. He confidently stated that his job was to essentially help me to come to my own conclusions. It was very empowering!!!! To hear that we each know in our core what we need to focus on and how to solve our own problems or reach our own goals, we just need guidance in getting there was such an "aha" moment for me. Although I can say if you are not that reflective, I can see how getting coaching from Jeff would be essential!!
Jeff also gently pointed out evident personal characteristics that could be contributing to my success (or not!) at accomplishing my goals. And as you know, it can be difficult to face how you contribute to your own failures and successes. Who REALLY wants to look in the mirror? Lol But thankfully, Jeff knew when and when not to push his observations. It was a great balance in my opinion.
The season ended with measurable actions I had to proclaim I would do towards achieving the particular goals I'd set. Proclaiming actions that I would take made it easy for me to know exactly what I was going to do in the time between sessions to get closer to achieving my goals.
Lastly, Jeff asked me some reflective questions that helped me to mentally recall and summarize the outline of the season. The very last thing was a very simple task of putting 5 things in order of how we prioritize them in our life (self, spouse, family, work, ). I rated them according to my life, and then Jeff reminded me that healthy priorities (in order) are self, spouse, work, family and friends. Such a great reminder that self MUST come first in order to care for the other areas of your life. How do you rate your life's priorities? Maybe you should talk to Jeff about getting them in order and how you can achieve your optimal life!
Thank you so much for your coaching Jeff! read more