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As the pressures of modern life increase, balancing a career, a family, a social life and finances have become more challenging - there seems to be less time to sit back and reflect on where our lives are going.
Whether you’ re interested in self-coaching or working with a professional coach, this guide debunks the myths behind life coaching and gives expert advice on how to incorporate it into your daily routine. With tips and techniques on improving performance, achieving your goals, getting balance in your life and becoming a professional coach, Life Coaching For Dummies will help you get your priorities straight, be more productive and get more of what you want out of your life.
Life Coaching For Dummies will cover: The basics of life coaching Life coaching defined Deciding what you want to get out of life coaching Finding the right coach Establishing the ground rules Deciding to self-coach Preparing for coaching Your life coaching journey Choosing your beliefs Building your motivation Taking stock of now Exploring your options Taking your actions Focusing on the elements of your life Career and work Money and wealth People and relationships Health and well-being Learning and growing Creating an harmonious whole life Achieving balance Making major life changing decisions Applying your coaching skills more widely Coaching others at work and at home Considering a future as a professional coach Developing a coaching role in your life Creating opportunities to coach
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Practical techniques to help you take action and create the life that you wantBe inspired, take control, and fulfil your potential
Life coaching uses a range of practical, effective, and purposeful techniques to help you challenge negative beliefs, find answers to your own questions, and create the life that you want. Whether you're looking to make a change, or simply achieve some more balance in your life, this common-sense guide explains what to expect from life coaching and shows you how to develop your own coaching techniques that will enable you to establish an action plan, stay focused, and be inspired to achieve what you want, in all aspects of your life.
Discover how to
- Be your own life coach
- Find a professional coach
- Prepare yourself for a change
- Work out what your priorities are
- Maintain your motivation
- Coach others for a living
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Trusted advice on finding a coach and getting more out of life
Life coaching is a popular, though unregulated, personal development tool. This no-nonsense guide debunks the myths behind life coaching and gives expert advice on incorporating it into daily life. Whether readers want to self-coach or work with a professional, this savvy resource provides essential tips on getting priorities straight, being more productive, and achieving goals.
Jeni Mumford (London, UK) is a qualified personal life coach and an accredited NLP practitioner.
About the Author
Jeni Mumford is a coach and facilitator who applies whole life coaching techniques to her work with people and within businesses. Before her own life-changing decision to become a coach, Jeni benefited from a 16-year career with the Hays group, spanning recruitment, sales operations, project management, and people development, where she was lucky enough to embark on a new challenging job role every 18 months or so. It was this experience of discovering that the grass is green wherever you are – if you take proper care of the lawn – that gave Jeni the conviction and motivation to build her purpose around inspiring people to attract and enjoy their own dream life and work.
In her business Jeni uses best practice coaching techniques together with NLP, and is a licensed facilitator of Tetramap (a holistic model of behaviour) and Goal Mapping (a brain-friendly technique for identifying and maximising progress towards goals). She is addicted to learning and this helps her add value to her work with clients. But Jeni will admit that quite a lot of the credit is down to her succession of cats, from whom she has picked up a great deal about how to handle the ups and downs of life.*
One of the things Jeni likes best about being a coach is that she feels she always gets as much out of the experience as her clients and she can’t thank them enough for the honour of seeing them move themselves from frustration to power. Honestly, it’s enough to make you want to write a book about it . . .
You can find out more about Jeni and her business at: www.reachforstarfish.com.
* This philosophy can be summed up as: play, ponder, and when in doubt, take a long nap in the sun or on a comfy bed.
Table of Contents
Part One: The basics of life coaching.
Chapter One: Introducing Life coaching.
Chapter Two: Deciding what you want to get out of life coaching.
Chapter Three: Preparing for coaching.
Part Two: Your life coaching journey.
Chapter four: Becoming your best self.
Chapter five: Choosing your beliefs.
Chapter Six: Discovering the values that motivate you.
Chapter Seven: Stocking up on empowering questions.
Chapter Eight: Taking stock of now.
Chapter Nine: Exploring your options.
Chapter Ten: Planning effective action.
Part Three: Focusing on the elements of your life.
Chapter Eleven: Career and work.
Chapter Twelve: Money, wealth and abundance.
Chapter Thirteen: People and relationships.
Chapter Fourteen: Physical, mental, and emotional wellbeing.
Chapter Fifteen: Learning and growing.
Part Four: Creating a harmonious whole life.
Chapter Sixteen: Achieving balance.
Chapter Seventeen: Making major life changing decisions.
Chapter Eighteen: Applying your coaching skills more widely.
Part five: The Part of Tens.
Chapter Nineteen – 10 life coaching Beliefs about yourself.
Chapter Twenty– 10 questions to keep your life on track.
Chapter Twenty-one – 10 Daily balancing acts.
Chapter Twenty-two – 10 inspirational resources. Appendix: Becoming a Life Coach.