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Let’s be Thankful for Sound Mental Health and the Ability to Achieve Life’s Goals

Creating a Life to by Truly Thankful

By Dr. Reanna Waugh PhDPublished 3 years ago 7 min read
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Let’s be Thankful for Sound Mental Health and the Ability to Achieve Life’s Goals
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Virtually all of the most prosperous individuals in the world propose something in common, having a life coach or mentor to encourage them along their path. I want to explore further what being a life coach entails and why it’s the most decisive resolution you’ll forever make.

What is a Life Coach?

Just like a baseball coach helps you throw the ball right or correctly swing the bat, a life coach benefits you to better work out the details relevant to you and make them amazing. Being a life coach is an immensely productive approach to advancing others' behaviors and supporting yourself along the way. The demand for life coaches has flourished in today’s society, including mental health issues and personal well-being activities are achieved. In today’s world, many people pursue innovative measures to deal with life’s demands. Communities look to life coaches as an approach to be proactive about advancing themselves. Society sets monumental importance on self-improvement, and due to this, the need for life coaches is expected to expand.

Life coaching is not a fad, and it's useful and effective benefits management is here to remain. Life coaching is a way of life-altering partnership that encourages individuals to come to their potentiality. A simple example of discerning between counseling and life coaching could be counseling services is dealing with significant life dilemmas, such as depression, divorce, and severe mental health issues. In contrast, life coaching helps you recognize your ambitions and dreams, such as obtaining a job promotion, writing a book, or completing a weight loss target. Every life coaching private practice is distinct, but the premise of life coaching is for someone to participate with a coach to hear counsel and inspiration to bring about their personal and career ambitions.

What Life Coaching Clients are looking for:

1. Find Your Life Purpose

We all have the inherent need to be different and meaningful. It doesn’t automatically mean that you choose to be on a play or obtain a standing ovation. It means that we each have an underlying need to have a life full of meaning and significance to this world in some form or another. Each of us has a purpose in this realm, but for most of us, it is not precisely clear what the goal is. A life coach can encourage you to recognize this in yourself. Most of us have life encounters that fashion and construct who we will become. We can employ these struggles, both good and bad, to uncover our understanding of the world. A life coach can encourage you to decipher this power for useful purposes. They can benefit you to process your history and uncover the definition and meaning of your story. These experiences can become something constructive.

An example of this could be that you may have twice performed CPR on people you don’t know who had medical or life-changing emergencies. When you saved them, this placed a significant impact on your life and who you are. After talking to your Life Coach for several discussions, you may determine that your place at the local grocery store is not your ultimate calling. Realizing that you are well equipped to handle emergency conditions, you encounter many purposes in aiding others. This experience left a meaningful impression on you. At this point, you recognize that you prefer to pursue to become an EMT (Emergency Medical Technician). The following step with your Life Coach would be to establish a plan of action that will move you forward to the ultimate goal of being an EMT.

2. Unlock the Answers Within Yourself

Are you your ideal self? Have you accomplished all you require to be in life? Has life left you with nothing left to do? If you said no to any raised queries, you could advance from retaining a Life Coach. Even if you don’t perceive what you crave to enhance just yet, or you can’t, however, identify your real purpose in this world, a Life Coach can encourage you to realize these elements in yourself. A Life Coach is not presumed to have all the answers. Yet, they can promote you to unravel the resolutions within yourself.

3. Develop Steps to Improve Yourself

When you realize that you know what you choose to accomplish and have unraveled your passion, appetites, and expectation, it’s thus that the work starts. Your life coach can encourage you to achieve your ambitions, whether they are self-development or career involved. Life Coaches ally with you to generate a method of action. Your life coach will act with you to start a step-by-step strategy in attaining your objectives. An example of this could be that you have elected to compose a children’s book about surviving cancer. This decision was not made lightly from your life experience because you overcame cancer as a child, and you desire to support other kids with cancer to have faith. In addition to this, you want to promote an understanding among children about cancer and its changes. Your life coach will ask you questions about how long it will take you to draft the book, how you project to secure illustrations and opinions about publishing opportunities. These topics will further help you brainstorm the entire book writing process within the steps involved to write and publish a children’s book. Whatever your ambition or life purpose, your Life Coach can help you stay focused on all the requirements to complete your goal and work toward creating that dream a reality.

4. Set and Achieve Goals with Someone Who is Holding You Accountable

This is one of the fundamental reasons I have a Life Coach. I can accomplish the tasks of setting my own goals, yet life tends to get in the way, and the inadequacy of carrying out those goals slips from days into weeks, and suddenly months. Within each life coaching session, I have overall objectives, and my Life Coach helps me break these goals into smaller reasonable goals. It works! Primarily because of the fear of letting her down, including the fact that I don’t want to let myself down either. This accountability in finishing my tasks and jobs that bring me toward my dreams and objectives helps me finish everything on time. In addition to this, when you have money invested in the entire process, you have a vested interest in the outcome. Investing money creates devotion and commitment because no one wants to waste their money.

5. Start Doing Instead of Daydreaming

Do you have a goal that becomes put on the shelf? Perhaps it is a novel you want to publish that you have in your head or even a craving to travel overseas, but you have been too hectic with life to arrange the trips you have fantasized about for years? Now is the occasion to produce that transformation to happen. You can reach your dreams and take them off the shelf where they have been remaining and urging them to be transferred. You can start to prepare those dreams to become a reality when you join forces with a Life Coach. A Life Coach can encourage you to explore what is limiting your goals so that you can overpower the interferences in the way.

6. We All Need a Special Cheerleader

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have an official encouraging us on within life? Someone that revels in our successes, big and small, every achievement in life, when you hire a Life Coach, this person becomes your life cheerleader. Your life coach needs you to achieve your personal goals because this becomes a reflection of their work. Life Coaches support you and cheer you on because of the partnership that you have together.

7. Gain Better Self Understanding of Self and Achieve Better Confidence

When you recognize who you are, you can grow into a courageous version of who you are.

A Life Coach can encourage you to know yourself further. They suggest challenges that facilitate you to establish what means the most to you.

A Life Coach does not instruct you what to produce or how to achieve it. They are there to inquire into challenges that push you to realize for yourself what you may not willfully see.

Changing your perception

Once you can recognize why your determination is being impaired, you can start to undo the distorted notions hindering you from being confident. Your strategy to change your thinking process has evolved because your Life Coach asked the appropriate questions to expose the realism about where your lack of confidence was resisting.

Once that was unveiled, you can approach these issues that yet had a hold on you. Your Life Coach can thus support you in recognizing what you are producing right and developing on those traits to build up even higher confidence.

Sometimes, we assume that we recognize ourselves and naturally accept that something is amiss when we feel inadequate. Instead of depicting or carrying inadequacy and deficiency, we desire to inquire further into the real issues.

Partnering with a Life Loach will benefit you realize in yourself the root of these notions to be overpowered. Your Life Coach will encourage you to become more fearless in who you are and what you accomplish.

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About the Creator

Dr. Reanna Waugh PhD

Dr. Reanna Waugh PhD Founder and CEO of Waugh's Holistic Wellness Center, Student, second PhD in Clinical Psychology, Life Coach at WHWC currently in Gladstone, MI (USA) with her husband, Kyle Waugh, a retired Veteran of the Air Force.

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