If you are confused about how or if Coaching might be useful for you then here are some of the ways it can enable you to improve your life and also what it offers.
Coaching has been confused with other helping disciplines such as counselling or psychotherapy and although there might be some rather grey areas there are also some very clear differences. Coaching is for people who have the desire and the energy to make changes and to look at their lives with a new perspective.
Working with a coach is like having someone sitting beside you for part of your life’s journey. It may only be for a few sessions or may be for much longer. However once you know the road you are on and learn to navigate yourself then you carry on and say goodbye to the coach.
- Life Coaching is a tool for increasing success and satisfaction in your life.
- Life Coaching is for successful people like you, who feel something is missing.
- Life Coaching offers you support, discussion, encouragement and motivation enabling you to deal better with the stresses of being a doctor and difficult situations with colleagues or patients by developing enhanced relationship skills.
- It provides you with the chance to re-think what you value in life.
- Coaching empowers and motivates you to do whatever you want. When you recognise and satisfy your own needs you become even better at what you do.
- When you are fit emotionally and physically, not only you, but also your patients benefit.
- A Life Coach listens, reflects and encourages you to set and reach your goals, by helping you focus on achieving specific actions towards what you want.
- Life Coaching is a forward looking, active process, whereas counselling tends to deal with and explore emotional issues from the past, and cope with crisis.
- Life Coaching is about improving the quality of life and creating what you want for the future. It closes the gap between how life is and how you would like it to be.
- It encompasses whatever areas of life or career that you want it to.
- Life Coaching promotes the advantage of looking after physical and emotional needs.
- It encourages you to have balance in all areas of your life.
- You can learn to say no more often and set clearer boundaries, both physical and emotional.
- By getting rid of whatever drains your energy and increasing the things which give you more get-up-and-go, life as a doctor can be much improved
